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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Extra Parenting, Extra Guilt

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week on Care and Feeding, Zak, Lucy, and Elizabeth help a parent who is doing ‘extra’ parenting for one of her kids. She’s worried her other kid will feel resentful. The hosts have helpful strategies for balancing fairness while preserving your sanity.  In Triumphs and Fails: international moves, heartbreaking goodbyes, and a snack-money gremlin.  Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask questions, share feedback, and suggest future topics. 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 extra weekly grab-bag of content on the Plus Playground, an ad-free experience across the network, and support the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus — or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Listen to Opportunity Gap wherever you get your podcasts: ⁠https://lnk.to/opportunitygapPS!careandfeeding⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home.

0:02.0

I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.

0:05.0

I've ruled out uni because of my grades.

0:10.0

Study with the Open University and there's no need to rule out anything.

0:13.0

With our respected degrees, you can learn from home and work alongside study.

0:17.0

We're open to all. Plus, you'll have the support of expert tutors. So rethink your

0:23.6

future with the degree you didn't think was possible. The Open University. The future is open.

0:31.1

This episode contains explicit language. Welcome to Karen Feeding, the podcast where we get honest about parenting at every stage.

0:39.7

I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, the Mamasita Rica. I'm Mother to Amelia who's 15,

0:45.3

Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family

0:50.1

travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Dutch goose. I'm the mom to to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and

0:54.9

Teddy who's 8. We live in Tokyo, Japan for one last week. I'm Zach Rosen. I live in Amsterdam

1:02.3

for one last week with my family. My daughter, Noah, just turned 8, and Ami is about to turn

1:09.1

5. Oh yeah, and I make a podcast called The Rastafide Show.

1:13.0

Every week we answer your questions. We share our own parenting triumphs and fails and then try

1:18.2

to make this feel like the kind of conversation you'd have with your parent friends.

1:22.8

Today we've got a listener question about what to do when one kid needs so much extra attention and how to keep

1:29.0

the others from feeling invisible. It's a tough one, but a lot of us have been there before.

1:33.8

Yes, and speaking of tough, we have some tough triumphs. There's no glory in our triumphs this week,

1:39.5

but I think there wins nonetheless, so let's get going.

1:50.8

If you have a child in special education, you know how overwhelming it could be.

1:55.0

The acronyms alone, IEP, 504, CST, it's a lot.

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