Deadbeat Mom: Parenting A Child Whose Own Mother Refuses To

Welcome to Episode 5, where the Veronica Cinematic Universe delivers a plot twist absolutely nobody ordered: Veronica found the podcast. And, apparently, she has thoughts. Lots of them. 📱💥 So naturally, we’re going to discuss those thoughts. Because if you’re going to voluntarily subscribe to a podcast about yourself and then provide fresh source material, it would be downright rude of me not to acknowledge your contribution. Among Veronica’s concerns: my age, which she appears significantly ...

Friday. The end of the workweek. The beginning of the weekend. A day generally welcomed by the human population. Unless, apparently, you’re Veronica and Friday comes with the horrifying expectation that you participate in parenting your own child. Since school started, we have had seven Fridays: August 14, 21, 28, September 4, 11, 18, and 25. And somehow, against mathematical odds that should probably be studied by NASA, Veronica has managed to turn Every. Single. One. into some f...

Four days. That is how long Veronica knew where I lived before I walked downstairs one evening and discovered that the rear passenger-side window of my car had been smashed to absolute shit. Now, am I saying Veronica did it? No. Because unlike Veronica, I understand that accusations generally work better when accompanied by evidence. What I am saying is that my car had somehow managed to survive its entire existence without being randomly attacked…right up until Veronica learned m...

Kindergarten arrives, Veronica briefly clocks back into motherhood, and suddenly everybody gets to experience her unique management style: do none of the work, maintain all of the authority, and demand to speak to the manager when the people actually raising your kid stop taking orders. After Marco’s dad and I scramble to get him enrolled in school, Veronica discovers that parenting apparently involves inconvenient things like showing up, picking up your own child, and participating on days t...

Meet Veronica, the deadbeat mom. Meet Marco, her son. And meet me, the woman who somehow went from Dad’s girlfriend to apparently raising somebody else’s kid without so much as an orientation packet. In Episode 1, I explain how Marco slowly ended up living with us, how Veronica slowly stopped showing up, and how kindergarten took an already questionable situation and blew the doors clean off. Because nothing exposes dysfunctional parenting quite like a school expecting you to actually parent....