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Last week, Catherine's daughter joined the shrinking ranks of college freshmen actually moving onto campus in this very weird time. She even brought her own toilet paper, and lots of it.
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On Speed-Round Sunday, we share a mini episode from our past for your weekend listening pleasure.
Before there were computers and smartphones and fancy prefab fidget spinners, we kept ourselves distracted with ... taking apart pens. Peeling pencil paint. Unwinding paper clips. Doodling. So much doodling.
On Second-Listen Saturday, we share some fun moments from past episodes for your weekend listening pleasure.
Terri sometimes feels her life is a bad detective show. Catherine is stuck in a not-that-funny sitcom, and Nicole's family drama is exhaustingly dramatic. What TV show is your family inadvertently starring in? Want more? Listen to the rest of this August 2017 episode.
On this week’s Roundabout Roundup: Terri is finding new uses for old technology, while Nicole is sprucing up old furniture and objects with peel-and-stick wallpaper. Catherine is making sure her college freshman won't be without her favorite snack with this collapsible popcorn popper that's perfect for dorm living.
Thanks as always to Jon Morin for our fun in-and-out music, which you hear on every episode.
Now that all three of us have reached the mid-century mark, we can obsess about the benefits of being older, wiser, and much more willing to wear comfortable shoes and stay home. Mentioned: The Top Ten Most Awesome Things About Being Over 50 on Grown & Flown.
Parenting is hard no matter what age your kids are. This article calling out middle school as the toughest age to parent got us complaining about pretty much all the ages. Name an age or circumstance when parenting is easy!
On this week's entertainment-themed Round 2, a double dose of Veronica Mars, although both episodes were useless in their own ways. "One Angry Veronica" did nothing for the season-long arc, and "Donut Run" was based on a faulty premise (although Terri's theory about how and why that happened makes a lot of sense). Mentioned: the Veronica Mars Investigations podcast; a teaser about Veronica joining the FBI; and the two Magic Mountains (amusement park and book by Thomas Mann).
Need to use a leash/harness/tether on your kid? No judgment here; two of us have done it. A tweet from Today's Parent magazine about kids being either barnacles or bolters prompted us to talk about which kind of kids we had (and which kind we were).
On Speed-Round Sunday, we share a mini episode from our past for your weekend listening pleasure.
Ah, sleep time, when the subconscious opens the door on every stupid thing you could possibly imagine worrying about or wondering about or thinking about, and these things parade across your consciousness. Meet some of our cast of thousands.
On Second-Listen Saturday, we share some fun moments from past episodes for your weekend listening pleasure.
It’s supposed to be a positive thing when kids get more independent. But we're both happy and thrown into existential crisis. Want more? Listen to the rest of this August 2017 episode. |
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