What We Learned From Our Biggest Parenting Triumphs and Fails

About this episode

The hosts reflect on their biggest parenting fails and triumphs from 2025 while looking forward to 2026, culminating in a poetry night.

On this episode: Lucy Lopez , Elizabeth Newcamp , and Zak Rosen are looking back on 2025, but keeping an eye on 2026. They discuss their biggest parenting fails from this year, and what they’re looking to learn and improve on in the new year. Then, it’s poetry night! Each of the hosts wrote poems for the others to cap off 2025. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you won’t want to miss it. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips. 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. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, Zak Rosen

Topics covered

• parenting
• triumphs and fails
• poetry
• self-improvement
• year in review

Keywords

• parenting
• triumphs
• fails
• poetry
• self-improvement
• 2025
• 2026

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Slate Podcasts, Cheyna Roth, Micah Phillips

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