Care & Feeding | This Is Your Last Parenting Book

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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On this episode: Elizabeth and Lucy sit down with Meagan Francis – she’s a parenting writer and the author of the new book, The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Read. It’s all about embracing the teen years and your impending empty nest. And if you stick around for the Slate Plus Playground, Zak and Jamilah join Elizabeth to talk about what they hope an empty nest looks like. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Podcast produced by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.5	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raised the next generation together.
0:37.7	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:41.2	Today on the show, Lucy and I sit down with Megan Francis.
0:45.6	She's a parenting writer and the author of the new book, The Last Parenting Book You'll Ever Read.
0:46.8	It's all about embracing the teen years and your impending empty nest.
0:51.0	And there's so, so much to talk about.
0:56.1	So we're going to go ahead and get going,
0:57.5	but first, a quick break.
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