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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen answer a classic dad conundrum. What should you do when meeting your daughter’s boyfriend for the first time? They also share their latest triumphs and fails. Including: a driving diss track, a mission impossible-type string, and the Detroit Pistons

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Rosemary Belson.

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:04.2	This is Karen Feeding.
0:05.8	We're just three friends with kids who get together every week to talk life, swap advice,
0:10.5	keep each other sane while we muddle through this insane, wonderful thing called parenting.
0:16.3	I'm Lucy Lopez.
0:17.7	I'm mother to Amelia, who is 15, Avery who's 13. I have a substack with Elizabeth.
0:23.1	It's called Best Mom Friends Forever. And I live in Miami, Florida. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp.
0:29.2	I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 14,
0:34.1	Oliver who's 12, and Teddy who's 9. And we live in Honolulu, Hawaii. And I'm Zach Rosen. I make
0:42.2	another podcast. It's called Weirdly Helpful. And I'm Dad to Noah, who's 8, and Ami, who's 5.
0:48.8	We live in Detroit. And we're here to talk about the ups, downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting. Every week, we answer your questions, share our own parenting
0:57.9	triumphs and fails, and try to make this like the kind of conversation you'd have with your
1:01.6	buds. And today we have an absolute classic dad conundrum. It really is. What should you do
1:08.9	when you meet the guy guy your daughter is dating?
1:11.6	It's so classic.
1:12.7	Yeah, but first we're going to share our triumphs and fails.
1:16.8	Elizabeth, can you give us a sneak peek to your life right now?
1:21.0	Yeah, well, Sunday was both Mother's Day and Oliver's birthday.
1:28.4	And Jeff is TDY.
1:33.9	TDIY means temporary duty, i.e. he's not home.
1:36.5	Which you know Zach, because he's coming to your house.
1:37.8	He's coming to my house for dinner tonight.
	...

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