What to Say to Your Kids When You Can’t Deal

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, award-winning journalist and podcaster Elise Hu joins the show to talk about her new podcast Raising Us, where she explores how parents can handle the trickiest questions kids throw their way. A mom of three, Elise shares her own experiences with curiosity, honesty, and the moments where parents don’t have a neat answer. She also helps Lucy and Elizabeth respond to a listener question about navigating conflicts with grandparents who may not share or respect your parenting choices. 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.
0:03.3	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show that's as honest and messy as parenting itself.
0:08.3	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:09.4	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.
0:16.3	We are currently in Atlanta, Georgia.
0:18.9	Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez.
0:20.1	I host another podcast, The Mamasita Rica.
0:23.1	I'm on to Amelia, who's 15, A3, who's 12, and we live in Miami, Florida.
0:29.7	Zach couldn't join us this morning. He's home celebrating Rosh Hashanah.
0:32.8	But don't worry, you'll hear from him on the Plus Playground.
0:35.8	This week, we're talking to Elise Q.
0:38.7	Elise is a mom of three and an award-winning journalist and podcaster.
0:42.6	You may know her from Tech Talks Daily or Forever 35.
0:46.8	And now the host of Raising Us, a parenting podcast where she guides parents through big, tricky
0:52.0	conversations with their kids on topics like puberty, identity, tech, and body image.
0:58.9	We'll chat about Elisa's new show, talk about our weekend parenting,
1:02.1	and then tackle a listener question together about navigating boundaries and trust with a well-meaning grandparent
1:08.0	who may or may not get your parenting approach, so stick
1:11.3	around.
1:16.2	If you have a child in special education, you know how overwhelming it could be. The acronyms alone,
1:21.3	IEP, 504, CST, it's a lot. And really, all you want is to see your child succeed, right? When we were first navigating
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