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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Is It The F**k You Fours? Or Something More?

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are doing a double listener question episode! First up, a parent is OVER their current television show rotation. The ‘Rents give recommendations for shows in the eight-year-old to fifteen-year-old range that aren’t overly preachy or totally mindless. Then, they sympathize with a parent dealing with a clingy sixteen-month-old who won’t stop screaming and going full Hulk-mode every time a tiny thing goes wrong. They commiserate and give advice - including considering getting a second medical opinion and, maybe, just telling the kid that the yogurt bites are going in the bowl, end of discussion!     Mentioned in the Show: Bluey Knows Best - Care and Feeding Common Sense Media Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips.  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 to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode may contain explicit language.

0:09.0

Shit!

0:12.3

Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show that's as honest and messy as parenting itself.

0:17.6

I'm Lucy Lopez.

0:18.6

I host another podcast, too.

0:20.2

The Mama Cita Rica. I'm mother to

0:21.7

Amelia, who's 15, Avery, who's about to be 13 this month, and we live in Miami. I'm Elizabeth

0:27.5

New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to Henry

0:31.4

who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy, who's 9. And this is our last show in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast

0:42.0

called Weirdly Helpful. And I am Dad to Ami, who's five, Noah, who's eight. And we live in

0:47.0

Detroit. So this week, we've got double listener letters. Does anyone else have the double,

0:52.4

double, double your refreshment? Do you remember the...

0:54.8

Doublement gum, for sure. The doublement gum with all the twins. There are sponsors for this episode.

0:59.7

They should be. Miss opportunity. The parents need help and that is exactly what we're here for. First up,

1:06.3

we're talking about good TV shows for older kids and then then we're talking 8 to 13, like, range

1:12.9

here. We have a parent that is sick of preachy shows, but also doesn't want their kid to

1:19.7

just stare at, like, mindless stuff. We got some recommendations for the middle ground.

1:25.6

And then we have a parent who is wined out. Like what?

1:29.6

Like they don't want to drink any more wine?

1:31.4

Yeah, no, it's not the fun kind of wine.

1:33.5

This parent has a 16th month old

1:35.9

stage 5 clinger who cries about

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