The Back-to-School Game Plan

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week on Care and Feeding, Zak, Lucy, and Elizabeth are joined by Scotti Weintraub, parenting coach, creator of Reframe Parenting and host of The Unlocking School Success Podcast. Scotti answers’ back-to-school questions and offers practical advice for navigating classroom routines, working with teachers, and helping kids feel comfortable and ready to learn. It’s all about small shifts that can make the start of the year smoother for everyone. Take Scotti’s the School Support Parenting Quiz Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask questions, share feedback, and suggest future topics. 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 extra weekly grab-bag of content on the Plus Playground, an ad-free experience across the network, and support 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.
0:03.0	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show that's as honest and messy as parenting itself.
0:08.2	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose.
0:11.9	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 8. We are currently in Atlanta, Georgia.
0:18.6	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Festifyice Show. I am Dad, Noah, he just turned eight, and Ami, who's about to turn five. We are back in Detroit. Welcome back to the U.S. of America. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast as well, The Cicca Rica. I'm mother to Amelia, who's 15,
0:39.5	Avery who's 12, and we live in Mayan.
0:42.4	Well, this week, instead of taking a listener question, we're digging into some of our own
0:46.8	back-to-school challenging.
0:48.8	And we're not doing it alone. We've got Scotty Weintraub with us. She's the creator of
0:53.3	Reframe Parenting and works with families to turn school stress into something more manageable.
0:59.0	She's going to help us think through what this transition really looks like and how to advocate for our kids.
1:03.6	Yeah, so stick around. You don't want to miss it.
1:19.3	Hey, it's Anna Sale, host of death, sex, and money, the podcast from Slate about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.
1:29.4	And recently, we asked you to tell us stories about your beauty interventions, what you've decided to invest time and money in to improve your appearance.
1:36.3	So I looked at my dad and I looked at him carefully and said, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:40.6	We are going to sail in a different direction than this.
1:47.0	We heard from people who spent thousands on plastic surgery, fillers, and skincare routines, and from others who decided to reject pressure, like covering grays.
1:52.0	It's kind of like, why do I need to do that?
1:56.0	I mean, for you?
1:59.0	Is it for you? Or? because you're embarrassed to have a friend or a spouse with
2:06.5	gray hair? I mean, what is the encouragement from? And you told us about feeling caught between
2:13.7	viewing appearance improvements as vanity and recognizing how much looking a certain way
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