Make My Kid Eat, Please!

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are tackling picky eating. They’re joined by Jennifer Anderson from Kids Eat In Color to talk about helping kids navigate diet culture, how to tell if your kid is a “normal” picky eater or a problematic picky eater, why you shouldn’t try to sneak foods into foods they like, and more! But first, they share their latest triumphs and fails: Zak got a puppy! Elizabeth loves Halloween now! And Lucy was a hero at Epic Universe park. You know what that means - it’s a Triple Triumph week y’all! Mentioned in this Episode:Care and Feeding video episodes are now on YouTube! They drop on Fridays and are available here. In which Elizabeth claims Halloween is the worst - Is It Creepy to Photograph Other Kids’ Costumes? Elizabeth’s tricked out Halloween house - Instagram Produced by Cheyna Roth 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. 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	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:07.7	Welcome to Karen Feeding. We're here to talk about ups, downs, and everything in
0:11.6	between when it comes to parenting. I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, the Mamasita Rica.
0:16.9	I'm mother to Amelia who's 15 and Avery who's 12 and we live in Miami, Florida.
0:22.0	I'm Zach Rosen. I also make another show. It's called The Best Advice Show. And I'm to add to Noah, who's 8, Amy, who's 5, and then someone else who you're going to meet after the break. We're in Detroit. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:35.5	I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, goose.
0:38.0	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 9,
0:41.7	and we are currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. So every week we answer your questions. We share
0:46.9	our own parenting triumphs and fails and try to make this feel kind of like a conversation
0:51.7	you'd have with your parent friends. And today we're talking all about picky eating, which I think so many of us are dealing with in all sorts of ways.
1:00.8	We've got Jennifer Anderson from Kids Eat in Color here to help us figure out how to make food less of a fight and more of a family thing.
1:07.6	Plus, special announcement, everyone, we are now on YouTube. This is our first YouTube
1:13.2	video episode, so if you want to see us and my new puppy while we record, head over to
1:19.6	this late YouTube page. But first, we share our triumphs and fails. This week, I'm doing
1:25.1	a complete about face on Halloween.
1:29.2	You'll hear what's up after the break.
1:37.3	If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time.
1:38.6	They'll be on it all the time.
1:40.1	Could walk to school by himself.
1:41.7	She could see something she shouldn't.
1:42.7	You could chat with grandma.
1:43.4	Friends.
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