Speaker 1: I got It's go time, baby, Welcome to We Know's
Speaker 1: Parenting and Peter McNerney Beth Newell. H Okay, a lot
Speaker 1: to recap. A lot happened since we last checked in
Speaker 1: with our listeners. But it's like very dramatic turn of
Speaker 1: events this week for us and uniquely us and no
Speaker 1: one else in the world. Yeah, okay, we were Actually
Speaker 1: we even recorded last week's episode early because we were like, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna head out of town for two weeks and
Speaker 1: we'll be back. And then since then we realized, oh,
Speaker 1: I guess we live in Massachusetts now. Yeah, Like you
Speaker 1: went up ahead of me with the kids to Massachusetts
Speaker 1: and I was going to come like a couple of
Speaker 1: days later. And then as soon as you left the
Speaker 1: the tone of the news started to shift where I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, I need to get out of here
Speaker 1: now or I might not be able to leave, Like
Speaker 1: what is happening? Um? Yeah, And we were in the
Speaker 1: center of the of you know, all this Westchester. Yeah,
Speaker 1: our schools were closing, So I feel like we had
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a heads up in terms
Speaker 1: of like forming a plan of like what we're gonna do,
Speaker 1: and we didn't yet realize that like the extent to
Speaker 1: which they were going to be shutting things down so quickly.
Speaker 1: I think when we made this plan to leave, like
Speaker 1: we didn't know this is going to be a permanent
Speaker 1: Well I had enough foresight to pack the recording equipment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we probably have to record one episode while we're gone. Well,
Speaker 1: by the time you left and then I was getting
Speaker 1: ready to go, it was I suddenly was like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe I need to leave sooner rather than later, because
Speaker 1: maybe other people are going to start to like flee
Speaker 1: the city, and also like maybe we need Like I
Speaker 1: was like, maybe we're going to be gone for more
Speaker 1: than two weeks. I was like, maybe it's going to
Speaker 1: be three or four weeks. And then by the time
Speaker 1: I packed up all our stuff and I was just
Speaker 1: trying to get like everything I could think of, Like
Speaker 1: I was like, we need this apple TV, we need
Speaker 1: this yoga mat weed. Yeah, it's just like every I
Speaker 1: packed up, like you really learn what's important to you
Speaker 1: and it really is mostly just food, food and clothing, um,
Speaker 1: and I it's just And then by the time I
Speaker 1: got here, like days in, it's like, wait, we might
Speaker 1: live here for months, Like this is where we live
Speaker 1: now like we can't, you know, like we have to
Speaker 1: stay inside. Um, so we've been, but we've been very quarantined.
Speaker 1: I mean I think we have you and I have
Speaker 1: barely had time to talk about. Uh. It's been a
Speaker 1: big adjustment to have uh, three adults, two kids, and
Speaker 1: one dog living a house together with no no one
Speaker 1: able to leave to do work. Yes, so we if
Speaker 1: we have beth sisters here and her dog and we
Speaker 1: are in a house, we've got way more space. This
Speaker 1: is a very ancient summer house that my great grandfather bought.
Speaker 1: That's all of my cousins and I and my dad
Speaker 1: and his brothers and sisters and cousins spent every summer coming.
Speaker 1: So we're very obviously lucky to have access to this place. Um.
Speaker 1: Beth is allergic to it. I am severely allergic to
Speaker 1: this house. But I'm proud of the progress we've made
Speaker 1: in terms of bleaching down three of the rooms and
Speaker 1: um we I started taking some zerotech, which is really
Speaker 1: knocking me out at night. I went to bed last
Speaker 1: night at eight thirty pm and I woke up this
Speaker 1: morning at five am. And I have to say it
Speaker 1: wasn't bad because I was wide awake at five am,
Speaker 1: and I knew I had like two hours before anyone
Speaker 1: would be awake, and I hadn't had that much alone
Speaker 1: time in over a week. Like I was just like what,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is great. Like I was like,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm a five am person now because this
Speaker 1: is the only way I'm going to have like peace. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think maybe you should be Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: should go to I mean what I would what I
Speaker 1: lose out in the scenario, unfortunately, is any sort of
Speaker 1: like TV or reading or recreational activity at nighttime. It
Speaker 1: just means we do dinner, clean up, I like, get
Speaker 1: relaxed for half an hour and go to bed, like
Speaker 1: you know what. Not bad. I certainly loved this is
Speaker 1: the first, not not the first, but this morning I've
Speaker 1: been underslept and to wake up and hear that you
Speaker 1: giving breakfast to our kids, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: can sleep in thirty minutes. It was a real it
Speaker 1: was a real treat for me as well. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: how are we adjusting to quarantine life? Beth? Tell us,
Speaker 1: let's hear from you first. Tell us about your job,
Speaker 1: your work, how what's been hard? I think, what's meant,
Speaker 1: I think this is hard for everybody right now because
Speaker 1: everyone's having to make really a very annoying lifestyle adjustments,
Speaker 1: but especially parents. But I feel like for me, the
Speaker 1: relocation has been the difficulty because I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I now have to make sure we have enough food
Speaker 1: and supplies for this new, brand new location. And also
Speaker 1: I'm very allergic to it and have to try to
Speaker 1: figure this situation out. And like there's like a few
Speaker 1: days when the news was starting to heat up in
Speaker 1: terms of like what was going to happen, where I
Speaker 1: was like, we might not be able to get packages
Speaker 1: in a few days. Like I was like, we need
Speaker 1: to figure this out now, like all of these things
Speaker 1: you know, UM, which I don't I now don't think
Speaker 1: that's going to be an issue, but I do think
Speaker 1: like people are overloading the UM delivery people with because
Speaker 1: of this, like because they can't leave their house. They're
Speaker 1: just like, I'll just like quorder everything, but I just
Speaker 1: need to order ten thousand rolls of toilet paper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like that's the thing with the toilet paper. It makes
Speaker 1: no sense we have a shortage of toilet paper because
Speaker 1: none of us need any more toilet paper than we had.
Speaker 1: We don't have a shortage. It's just everyone bought it
Speaker 1: at the same week, right, It's just like we've created
Speaker 1: like yeah, I don't think like I think. But this
Speaker 1: was a criticism that some people had of the way
Speaker 1: politicians rolled out this information was that like they didn't
Speaker 1: explain to people what the sort of like quarantine like
Speaker 1: shelter in place, what how that would go down? And
Speaker 1: in retrospect, like legally they're not going to like not
Speaker 1: allow you to get your groceries and your medicine, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like they're like that situation is
Speaker 1: probably not going to happen, but they should have explained
Speaker 1: that before all these rumors started circulating of how they
Speaker 1: were going to deal with it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And then that's what caused people to panic and like anyway,
Speaker 1: so we are basically there's been some some major stresses
Speaker 1: like every I'm sure almost everybody in this country is
Speaker 1: going through right now. But part of the weird thing
Speaker 1: is like we're now sort of homeowners and we have
Speaker 1: a house, like I we weren't getting our mail. I
Speaker 1: had our mail for it and it wasn't arriving, and
Speaker 1: so then the post office said our address isn't real.
Speaker 1: So I had to go to the post office and
Speaker 1: they said they mixed the road and avenue. And then
Speaker 1: I met the mail carrier and he was like, he
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, mail was addressed to here, but I
Speaker 1: didn't believe it because no, I've never I've never delivered
Speaker 1: mail to this house. Well, we're in this situation where
Speaker 1: like we've moved, but we didn't know we moved until
Speaker 1: we moved. And now it's just like how do you
Speaker 1: get all your life and paperwork in order? And like
Speaker 1: you live here now, like do you know? It's just
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are having this issue
Speaker 1: where like I think there's people who are like pregnant,
Speaker 1: pregnant or have little babies who were like, you know,
Speaker 1: we just don't want to risk like waiting this out
Speaker 1: in New York City or whatever, and I like, I
Speaker 1: know people should stay where they are, but I do
Speaker 1: think some people have like extenuating circumstances where it's really
Speaker 1: like a lot better idea for them to just like
Speaker 1: get out of the way. Um. I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: but um, especially if you can do it like in
Speaker 1: your car and just like leave and not like quarantine
Speaker 1: for a few days and not like encounter anyone if
Speaker 1: you're moving, you know, moving. I mean we had a
Speaker 1: situation where we could drive straight from here from our
Speaker 1: apartment to an empty house and interact with a single person. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just it's a very weird situation.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the fact. No, but like the
Speaker 1: fact that we're in this house is making it extra weird.
Speaker 1: Like it just feels I don't know, it's hard for
Speaker 1: me to not read too deeply into like the meaning,
Speaker 1: the spiritual meaning of all this. And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: feel like I was brought back to my home state
Speaker 1: to like wait out this weird life event. And you
Speaker 1: were brought back to your like ancestral home that you're
Speaker 1: that has been in your family for like four generations.
Speaker 1: My great grandfather probably fled here to escape the Spanish flu. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Massachusetts is kind of like a spooky
Speaker 1: state to like wait out, you know, like if like
Speaker 1: a disease. I mean we are, we're a a few
Speaker 1: miles from Plymouth Rock. Yeah, I don't know what that symbolizes,
Speaker 1: but the karma, boy, we're really narrowing down where we are,
Speaker 1: so anyway, we found out that the mailman can't deliver
Speaker 1: us our mail because technically this house is on a
Speaker 1: county road and are the addresses on the like a
Speaker 1: little bit in from that road, and there's a mailbox,
Speaker 1: and they won't bring us our mail because we got
Speaker 1: to have a mailbox on the big road. So I
Speaker 1: went to Low's. I bought a mailbox, a post, a
Speaker 1: whole digging tool, cement, and some sticky letters, and I
Speaker 1: am going to do the most home home project de
Speaker 1: project I've ever done. It's weird. It's hard not to
Speaker 1: feel like you're like a homesteader when you're here, because
Speaker 1: we're in this like spooky old house with like many
Speaker 1: bedrooms and like there it's just like, um, it's sort
Speaker 1: of haunted, like it's just run down in a very
Speaker 1: natural way, where like no one is here very much,
Speaker 1: like no one is ever here more than like a week.
Speaker 1: So it's like just kind of this it's bizarre. But
Speaker 1: every time, so my dad would come here, you know,
Speaker 1: in the fifties when he was a kid, and his grandfather,
Speaker 1: who was sort of a very serious, sort of mean dude.
Speaker 1: We just put put everyone to work and you just
Speaker 1: have to always be cutting tree stumps out of the
Speaker 1: yard and climbing into the attic to fix the thing.
Speaker 1: So when I started coming here, you arrived and you
Speaker 1: like just reflexively started picking up sticks around the backyard
Speaker 1: like you were like we had to clean up the yard,
Speaker 1: like you're just like went into home improvement mode. Immediately
Speaker 1: called my dad and I was like, there's some mold
Speaker 1: on the edge of the roof outside. I gotta go
Speaker 1: get the thing from the And I was like, I
Speaker 1: think we need to replace the horseshoe pits. I raked
Speaker 1: the horseshoe It's I was like, I looked up how
Speaker 1: to get some lumber and weather it. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rebuild these horseshoe pits. I don't have time
Speaker 1: for this, but boy, we uh we ordered a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff. I'm building a mailbox. It's yeah. We're like
Speaker 1: we're cooking more food for every meal of the day
Speaker 1: than we've ever cooked in our lives. We're taking walks
Speaker 1: just NonStop. It's like I just feel like any second
Speaker 1: I'm going to tap maple syrup out of a tree
Speaker 1: and like start, you know, like a potato garden and
Speaker 1: pretty pretty soon we're going to accuse our neighbors of
Speaker 1: being witches and we're gonna have a witch trial. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm I'll be the only witch around here. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get burned at the steak done me. I'm a real
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be John Proctor. Yeah? Is that that's that right? Crucible? Um?
Speaker 1: So how about our kids. We're parents, this is a
Speaker 1: parenting podcast. We've seen so much of our kids this week.
Speaker 1: It's just so stop, so much um homeschooling. So I
Speaker 1: feel weird about this because the teacher, the system, the
Speaker 1: remote learning. Boy there, they're doing their best, but it's
Speaker 1: it's a real convoluted system. I'll say for me, it's
Speaker 1: just not going to work like it digitally teaching kids
Speaker 1: is not really going to be engaging unless it's like
Speaker 1: really entertaining like YouTube channel and like it's story Pirates Radio,
Speaker 1: which launched today. Every day at eleven am, you can
Speaker 1: from eleven to twelve. It's a live radio show. Check
Speaker 1: that out. Yeah, I just think it has to be natural.
Speaker 1: And like when I get those I got, I swear
Speaker 1: to god, it felt like we got a thousand emails
Speaker 1: from his school this week and he's a kindergartener. Like
Speaker 1: what do they think he's slipping up on it in
Speaker 1: the span of five days, Like everyone just slow your role.
Speaker 1: They like they're not asking us to turn anything in.
Speaker 1: The teacher sends its omes and I don't. All of
Speaker 1: her emails are no reply, so you can't. You don't
Speaker 1: have the option to ever weigh in on like anything
Speaker 1: that's happening. That said, she emailed me today really directly,
Speaker 1: and I think she's emailing everybody, but she just wants
Speaker 1: to check in, and I'm going to tell her all
Speaker 1: about Daddy's school. I just think like the way that
Speaker 1: we like interact with them, if we're going to sit
Speaker 1: there and like draw and stuff, is sort of more
Speaker 1: naturally educational than any like weird like thing that's some
Speaker 1: learning center. Is just like quote unquote, Brin keeps like
Speaker 1: making these stories and it's like the dragon farted and
Speaker 1: then like and it's just they're like they're so like
Speaker 1: gross and dumb, but it makes him want to sit
Speaker 1: there and draw and write and like do things for hours.
Speaker 1: So we do every day we do Daddy School, which
Speaker 1: which I called it the first day. Um and now
Speaker 1: Britain is very serious about attend daddy school, and we
Speaker 1: have achieved. I mean it's one on one learning, so
Speaker 1: you're going to get through far more stuff than we
Speaker 1: went a one to sixteen ratio or whatever his classes.
Speaker 1: So the kid is good at math and now he
Speaker 1: can do addition and subtraction like millions. I'll say, this
Speaker 1: week I realized, like Mayven is starting to like read
Speaker 1: and do math. Like she I wrote mom on the beach,
Speaker 1: and she walked up to it from above and said wow.
Speaker 1: And then she said and then she looked at it
Speaker 1: again and she was like mom, like she like under
Speaker 1: she it was like so weird. And then she was
Speaker 1: doing math tonight at the table sort of she was
Speaker 1: like saying how many people were in the room and stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean today she cracked math. I mean because I
Speaker 1: haven't paid any attention to her because the child still
Speaker 1: takes up all the attention. But I was saying tonight
Speaker 1: at dinner, though, is like as these second child, she
Speaker 1: gets like a contact high version of education. Like she's
Speaker 1: just like she witnesses Brian's learning every day and she
Speaker 1: just picks it up through osmosis. Yeah, I mean she
Speaker 1: the musicality of it. She picks up. But today was
Speaker 1: the first day. I was like, all right, Maven, you
Speaker 1: get a math lesson. I gave I wrote a sheet.
Speaker 1: I was just all these really hard math problems for
Speaker 1: Brian to keep them busy so I could actually focus
Speaker 1: on Maven. And she knows, like, you know, one plus
Speaker 1: one two plus two, that's simple things. And then I
Speaker 1: actually sat down and explained to her how to do it.
Speaker 1: And then I gave her one plus one, one plus two,
Speaker 1: one plus three four and then two plus one two,
Speaker 1: pus three three posts one you posted do three? Is
Speaker 1: we all the way up to five posts? Whatever? But
Speaker 1: I gave her that sheet, and for the first time ever,
Speaker 1: like she did every single one up to five plus
Speaker 1: five um, And I think there's just someone actually paid
Speaker 1: attention to her for more than five seconds. And then
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, I get it, and she does this
Speaker 1: weird finger counting thing, which she got everyone correct now
Speaker 1: teaching brand long division long uh or not long division multiplication.
Speaker 1: He multiplied, you know, eight thousand times more than I
Speaker 1: could do right now, I had to remember how to
Speaker 1: do it. I was like, you don't mind this up.
Speaker 1: And but Bran we started that today and he gets it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's five, but I don't remember when you
Speaker 1: learn that. Um, but we're gonna drill more multiplication in school.
Speaker 1: You learn that and like fifth grade that's before then.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. But also they might do it
Speaker 1: different now ethic math, they keep changing it. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: I like to leave the math to you, like you
Speaker 1: can be the math teacher. I'm fine with that. I
Speaker 1: love it. We should have our domains. My class was
Speaker 1: like a little bit more free for we learned music
Speaker 1: today too. When you come to my class, we come
Speaker 1: to explore where's the leading us today? Well, I have
Speaker 1: my sister has been doing some little lessons with them,
Speaker 1: and it's like very like nature based, and she got
Speaker 1: a bird feeder and stuff, and she was We had
Speaker 1: the craziest moment where she was making she wanted to
Speaker 1: make like bird watching journals, and I was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: maybe it could be like an animal journal, so it
Speaker 1: could be all the animals you see throughout the day.
Speaker 1: So they're making these birden animal journals to catalog what
Speaker 1: they see and write as they finished, Like Mayven and
Speaker 1: Brin both spell out the title page of the book,
Speaker 1: A turkey starts walking through the backyard, giant aggressive turkey. Well,
Speaker 1: just like the funniest little turkey, like walking alone and
Speaker 1: like you guys talking about me. It just was like
Speaker 1: the timing of it couldn't have been more perfect, and
Speaker 1: it was like it just you know, I love signs. Well.
Speaker 1: The night before so Nick and I have been doing
Speaker 1: trick shows via zoom live streaming, which is insane the
Speaker 1: whole other story, and the night before we did a show.
Speaker 1: The main plotline was a giant turkey who takes over
Speaker 1: New York City and becomes a giant like Batman esque
Speaker 1: crime boss and the only way to kill this giant
Speaker 1: turkey and he was rough and everyone up and the
Speaker 1: next day, this aggressive turkey comes into the yard. It's insane, crazy,
Speaker 1: it's I also saw a raccoon this morning when I
Speaker 1: was up at five am, because he found the garbage
Speaker 1: in the garage yet that we can't throw away because
Speaker 1: this town doesn't have garbage collection, so you have to
Speaker 1: go get a garbage permit from town hall and use
Speaker 1: a special bag. And a townhouse closed because he was
Speaker 1: climbing on a kayak. He was like, I'm sorry what
Speaker 1: he was climbing on a kayak across the way. That's
Speaker 1: what are you saying, I'm trying to get away? Huh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I gotta go. I gotta go back home tomorrow
Speaker 1: night to get stuff to forage for supplies. Yeah. Boy,
Speaker 1: this whole week is so surreal because like when I
Speaker 1: was like packing to leave our home, it was like
Speaker 1: this flash of like is this the last time I'll
Speaker 1: be here? Like what is happening? Like you know, it's just, um,
Speaker 1: this week has been so up and down, Like emotionally,
Speaker 1: I think like when we stay off the computer and
Speaker 1: social media, I feel like we have a chance to
Speaker 1: calm down and just like eat a meal and like whatever.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, it's just been such a crazy way.
Speaker 1: I did have a full, like emotional breakdown in Lows today.
Speaker 1: I was looking for cement. I had a cart full
Speaker 1: of mailbox pieces a mailbox to post all the things,
Speaker 1: and then I just had a moment. I was like
Speaker 1: where is the cement? And then it just became a
Speaker 1: truly overwhelming task. So one fine cement and to know
Speaker 1: how much cement I needed and what kind And I
Speaker 1: literally just stood there in the aisle for like, I'm
Speaker 1: really interested to see how this project is gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it or I'm gonna lose my mind. That's
Speaker 1: gonna one of them. Two. I'm gonna build this god nailbox. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be fun. Um there's I mean, normally this section
Speaker 1: of the podcast is our weekend review, and I feel
Speaker 1: like we barely even got to like so much happened,
Speaker 1: so much has happened. I spent so much of this
Speaker 1: week just like completely overwhelmed by the fact, like now
Speaker 1: that I got some I got ahold of some serr attack,
Speaker 1: I'm more medicated. But when I was, when I was
Speaker 1: just taking allegra, it was and before we got a
Speaker 1: new mattress cover for the mattress, like, I was just
Speaker 1: like my whole head was constantly so inflamed, and the
Speaker 1: kids were just jumping on me NonStop, and you were
Speaker 1: taking loud conference calls, and like I was just allergic
Speaker 1: to like every surface and it felt like and I
Speaker 1: was just like, what is this life? Like I was
Speaker 1: like I had that today. I've been fine until until
Speaker 1: I was in the middle of lows. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: like I might At one point I thought I might
Speaker 1: just leave this cart right here and walk out into
Speaker 1: the snow because I can't touch it, Corona, I can't
Speaker 1: touch things. Yeah, anyway, just natural reactions that I think
Speaker 1: everyone is happening having this week is like just everyone
Speaker 1: is like what the like, especially people who are trying
Speaker 1: to figure out child care and people who are trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how to work from home and make
Speaker 1: their companies work from home, and like, just so much
Speaker 1: change for so many people all at once. It is
Speaker 1: so much uncertainty. I mean, so most of our friends
Speaker 1: are artists who have real sort of slapped together type
Speaker 1: of employment. So many people we know are just like
Speaker 1: their income is just cooperated over. So you know, part
Speaker 1: of my job at Story Parts is to um it's
Speaker 1: like cast all of the shows that happen all the time.
Speaker 1: So there's no shows to be cast. So I sent
Speaker 1: to sign up out really just to be like, hey,
Speaker 1: how are you what are you doing? You know, this
Speaker 1: is like a hundred plus people, and most people are like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm unemployed, I don't know what to do. I'm stuck
Speaker 1: with my apartment in New York City, varying varying levels
Speaker 1: of panic. And it was really I was really happy
Speaker 1: to read it just because it makes you feel less alone,
Speaker 1: and also to know that like we are, we're doing great.
Speaker 1: We are told we have nothing to complain about, compared
Speaker 1: to so many people who truly I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. Yeah, that's like I feel really grateful
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, and I feel like in
Speaker 1: some ways, I feel like life has really prepared us
Speaker 1: for this moment. Like I feel like having kids, I'm
Speaker 1: very prepared for social distancing. Like I'm like, I can
Speaker 1: handle this. I never get to see anyone like I don't.
Speaker 1: We moved to the suburbs when was born and never
Speaker 1: made any friends. Yeah, I'm like, I'm fine with that. Commuting,
Speaker 1: We'll figure that out. Like the trying to do work
Speaker 1: is going to take some scheduling and some finagling. But
Speaker 1: I think, like I think it was so hard about
Speaker 1: this week is that we didn't have systems and we
Speaker 1: didn't have proper boundaries in place of like like today
Speaker 1: was the first day all week where you kept the
Speaker 1: kids away from me and there was a door closed
Speaker 1: and it was like mommy is working and I was
Speaker 1: actually not interrupted for like stretches of more more than
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. Like it was so much better for me
Speaker 1: to just to know, like oh, keep them away from
Speaker 1: this person until this time. It's just like I have
Speaker 1: found it's so bad for my sanity if I'm not
Speaker 1: able to be productive in any way, like work wise,
Speaker 1: Like it's like ideally I get to work on all
Speaker 1: the things I care about. But if I can just
Speaker 1: get grabbed at least a couple of hours to feel
Speaker 1: like I've been useful, it's like it's so much better
Speaker 1: for my mental health. Otherwise it just feels so insane
Speaker 1: um and I don't, like, I don't know if this
Speaker 1: was a vacation, that would be one thing and I
Speaker 1: could just unplug, But it's like it's not. I've just
Speaker 1: I've already missed, Like I've been severely unproductive for like
Speaker 1: a full week of work, and I'm like, okay, I
Speaker 1: have to Like the middle of all this, we haven't
Speaker 1: had a plan, we haven't had a daily schedule, and
Speaker 1: for me, suddenly Story Parts, which is our busy season
Speaker 1: going into like forty schools in a month, suddenly we're
Speaker 1: have to completely reinvent ourselves and we have to figure
Speaker 1: out how to digitize all of our in person stuff.
Speaker 1: And so I had to figure out how to do
Speaker 1: that sort of by myself in two days, um, and
Speaker 1: so I've been going NonStop um. And it's exciting in
Speaker 1: a weird way. And then also I have moments where
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm crying in lows. Yeah, it's like it's
Speaker 1: weird for us because our our work was already so
Speaker 1: wildly unpredictable in terms of income and opportunity. So like,
Speaker 1: in some ways, I'm like, this is just bringing everyone
Speaker 1: down to our level of like what's next. But I
Speaker 1: also like, do you have these moments where you're like,
Speaker 1: is there just not going to be any industry for
Speaker 1: anything for six months? Like you just like, yeah, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to close on a house right theoretically next week,
Speaker 1: but instead now it's probably scheduled to happen at the
Speaker 1: crest of the coronavirus cases. There's like you go back
Speaker 1: and forth between like panic and then this moment of
Speaker 1: resignation where you're like, well, no one knows anything about
Speaker 1: anything anymore. It sort of feels exciting that the rules
Speaker 1: are gone. It is like I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: at a certain point, we just have to agree, like
Speaker 1: time is no longer real, money is not real. None
Speaker 1: of this stuff is real. It's just like, figure it out,
Speaker 1: get the food to people who need the food. Wipe, wipe.
Speaker 1: Let's let's you know, you know, I think Fanos really
Speaker 1: had a point, you know what I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that is. Oh boy, all right, that's end
Speaker 1: the segment and I'll explain the plot of Avengers, and
Speaker 1: now it's time for we knows what they're watching. This
Speaker 1: is where we talk about what our kids are seeing,
Speaker 1: not necessarily TV, although they're seeing plenty of that these days. Um,
Speaker 1: we want to now examine the current state of the
Speaker 1: world through our kids eyes. I think it's safe to
Speaker 1: say that they're they're pretty really unaware. They're like that
Speaker 1: something's weird, but not really. He's not really asking a
Speaker 1: lot of questions. I think he's still he's in a
Speaker 1: like little kid vacation because we're in a different house
Speaker 1: than he's normally in and we're all together with him
Speaker 1: and his auntie Alley is here and her dog, and
Speaker 1: he's just like time is so not real to him
Speaker 1: that he doesn't know like how long he's been here.
Speaker 1: He did say, are we going home on Saturday? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, I guess that is. I did say
Speaker 1: we were going for two weeks in the beginning. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Those kids are very does not care. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's having the time of her life, fashioning around the
Speaker 1: house eating snacks. They're both eating a million apple and
Speaker 1: peanut butter is their new jam is. Brent has had
Speaker 1: like fifteen apples. This is like the crazy thing of
Speaker 1: our new homesteader life is that we all just eat
Speaker 1: way more fresh food because we're just at home and
Speaker 1: you can like cut things up easily and like speak
Speaker 1: for yourself. My diet has been a disaster. Oh. I
Speaker 1: mean I'm also eating a lot of sugar, but I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm meeting a lot of fresh food too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you made brownies today and I scarved him. I made
Speaker 1: those brownies with the kids as my afternoon activity because
Speaker 1: if I like to do things that feel sort of
Speaker 1: educational but also like purposeful. I'm not saying you did
Speaker 1: a bad thing. I just hated that you did it.
Speaker 1: So we made those brownies and then I was letting
Speaker 1: them dump these like Reesey's pieces into the brownies, and
Speaker 1: they Rec's pieces, yeah, Reese's pieces, and they were losing
Speaker 1: their minds at the candy and like they were just
Speaker 1: like when they were waiting for the brownies to be
Speaker 1: done and they were like hugging each other in anticipation
Speaker 1: and like shrieking, and they were doing a countdown on
Speaker 1: the microwave, and I was like, this is really they're
Speaker 1: having the time of their lives. This is like very epic.
Speaker 1: And then I had to hide the bag of candy
Speaker 1: from them. Obviously I've explained, I mean, we talked about
Speaker 1: this a bit. Uh was it last week or the
Speaker 1: week before? You know, the listener says, how do you
Speaker 1: explain to her daughter who are biological father was? And
Speaker 1: I really, I really went with the playbook of my mom,
Speaker 1: which was I've explained this whole thing to Britt and
Speaker 1: just that tone of like I didn't show him that
Speaker 1: I was scared. I was like, yeah, you know, you
Speaker 1: could if people are sick or old and they get
Speaker 1: this day, they could die, and and the dangers of it.
Speaker 1: And you could see him registering the weight of things.
Speaker 1: But it still was a like wow, it doesn't affect
Speaker 1: me type of attitude. I think with this they're not
Speaker 1: really understanding it. But once again, they're learning through us.
Speaker 1: Most is based on our behaviors. So like I feel like,
Speaker 1: for in terms of my childhood and what I picked
Speaker 1: up from my parents and grandparents, it was very like
Speaker 1: don't waste food, don't waste things, like you're not going
Speaker 1: to have a lot of these things, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And like what I have noticed since
Speaker 1: we've been here, I haven't even been harassing the kids
Speaker 1: about washing their hands as much because now we're just
Speaker 1: in a contained space. But they started trying to wash
Speaker 1: their hands more. And I feel like it's just because
Speaker 1: they see us like washing packages down and like washing
Speaker 1: her hands like they're spraying. They're kind of just like
Speaker 1: absorbing the cleaning anxiety. Like we've like we got down
Speaker 1: on our hands and knees and scrubbed many floors with
Speaker 1: bleach the other day. Like our kids are like, okay,
Speaker 1: I guess we need to wash things, um, but they
Speaker 1: still have only taken one bath since Is that true?
Speaker 1: That is unaccepted? Bowl Although when's the last time I
Speaker 1: had a shower? I was at Lows, you know, after
Speaker 1: my breakdown like two or three times a day because
Speaker 1: I'm covered in dust my well. I went I finally
Speaker 1: went to check out at Loews and I got in
Speaker 1: line and everyone's you know, super healthy distance for everyone's
Speaker 1: real quiet and nervous. And I buy this thing from
Speaker 1: this real like that will be type of gangly young man.
Speaker 1: As I was paying, I was like, oh, I can
Speaker 1: smell this kid's bo This is like a dirty kid.
Speaker 1: And then I then I rolled away and smelled it
Speaker 1: again and realized, oh, it's me. I haven't showered in
Speaker 1: two days. I'm wearing an ewak adventure caravan of courage
Speaker 1: hoodie hoodie hooded sweatshirts. And I looked disgusting and I'm
Speaker 1: crying and lows, Uh, everybody's gonna cry sometimes. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I did it looking for a cement. I got eighty
Speaker 1: pounds of cement and it started raining outside. It's like
Speaker 1: is this going to turn solid? Is this going to
Speaker 1: get wet? Boy a boy? Yeah. I have these like
Speaker 1: heavy moments where it's like I finally get to be
Speaker 1: alone for a second, and then I sit there and
Speaker 1: I'm like I would be like this, this is really happening,
Speaker 1: Like like you just like realized, like you're like this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a while, okay, um, but yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: we'll be fine. We're very lucky. We're in a good situation. Here.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not great, it's you know, work. We
Speaker 1: have this home purchase coming up, and we have some
Speaker 1: renovations that we're going to do and some of the
Speaker 1: funding of that. Yeah, I don't He's tied up in
Speaker 1: the stock market. So so I'm watching that knowing I
Speaker 1: shouldn't even look at it right now. Right now, I
Speaker 1: just want to think about like the day today of
Speaker 1: like do we have food, and like are their killer
Speaker 1: germs on our hands and now in our eyes? My
Speaker 1: brother coronavirus More than anything sometimes I guess, go ahead,
Speaker 1: what no keep mumbling under me talking so it's intelligible
Speaker 1: what either of us is saying. Listeners heard it. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding what I forgot what I'm saying. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was talking about how my brother had coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Are you still there? Yeah? I forgot what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna tell yah. I you know, I
Speaker 1: can't function with the noise coming at me. That's part
Speaker 1: of my pain of this whole week is just like
Speaker 1: I need space and like I need room to think
Speaker 1: where there's not like talking happening happening. You know, we
Speaker 1: need to do right now Beth, just gonna take a
Speaker 1: hard left turn into a different segment. Within this segment,
Speaker 1: I think we need to do a quick We know
Speaker 1: it's what they look like because people keep sending us
Speaker 1: baby photos. Are you ready? Okay, this is something we
Speaker 1: don't need to think about. Um boy, great, this is
Speaker 1: uh just listen to U. Hi, guys, just listen to
Speaker 1: Mommy's Fired Forever. So not only did you discuss winter
Speaker 1: coats and car seats, but you had baby pick segment. Oh. Yes,
Speaker 1: My wife and I run a lodge in northern Maine.
Speaker 1: We have two kids, Walter's two and Annie's five months.
Speaker 1: We had to shut down for the season two weeks
Speaker 1: early because of COVID nineteen. We are closed in April. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I was gonna just send the picture of Walter and
Speaker 1: his car seat, but I didn't want to leave Annie out,
Speaker 1: so a bunch of other cute picks. So apologize for
Speaker 1: sending so many. Thanks for all the insight and humor
Speaker 1: making parents a little less stressful. Our kids seem to
Speaker 1: be similar in ages at age difference. Um, so your
Speaker 1: insight is particularly helpful. All right, Betty BETHA, you're ready
Speaker 1: photo jackpot ready for this here we go. Just give
Speaker 1: me the Okay, I'm just gonna give Beth the phone.
Speaker 1: And just so you know, the last photo is is
Speaker 1: the jackpot. Right here we go. Thanks Fresh. We're gonna
Speaker 1: listen to Beth like how you explained how I would
Speaker 1: inherit Um. Okay. I'm looking at a very sweet asleep
Speaker 1: boy in a car seat and mittens and he's has
Speaker 1: a book called Never Touch a Porcupine sitting on his
Speaker 1: lap that he's holding in his sleep. That's very very cute.
Speaker 1: What wait, Will, are you kidding me? That's the name
Speaker 1: of the book. Yeah. So we started Story Parts Radio
Speaker 1: today and my character Peter called in and I was
Speaker 1: given a brand new pet from a kid listener and
Speaker 1: it was a porcupine. And the whole bit was me
Speaker 1: trying to snuggle the porcupine and hurting myself over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. It's another animal sign.
Speaker 1: I guess I looked at this picture and didn't process that.
Speaker 1: And then I'm looking at another cutie. I think he
Speaker 1: said this is daughter, right, this is the younger one.
Speaker 1: She's on skis and she's very cute and she has
Speaker 1: very cute cheeks. And oh, the last picture is a
Speaker 1: baby in a bathtub looking very surprised. That is the
Speaker 1: real good. Just slippery shocked baby face. Slippery shocked baby face,
Speaker 1: those little slippery bodies. They're like, why am I wet?
Speaker 1: What is what's happening? What is that? Is? How I
Speaker 1: deal this week is like I keep texting my friends
Speaker 1: and we're like, what is time? What is life? Who
Speaker 1: am I? Where? Where am I? Babe? You don't hurt me?
Speaker 1: What is this? Don't hurt me? No one knows. Um.
Speaker 1: That was from Mike, Thank you Mike. This one comes
Speaker 1: from Craig uh uh In this time it's a bit scary,
Speaker 1: but there's still excitement of a new addition to the family.
Speaker 1: My new son born today with his five and two
Speaker 1: year old sisters. Oh my god, look at this. Not
Speaker 1: a stressful time to have a baby at all. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, so cute little fox. Jammy's on this baby
Speaker 1: get out of town. Big sister in a big sister shirt.
Speaker 1: Other big sister taking in the weight of her reality,
Speaker 1: shifting from being youngest to middle What do you think
Speaker 1: it was a bigger deal the pandemic or new sibling?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. I don't really remember being like having feelings
Speaker 1: about my sister being there, aside from being really excited
Speaker 1: to have a sister. So I don't think I think
Speaker 1: because I was older, I didn't. I wasn't like I'm
Speaker 1: the baby. Like you know, I was like five years
Speaker 1: old when my sister was born. Well me too, I
Speaker 1: was like five or six when my little brother was born. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was really mature and it was so cool about
Speaker 1: it and didn't really have I remember, I'm still cool
Speaker 1: with it, and I don't even resent her. It's not
Speaker 1: a big deal, so much so that you're gonna let
Speaker 1: her live with us and her dog. She lives with
Speaker 1: us now forever. Okay, one more baby. Make sure there's
Speaker 1: a lot more, guys, but I didn't look out, so
Speaker 1: there's one more. This is from Nicola. Were jumping on
Speaker 1: the baby bandwagon. So here we go photos of my
Speaker 1: daughter for when she was six weeks old, nine weeks old,
Speaker 1: then six months old. The last one is not downloading.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but but these first two are great.
Speaker 1: Describe it bath ready. Last one go it takes so
Speaker 1: long to pass the phone. Okay, so, oh my god.
Speaker 1: It's a baby with a Christmas present bow on its
Speaker 1: head and a little bib, chunky cheeks. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: there's a sad face baby with the lip the lower
Speaker 1: lip is so good. Oh my god. Um, our kids
Speaker 1: were doing sad faces tonight and being really insane. Um.
Speaker 1: Oh boy. Basically looking at baby pictures really brought me
Speaker 1: out of Uh. You know that's why I keep trying
Speaker 1: to post some fun bids of our kids. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean I've managed to post like too, because there's never
Speaker 1: any time to think. But they're like, I feel like
Speaker 1: we need a little like levity in this time, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I really feel like we need to be
Speaker 1: mindful of our social media presence and not put more
Speaker 1: like chaos out. If you would like to hear delightful
Speaker 1: story that does have um butts and death in it
Speaker 1: written by Brian, you go to my Instagram um and
Speaker 1: please enjoy. Oh my god. Yeah, Brennan, So can we
Speaker 1: talk about these books they made? Yeah, real quick, we
Speaker 1: knows what they're writing. They Brennan Maven both wrote books
Speaker 1: this week. And Maven's book is called Unicorns Are Everywhere,
Speaker 1: And she dictated that book too. Yeah, she dictated the
Speaker 1: book to my sister and then on every page regardless
Speaker 1: of the caption. Maven drew a unicorn in the same
Speaker 1: position on every page. It says, like the bad guys
Speaker 1: destroyed the castle, and it's a picture of a rainbow unicorn.
Speaker 1: They rebuilt the castle a picture of a green unicorn.
Speaker 1: But like the pages are so great because it's like
Speaker 1: the unicorns were everywhere. The unicorns went anywhere they wanted.
Speaker 1: Like it was just like her trying to come up
Speaker 1: with the caption for each page, just like with no sequencing.
Speaker 1: And then the last page is the only page with
Speaker 1: no illustration, and it just says the unicorns were done
Speaker 1: the end. And Brent's book is about a dragon who
Speaker 1: I believe kills a unicorns unicorn. Yeah, And he was
Speaker 1: like that's funny, right, and she's like yeah. It was
Speaker 1: like it felt very much like a like an inappropriate
Speaker 1: workplace dynamic. It was just like he's like, it's funny
Speaker 1: how I made this thing where you die, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Like She's like, yeah, well, yeah, cool, I'm cool with this.
Speaker 1: In the end, he says, Sam, the dragon didn't want
Speaker 1: any friends. He was happy to be alone. The end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really haunting ending inappropriate for the times, right.
Speaker 1: It was like after he killed two unicorns, and it
Speaker 1: was like he really just wanted to be alone that
Speaker 1: he didn't know that he killed them. Oh yeah, he
Speaker 1: didn't realize when he was like shooting fire at them.
Speaker 1: I think he wrote he didn't realize he killed another unicorn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: plausible deniability. Uh so you gotta that's why you had
Speaker 1: you just looked the other way. UM. I definitely got
Speaker 1: to post a picture of that story. This next segment
Speaker 1: is called Listeners Want to Knows, where we take questions
Speaker 1: and comments from you guys. All right, here's some quick ones.
Speaker 1: Here we go. This one comes to us from John.
Speaker 1: Subject line children licking high beat than Peter. Our family
Speaker 1: got haircuts a couple of weeks ago, and our three
Speaker 1: year old son licked a random coat that was hanging
Speaker 1: up multiple times. Yesterday he licked at the top of
Speaker 1: the croc I was wearing as we were playing outside.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to share you have the good work,
Speaker 1: the best of black Stags safe John. That makes me
Speaker 1: feel better. That's what makes me feel so much better
Speaker 1: about coming out here to the middle of nowhere sort
Speaker 1: of is like we can take the kids outside, then
Speaker 1: go in the yard, then go on the beach. They
Speaker 1: still won't touch anything that anyone else has come near,
Speaker 1: because if we were to take them anywhere, even just
Speaker 1: out our front door at our apartment, they would encounter
Speaker 1: things other people had touched and our coop just every door,
Speaker 1: not just like people. And they just be licking and
Speaker 1: touching everything, rolling around just like, you know, putting their
Speaker 1: hands on the floor every chance, Like that's just they're animals.
Speaker 1: They're wild animals, and we'd rather have them licking things
Speaker 1: that wild animals are licking, like pine cones and sticks outside.
Speaker 1: And I kind of didn't realize how much we are
Speaker 1: like city folk until we spent a week out here,
Speaker 1: and now our kids are just like covered in dirt.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, I'm just like you really hit the
Speaker 1: l at folk. Yeah. I just wanted to be clear,
Speaker 1: just folk. We know who we are. Um yeah, we're
Speaker 1: real natural soundings country folk. Um real quick. Uh. Our
Speaker 1: friend ellian I wrote in to tell us about Lunch
Speaker 1: Doodles with Moe Williams, which we we did hear about
Speaker 1: and we have watched there. It does seem like there's
Speaker 1: some good content popping up online of educational stuff. People
Speaker 1: like a story of Fars Radio every day at eleven am. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Moe Williams does Doodles with Moe Williams at one pm.
Speaker 1: I think livestream. There's a lot of good stuff out there.
Speaker 1: Williams the children's book author, illustrator who does the pigeon ones, right,
Speaker 1: you don't let the pigeon drive the bus. The elephant
Speaker 1: and Piggy kind of a big deal. Yeah Williams. Ever
Speaker 1: heard of him? Okay, you get the picture. You get
Speaker 1: the picture. We don't tell you twice. Um. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I mean right into us and tell us what you
Speaker 1: guys are finding. We we were. It occurred to me
Speaker 1: to try to do some research for this, but then
Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, we're going to be here
Speaker 1: for a while. We'll see we'll see what we'll see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see what our kids are actually responding to. Because
Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to really do We haven't
Speaker 1: really done any rigorous homeschooling aside from what we bragged about. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, daddy School has taken off. People want to
Speaker 1: join me for daddy School. We will be streaming live
Speaker 1: at random times because we don't have a plan and
Speaker 1: forget about it. The correct element Daddy School is largely
Speaker 1: dictated by the children in the room where daddy is yeah,
Speaker 1: and what Daddy is thinking that Brent's teacher just posted
Speaker 1: a new announcement. Attached is the uh sorry it'sloading. Attached
Speaker 1: is the literally lesson with miss name. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say cream. No one wants to hear you read
Speaker 1: this email. I thought it was gonna be exciting, all right,
Speaker 1: last one? They so, But I will say one of
Speaker 1: the daddy school activities that I think was a success
Speaker 1: is the kids alternated drawing every letter of the alphabet
Speaker 1: and then drawing a picture of something that started with
Speaker 1: that letter and hanging it around their room. So so
Speaker 1: that that is officially the classroom now because it has
Speaker 1: the capital at LoQ s alligator alligator. Yeah, We're like,
Speaker 1: we're loocky to be in a very large house right now,
Speaker 1: God with room for a classroom. If we were still
Speaker 1: in our apartment, two would have been murdered. First, I
Speaker 1: know many of you are and we want to hear
Speaker 1: from you. Um, I'm gonna let's do one more email.
Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna finish that thought. Last one, Beth, Ready,
Speaker 1: here's a good old fashioned would you knows scenario? This
Speaker 1: comes to us from Lily, Would you knows what to
Speaker 1: do if one day, when you're waiting at the airport
Speaker 1: and when if your kids had a sneezing attack but
Speaker 1: also a bloody knows So they were sneezing blood all
Speaker 1: over themselves and the people next to them, and the
Speaker 1: other kid was screaming their head off and throwing a
Speaker 1: tantrum in the middle of the airport. How would you react.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is one of those Yes, your
Speaker 1: kid is sneezing blood on the other kid and neighbors,
Speaker 1: and the other kid is freaking out. Its not happening
Speaker 1: in the middle of coronavirus because we're probably not traveling
Speaker 1: by air. I bet this did happen, or this is
Speaker 1: just a nightmare Lily had. Well in I might have
Speaker 1: happened before we were experiencing a pandemic. Well, this email
Speaker 1: was sent a week and two days ago, so it
Speaker 1: was literally a lifetime ago. Yeah it was at Yeah
Speaker 1: that was a full year ago. Um okay, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna answer this question as if there is an a
Speaker 1: pandemic happening, how would I react? Uh? I would be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, sorry, um well really, oh my god,
Speaker 1: sorry oh my god, sorry you guys. Oh man, I
Speaker 1: guess I would like hopefully have some baby wipes on
Speaker 1: me that I could like hand out to people. I
Speaker 1: would throw my child's head in a backpack, just let
Speaker 1: him sneeze it out in there. This used, you know
Speaker 1: when we this is just marked when we started this
Speaker 1: podcast we had which you know is similar to this.
Speaker 1: That really stressed me out, and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, what would this happen in public? I would
Speaker 1: just bury their head in something and run them to
Speaker 1: the bathroom and nothing to see here, nothing to see
Speaker 1: here type of attitude. But I'm a changed man, and
Speaker 1: in this scenario, I'm like people can deal. Especially this
Speaker 1: week everything like Mayven first thing this morning tripped and
Speaker 1: split her lip open on the floor, and then like
Speaker 1: she later in the day was like had like brownie
Speaker 1: like chocolate all over her. And I was looking at
Speaker 1: her at the end of the day and she was
Speaker 1: like all dirty and just had like blood and chocolate
Speaker 1: on her shirt. And I was like, Wow, we're really
Speaker 1: living the life is their life now? We're real country folk.
Speaker 1: We're country folk country folks. And you know what, if
Speaker 1: you got to bleed, you bleed where you is, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a different thing. If I was in
Speaker 1: an airport right now during coronavirus and my child started
Speaker 1: shooting blood at people, I would feel much worse. I mean,
Speaker 1: hopefully someone would like squeeze out some hand sanitizer for
Speaker 1: everybody and they could just they can't because they don't
Speaker 1: have any, because their neighbor bought a whole garage full
Speaker 1: of it. I went into Usually somebody has some handy.
Speaker 1: I went into Walgreen's today next to the post office,
Speaker 1: just to be like, I wonder if there's any cleanings
Speaker 1: to put. Nope, a single thing. Neither did lows. Yeah, guys,
Speaker 1: just spread out. Don't buy ten thousand things. Don't buy
Speaker 1: ten thousand things. People buy a thousand things. That's all
Speaker 1: you need. Well, this has been another episode of We
Speaker 1: Knows Parenting. Do we answer that question? Boy, I think
Speaker 1: we're just like we have. We'd clean it. The answer
Speaker 1: is I would panic and handle it poorly. The answer
Speaker 1: is I would freak out. I would walk away and
Speaker 1: say I don't know who that kid is. If he
Speaker 1: were my kid, I'd be embarrassed. I would run to
Speaker 1: the bathroom with the child, leave my luggage and never
Speaker 1: come back again. I would I'd leave my cart full
Speaker 1: of cement in the middle of the aisle, in this
Speaker 1: case my child and just get on a plane to
Speaker 1: another place. And that's where we're going to leave you,
Speaker 1: dear listeners, this has been another episode we knows parenting.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what I want. I want want to hear
Speaker 1: how you guys are coping, and I want to hear
Speaker 1: how what fun activities are you doing with your kids
Speaker 1: to kill time? How are you managing your work schedule
Speaker 1: with being a teacher now? And how are you managing
Speaker 1: your time with a partner if you have one? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: or if you're single parenting it, which God bless you.
Speaker 1: Um um? How are you doing in tiny apartments? Are
Speaker 1: you in New York City where you're especially trapped other places? Similarly,
Speaker 1: are you in a place where it feels like this
Speaker 1: is all overblown crazy, not a real thing. It is
Speaker 1: a real thing. Um, good for you. If you're not
Speaker 1: near New York City, Well this took a turn, um,
Speaker 1: but let us know how you're doing. Good for you, assholes,
Speaker 1: how your parenting life has changed. We'd love to share
Speaker 1: um activities and your stories and yeah, stay safe. Out there. Um, okay.
Speaker 1: You can email us any of that at we knows
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