Speaker 1: While we're celebrating New Year's with our families, we bring
Speaker 1: you this relic of podcasts past a speed round devoted
Speaker 1: to our resolutions for the coming year.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year, and we'll be back tomorrow with our
Speaker 2: discussion of shrinking. It is Full Grown Dude Face, Season two,
Speaker 2: episode nine.
Speaker 1: It's the new year, here we go. It's a time
Speaker 1: for making resolutions, and we thought we would talk about
Speaker 1: whether we have any parenting related resolutions. You know, I should.
Speaker 1: There are things I could do better. Probably my parenting
Speaker 1: related resolution should just be to leave things alone and
Speaker 1: to certainly not feel like I have to talk my
Speaker 1: daughter through every crisis she has, like I did when
Speaker 1: she was little, and to allow her to talk without
Speaker 1: feeling like I have to respond and solve whatever she's
Speaker 1: talking to me about. I should just let her talk.
Speaker 1: I think she would be very happy if I made
Speaker 1: that resolution. I think we both would be happier. Because
Speaker 1: what happens is she comes and tells me something, and
Speaker 1: then I start talking and talking and talking, and then
Speaker 1: she's late for work. So you need to stop that.
Speaker 1: She's either late for work or she goes for some reason.
Speaker 1: We have talks when she's about to go to work,
Speaker 1: she comes in for me to tie her apron and
Speaker 1: I we start talking and then she's either crying or late.
Speaker 1: So I definitely should stop that. But just in general,
Speaker 1: you know, my kids are adults, I probably should just
Speaker 1: not feel like I need to be cruise director anymore.
Speaker 1: I should probably just calm down. There's my resolution you
Speaker 1: need to calm down to. I need to calm down
Speaker 1: that tailor, I need to exactly she's right, I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to take some of that advice as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, if they would just come stop coming to us
Speaker 1: with their problems, it would be easier not.
Speaker 3: You know why, you know, I mean that's kind of
Speaker 3: the work hazard of having kids who will talk to
Speaker 3: you yes about stuff, because then you hear everything, and
Speaker 3: then you take on everything and you worry about everything,
Speaker 3: and you want to solve everything for them, and maybe
Speaker 3: wequist you to not know. Yes, yes, just hide something
Speaker 3: from me. I don't need to know that.
Speaker 1: This is the resolution we want to give to our
Speaker 1: children this year. Hide stuff from mom so she doesn't
Speaker 1: go off.
Speaker 3: You don't need to tell me it's okay. That's my
Speaker 3: big resolution is I'm gonna I've got to try and
Speaker 3: like just not be as accessible we invested accessible exactly.
Speaker 1: We resolved to podcast twenty four to seven, So we
Speaker 1: are not available to our children.
Speaker 3: Especially at two am. Yeah, that's stuff, I really, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I need to stop. Like I've got to let my daughter,
Speaker 3: in particular, I've gotta let her start to figure stuff
Speaker 3: out and not get anxious when she's not doing things
Speaker 3: the way I want her to.
Speaker 1: Yes, they are so stubborn that way.
Speaker 3: I know, like if you just did what I you know,
Speaker 3: the advice that you want that you wanted me to share, you.
Speaker 1: Know, if we could just tap into our inner teen
Speaker 1: and twenty something young adult s nickel when we had
Speaker 1: these same conversations with our mothers, and oh, I deactly
Speaker 1: the way they do. You didn't I did? I totally did.
Speaker 1: I just know it. I just remember it. But I
Speaker 1: can't not be my mother in this scenario. No, I
Speaker 1: hid stuff you did? Oh yeah, like you know, do
Speaker 1: as I did child exactly mother.
Speaker 3: Which is why I encourage her to talk to me.
Speaker 3: But no, I'm wondering maybe my mom had the right idea.
Speaker 3: After all, look what happened. Maybe her authoritative stuff parenting
Speaker 3: a better call. Oh dear we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: Catherine, what is your resolution?
Speaker 2: Do you have it more together than we do?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Not really, because I never I don't really do resolutions,
Speaker 2: and you know, when it comes to parent I don't know,
Speaker 2: like I've in the past, I've sort of given up
Speaker 2: on things too easily. So maybe maybe that's what I
Speaker 2: need to work on, is you know, if I feel
Speaker 2: strongly about something, or if i'm you know, trying to
Speaker 2: achieve a particular goal with my kids, then I need
Speaker 2: to just be a little more persistent like Nichole.
Speaker 1: So basically, you were making the opposite resolution to the
Speaker 1: ones Nicole and I are making.
Speaker 2: I think I might be.
Speaker 1: We will live like care eusily through you, Catherine, as
Speaker 1: you as you make your children do things, We'll go
Speaker 1: I remember when I could do Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not good at making resolutions. And as a.
Speaker 1: General rule, we'll revisit this into side.
Speaker 2: I know we're gonna have to see what happened.
Speaker 1: And all through the year we'll be checking in with
Speaker 1: each other. Didn't you say you weren't gonna do that?
Speaker 3: Right?
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