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🗓️ 18 December 2025
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Would you be a “room mom” for your kids class? Jana took on the challenge for Jolie’s fourth grade class… but she wouldn’t say she’s earned an A+.
Jana and Kristen discuss a mom whose gone viral for declining ALL holiday requests from school, but is there a more balanced way to set boundaries?
And we hear some advice on how to handle gift giving with your mother-in-law!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Wind down with Janet Kramer, an IHeart Radio podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | Okay, this week's adult education. |
| 0:13.9 | I mean, tis the season. |
| 0:15.9 | We're in the holidays. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, we are fully in the holidays. |
| 0:18.7 | Here we go. |
| 0:19.6 | We got some debates, topical debates, which actually |
| 0:24.2 | is funny because of what leads into what kind of was happening, because I'm a room mom, the first |
| 0:32.8 | and only time. You're a room mom? The first and only time I will ever be a room mom. I am so proud of you. I have declined room on two years in a row. Well, I've declined it kindergarten for second, third. So this was, you know, obviously Julie's in fourth grade. And so she's like, mom, will you please be a room mom? And I was just like, sure, I'll email and put my name in the hat. And then when I got |
| 0:56.3 | picked, I was like, oh my goodness. Luckily, there's two moms to the room and bless my sweet |
| 1:02.3 | room mom, uh, counterpart. Yes, because she, I would be like totally failing. I'm about,'m about I'd give myself a D. Okay but would |
| 1:13.7 | others give you a D because we're kind of hard on ourselves. I will say though I will say this I did |
| 1:19.5 | crush the elf ornament making in the classroom like I was a hot glue gun just I had those kids |
| 1:26.4 | on the line I'm like glue like here can pass me these things just, I had those kids on the line. I'm like, glue, like, |
| 1:28.7 | give here, handpads me these things. I mean, I had those. Even the teacher was like, wow, we finished earlier than any other groups. And I'm like, pow, pal with my little gun. Well, like, hot glue gun thing at school, which I should have taken home to use for the gingerbread houses, but I didn't. |
| 1:42.8 | So that was, so I did good there. |
| 1:46.2 | I think it's the, what kills me is the group me. I cannot. Death by group me. Well, so that's why I say, I said, Michelle, my other room, mom. I said, I can't do the group me. I said, I went on, I downloaded it. I did. And then when I saw like 40 texts, I was like, I'm out. |
| 2:03.0 | Like, if it's not our dear Amy chat, no. I can't, or our other girls chat, like, I can't. |
| 2:08.9 | Agreed. I can't do it. And you know what? It takes one rogue mom to go, does anybody have a recipe for that homemade |
| 2:15.5 | apple sauce? And I'm like, no, Barbara, no, no one does. And this is not the time or the place for that. Yeah. Because then you get 50 more messages. Oh, try this one. I found this one on Pinterest. Like, no, what are we? I need to like be able to scan, get to the point, efficiency. Yeah. So, but this kind of leads into like my next thing. So I, to this heated article. So there, |
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