Don't Tell the Kids

Hey mama. Have you ever looked up what your kid actually buys for lunch? Siobhan did, and she read the whole transaction history out loud. (Airheads were involved. So was Chick-fil-A. At school.) Then a harmless chat at football practice sends her spiraling. Is she the crunchy mom who sounds like a snob? Mel admits she used to be the most annoying person at the party after nutrition school. We also get into a hat that started a fight, the diet Siobhan credits with changing her mom's life, and...

Hey mama — This week we're talking about the painful process of getting everyone to school on time. One of us tried a gentler way to get her teenager out of bed this week. It did not go the way she planned. Now the carpool is idling in the driveway, her husband thinks it's no big deal, and she's the only one in the house sweating. Something's gotta give. Then it wanders, like it does: a kid who came home from a week at dad's suddenly offering to do the laundry, dimes that are stil...

Hey mama — if you've ever read the book Signs, think we're capable of way more than we know, or asked for a sign and then talked yourself out of it — this one's for you. Mel spent the weekend in the woods of upstate New York learning how to connect with what Laura Lynne Jackson calls your team of light. She came home with a bent spoon, a dime stuck to a hotel wall, and the sign she asked for and immediately regretted. Grab your coffee, hide in your car, and don't tell the kids. 🎧

Hey mama — this week we're asking each other the uncomfortable one: what's the thing you know you should change and just… haven't? For Siobhan, it's the closet she can't open. For Mel it's the coffee she has no intention of giving up. (We did fact-check Marie Kondo mid-episode. Turns out she's on our side now.) Somewhere in there we get into letting our kids struggle, the timer that saved Mel's mornings, and the phone conversation that will not go away. Grab your coffee — we're on ours — hide...

Hey mama — if you've ever wondered if you're a good parent, this one's for you. We asked each other what we've gotten right and what we'd do over, and then we asked our kids. Nobody had a great answer. What we did have: a chore chart that's been "in progress" for over a year, a swearing rule that may absolutely backfire, and one uncomfortable realization about hovering that neither of us saw coming. Grab your coffee, hide in your car, and don't tell the kids. 🎧