Welcomed Round four of the Parenting Roundabout podcast for the week of May twenty second.
I'm Catherine Aleko and I'm here with Nichol Heretics. Hello and Terry Morrow.
Hello. As moms of teens and young adults, we've survived those little
kid days, yet we're still rethinking the decisions we've made all through our kids'
lives and worrying about what's going on right now. Today's Thursday, which means
it's time to give into our obsessing, and today we're obsessing about superhero skills
and also our confidence in them. Terry found this survey fromcare dot com that
said that what was my Mind moms are confident in themselves as seventy three percent
feel they are the best mom in the world. What best world in my
family? Yeah, yeah, that's about as far as I can go.
That's pretty crazy. Yeah, good for them. I mean, yeah,
of moms are bleeping the surveyor oh yeah they are just delusionalism sarcasm. Yeah
sure, I'm the best mom. Yeah awesome, Right, I mean think
they're just I don't know, don't mean good for them. You go with
that self confidence, But that's right. I haven't met any I don't think
I've met anybody who thinks they are the best mom in the world. No.
They may feel that they try the hardest and that they fight the best,
and they're you know, the best at making do but not right the
best. What did the best mom in the world even be? Is there
a single aprilative? Yeah? I can't. I God, uses every kid
needs exactly the same thing and I can do it. Yeah, that's I
know. Well. The other another stat from this survey is that eight in
ten moms believe they are the driving force of their family and that the family
would be lost without them. Yes, with those other two moms, yeah,
I'm that one. I can buy absolutely and with that goes and bear
that weight on their shoulders every day. Nothing happens if I don't make it
happen. So ten moms would like a better night's sleep. Yes, then
I mean this survey was there's more, um super hero traits of moms.
Moms are confident in there and these are the traits that they believe they have.
I guess that that are super heroic problem solving, nurturing, multitasking,
organization and time management, and communication skills. These are boring I would like
more interesting superhero traits. Yeah, regardless of what I would want my superhero
trait to be, I have already been told many many times what it is
by my children, and that is I am super annoying. You are good
at worrying. I am good at worrying. I'm good at complaining. I
am good at singing when nobody wants to hear me sing. I am good
at so many things that are annoying. Annoying, Mom, you're the best
helicopter that lifts me into places instead of a cape. I can't fly by
myself, but rotors grew out of my back different places. Annoy I love
it. Yeah. Wow, what kind of superpowers do you guys think you
have or would you like to have? I comfortable with annoying. Honestly mine
would be. And this this started when my kids were babies, but you
know, I still maintain it. It would be useful to this day to
be able to make anyone fall asleep and stay asleep until such time as I
decide to wake them up. And this could belding yourself, including myself,
absolutely, you know, like when they're babies and you're just pacing the floor
for hours like just be like put you down, you're sleeping now on a
plane, in a car, like when it's the night before some big thing.
All of these are times when I would I would deploy this skill,
this this superhero ability. That's that's what I want. That is brilliant.
I would totally buy. I mean, who cares about flying or being invisible
or a thing like that. See, the sleep thing could get you through
those long, boring weights like you were were children sleep picking up? Yeah,
how much you Nicole? Would that what I would want or that I
have either one or both? Mm hmmm. Well, like want right now
would be the power to be like with my children at the snap of my
fingers, because they are so far away from me. Um, and so
far that you have to get a passport. I know, I know,
um what I what? Oh yeah, I think that right now that would
be the big thing because when they were younger, definitely the sleep thing was
a big issue. And oh, making meals. I want to be able
to whip up a meal and just have it in seconds, just like to
go abracadabra boom something that vegetables Yeah, exactly exactly, So that would be
Yeah, making food, it's a big It was a big issue. It
was a huge mountain to climb. Do they mothers lives that as their superpower,
being able to come up with something for dinner every night? Yeah,
well, organization, problem solving, multitasking come into play. I mean,
I think those are certainly portant skills that most mothers have to Yes, but
they're not as good as the instant far annoying enough other people do those things
for you. So I got my children through work, you know, twelve
years of special education each was with my amazing powers to annoy. Just give
it to her. Remarkably versatile you can use to annoy children, partners,
teachers, school administrators. I have exercised them to my fullest possible extent,
and yet I still have some left. According to my adult children, you're
annoying, But I'm your annoying. You're annoying. It's specific to you.
It's tailor made. I'm an all purpose annoy or. I can annoy other
people if I wish, I can turn it on and off like that.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what they were. All those things that
I listed as superhero traits, you know, the problem solving, all that
they were asking moms whether they were confident in those in those traits, and
fifty two percent were confident in problem solving, but only thirty six percent were
confident in organization and time management, which to me says, hey, they
are doing too much. That is why they cannot manage their time. They
need help. They need someone else to do some of this stuff. But
are they experts in podcasting? Do they have that superpower? Yeah? Like
you doing? You able to talk about their children endlessly? Can we come
up with topics on on on a dime and then stretch them out way,
way, way, ask the time when anybody would want to listen to it?
Yeah? I mean this survey, I don't know they they stretched it
out. They're asking if they're confident themselves, asking them if they have all
these traits, and how confident they are in all these traits and wow,
yeah, they asked, are you a good liar? Perhaps they should have
to enjoy lying to surveyors. I don't know that sent think they're the best
mom in the world. Seems like colossally wishful thinking. Yeah, it does
pretty much like make everything else they're saying rather suspect, like, well,
how good can you actually be as a mom. There's so much going on.
So sure I'm probably the world's best, but we're all awful, maybe
right, Or I see all these other people with their brats, I'm better
in them. Or maybe it's just the one thousand people that they interviewed are
just I guess so particularly overconfidence. It's gonna say, just went down that
list. Yeah, good on you all, you moms who think you're so
good, very impressive. We'll check back with and we will enjoy it.
Right, We'll check back with you when your kids turn eighteen see if they
engage in senior pranks, in which case score is going down or maybe up.
But there was So this friend of mine started a Facebook page for the
parents of my son's seeing your class, right, And so she's been posting
on there regularly about you know, what's going on, and plus you know,
we get an email like approximately daily from the administration about you know,
important reminders, important dates, you know, stuff you need to do.
And then on the Facebook page, this person posts, you know, don't
don't miss this email that went out today, you know, so these are
you know, this information is widely available, is what I'm saying. And
on the day that was the last day. The woman who founded the page
posted like it's the last day bubble, and one of the comments was,
oh I thought they still went next Monday into I was like, oh my
gosh, how have you missed this information that has been delivered to you in
multiple ways like ten, ten to twenty times, and I'm sure your child
knows that they don't have to go to school. Oh my gosh. I
couldn't believe it. I was like, Wow, that's that takes some skill
right there too, just be blissfully unaware of everything that's going on. So
well, are we have we exhausted our superhero trait of talking and blabbing?
That's right for now, for now, for now till tomorrow. Yes,
but that's it for round four. Yeah, in tomorrow, and we'll share
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