When Your Kid Hates Mornings

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week on Care and Feeding, Zak, Lucy, and Elizabeth tackle a letter from a parent whose mornings are a nonstop battleground. What do you do when your kid just isn’t a morning person, and every transition out the door spirals into crankiness and chaos? The hosts share strategies for smoother starts to the day, and in triumphs and fails: a birthday party pulled off without a hitch, the joys (and wobbles) of re-learning to ride a bike, and back-to-school prep that actually went right. 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	So, what are you watching at the moment?
0:01.8	Squid Game, Dad.
0:03.0	Let's watch it together this weekend.
0:04.9	Would that be nice?
0:06.0	What's it on again?
0:06.8	Netflix. You've got EETV, so you just switch it on. What season are we up to? Um, four? That's Stranger Things, Mum. And what about the kids? Don't worry, they'll watch Coca-Mellon for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV, plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:04.5	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV. Plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:22.4	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the whole family.
0:25.4	EETV requires EEB broadband, separate 24-month contracts for TV and broadband content
0:29.1	a very tense supply.
0:30.2	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:33.3	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together.
0:36.8	I'm Zach Rosen. I am a dad of two kids who are growing so fast. They're almost eight and almost five. We live in Amsterdam for like one more week and then back to Detroit. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 8.
0:57.2	And like Zach, we are in our final week in Tokyo.
1:01.0	Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez.
1:02.4	I host another podcast, literally and supposedly.
1:06.3	And I'm mother to Amelia, who's 15, Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami, Florida.
1:13.6	And it is hot.
1:14.8	Today on the show, we answer a listener question about night owls, not being a morning person,
1:21.9	and all the rigamarole that comes with that.
1:24.4	But first, we'll get started with a round of triumphs and fails.
1:27.4	Stick around.
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