My Son Hates His Clothes

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On this episode: Zak, Elizabeth and Lucy talk about clothes. This listener’s six-and-a-half-year-old is super particular about what he wants to wear… and it’s making school mornings really hard. We’ll talk about how to accommodate the pickiness while also not derailing the start of your day. And then, we’ll circle up for a round of checkins… and on Slate Plus, we’re talking about teen joy. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Zak’s checkin: self-defense against 4-year-olds Elizabeth’s checkin: all bamboo everything Lucy’s checkin: birthday gift politics 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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0:30.6	In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote
0:37.1	Idaho mountaintop where they lived.
0:39.3	Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been holed up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.
0:45.3	The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.
0:50.3	Randy and his wife Vicki thought the government was an agent of Satan on earth.
0:55.6	When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government had spent millions of dollars to catch one man.
1:02.5	We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.
1:09.4	What should we do about white supremacists?
1:12.5	Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring myth for the far right?
1:17.2	And whose fault was it anyway?
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1:29.7	This episode contains explicit language.
1:36.1	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together.
1:40.1	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
1:41.3	I write the family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose.
1:43.8	I'm the mom to Henry, who's 13.
1:47.0	Oliver, who just turned 11.
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