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The Longest Shortest Time

Child-Free… With Children

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | QCODE

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Even though Glynnis MacNicol doesn't have kids of her own, her life is far from child-free. To join the conversation, go to longestshortesttime.com! Sign up for our newsletter. Follow us on Instagram. This episode is brought to you by WGU, Raised by TV, Sunbasket, ThirdLove, and Kiwi Co. Also, Hillary Frank's Weird Parenting Wins book is coming! Many of you are in it. Pre-order here.

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0:00.0

The phrase I'm so good with children gets uttered a lot. I am abnormally good with children.

0:12.3

Glennis McNichol is someone you want to hand a baby to.

0:16.1

Oh my god, since I was little 10, I was the number on the fridge that everyone fought over

0:20.5

to book as the babysitter. I used to have a regular gig for six children under the age of 10.

0:28.4

Need watch all six at once?

0:29.8

Oh yeah, six kids under the age of 10 are the easiest to watch because they're used to

0:32.9

limited amount of attention. So really, you just have to make sure the baby and the two

0:36.6

year olds are like not crawling into the oven and the other ones are pretty okay.

0:43.0

Her whole life, Glennis has had this special something with kids, which is probably why so

0:47.9

many of them are in her life. Glennis does school pickups and nap time wakeups. She tends

0:53.4

birthday sports events and reads kids bedtime stories over facetime. She has emergency

0:58.7

contact on summer camp forms and her fridge is covered with school photo magnets stuck

1:04.2

to kid artwork, mostly drawings of her brown curly hair.

1:08.9

And I love it. I mean, I definitely love it, but I would say that I'm the one having

1:13.1

it all right because I get all of this and the level of my responsibility on me is, you

1:18.4

know, not anywhere close to what it is on a parent. Because none of these kids are her

1:25.6

own. She's not a mom. To them, she's auntie Glennis, except for the one kid who calls

1:30.6

her uncle. He picked that up as a two year old and now hasn't stopped it. So yeah, I love

1:36.2

it. How often do you see kids hang out with them every day?

1:41.9

Really, what'd you do with the kid today?

1:45.7

When I took out the garbage this morning, my godson who lives downstairs was walking down

1:51.8

the porch with me naked. This is the longest shortest time. I'm Andrea Selenzi and Glennis

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