Preparing for Your Kid’s First Period

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are talkin’ periods! They are joined by Chloe Potter, co-founder of The Menstruality Academy, who walks them through preparing your kid for their first period, harnessing the power of the cycle, and breaking free from societal shame. (Chloe’s endometriosis podcast recommendation.)

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:05.0	This is Karen Feeding.
0:06.6	We're three friends with kids who get together every week to talk life, swap advice,
0:11.2	and keep each other sane while we muddle through the weird and wonderful thing called parenting.
0:16.7	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:17.9	I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose.
0:20.7	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 9.
0:25.2	And we live in Hattalulu, Hawaii.
0:28.3	I'm Zach Rosen.
0:29.5	I make another podcast called Weirdly Helpful, and I am dad to Noah, who dressed up as
0:34.5	Uncle Jesse for Porum yesterday.
0:36.4	She's eight.
0:37.3	And Ami, who's five, he was a dinosaur.
0:40.2	We're in Detroit.
0:41.1	I love that.
0:42.2	Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez.
0:43.5	I have a new substack that I'm really proud of.
0:46.0	It's called Best Mom Friends Forever.
0:48.7	You can follow us there.
0:50.6	Both Elizabeth and I, it's like our little passion project.
0:54.6	I'm mother to Amelia who's 15, Avery who's 13, and we live in Miami, Florida.
1:00.4	And today we're talking about periods.
	...

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