Episode 59 - Parenting Pitfalls: How To Not Ruin Your Child's Childhood

Get A Room Podcast

On this episode we discuss mistakes we’ve made as parents as well as some things we might be doing right. We also talk about asking the kids what they do and don’t like about our parenting.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• (1:15) We’re all going to get through this crappy school year together.
• (3:00) We talk about weird language trends.
• (4:45) We’ve never made a parenting mistake.
• (5:15) We asked our kids what our mistakes were, and they couldn’t think of anything real.
• (6:40) They also told us the good things we do.
• (8:30) Let’s be honest, curfew is for parents, not kids.
• (10:30) We are all figuring it out as we go when it comes to being a parent.
• (11:45) We are afraid that we’re too good of friends with the kids, which people say is bad.
• (16:30) Everyone is non-confrontational, so things don’t get heated often.
• (18:45) Scott recalls hearing that he had to cut off the fun part of a father/son relationship when they become teenagers, and getting super bummed out.
• (21:00) We only have 2 teenagers, so we have a long way to go.
• (27:00) We talk about losing Corbin when he was a baby. We later found him on the roof of our hotel. We also lost Echo on a beach several years later. Both were super panicky and stressful situations that still cause anxiety to this day.
• (32:00) We recount Ivy getting stung by a bunch of wasps immediately following her arrival home after open heart surgery. Scott later killed them all like he was Liam Neeson
• (39:40) Rochelle doesn’t want the kids to feel about her the way she feels about her own parents. We just hope that every generation does better than the last.
• (43:15)Our advice is don’t be a dick.