The Great Onesie Debate

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen get real about onesies. A Slate mom wants to know if she can buy her son onesies about her. He has a lot that celebrates his dad, like “daddy’s little xyz” but none about his mom! They dish on favorite onesies, whether these outfits are actually terrible, and more. But first, they share their latest triumphs and fails: what happens when a sitter soft cancels, how to deal with a missing lovie, and an incredible reunion between Zak and Elizabeth. Mentioned in the Show: Martha of Miami Jia Collection Elephant & Co. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. 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.
0:07.3	Welcome to Karen Feeding. We're here to talk about the ups, downs, and everything in
0:11.3	between when it comes to parenting. I'm Lucy Lopez. I'm mother to Amelia who's 15,
0:16.3	Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami, Florida. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another show. It's called The Best
0:22.1	Advice Show. And I am dad to Noah, who's eight, and Ami, who's five. We live in Detroit.
0:27.5	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom
0:32.1	to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 8, and we're currently in Atlanta, Georgia.
0:38.3	Every week we answer your questions, share our own parenting triumphs and fails,
0:42.9	and try to make this feel like the kind of conversation you'd have with your dear friends.
0:47.6	Today, a Slatster actually has a question for us.
0:51.6	Should she feel bad for buying her son a onesie that references her? He's
0:55.8	gotten a lot of daddy's little, you know, whatever clothes, but nothing referring to his mom. So we're
1:01.9	going to talk through some ideas and read some of your favorite joke onesies. We're going to take
1:06.8	a quick break, but when we come back, we're going to share our triumphs and fails with everyone.
1:11.7	And have I got a good one this week? I promise you're going to enjoy this. Stick around. We'll be right back.
1:21.6	If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time.
1:24.6	You'll be on it all the time. He could walk to school by himself. She could see something she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. So, should I give my kid a phone? Growing up with phones isn't always easy. Introducing E.E. Safe for Sims. Sims that help moderate usage and shield harmful content on any smartphone.
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