We’re Friends With a Flaky Family

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy, Elizabeth and Zak help a listener who’s grappling with whether it’s worth trying to keep up a friendship with a family that is just not reliable. It’s only started recently, but they show up to events and hangouts hours late… if at all… with very scant communication. The flakiness disappoints our listener’s kid, but is this worth cutting out friends? We’ll also debrief with a round of parenting Triumphs & Fails — including a quick update about the Newcamp family’s trip to Africa. 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 an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus to help support our work. Podcast produced by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:05.0	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together.
0:09.0	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another show, it's called The Best Advice Show,
0:12.0	and I am Dad to Noah who's nearly
0:14.4	seven and Ami who's almost four yeah he's almost four we live in Detroit
0:19.6	hey I'm Lucy Lopez and I host another podcast too, the Mama See Tarika. I'm mother to Amelia who is 14,
0:27.3	Avery who's 11 and we live in Miami.
0:30.3	I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm Elizabeth New Camp I write the family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose I'm the mom of three
0:35.8	little's Henry who's 12 Oliver who's 10 and Teddy who's 7 we live in Tokyo Japan
0:41.1	today we're helping a listener navigate a flaky friendship.
0:45.0	What do you do when the kids bag to do playdates?
0:48.0	You pick a place in time, and then the other family shows up super late, if they show up at all.
0:52.0	We'll talk about whether it's worth
0:53.6	trying to keep scheduling stuff or what else might be going on here. And then of
0:57.4	course we'll debrief back here with a round of triumphs and fails. So let's get
1:01.2	going. We're going to take a quick break then we'll dig into our listener question.
1:05.0	Hey, it's Carvel Wallace, host of Slate's podcast How-2, and we just hit our five year anniversary.
1:14.9	That's over 250 episodes of life-changing advice on every topic imaginable.
1:21.4	And so to celebrate, my co-host, Courtney Martin and I recently talked with the show's founder, Charles Doeigh.
1:27.0	We had a guest on once. We were talking about talking to your kids about sex.
1:32.6	And she said, you would never have one conversation with your kids about table manners
1:37.6	and then assume that their table manners are going to be good for life, right?
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