Kids Are Loud. Will Earplugs Help Me Cope?

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Elizabeth Newcamp, Zak Rosen, and Jamilah Lemieux talk about cutting through the noise. A member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group recently posted asking about earplugs — but there are lots of strategies for tuning out, and dealing with, the noise and energy of kids in your house. We’ll also share a round of recommendations — and then, if you’re in the Slate Plus club, we discuss a program in Philadelphia that pays parents to handle school dropoff and pickup… and what other tasks we wish we were getting paid for. Recommendations: Jamilah recommends: The End Of Love, and keeping a book of your kid’s quips Zak recommends: Father of the Bride Elizabeth recommends: Rainbow Making Window Clings 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 Maura Currie, with special thanks to Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:03.0	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we parent together.
0:08.0	I'm Elizabeth New Camp.
0:10.0	I write the family travel blog Dutch, Dutch Goose.
0:12.0	I'm the mom of three little's Henry
0:13.6	who's 11 Oliver who's 9 and Teddy who's 7 we live in Tokyo Japan. I'm
0:18.4	Zach Rosen I make another podcast it's called the best advice show and I'm Dad DeNoa who's six and
0:24.0	Ami who's three we live in Detroit Michigan I'm Jamil Mu I'm a writer
0:28.3	contributor to slates care and baiting parents in column and mom to Naima who's just about 11 and we live in fading parenting
0:35.0	and who's just about 11 and we live in Los Angeles.
0:36.0	Today on the show we're talking about what to do when parenting gets a little too loud.
0:41.0	A member of our slate parenting Facebook group posted recently
0:44.5	asking about earplugs and it got us thinking about all the parenting sounds we
0:48.9	love and hate and the coping strategies we use when it all gets too overwhelming.
0:54.0	Later on, we're also going to recommend some things we're loving right now and think you might too.
0:59.0	And then, if you're in this late Plus Club, we're talking about parenting tasks that someone somewhere
1:05.2	should be paying us to do.
1:07.2	Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus.
1:09.8	I'd also like to get paid for getting my daughter to school on time and I think we would be better at it if they were incentivized in that way.
1:18.0	Oh, I like this. I think incentivize the parents to get them there on time with financially.
1:24.2	I bet it's done.
1:24.9	It's interesting.
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