The Secret to Affordable Summer Camps
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen open up the mailbag to spotlight your advice on welcoming a second child into the family. They also sound the alarm (blow the bugle?) on summer camp planning. It’s time to sign up for summer activities. We need to hop to it because spots are filling up fast!
Episodes mentioned:
- Postpartum Is Boring. Here’s How to Enjoy It.
- Second Kid Scaries
- How to Get Through (Or Help Someone With) Postpartum Depression
- Should We Skip Touring the White House?
This week on the Plus Playground: Timothée Chalamet and getting kids into traditional art forms like ballet and opera.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Rosemary Belson. Video production by Micah Phillips.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:04.4 | This is Karen Feeding. |
| 0:06.0 | We're three buds with kids who get together every week to talk life, swap advice, |
| 0:10.3 | and keep each other sane while we muddle through this weird and wonderful thing called parenting. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:15.8 | I host another show. |
| 0:17.0 | It's called Weirdly Helpful. |
| 0:18.7 | I am Dad to Noah, who's eight, eight and Ami who's five. We live in |
| 0:22.3 | Detroit. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch |
| 0:26.7 | Goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's nine. And we live in |
| 0:32.7 | Honolulu, Hawaii. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I have a substack with Elizabeth. It's called Best Mom |
| 0:39.6 | Friends Forever. Please follow us. It's fantastic. I'm Mother to Amelia who's 15, Avery, who's 13, |
| 0:46.7 | and we live in Miami. We're here to talk about the ups, the downs, everything in between when |
| 0:51.7 | it comes to parenting. And every week, we commiserate, we check in with listeners and try to make this feel like the conversation you're having with friends. |
| 1:00.5 | And today we're cracking open the mailbag to talk about all the new baby advice you sent to our wonderful producer, Shana, who is on maternity leave. |
| 1:08.3 | So cute. |
| 1:08.9 | We also have an amazing listener update that you do not want to miss. |
| 1:15.3 | And then after the mailbag, we're going to talk about summer camps. |
| 1:18.9 | Dun, done, done. |
| 1:20.0 | Ooh, I cannot wait for Elizabeth to hear my thoughts on summer camps. |
| 1:25.9 | Oh, gosh. |
| 1:27.3 | Summer is just around the corner. |
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