Conquering the Messy Bedroom

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Zak, Jamilah and Elizabeth answer a question from our Slate Parenting Facebook group about the eternal struggle of the messy preteen bedroom. It seems like no matter what you do, there just keeps being stuff. Everywhere. So, we’ll offer some practical suggestions to help. We also dole out a round of recommendations — and then, for Slate Plus, we muse on how anyone expects anyone to manage a summer camp schedule. Elizabeth recommends: 2 Player Games: The Challenge (google play & app store) Zak recommends: Play Cafes like Kidcadia Jamilah recommends: the Slate Parenting Facebook Group 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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0:30.3	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:33.0	Welcome to Care and Feeding,
0:37.0	the show where we parent together.
0:39.0	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer,
0:42.0	contributor to Sla's Care feeding parents in column, and mom to Naima, who's
0:46.2	11 and we live in LA.
0:48.3	I'm Elizabeth New Camp.
0:49.7	I write the family travel blog Dutch, Dutch Goose.
0:52.4	I'm the mom of Three little's Henry who's 12
0:54.7	Oliver who just turned 10 yay and Teddy who's
0:58.8	I know my middle is 10 I can't believe it. We live in Tokyo Japan. I'm
1:06.1	Zach Rosen I host the Best Advice Show podcast and I am dad to six-year-old Noah
1:11.8	and three-year-old Ami.
1:13.7	We live in Detroit.
1:14.8	Today on the show, we're talking about the eternal struggle that is the messy bedroom.
1:21.0	A member of our slate parenting Facebook community wrote in to share the ongoing battle that her 11 year old is having with stuff everywhere.
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