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If Everything is Going Smoothly, Nobody Grows.
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Lynne’s kids are all back in school, Kathy’s oldest is back to TCU and LAUSD started back for Nancy’s kids so the girls discuss glows and grows around back to school. From a fourth grader to a returning college sophomore.
Also, Nancy shares what happens when teenage boys are unsupervised at soccer practice and someone brings clippers.
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One Pot Cajun Chicken and Orzo from Damn Delicious.
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Introduction and Importance of Challenges
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I would say, really, growth only happens with challenges. When everything is going smoothly, nobody grows. Life is not going to go smoothly. It's okay to fall down in middle school and pick yourself up because this is part of growing.
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Welcome to Three Little Fishes, where three sisters who grew up in the Midwest together but have since spread across the country. I live in Los Angeles. I'm in Nashville. And I live in Philadelphia. We are all married with children. We've all had careers, but now we stay at home with our families. We've all been through ups and downs that come along with life and have always helped each other through shared stories, and laughed together. We welcome all of you into our daily conversations and hope you have some fun with us. So let's jump in.
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Hi, girls. Good to see you. Hello. We are the three little fishes. And we um are loving that you've come to join and jump in with us today.
Riley's Haircut Adventure
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um Today, we are going to just jump into what's happening. And for me, what's happening is my kids started back to school. So we're going to talk about that a little bit. um Ladies, I'm just going to just jump in and tell you what's happened here. My son, who is a sophomore in high school, Riley. So he is obsessed with his hair right now. He's unhappy with it. He's happy with it.
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Anyway, we're getting ready to go back to school. He's like, Mom, well heaven low I'm having an emergency. I need to get my hair cut. Okay, fine. I want you like, well, Brian, we'll get your hair cut. I don't, I'm not involved. I'm just the Uber driver. I just take them to get his hair cut. So he goes and he gets his hair cut and he gets back in the car. He's like, Oh,
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I don't know. I don't know what I think of this. I think it's too short. ah I don't know. And I'm like, okay. I'm like, so I'm not saying a lot. I, I, I, not saying a lot. He doesn't want my input. So this was like a week and a half ago because he didn't want it super fresh for school that started this past week. Right. So, um, last night I take him to, um, club soccer practice.
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And after practice, I'm waiting in the parking lot longer than usual. And I'm seeing, I'm seeing some of his teammates trickle out to the parking lot, no Riley yet. And then I do a double take because I'm like, is that Riley? And as this boy is coming to my car, his hair is shaved with clunks of hair still like hanging out and buzzed, buzzed.
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but like not buzz that look clean. There's it's there's a design to it. ah No. you know So he kind of looks like a crazy person. so i And it's your hair. You get to do what you want. but i you know So we get home and we're like, Tim, Briley needs your help. So he has clippers. So they go in the garage and light it up the best they can. And Tim tries to even out.
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this buzz cut so he doesn't have claps of hair. And I mean, there are no words. So now this child is completely buzzed. So I just want to refresh you. So a week and a half ago, two weeks ago, I took him to get his hair cut. Didn't know if he liked it because it was too short.
Back-to-School Preparations and Routines
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But yesterday after he came home with a crazy buzz that had to be even buzz more.
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I mean, so that was the soccer kids, like, like, was it a bet? Or is that like, just? passage No, I don't believe there was a bet involved. I think he just wanted a clean, front like he didn't think he liked his original haircut. And I think he was just like dudes. Wait, he took a razor to the soccer practice in their soccer bag. No, I think there's clippers in their soccer bag. I think that he must have worked this out ahead of time and talked to one of his buddies and like, and he was like, I'll bring clippers. I have clippers. I'll i'll fix you up. Oh,
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That is funny. You know my son Trevor last year for golf, he was a caddy for my son and there was like a big like team golf thing that they all like would shave their heads and So he came home one night and he was bald and I was like, Oh my gosh, you look, you look, I mean, it kind of is alarming when you first look at them. Cause you're like, what happened to your cute face? right like And they're worried about it because they didn't confess in it in advance. He was worried about it. He was worried about your reaction.
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The good news is hair grows, so yeah all the things that he could do, this is the least egregious. Listen, 100% and it's your head, it's your hair. You get to you know relatively do what you want. um But that, I mean, yes. I just thought the whole how it came full circle, like, mom, I got to get a haircut, but it can't be too fresh before school. Right. Then I get in the car and then it's too short. And then yesterday, fast forward to,
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a buzz that went wrong that needed to be cleaned up. You know, boys of this age are completely about their hair. I mean, my son as well as a sophomore and he got his hair just cut the other day as a fresh cut. I didn't even think it really even needed it, but he had to get the front just right. And then he shaved the back. I was like, whatever. Yeah.
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You do man um the flow, the flow has to look really good, right? The floor all about the flow. Our son is a hockey player and the flow is very important because you have to have some curls that come out of the helmet and or and then you got to be able to shake your head.
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I know you're all sweaty and you get off the ice. I don't really get the shaking of the head either. They shake their head and he shakes his head. So all the curls land in the right spot. It's weird. It's super weird. High school is so weird. I think it's weird too. Well,
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It'll grow or he'll keep it short. I mean, it's easier. Yeah. I will say when my son shaved his head, we didn't have to do a haircut for an entire almost a year. Yeah. It's kind of nice because haircuts for boys are expensive. Yeah. So today I will say like, I've been in school for two weeks now and it's like clipping along. We're doing all the things.
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um Our son has been on time every day except day one, which has been absolutely dreamy. I'm so happy about it. I mean, we had a conversation about like expectations for the year because he is our kid that will push the boundaries as much as he can.
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He's a good kid, but he just will push the boundaries. And so I sat down with him the other day and I was like, listen, I'm not paying. This is a practice run this year for college. Like you need to show up. You need to be on time.
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You got to do all the things and show me you can do it because I'm not paying a gazillion dollars to have you go off to school and not show up. So proof to me, you can do it. And he was like, you know, mom, I'm ready. I can do it. And and he has. So it got me thinking about like.
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You know, Nancy, you still have an elementary school kid and then middle school and then high school. It's like your last push high school is for before they kind of fly the nest and do their next phase where you're not involved anymore. And it's so crazy, like.
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I mean, I remember back in the day, I used to take those kids back to school shopping and it was such a big deal to get like all the school supplies. And I remember one year I was madder than a wet hen because our oldest, cause our kids are like a year apart, all of them, our oldest was like in first or second grade. And she, we got all the school supplies. We picked out all the cute little things and the little bag and blah, blah, blah.
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And she came home after school that day crying. She was like, mom, they took my new crayons out of the box and dumped them in this big, huge bin for yeah everybody to use.
College and Nostalgic School Memories
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I don't know where my crayons are. They're all mixed up with everybody's crayons and I can't find them. And it was such a thing for her.
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And I actually was kind of mad about it because I was like, so I sent a message and she was like, The teacher's is like, this is something we're trying this year because some kids don't have school supplies and they run out and some kids break them and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, um, well that sucks because, you know, but it was really, the experiment was one year. So, um, I will say that the school supply thing is real. Like I have a fourth grader.
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And she needed all these supplies. And it's expensive. It's a small little fortune. It's really expensive. And what I thought about was, when I was doing it, I can do it. And we were able to do this for her. But how do people who don't have the means have their kids show up with supplies? That's what I thought about. I was just like, it's a lot that they need. And then Riley needs stuff, too, for school.
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I wonder how people who have minimal means do it. And I, and I think I was specifically thinking about it recently because, you know, we're in California and particularly the, we're in, um, TV and production and it's been very slow. I know a lot of people who have like a really rough year for the movie and TV business. yeah So it's like.
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I don't know those actually back in the day. I think we used to have a fundraiser for school where you would buy the school supply kit. And this box was just like magically show up. And um all you had to do is unpack it. And I thought that was amazing. And now in high school, my so our senior He didn't need anything except a folder. He's like, mom, I don't need anything. Yeah. I don't need anything. I'm, I'm set. Just get me some folders. So then I was like, okay. I looked up online. I said, why don't you pick something? He's like, no, just give me some. I said, okay, here, here are the folders. I'm going to get you. He's like, no, those are bad. Okay. About the folders. So then I ordered folders. They had to be colored. Yeah. All the things. I was like, you're,
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Yeah. I mean that tracks, that would be Riley. I mean, I actually try to pick them up a pair of like couple pair of track pants, which I feel like are very benign. And he's like, no, I will not wear these. Like how dumb are you that you think I'm going to wear these? You're so cute. Take thank you, but take them back. No talking about like, um, kit like cup being in California and like first days of school, it made me think of when Riley went to kindergarten.
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his kindergarten teacher, if you could have cast that role, this this teacher as a kindergartner role, it would have like, she had this big piano in her classroom. She was singing songs. Like she had, it was like this magical room. It was amazing. And like fast forward to Johanna's like TK kindergarten experience, which was a different teacher and was the complete opposite. It was just, but anyway, she was amazing. That was just thinking about like California and casting, like she was.
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This is the perfect kindergarten teacher was Mrs. Frazier. She was amazing. Oh, that's cute. Well, so Nancy, like getting your elementary school child out the door and then soon you'll be in middle school, which is a whole nother animal of yeah nightmarish things yeah on so many levels. Like, did you do anything special for her?
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We do a little back to school shopping where they can pick out a few outfits. She definitely gives, she cares about what she wears. yeah So she got a few little outfits. And then that, and then she was a part of picking out some of her supplies. um And then our first day of school, I do it for everybody. Riley and Johanna started school at the same time. And I do a big pancake breakfast before I send them off to school. So like,
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My fourth grader is super excited to still go to school, which makes me happy. It was joyful and ready to go. And Riley was not cranky, but he was not joyful heading out heading out the door. But it was it was all pretty good. And we used to do that, too. Remember, you guys, Nancy, you're eight years younger than me. But do you remember doing back to school shopping with mom? It was so funny. Like, I don't know where we were going, but we always picked out like a couple of things for school like clothing, first outfits for school and then we would go and buy all the supplies and then we end up downtown Peoria, Illinois and at the Sears and Sears back then had this like candy counter and mom would get us a treat of double dipped
00:14:14
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chocolate covered peanuts. Remember those? Yes, I remember that. After I was a treat for her because it was like shopping with four kids. what a night Can you imagine? Yeah. Yeah. I don't really shop with all of mine together like she did. But yeah, that's a that's a core memory.
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Well, I feel like I'm on a different wave here because I live on the East Coast and we don't start school till after Labor Day. So I still am kind of enjoying the last couple of weeks of summer, but it hasn't been that fun because I've had to get my college kid back. He's got to go back. So I've been doing a lot of shopping for him, which is a nightmare, yeah getting him to shop.
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Huh, I wonder who else that sounds like. I don't know, Kathy. Well, we've talked about this before. I think Grayson is worse than me. But they make him making a decision about things is just ridiculous. But then when he does find something he kind of likes, then you can't get him out of the store. It's like, right, right. And then he has to decide like, Oh, do I want I have that a little experience with him this summer, like we were in the store and it was just like, I think it was just souvenir shopping. And I literally was like, I am begging you to make a choice. I'm begging you to walk out of the out of the store. Please. it I know.
00:15:56
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So yeah, I mean, I've been dealing with him, but now he has left, which was kind of sad, I have to say. yeah um You know, people don't tell you, it's like, I thought, you know, when I first left for for his freshman year, obviously that was super sad, but I was sad for him to even leave the other day. So I guess it doesn't go away. But- We will tell you, like, I remember I would drop my kids off every year And every, cause we didn't have a bus system where we lived. And every year I would watch their little bodies walk away from me and I would get like sad every single year. And the only thing I had to look forward to was like getting together for breakfast or lunch with all my girlfriends that first day of school. And we usually drink booze and like talk about the summer and have fun and try and like make ourselves happier with the fact that
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The kids are gone now because I loved having them home for summer. i I never wanted summer to end and they would just walk off and not even look back. yeah Well, I think that everyone feels that way because summer is so fun and you think, oh, I have all this time to do stuff, see people, like have all these great experiences and adventures. And then it goes by in like an instant, it seems like. yeah And then you have to do you have to regroup and then you're like, oh, yeah now you're back to like the same old, you know, yucky
Parental Concerns and School Transitions
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regimen. monan and I would say to all the young parents listening,
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Like, enjoy it. Because as they get older, they spend less and less time with you. yeah you know And they become more assholes. Like, they don't want to spend time with you. And I think it's God's way of saying, it's time for them to leave the nest. Because they become beastly. And you're just like, go, go. But then they drive off and you're like, oh, I want the beast back. I hope it's a phase, too. They'll come back eventually and be nice. but Yeah, the whole summer, you know, thing is so fun. And then it's like, now back to school again, and you have to re gear up. I feel like I do, you know? Yeah, I do too, for sure. Well, and it's, it's all the things, right? Like, you know, it's different. Like fourth grade seems to be like a bigger deal. Like she's getting older now and these great, the fourth grade seems to be things are going to go faster. They expect more. Um,
00:18:31
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So it's a big deal. Yeah. And I, I feel like for me, I think I still have anxiety just in general about my own like childhood of like school because I, you know, I was a dyslexic that was undiagnosed until I was a freshman in high school, which is kind of ridiculous. Um,
00:18:51
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But it like has scarred me and school was super hard for me. And I think that I just like have all the, so when they're getting ready to go back to school, especially for Johanna, because you know, she's younger and she actively still needs my support with school more so than Riley ever did. I'm just like, Oh, here we go. And I have to be really careful not to put all my own stuff on to Johanna and like keep that in a box, like on a shelf somewhere. And I find it to be very challenging.
00:19:20
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So I'm like giving myself these like pep talks like this is her own experience. This is not your experience. It's going to be great. She's doing wonderful. She's you know all the things. So I like that's what I'm doing for myself. So I think she's fine and ready to go and it's me that has to like kind of control my own stuff. I think that's everybody though. We all have baggage from school. I mean, you know, your late elementary school years really roll into those middle school years. And middle school is terrible. I mean, I don't care how popular or smart or anything you are. There's a dust up about something. Somebody says something mean or does something or you everybody kind of has like a core memory of
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you know, somebody doing something. And so I think it is hard to kind of prep yourself, like you got to get your mind right as a parent, like, this is not the end of the world, they're gonna get right through this, we all go through it, it's gonna be fine. Right. Not everybody's nice all the time. Not everybody's your best friend all the time. And, you know, the thing I think all of you guys do, and I do too, is like,
00:20:33
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we're always your excuse. We're always your way out. You know, just yeah like you don't want to do this. Don't do it. Yes. So it's totally, you know, that's part of the process. And then it gets them ready for the big time, which is high school. High school is big time. I mean, that's like your last stomping ground before college. And but I could even tell like my high schooler is getting, I mean, I don't think,
00:20:59
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I don't know if nervous is the right word, but I can definitely tell his emotions are increased and he is anxious, which makes me anxious. I mean, I think there's like a whole emotional roller coaster with not only the parents, but the kids. And it's like, you know, I think you just, everybody needs to just take a deep breath. And I think like you said, Linda, like,
00:21:24
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I think getting together with like some friends when school starts is a good way to just kind of bond with each other and talk about like things and give yourself a break because, you know, you need it too, right? right And then in high school, I feel like There's so many emotions during the day for these kids. I feel like I have to emotionally get ready myself like during the day. Cause when they come home, like around, well, we have to play sports after school, but when they come home at like five 36 o'clock, I mean, it's like, you have to be on like figuring out like,
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How did their day go? What are they like when they walk in the
High School Pressures and Communication
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door? I mean, there's a lot of things that happen that they don't want to talk about that you can kind of just gauge by, you know, how they are. So you have to be like, emotionally strong and ready to handle that. I agree 100%. And I feel like it starts in middle school and especially nowadays with the phones, like this is a whole nother program, but like,
00:22:30
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I think the phones they can intercommunicate intraday so much and so much happens during the day from middle school yeah through high school and getting them ready for that. Like, I literally we had like a thing in our middle school back in the day where I mean, this is a long time ago where some girl sent a picture of her body parts over text to somebody, and it was a huge, huge deal, of course. First of all, this is like child pornography, basically. This is your underneath. Oh, yeah. That's you had like a no-no. What you're doing yeah to your reputation, to yourself. like Don't objectify yourself to make friends, or have a boyfriend, or whatever. And don't ask for that stuff. So like having to learn
00:23:25
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all those boundaries and having to learn in seventh grade is crazy but it's good because then you kind of hope that it carries on and then you know high school is all about like breaking free from a family unit and centering more around the friends but then you've got to pick the good friends and then of course every high schooler experiments with stuff drinking or driving too fast or staying up too late or breaking curfew or showing up late or now vaping is such a thing. I mean, I do not understand how society has accepted this, but somehow it has. And that's a whole thing kids have to navigate. So it's not just academics. It's like all this emotional and physical growing yeah that is
00:24:15
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huge it has an impact on their futures and they're dumb. They don't realize it. So you're constantly like, do you know what you're doing to yourself? full you're in You're impulsive, right? You're also, you're trying to figure it out and you can be impulsive and you just hope that one moment of impulsivity is in a game changer, right? I mean, we're all guilty of being impulsive. We just,
00:24:40
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don't want to do anything catastrophic. and it's a Or like as you're right, you are right. like These phones, everybody has a camera. like you know it just yeah You don't want somebody filming you and you not knowing it or doing something. that you know it's Many of these things schools have gotten better about it now that it's such a normal thing. like They'll put the phones at the table. or you know There's no phones and locker rooms here, which I appreciate and all that stuff. But like, I think for anybody listening as a parent, not necessarily lecturing, but very open communication and very direct communication with your middle schooler and your high schooler and setting expectations and boundaries and safety nets and right place and then they constantly reinforcing them.
00:25:32
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is critical for their development. like They have to hear it over and over and over again. And I remember back in the day, our dad, who is a very straight-laced human being, would be very direct about dating and expectations and boundaries. And he had he was really a girl dad. And as unfair as it is, putting some of the responsibility on, just say no, walk away,
00:26:00
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Trust your instincts, you know, right don't put yourself in a position that is going to be uncomfortable for you physically Emotionally like and he would say it all the time. And so I do think that kind of saturates your decision-making I think as a teen or young adult Yeah, the social media piece. I'm exhausted by it. Like I am exhausted by the constant repetition that goes on in our house. And I think because we're at our last child senior year, and we have boys here all the time, and he's my only boy. And I sometimes look at these boys around my island like, you are dummies. What?
00:26:43
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Or what's happening? but What do you say? What do you say every time they walk out the door, you say, we don't take life. Don't take life. Every time. That's Mrs. Schultz. Look at me. Hear me. I like that, too. I like being direct, too. I think it's a, you know. Boys can't decode. Sometimes they just get it. like Be safe. Don't die. Drive safely. You know? Drive safely.
00:27:12
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You, it doesn't matter if you get there five minutes earlier. Mom, you don't know what you're saying.
00:27:20
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I was thinking about like, you know, elementary, middle school. Cause we moved here to the East coast when my oldest was in fourth grade. So that's a huge time in his life, right? He was leaving a place that he was comfortable in and he didn't want to move here.
00:27:41
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And it was like the first day that I had to pick them up at school. And the way the school is, they have like a one way in. Yeah. The one it's land one way out. yeah So it's like those movies where people are, you know, you're doing it wrong. You know, if you, if you get out of line. I always did it when the crossing guard would come up and be like,
00:28:07
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Um, we need you to move forward. Yeah. i Well, that this is how it is. There's no, it's like a two lane, like road, and there's nowhere to go. So you can't get out of line. You have to stay in your lane. Well, my.
00:28:27
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suburban. I don't know what happened. I had shut it off because they didn't want you to run your cars for pollution or whatever. So I'd shut it off. Well then it wouldn't restart. Oh no. And I was in like a bumper to bumper traffic right in front of the school and everyone is coming out And my car is not starting. And then the kids get in the car, they're like burying their faces, you know, because they're so embarrassed by me. I mean, I hate to say this to you, but you do go to a like a juju school. I mean, if you're going to have your car die, I mean, it's pretty juju there. like I mean, you know, I mean, I ended up seeing, I mean, we don't know a soul, like literally.
00:29:20
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And I just happened to know my neighbor because I just met him. And I was like, oh, Don, I'm like, can you help help me? And he's like, what's going on? mean He like, I think at first was like, what is happening with this woman?
00:29:36
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But he was very kind and he like charged my battery, but we had to like hook it up. I kept traffic blocked for like, I don't even know, 15 minutes. My kids were beside themselves. That's embarrassing. I mean, that is the worst, even when you're there at their age, like even now, like people don't want to feel like their people are staring at them and being like, what's wrong with them? You know? Yeah.
00:30:00
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Yeah, but it's just the back to school thing is... Back to school is brutal. Can be rough and that was a rough start, I have to say. And I just also feel like in general, just the pressure, you know, you want to fit in, you want to make sure that you are doing the right thing and you have to do well in school and you have just all this pressure. I feel like, especially in high school, I'm like, I'm like, Riley, this is sophomore year. I mean, no pressure, but you know, you got it. You got to do really well. Let's hit some home runs. But no pressure. No pressure. I would say from middle school and middle school, the secret is to get involved. And spread the net a little bit. Try and have a sport and an activity if you can. It doesn't have to be year round, but get involved.
00:30:58
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try to be organized. And for mom and dad to like start stepping away. you know It's not our job to make sure their days run smoothly. It's our job to pick up the pieces when they don't. you know Because right I would say, really, growth only happens with challenges. When everything is going smoothly, nobody grows. And life is not going to go smoothly. We all know this.
Educator Insights and Parental Guidance
00:31:24
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you know It's okay to fall down in middle school yeah and pick yourself up because this is part of growing and this is how we grow. Totally. Those are good tips. I found um some tips to going to high school from usnews.com slash education. They just gave 10 little tidbits and I'm going to read them to you.
00:31:50
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Learn the school. So don't go to high school, not knowing where like stuff is, your classrooms, the locker room, like just kind of, yeah, like walk around and figure it out. Challenge yourself. Pick classes that interest you. Get organized. Um, I think that's very important. Connect with the upperclassmen.
00:32:16
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They can be like a great mentor, stay true to your values, connect with others through activities. Like, so join like sporting events, a play, like do things that maybe you wouldn't do. Join a a special club, um build relationships with your teachers, which I think is super important because my children, for some reason, well,
00:32:45
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Not all of my children, but my older two children just don't really like to talk to their teachers that much. And I don't know where I've kind of fallen down on this, but I but i keep encouraging them. They still need to talk with their teachers. um Super important.
00:33:02
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Prioritize your mental health and be present. Stay in the moment. It's only four years. so yeah those are good I thought that those were good like little tidbits.
00:33:16
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yeah I am we have a really good friend that is a teacher of teachers and she's been teaching for like 25 years and I asked her kind of like what she thinks and she again kind of reiterated what we talked about like get involved in extracurriculars and ask for what you need because teachers do want you your kids to be successful so the kids if you can just get over that one little like ask for help ask for what you need they help you
00:33:47
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And she also said, parents trying to dip in and save them save the kids, it's not helping them. So try to have the kids take on that responsibility. She said, I see it so much nowadays and it's not serving the kids. And she teaches middle school. So yeah, I think that's just...
Encouragement for the School Year and Wrap-up
00:34:09
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And I think that's good advice. And I think it's hard for parents to do that. It's hard for me to not want to like, I feel like I'm a fixer just by in my nature. I just want it. what the egg they That's just how I'm wired. And so I have to remind myself, nope, but we can talk about it here. The tools.
00:34:29
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you try. And it's, it's hard to do that. It is. It's really hard. But listen, everybody's gonna have a great year. Yeah. And even if you don't have a great year, and something like throws you a curveball, it's all going to work out. And you just, I think have to stay present in your kids lives and notice behavioral changes so that you can ask the question you use your use your guidance, you know, centers and Ask for help as a parent if you need it, but you know, it's going to be a great year. I think, you know, it's exciting. Here we come. Ready or not. We're going to do it. It's going to be another year. Another year. Good luck to everybody, to whatever school or age you're heading to. Um, okay. Ladies, what is for dinner?
00:35:24
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So we're doing deconstructed chicken parm. I don't bread it. It's sort of like a healthier version. I do put a little bit of like Greek yogurt on top to have all the seasoning stick to it. but I can tell you that we are having one pot chicken orzo. So I don't know if you guys know this website, damn delicious, but I love her I like her too. And she has a recipe, um one pot Cajun chicken with Orzo and I will post it in the notes. um but so good And it's hot here. So I'm trying not to heat up the kitchen. So it's just like a one pot on the stove top. So that's what we're hiring for dinner. So I am so low tonight. One of my children is at the shore. My other one and went to college and then my third one is playing golf. That sounds lovely. Popcorn.
00:36:15
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top or cereal. Nothing fancy. Okay. Well, we want to thank you for listening to our podcast and letting us sisters jump into your day. Please make sure to follow, rate, and review us. We want your feedback. So for those who are not in school, enjoy your last couple of weeks. For those who have started school, good luck to everybody. We hope you all have a great year. Sisters out.