This episode may contain explicit language.

This is Karen Vini.

We're three friends with kids who get together every week to talk life, swap advice,

keep each other sane while we muddle through this weird and wonderful thing called parenting.

What's up?

I'm Lucy Lopez.

I'm mother to Amelia, who's 15, Avery, who's 13. I have a cool substack called

Best Mom Friends Forever. And we live in Miami, Florida. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast

called Weirdly Helpful. And I live in Detroit with my daughter, Noah. She's eight. And my son,

Ami, he's five. And I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the

homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver, who is 11,

and Teddy who's 9. And we currently live in Honolulu, Hawaii. We're here to talk about the

ups, downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting. Every week,

we answer your questions, share our own parenting triumphs and fails, and try to make this

feel like the kind of conversation you'd have with your friends. Yep. And today we're answering

a question about modeling emotions and teaching boys that it's very healthy to cry. But first, we're going to do

our weekly check-ins with each other, and then we'll be right back after this. Welcome back.

This is the part of the show where we typically do triumphs and fails. We might get to that

later. But first, U.S. listeners

probably saw the news last week that a synagogue in Detroit was attacked. It's the same synagogue that

our friend and brother, Zach, has prayed at dozens and dozens and dozens of times since he was a kid

and where a lot of his family and friends are members.

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