My Daughter’s Dying To Be Popular

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On this episode: Jamilah and Zak talk about the popular kids. A member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group has a daughter who’s become obsessed with being popular… even though she doesn’t seem to fit in with those kids. We’ll help her out and then check in and share what’s on our minds this week. Then, if you’re hanging out for the Slate Plus Playground, we’re taking a look at a recent article listing some slang the teens are apparently using. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Zak’s check-in: Rumi. Jamilah’s check-in: getting the itch. 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. Podcast produced by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.8	contains explicit language. Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation
1:09.6	together. I'm Zach Rosen. I am dad to Noah, who is seven, and Ami, who's four. At the moment, we live in
1:16.8	Amsterdam. I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding parenting
1:23.3	column and mom to Naima, who is just about 12, and we live in Los Angeles.
1:29.6	Well, today on the show, we're going to be talking about the popular kids.
1:33.3	This member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group has a daughter who's become obsessed with
1:38.0	being popular, even though she doesn't seem to fit in with those kids.
1:41.7	So we're going to talk about why this feels so important to this
1:45.6	kid and how to convince her that it really, really is not important. And then, of course,
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