I Hate My Kid’s Friend

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Zak, Elizabeth and Jamilah help a listener who emailed us wondering how to break up a friendship. Her son is friends with an obnoxious girl who the parent would just rather not see. But, of course, friendships are complicated… and this might not be as easy as just not inviting this girl over. We’ll also check in on where the hosts are this week – and then, if you’re coming to hang out on the Slate Plus Playground, the hosts are listening back to their 2024 resolutions and deciding if it truly was the year of “meh.” 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: the duck was secured. Elizabeth’s check-in: fawning and freedom Zak’s check-in: how long was winter break, actually? 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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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:05.8	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raised the next generation together.
0:10.7	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who's 11, and we live in Los Angeles.
0:20.4	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to, who's 11, and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the family travel
0:22.5	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
0:28.0	Tokyo, Japan. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show, and I'm
0:33.6	dad to 7-year-old Noah and 4-year-old Ami. We currently live in Amsterdam.
0:39.4	Today on the show, we have a parent who wants our help ruining a friendship.
0:44.0	Well, not exactly, but her son is friends with an obnoxious girl, and our parent is just over it.
0:50.2	But of course, friendships are complicated, and this might not be as easy as simply not inviting
0:55.3	this girl over.
0:56.4	So we'll see what we can do to help.
0:58.1	And after that, of course, we'll check in with each other.
1:00.8	Let's get going.
1:01.9	We're going to take a quick break, and then we'll be back here in a moment.
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