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Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast for
the week of June nineteen, twenty twenty

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three. I'm Nicole Erdic's time here
in Catherine Heleco Hello, and Terry Morrow

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Hello. Every week we chat about
what parents are talking, complaining, and

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obsessing about right now. This week
we're complaining about anti dopamine parenting and obsessing

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about what happens when kids want to
quit an activity. We also take a

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couple of breaks for an entertainment discussion
and a recommendation roundup. Today we are

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talking about things that make us proud. So I'm gonna just send that over

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to you, Terry, because you
had a big weekend a while. Yeah.

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Yeah, my family went to the
Special Olympics in New Jersey, which

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I believe I talked about earlier on
this podcast. We had a very successful

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and fun weekend and we ate a
lot of candy. There was, for

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some reason, a lot of candy
at the Special Olympics here. I don't

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know why. Shopwright I think,
which is a supermarket chain here, donates

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all the food, and this stuff
was totally remaindered Easter candy, and so

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there were like lots of eggs shaped
things and It's like, you're not fooling

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me shop right, you didn't just
buy these for the athletes. You're trying

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to unload big truckloads of sugar.
Yes, I will take some, thank

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you. So. But another really
sweet part of the weekend was not so

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much what my kids did in their
athletic endeavors, which they did great and

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I'm so proud of them. And
yeah, but my sons they were staying

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in the doors dorms and on Saturday
night they were all going to go out

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for an activity. I think they
were gonna go see a movie, and

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my son's roommate wasn't feeling well.
He had a stomachache, probably from all

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the candy, and my son stayed
with him. You know, he just

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didn't go out with everybody. He
stay with his roommate and kept him company,

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which, ah, yeah, more
to me than coming in first in

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a race. That's a good dude
right there. And you know, the

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coaches always tell me how he's always
the first one to help. If they

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need stuff carried, or they need
stuff put away, or whatever they need

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to do, he's there to do
it. And I love that. And

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then there was a time where my
daughter was in a race and watching it,

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we thought she had come in second. But when they were giving the

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medals, they have them walk out
in order so that when they stand on

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these platforms, the person who won
gold will be on the highest one,

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and then second and third next to
them. And when they put them placed

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them on the podium, she was
on the top like she had won the

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gold, and I thought, well, we didn't think that, but yeah,

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that's nice. And then when they
came to give the second place medal,

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they said her name, and everybode
who's a little confused for a minute

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and they realized what they had done. And then she just walked down to

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the second place one and the other
girl went up to the first place.

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One of my daughter immediately put her
hands over her head and cheered, and

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I'm like, good sportsmanship, bab
sportsmanship. I just loved it because some

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kids would have been understandably upset by
that, or at least not super psyched,

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but she just was the best sport
about it. And that's the stuff

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that makes you proud as an apparent. The other stuff is great and you're

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excited, but you know, to
see your kid being a good human,

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yeah, that's what really it doesn't
have to be something big. I mean,

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the big things are great, the
graduations and the driver's licenses and all

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those things are great. But just
the small gestures of kindness, the small

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acceptance of imperfect circumstances, is just
maybe I did something right somewhere along the

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line. Yeah, maybe that's the
thank you part. The few one comes

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later. But you know, not
everything was wrong. So I just want

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to ask you, guys, have
you had anything lately the just some small

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thing that made you stop and go, that's my kid, and feel good

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about yourself and feel good about them
and feel proud. Catherine, I know

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you've had some big things. Yes, well you mentioned the driver's license and

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the graduation, but also on the
same on the same day as the driver's

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license, I had to send my
computer away to the computer hospital, and

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I went to my son had just
gotten, you know, with his graduation

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money, he got a brand new
map book, and I said, you

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know, can I borrow the old
one because I'm going to be without a

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laptop for like a few weeks,
and you know, I can't function with

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I can only do so much on
my phone. You know, I can't

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work. I can't there's a lot
of things like yeah, yeah, so

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um, so I was like,
okay, you know, no problem.

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I we have this old mac book. You know, it had actually been

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my daughter's and then she sold it
to my son and when she got her

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new one and so and then he
got his new one and it just came

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I mean he'd had it for a
few days, and so I was like,

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can I borrow the old one?
He said, well, no,

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it doesn't work at all, like, it won't turn on. It's it's

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just completely it's completely dead, it's
deceased, it's it's yeah, it's a

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brick. And he said, but
you can use the new one, and

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you just let me use his brand
new one. So it's very lovely.

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I mean I also let him use
my car. So no, it's not

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a new car at all. It's
an eight year old car. Yeah that

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not coincidentally, just came back from
the body shop where it had to have

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some work done thanks to somebody who
was learning how to drive. So so

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yeah, I mean there were some
trade offs probably involved, but still he

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was super nice of him to offer
his You would have totally understood if he

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hadn't. Yes, so lovely that
he did, Yes, and then my

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other kid was just telling me how
a few weeks ago she went to stay.

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She has this new guy that she's
seeing and she went to stay at

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his family's house, and so was
you know, the first time she was

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meeting them. But she was also
kind. She was sick the whole time

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she was there, so she did
not feel great about the whole thing because,

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you know, she didn't feel like
she was very good company because she

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was sick and um. But she
said to me, I think I should

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send them a thank you note?
And I said, yeah, I think

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that would be that would be a
good idea, you know, because she

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stayed at her house. Um,
so she did. And I just talked

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to her today and apparently the boy's
mom was very impressed and that she had

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said a thank you note. She
thought of it herself. Yeah, rather

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do you having to say? Do
you think you should write and thank you?

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Yes? And she did say to
me like, well, they're going

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away, what do I do?
And and I said, just send it

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and then it will be there when
they get back. Don't don't wait on

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it. So nice. Now I
need to get the thank you note.

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Mojo going for the other kid with
those days he's done some let's just say

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it's done. I had two graduations
with kids who are not capable of doing

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that task themselves. It had to
me write this. Yeah, yeah,

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really sort of in the back of
your mind, makes you want to just

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have a party and say no gifts, no gifts please. It is worth

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worth me to get whatever you would
have given him. I will pay him

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that money not to have to do
things to do. Yeah, well this

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this kid will be doing them himself. Take a minute, I think you

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will be nagging gently. But you
have his computer now, so m hmm.

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Yeah, well he has to hand
right handwriting them. Yes, do

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you have like preprinted graduation thank you
notes? No, we just have little

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thank you cards, and he's done
several. But he he quickly, you

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know, stuffs them in velo before. So I don't know what they said

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or whether they were even legible at
all. So I'll have to ask my

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mom when she gets her, like, could you read it? I don't

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know. Maybe it's better not to
know just it. So he did it,

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you know, Oh I didn't see
it. Yes, he's taking care

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of it himself. I'm so proud
of him. So but yeah, he's

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doing well. How about you,
Nicole. Well, actually, my daughter,

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so she acquired a new roommate a
couple of days ago, and her

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other one has since left for the
Amazon Jungle. Oh yes, she's graduated

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with a science degree and she's off
to go study in the Amazon Jungle.

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Wow wow, so yeah, so
um, so my daughter he had to

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find herself a new roommate, and
so roommate moved in. But prior to

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that, just you know, in
the days prior to the new roommate moving

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in, my daughter has been working
full time and commuting, and so she's

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away from her place for you know, several hours, more than several hours

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a day. But I face timed
her one night beforehand, and I thought,

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what are you doing? How are
things going? And she's good,

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I'm just cleaning up for the roommate, and I'm like, well, that's

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nice. Well, I mean,
she cleaned that apartment spick and span,

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She cleaned out cupboards, she wiped
out the fridge. She like just really

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went above and beyond more than when
I ever had any of my roommates do

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more than she ever did at home, right right exactly. And then she

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even left a little gift for her
because she wasn't going to be there the

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day that or that when the room
was moving in because she's gonna at work,

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right, So she left a little
gift and then she put notes on

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all the cupboards like where there's space
that this new roommate could put her food

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in. And I was just like, wow, that's nice. Yeah,

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like you know, the fact that
you a went to the effort to clean

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and then you know, kind of
help her find her way around the apartment

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with messages and yeah, it was
very I thought that was really thoughtful.

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I was like, oh, that's
really nice. So yeah, I was

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very proud of her for that.
M Yeah, and I just have not

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really seen or talk to my son
at all because he's in the midst of

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studying for some major final medical school
exam. So I know he's alive about

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it. I check in for proof
of life every couple of days, right,

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the poor guy. He is in
a world a hurt right now,

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I imagine, So I am staying
away. Yeah, well, we're proud

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of him for going through all that. Anyway, we're proud of his perseverance.

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It's a macro pride and not a
micropride, so true. Yeah,

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but well, good we have raised
some good humans apparently, so we're cutting

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ourselves on the back just a little
bit. But we'll stop there before we

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tempt fate any fre and say that's
it for today's round one. Tune in

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tomorrow for our entertainment themed Round two
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