I Refuse to Replace My Husband With a Nanny

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Zak Rosen, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Jamilah Lemieux help a listener who is fed up. Her husband works a lot and when he is around he’s only ‘fun dad.’ Upon experiencing burnout, the letter writer asked her husband to pitch in more—to which he suggested ‘hire a nanny.’ Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak have suggestions for rebalancing the relationship. They also share recommendations and then, on Slate Plus, they discuss the parenting resolutions they are not going to keep this year. Recommendations: Zak: Wonka Jamilah: Wonka and The Color Purple Elizabeth: TypeLit.io 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 Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.1	Spark your creativity with The Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
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0:51.3	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we parent together. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the family travel blog Dutch, Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three little's, Henry who's 11, Oliver his 9, and Petty who's 7. We live in Tokyo, Japan.
1:13.0	I'm Jamele Mu, a writer, contributor to Slate's Parent Feeding Parenting
1:18.0	and Column, and Mom's Naima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles.
1:22.0	I'm Zach Rosen. I host another podcast it's called
1:25.2	the Best Advice Show and I am Dad to Noah who's 6 and Army who's 3. We live in
1:30.0	Detroit. Today on the show we have a very interesting letter from a mom who's fed up with her
1:35.1	husband thinking he doesn't need to be involved in raising their kids.
1:39.0	He even told her that if she needs help, she can hire a nanny. Obviously we have some thoughts. We're also going to recommend
1:46.1	some things we're loving right now and think you might too. And then if you're in this
1:49.7	late Plus Club, we're going to reveal the parenting resolutions we might make, but absolutely cannot
1:54.8	keep this year. Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus.
1:58.4	I mean with the Screen Time one, I just still think back to Rebecca LaVoy, former mom and dad, our fighting host, who said like she just
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