131. Parenting: Same Sh*t, Different Decade (With Danielle's Mom)
Marriage and Martinis
Adam Silverstein
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Danielle and her mom, Linda, sat down to talk about ways parenting has changed since the 1960s. How did parents in the 1960s explain how babies are made? Why did moms in the 80s leave their kids in the car while they food shopped for an hour? In this funny, revealing conversation about "who had it tougher," one thing was definitely determined: parenting has always been ridiculously confusing and overwhelming.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Yep. Oh, Yeah, Welcome to Marriage Martinis. I'm Danielle and here's Linda. |
| 0:55.0 | Hi. Hi. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi. |
| 0:58.0 | Wait shh, shh, you hear that? |
| 1:01.0 | What? |
| 1:02.0 | Nothing. |
| 1:03.0 | All three of my kids are gone for the night and they're not coming back till tomorrow. |
| 1:09.4 | It's been four months since I have had all three kids out of the house at one time. That's a record for me. |
| 1:16.0 | And so yeah, so I am enjoying the silence and you are, you should feel so honored because I said I want to |
| 1:26.6 | record with you even though I could be like binging Netflix right now. |
| 1:30.3 | Yes you could be alone I could be alone and instead I was here dealing with you having a nosebleed. Yes, I did. |
| 1:37.0 | So I almost needed a transfusion. Oh, I'm sorry. |
| 1:42.0 | So we were going to talk about parenting when you |
| 1:48.8 | were raising me, which was in the 80s and 90s. Well you raised your kids in the 70s 80s and 90s because my older |
| 1:55.8 | brother is way older than I am. He's 10 years older than I am and we were going to talk |
| 2:01.8 | about versus raising kids today. Pandemic aside because |
| 2:05.9 | that's a whole different ballgame. Right? Well mostly I talked I did child birth. That's mostly what you did. All right, well we're not just talking |
| 2:16.7 | about childbirth. But we can start with that because I wanted to talk a little bit about pregnancy because my listeners, our listeners know that |
| 2:27.1 | for me pregnancy was really difficult and it was not like a good time for me and I think in some ways the advanced |
| 2:36.6 | technology and the advanced information was almost detrimental to me when I was pregnant. |
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