ENCORE! How Safe Is Your House?

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are doing a deep dive on child safety at home. They bring on expert Holly Choi from Safe Beginnings to talk about the most dangerous parts of your home, tips for safety classes, why those de-choking devices aren’t worth your money, and more.

But first, it’s mailbag time! We read EVERY email you send and every comment you post on our socials, but we’ve been behind in sharing them on the show. So the ‘Rents dig into some of your comments and advice.

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. It's a holiday here at Slate. Happy MLK Day. While we celebrate an important and legendary human, we wanted to reshare a favorite episode of ours. How safe is your house? It's an interview we did with safety expert Holly Choi, and it's filled with the best advice you could ever want for how to keep your home safe for your whole family. Plus, we did a mailbag and dug into some
0:21.0	of your most pressing comments and questions for us. We hope you enjoy it, and we'll talk to you
0:25.6	again on Thursday with a brand new episode. This episode may contain explicit language.
0:35.4	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show that's as honest and messy as parenting itself.
0:40.3	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called Weirdly Helpful. I am the dad of Noah,
0:45.5	who's eight, Ami, who's five, and Yuki the pup, who's a couple months old. We live in Detroit.
0:51.4	I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch,
0:54.6	Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's nine. And I'm in Rome.
1:00.5	So cool. Rome. Roma. I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast as well, the Mamacita Ricca. I'm
1:07.7	Mother to Amelia, who's 15, Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami. Today, we're here to help parents with babies and little kids in that ever-overwhelming task, childproofing the house. We've got a fabulous guest, Holly Choi, from Safe Beginnings, to talk about how to make your house safe for the little ones, and you won't want to miss it. And we'll get into that in just a little bit, but first we got so many great letters from you
1:31.2	and we haven't been able to share as many of them on the show as we'd like.
1:35.8	So we're starting out today with a good old-fashioned mail bag, bag, bag, bag, bag.
1:42.5	So stick around.
1:51.0	Welcome back. It's mailbag time.
1:53.3	It's Karen Feeding's mailbag.
1:55.8	Share your wins and we keep it real.
2:00.0	Thanks for that jingle, Lucy.
2:01.2	I made four.
2:06.3	I think first we want to start with this voicemail that was sent to us.
2:07.1	Hello.
2:12.1	You were going to get the most amount of user feedback you've ever had, I'm sure, for this one.
2:16.4	I have a child in kindergarten and one in third grade.
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