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The Longest Shortest Time

Child-Free… With Children

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Even though Glynnis MacNicol doesn't have kids of her own, her life is far from child-free. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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