Care & Feeding: Why Is My Friend Body Shaming Toddlers?

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth and Zak help a listener who’s wondering why her friend is bodyshaming her own toddler so intensely — not to mention our listener’s kid, too — and what to do about it. These kids are still little enough to avoid lifelong damage to their relationships with food, and their bodies… but where’s the line when it comes to telling this friend to shut it and let the kids eat cake? We’ll also debrief with a round of parenting Triumphs & Fails — and we'll share an update on the tricky question we tackled earlier this week about not liking your kid. 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 an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus to help support our work. Podcast produced by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:02.6	Welcome to Karen Feeding,
0:07.0	the show where we raise the next generation together.
0:09.8	I'm Elizabeth New Camp,
0:11.0	I write the family travel blog Dutch, Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three
0:13.9	little's Henry who's 12, Oliver who's 10, and Teddy who's 7. We live in Tokyo Japan.
0:18.8	I'm Zach Rosen. I host another podcast that's called The Best Advice advice show I'm dad to six-year-old
0:24.6	Noah and three-year-old Ami and we live in Detroit for like three more days. I'm
0:29.9	Jamele Lemieu I'm a writer contributor to Slate's Care and Feeding
0:33.9	Column and Mom to Naima who's 11 and we live in Los Angeles.
0:38.3	Today we're helping a listener whose friend is
0:41.9	constantly body-sh shaming her own son and
0:44.9	criticizing what our listener feeds her daughter too. The kids are both toddlers
0:49.2	but our listener wants to know how to get the mean comments to stop before either kid develops an
0:54.4	unhealthy relationship with food. Is there a way to do that and still maintain the
0:58.7	friendship? We talk through it and then of course we'll debrief back here with a round of triumphs and
1:03.7	fails. So let's get going we're going to take a quick break and then we'll dig into
1:07.8	our listener question. Hey, it's Carvel Wallace, host of Slates Podcast How-2, and we just hit our five-year anniversary.
1:20.0	That's over 250 episodes of life-changing advice on every topic imaginable.
1:26.0	And so to celebrate, my co-host Courtney Martin and I recently talked with the show's founder Charles Doeague.
1:33.0	We had a guest on once.
1:35.0	We were talking about talking to your kids about sex.
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