Care & Feeding | I’m Dating A Single Mom

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On this episode: Jamilah, Zak and Elizabeth answer a question from someone who’s not a parent — and not even a stepmom, yet! This member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group is dating a single mom and wondering how to make meeting the kids and joining the family as seamless as possible. We’ll help her out and then check in and share what’s on our minds this week. Then, if you’re hanging out for the Slate Plus Playground, we're talking about how to handle it when your kid is being an un-fun butthead. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Jamilah’s check-in: gig hunting. Elizabeth’s check-in: island time. Zak’s check-in: sick season. 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. Podcast produced by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	This episode contains explicit language. Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise
1:07.8	the next generation together. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write a family travel
1:11.4	blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 12, Oliver who's 10, and Teddy who's 8. We live in
1:17.3	Tokyo, Japan. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, editor, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding
1:23.9	parenting column, and mom to Naima, who's almost 12, and we live in Los Angeles.
1:30.0	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show, and I am dad to Noah,
1:35.1	who's seven, and Ami, who's four. At the moment, we live in Amsterdam. Today on the show,
1:40.5	we're answering a question from someone who's not a parent and not even a stepmom yet.
1:46.2	This member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group is dating a single mom and wondering how to make
1:51.2	meeting the kids and joining the family as seamless as possible. Of course, we've got our resident
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