Speaker 1: Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow.
Speaker 2: And I'm Catherine hileco.
Speaker 1: Every Thursday, we're bringing you a library find, a pick
Speaker 1: from our archives, and a parenting or pop culture tidbit
Speaker 1: or two. Let's start with Catherine's library find of the week.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I have a library find for you audio
Speaker 2: book lovers out there. Oh yeah, it includes Terry. So
Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure how you pronounced this, but library
Speaker 2: vox is a catalog of free, public domain audio books
Speaker 2: that are read by volunteers. So I'm sure the quality
Speaker 2: is ver varied.
Speaker 1: But how do you volunteer to read? That's what I
Speaker 1: want to do. I want a volunteer to read books
Speaker 1: for them.
Speaker 2: Oh well you gotta find that out. Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: the the volunteer to read them aloud, to record them,
Speaker 2: and then anybody can.
Speaker 3: You can volunteer to do this right here, volunteer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can volunteer to listen because anybody can listen.
Speaker 2: So yeah, this was actually the department heads that the
Speaker 2: library mentioned this to us. So you know, your library
Speaker 2: has libby, which or probably has libby which is an
Speaker 2: app for borrowing audio books, but they are limited in
Speaker 2: terms of how many copies they have and how many
Speaker 2: they can lend out because they are quite expensive for
Speaker 2: libraries to own. But with this Libery Box, you anything
Speaker 2: that's in the public domain, which is you know, many
Speaker 2: many classics, they record them for free and or they
Speaker 2: record them and anybody can listen. So yeah, pretty cool.
Speaker 1: There is on this site a thing to volunteer for
Speaker 1: Liberal Box. They need readers. There is something called this
Speaker 1: is quite delightful a proof listener NA perfect listen to
Speaker 1: recordings submitted by the readers and flag obvious errors easily
Speaker 1: corrected before books are catalogs.
Speaker 3: I know, this is so fun.
Speaker 1: I would like to do that because I've often thought
Speaker 1: I would like to get into like being an audiobook reader.
Speaker 1: But you have to like have a little portfolio or
Speaker 1: something before you can, right, So this is.
Speaker 3: How you do it.
Speaker 1: You find some public domain book that they haven't read yet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: record it and send it in and you can even
Speaker 1: do short works. Yes, I wonder if they let you
Speaker 1: just like read things that you've written.
Speaker 3: Am you never published?
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's my book that I wrote when I was
Speaker 1: in college.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I never went anywhere.
Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody would like to listen to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's pretty it's pretty cool that this is
Speaker 2: a thing. I mean, I know, like I don't know
Speaker 2: if they still used to do like books for the
Speaker 2: blind where people would record those do to your basis.
Speaker 1: That's another thing I've looked into volunteering forms. There is
Speaker 1: a way to do that, but.
Speaker 2: You'd have to read with your eyes in order to
Speaker 2: record with your mouth. How would that work? Yes, you'd
Speaker 2: have to just blow up that text as big as
Speaker 2: you can.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: That's okay.
Speaker 3: I could do that. I have it on a computer.
Speaker 1: I can blow it up, right, So one of those
Speaker 1: magnifying glass things, right.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I thought that was very cool and an
Speaker 2: awesome resource for people to know about time.
Speaker 3: That is very cool.
Speaker 1: That is for people who want to use their time
Speaker 1: in productive ways, either by listening to reading or reading
Speaker 1: for listening, and you know they're doing something all the
Speaker 1: time that benefits other people or themselves. Those people will
Speaker 1: be listening to audiobook books and recording for audiobooks. What
Speaker 1: I will be doing is playing Majong Solitaire on my
Speaker 1: phone because I have an attention span of that tree
Speaker 1: frog that was bothering Sawyer.
Speaker 3: On Lost, So I have.
Speaker 1: I think we were talking about Majong a few yes
Speaker 1: weeks ago on this very podcast.
Speaker 2: Right because my mother and her man on the Inside
Speaker 2: Style Residents learned how to play maj Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I do not know how to play the game,
Speaker 1: but it reminded me that there is like a Majong
Speaker 1: Solitaire online and AARP has one on its website, so
Speaker 1: that tells you who the target on it, and so
Speaker 1: I played the one on the ARP website for a while. Basically,
Speaker 1: all it is is you're matching tiles. You have a
Speaker 1: bunch of tiles, some of them are in stack, so
Speaker 1: you can only use the top one, and you have
Speaker 1: to like look over this this board of I don't
Speaker 1: know how many, but enough tiles that it's a challenge
Speaker 1: and find the ones that match. And the one on
Speaker 1: AARP was pretty good, except it has a timer on
Speaker 1: it and if you run out of time, you're done.
Speaker 1: I want to just keep going until I'm done and
Speaker 1: then then shuffle them if I run out of matches
Speaker 1: or whatever. I'm not I'm not trying to beat any
Speaker 1: records here. I just want to sit and waste my
Speaker 1: time by matching up little vaguely Asian pictures, so the AARP.
Speaker 3: One was not so satisfying.
Speaker 1: And also, boy do you never feel more stupid than
Speaker 1: when you are looking at these things and you're like nope, nope, nope,
Speaker 1: no matches here and you hit the help button and
Speaker 1: there's like five.
Speaker 3: Things in front of your face.
Speaker 1: How could I not see them? So this made me
Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, this is a challenge. Clearly my aging
Speaker 1: brain is not taking in everything in its environments. This
Speaker 1: will be a good thing. See, this is not just
Speaker 1: wasting time. This is a good thing to find too
Speaker 1: much and notice everything. So I sort of went a
Speaker 1: little further afield. I found a couple other websites that
Speaker 1: had it, but I thought, maybe there's one on my phone.
Speaker 1: So it's very funny. If you look for Mogong games
Speaker 1: on the iTunes, the Apple Store at app Store, a
Speaker 1: lot of them say big tiles for seniors, so again
Speaker 1: we know who is the audience. But I finally found
Speaker 1: in the Apple Arcade, which I have access to because
Speaker 1: I'm subscribed to Apple stuff, there was one called Majong's
Speaker 1: Titan Plus that the plus is about.
Speaker 3: But it's good.
Speaker 1: I like it and it's not that complicated and I
Speaker 1: can just play a game in a short period of time,
Speaker 1: but I can take also take as much time as
Speaker 1: I want AARP, why are you rushing people? Just let
Speaker 1: us There should just be a thing to turn the
Speaker 1: timer off, which maybe there is, and I can't see,
Speaker 1: just like I can't see there are two identical tiles there.
Speaker 1: Why can't you see them? So there's probably a big
Speaker 1: flashing churn time or off button that I'm just my
Speaker 1: brain is not deciding to show me. But anyway, if
Speaker 1: you feel like you could use another time wasting opportunity
Speaker 1: in your life, brain building, brain building time wasting opportunity,
Speaker 1: you might try Majong Titan Plus for your phone, or
Speaker 1: the AARP website if you are a member of ARP,
Speaker 1: or just google Majong Solitaire.
Speaker 3: And many, many, many many.
Speaker 1: Websites will come up because old people will be bored
Speaker 1: and we're looking.
Speaker 3: Back over here, Grandma. We got.
Speaker 1: It's super big tiles over here, Granny. Just for your
Speaker 1: sad sad eyeballs love it anyway, Okay, I am wasting
Speaker 1: time on this week excellent precious time that I don't
Speaker 1: apparently have much left of is going.
Speaker 2: To but at least you're not on social media.
Speaker 1: I'm not on social media.
Speaker 2: So you needed something else.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Good, Okay, So what do we have from the archive
Speaker 1: this week?
Speaker 2: Well, two years ago, we were talking about good mom moments,
Speaker 2: those times that were like, yeah, I'm doing it, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm acing this thing. We feel like we need to
Speaker 2: shout those moments out when they happen, or remember them fondly,
Speaker 2: because you know, we need to, we need to keep
Speaker 2: our spirits up right. So, yeah, were they Well, surely
Speaker 2: there are some you said that Yours was, you know,
Speaker 2: worrying and praying.
Speaker 1: Worrying and praying. Well, that's still that you're that's still
Speaker 1: what I do.
Speaker 2: You're good at those things, and you maror me get
Speaker 2: any appreciation for them, but.
Speaker 3: I do not.
Speaker 1: No may or may not no no, no zilch zero.
Speaker 1: You know, I get that. What was that line from
Speaker 1: running point, I'm not interested in any of that, stop dogging.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, I felt also to return to extra hut grade.
Speaker 2: They sometimes mentioned tiny triumphs, you know, little little moments
Speaker 2: where you're like, yes, you have well it's very tiny.
Speaker 2: But when my stopic triumphs when my son asks to
Speaker 2: use my New York Times login so that he can
Speaker 2: read an article and I have I have tried to
Speaker 2: tell I'm like, I, well, of course I gave it
Speaker 2: to him, but I'm almost like, I'm pretty sure your
Speaker 2: school library should have access to this, Like, you don't
Speaker 2: need mine, but I will give it to you, you know,
Speaker 2: I will definitely give you my extremely insecure password. For
Speaker 2: the New York Lives, I did not do one of those,
Speaker 2: like get set a strong pass. You suggested strong password. No,
Speaker 2: I did not do that for the New York Times.
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 2: So yeah, because number one, it's like, oh he's reading.
Speaker 2: Number two, he's contacting me. Number three he is doing
Speaker 2: school work like he needs it for a project of
Speaker 2: some kind. So yeah, it's excellent, excellent, good feeling all around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what have I done, Lely?
Speaker 1: I have not done much other than stay on my
Speaker 1: office with my door closed. So that's possibly interpreted as
Speaker 1: being good, right, And.
Speaker 3: She's in there planning games on her phone, but.
Speaker 2: It's not bothering us.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: Maybe I will maybe take a a good mom moment
Speaker 1: the times that I go to the dog park with
Speaker 1: my daughter and our dog, because I am being a
Speaker 1: good mom to both my daughter by keeping her company
Speaker 1: and the dog getting to the dog park. So sometimes
Speaker 1: we pick up my son on the way back, so
Speaker 1: then I'm a good mom to all three. Wow, I'm
Speaker 1: not driving, my daughter is driving around there. I am
Speaker 1: facilitating the outing. Yes, my daughter can take the dog
Speaker 1: by herself, but she would prefer that I go along
Speaker 1: right and sit in the back of the car with
Speaker 1: a dog. And you know, if there's mud to be
Speaker 1: gotten on somebody, it will get on me, so you know,
Speaker 1: And that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, does it that I just really did go
Speaker 1: into the dog park and seeing all the dog and
Speaker 1: talking to dog people.
Speaker 3: There aren't that.
Speaker 1: Many places in the world anymore where you can just
Speaker 1: walk up to some stranger and say hey.
Speaker 3: Right and start a chat.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, but if you want to say, hey, what
Speaker 1: brand of dog is that?
Speaker 3: Or you know, your dog is sure cute. That's a
Speaker 3: good looking dog. That's this is my go to line.
Speaker 1: That's nice looking dog. Right looking dog, that's a great
Speaker 1: looking dog. People all go yes, I know. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're as do I. They are happy to be
Speaker 1: reminded once again.
Speaker 3: There dogs are so good looking.
Speaker 1: Dogs are just it's even like an ugly dog just
Speaker 1: has character, you know, right, you can't any dog you
Speaker 1: look at gotta say, yeah, I think that's that super
Speaker 1: scruffy dog that looked like he'd been uh you know
Speaker 1: these seen things, yeah, and done and done.
Speaker 3: Stuff he was.
Speaker 1: I think he was at the dog park the other day,
Speaker 1: but on their way out, so I didn't get too
Speaker 1: bad to bask in his scrappy presence, right, and imagine
Speaker 1: plots for him, Well, you just have to keep going.
Speaker 3: Back at point yeah, yeah, it's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do we think that's what Vincent's gonna look like
Speaker 2: in a few months.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is definitely what Vincent is going to look like.
Speaker 1: At the dog part, like yeah, yeah, you guys, you guys.
Speaker 2: You guys have no freaking clue.
Speaker 3: I had to eat frogs in the Jungle Man. It
Speaker 3: was rough.
Speaker 2: Everyone kept the dying and disappearing and yelling at me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, they go first forget me for episodes.
Speaker 2: They go for days and days of like no one
Speaker 2: even thinks spares a thought for that dog, and then als,
Speaker 2: where's Vincent?
Speaker 3: Where's Vincent?
Speaker 2: We can't find him. We need to find him. Where's Vincent?
Speaker 4: That hat?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: I had to eat ranch dressing. Eight year old ranch dressing.
Speaker 2: It's been in the jungle, yeah, which probably most dogs
Speaker 2: would not care.
Speaker 1: That dog should have got its own sequel, you know, yes,
Speaker 1: I want to know where that dog went afterwards.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so this this dog, this dog looked like.
Speaker 1: It was more you know, maybe it had been in the mob,
Speaker 1: maybe knocked over some liquor stores, maybe did some hard time,
Speaker 1: and you know it's it's just up for anything.
Speaker 4: The dog is in the witness protection progress. Ye, he's
Speaker 4: hiding out in suburbia at the dog park.
Speaker 3: Just hope he never gets it. Don't ever take me
Speaker 3: to the city.
Speaker 2: People know me there.
Speaker 1: It would be good Bloomfield anyway. So yeah, so I'll
Speaker 1: claim that is my good mom moment. I'm not always
Speaker 1: able to do it, but when I can, I really
Speaker 1: enjoy it and I feel virtuous. Right, look at me, everybody,
Speaker 1: a little outing.
Speaker 3: Right in hitting myself perfect.
Speaker 1: I'm also starting in again like my second my second
Speaker 1: childhood here with helping at the vacation Bible school.
Speaker 3: It's at church.
Speaker 1: I didn't even do that when my kids were I
Speaker 1: hired people to go with my son.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if I've ever done it.
Speaker 1: So it's like, gonna go hang with the little's cute
Speaker 1: quite as good as the dogs, but it'll be fun.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be in the drama section.
Speaker 1: So I guess that's kind of a good mom thing,
Speaker 1: just not a mom to like my personal kids, right
Speaker 1: one of the church moms. Actually, I think most of
Speaker 1: the people who did it are actually are teachers.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I'm just a mom, but that
Speaker 3: can help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some little thing I could do. So was it
Speaker 2: is it like currently, like a spring break kind of thing,
Speaker 2: or is it gonna be in the summer.
Speaker 3: The summer, in the summer.
Speaker 1: Last week in preparing July, I think yes, I had
Speaker 1: their first meeting and I went, nice, Yeah, a good
Speaker 1: mom because I'll be getting out of the house and
Speaker 1: not bothering their personal family little kids. Yeah, kids, that'll
Speaker 1: make me feel mommy.
Speaker 2: When I remember one time some I don't even know
Speaker 2: how I got roped into this, but I had to.
Speaker 2: I was voluntold, I guess to listen to kids prayers
Speaker 2: at religious ed and like, because they were supposed to
Speaker 2: be memorizing all these you know, certain prayers, and I
Speaker 2: was basically testing them on if they were.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I've just done that too.
Speaker 2: What am I like if they don't know, I'm going
Speaker 2: to fail them? Like it was just I felt horror.
Speaker 3: I felt so bad.
Speaker 2: I just prompted them, you know, a lot, until they
Speaker 2: got somewhere in the ballpark and then I was like, yep, they're.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I did. They were paring kids for
Speaker 1: their first confession, and they had to know the Act
Speaker 1: of Contrition and they had to know what like sinnias
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and there was a whole list
Speaker 1: of questions which they'd probably been studying in their class.
Speaker 1: And it's like it's the same thing. They gave me
Speaker 1: like a form to evaluate them. And some of them,
Speaker 1: a couple of kids just came in rattled it off
Speaker 1: like boom, so they got like the excellent there was
Speaker 1: like an excellent okay, and failed. And there were some
Speaker 1: who just you know, needed a little bit of prompting,
Speaker 1: and there were some that you just yet you had
Speaker 1: to pretty much talk them through it and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to fail them, right, they failed them. They got
Speaker 1: it eventually, exact it only took ten minutes of pantomime
Speaker 1: and you know, of.
Speaker 2: Course it's the very leading question.
Speaker 1: Yes, but they got it. And I went out brought
Speaker 1: them out to their mom, going she got it, and
Speaker 1: they're so happy, and the one say al yeah, So
Speaker 1: those kids are going to probably when they go into confession,
Speaker 1: not know anything.
Speaker 3: Who tested these people? Kids just adorable, adorable little kids
Speaker 3: and they're trying so hard.
Speaker 1: And I know what it's like to be asked a
Speaker 1: question and have nothing in my brain whatsoever except maudjung Diles.
Speaker 2: Just frozen, like.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to be doing.
Speaker 1: That again now, and it's like, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: ask them what constant because I heard some of the
Speaker 1: other ladies who were like teachers giving these and they
Speaker 1: were not so nice.
Speaker 2: They were they were sticklers.
Speaker 1: It's hard, and I don't know the act of contrition
Speaker 1: by memory. There's a card in the confession.
Speaker 2: I use it.
Speaker 3: Probably most adults do too. So we're getting why did
Speaker 3: they have to know it?
Speaker 1: They just have to go in in there and say
Speaker 1: I'm sorry and you know anyway, So yeah, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: done that too, and that's interesting. And there's little kids
Speaker 1: are so cute. Yeah, you forget that when you have
Speaker 1: big kids, right, normally at this point one might have
Speaker 1: I don't know grandchildren. But that's not going to happen,
Speaker 1: so I have to go. It's like going to the
Speaker 1: dog park. I have to go to the vidy.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, all sorts of ways to be a good Oh,
Speaker 1: my guests, you could borrow other people's children, very ically perfect.
Speaker 3: Be your mom for these five minutes. It'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Who is this lady perfect? Well, we'll wait to hear
Speaker 2: more about the adventures in vacation Bible school.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I'm sure it will be quite an adventure. There's
Speaker 1: a couple of women from my kids elementary school. It's
Speaker 1: a couple of teachers, but they were never my kids
Speaker 1: teachers because they weren't especially they were regular ed and
Speaker 1: my daughter was in regular D but she started at
Speaker 1: a higher grade than these two.
Speaker 3: Women we were in.
Speaker 1: So I don't know that if they even I think
Speaker 1: they remember me. One of them definitely remembers me, but
Speaker 1: not in a oh that was that bleep who was
Speaker 1: so much trouble, but just oh yeah, she worked in
Speaker 1: the library, m h. And her kids are so cute,
Speaker 1: so that's nice.
Speaker 3: Thank goodness.
Speaker 1: There are no special ed teachers, else it would be like,
Speaker 1: oh you no, stay out of my way. Thank you
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