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Care & Feeding: I Have Five Kids and Can’t Keep My Sh*t Together

Jun 17, 2024
38:02

On this episode: Zak, Lucy, and Elizabeth help a member of our Slate Parenting Facebook group who’s struggling to keep her head above water. There’s always another deadline, appointment, and thing to do… and when it all piles up, it’s hard to feel like you can dig yourself out. We’ll have some concrete advice for how to move in the right direction — and more importantly, how to feel better.


We also dole out a round of recommendations — and, for our Slate Plus listeners, we’re talking about keeping teeth and making jewelry, and whether it’s actually as weird as it sounds.


Lucy recommends: Makeup/Skincare shopping with your 12 yr old

Elizabeth recommends: Silicone Nesting Scoops 

Zak recommends: Babes


Join us on Facebook and email us at careandfeedingpod@slate.com 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.


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Podcast produced by Maura Currie.

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