Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting ...
Zak Rosen, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Lucy Lopez share triumphs and fails and offer advice on parenting kids from toddler to teens.
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My 4th Grader Needs Help Boredom Busting
Slate’s parenting podcast on downtime and screentime.
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My Son Doesn’t “Play Like A Boy”
Slate’s parenting podcast on the kindergarten binary.
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Is My Toddler Having Panic Attacks?
Slate’s parenting podcast on sudden separation anxiety.
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I Think I Smelled Weed On My 13-Year-Old
Slate’s parenting podcast on highs and lows.
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Private School Guilt
Slate’s parenting podcast on choosing the school that’s right for you.
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Mourning Parental Leave Before It’s Even Over
Slate’s parenting podcast on finding new moments to cherish.
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Hear Me Out: Yes, You Can Self-Improve Right Now
F— your gut. Trust your enemies.
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Avoiding The Toxic Comparison Spiral
Slate’s parenting podcast on stopping the drama before it starts.
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I Refuse to Replace My Husband With a Nanny
Slate’s parenting podcast on the battle over bedtime.
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Can I Stop My Adult Kid From Getting a Tattoo?
Slate’s parenting podcast on making the ink run dry.
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How Parents Can Carve Out Creative Time
Eve Rodsky on why creative time isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity.
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Our Annual Best-Of Bonanza: The ‘23 Edition
Slate’s parenting podcast revisits some of this year’s best Slate Plus segments.
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2023 Family Holiday Party
The kids of Mom and Dad are Fighting take the mic.
31 min
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How to Not Spoil Your Kid
Centering gratitude in a season of gifts.
24 min
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Helping a 5-Year-Old Night Owl Rest His Wings
Reading in bed wasn’t the solution.
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Why Is My Kid So Controlling During Playdates?
Finding moments of calm when friends are over.
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Parents Have Taken Over My Kid’s Sport. Yikes.
The toddler can’t play because there are too many grown-ups on the court.
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Traveling The World With a Blended, Mixed-Race ...
Author Alana Best shares how she did it – and how you can too.
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Do We Have to Visit Grandma?
Building bonds when relatives live far away.
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My Toddler’s a Hitter. Should His Brother Hit B...
Wrangling a wily three-year-old is easier said than done.
28 min
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How To Let Go of Kid Clutter
Carvell Wallace and Courtney Martin on making memories manageable.
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My Kid Is Copying His Black Classmates’ Vernacular
Slate’s parenting podcast on respecting lingual differences.
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The World Is Messy and Ugly. Do My Kids Need to...
Slate’s parenting podcast on preventing pessimism.
27 min
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My Partner’s Parenting Style Is Stuck In the ‘90s
Slate’s parenting podcast on handling a partner who is unwilling to learn new tactics.
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My Baby’s On the Move, and I Need A Break
Slate’s parenting podcast on screentime in the name of productivity.
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