Ep. 218: Am I Failing At Letting My Kids Fail? Plus Educator Dr. Ama Mazama

One Bad Mother

Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn

Moms, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Theresa Thorn, Comedy, Biz Ellis, Podcast, Parenting

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Biz wonders if we are incapable of letting our children solve their own problems and if this is why our children can’t actually problem solve! Theresa suggests maybe its less about ability and more about personality. What’s worse, stunting our children's development or having to accept they may be totally different than you? Both seem like a reason to hide in the bathroom. Plus Biz gets thumb tacky, Theresa takes cover and we talk to Temple University professor and mother Dr. Ama Mazama about the growing trend and reasoning behind home schooling for African American children. Check out Dr. Mazama in The Atlantic piece by Jessica Huseman that brought her to our attention and pick up her book The Afrocentric Paradigm to learn more about her field of study. Brooklyn: Tickets for One Bad Mother Live at The Bell House on Saturday October 14th are on sale now! Los Angeles: Join us for One Bad Mother LIVE at the Bootleg Theater on Saturday August 26th! It's a matinee! Tickets on sale now! Check out our book! You're Doing A Great Job!: 100 Ways You're Winning at Parenting! Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of MaximumFun.org. Our sponsors this week are Rent The Runway and NatureBox. To save 25% off an Unlimited Rent The Runway subscription, visit RentTheRunway.com/Unlimited or download the iPhone app and enter the code BADMOTHER at checkout. And, go to NatureBox.com/BADMOTHER to get a free month of membership and 3 free snacks. Share your genius and fail moments! Call 206-350-9485 Be sure to tell us at the top of your message whether you're leaving a genius moment, a fail, or a rant! Thanks!! Share a personal or commercial message on the show! Details at MaximumFun.org/Jumbotron. Subscribe to One Bad Mother in iTunes Join our mailing list Join the amazing community that is our private One Bad Mother Facebook group Follow One Bad Mother on Twitter Follow Biz on Twitter Follow Theresa on Twitter Like us on Facebook! Get a OBM tee, tank, baby shirt, or mug from the MaxFunStore You can suggest a topic or a guest for an upcoming show by sending an email to [email protected]. Show Music Opening theme: Summon the Rawk, Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Ones and Zeros, Awesome, Beehive Sessions (http://awesomeinquotes.com, also avail on iTunes) Mom Song, Adira Amram, Hot Jams For Teens (http://adiraamram.com, avail on iTunes) Telephone, Awesome, Beehive Sessions (http://awesomeinquotes.com, also avail on iTunes) Closing music: Mama Blues, Cornbread Ted and the Butterbeans

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a part-time working mom with a big kid and a little kid.
0:04.5	And I'm Teresa. I have a family business, two young kids, and a baby.
0:08.6	This is a show about life after giving life.
0:11.2	Don't listen with your kids because there will be swears. This is
0:15.0	one bad mother.
0:16.7	This week on One Bad Mother, am I failing and letting my child fail?
0:24.2	Plus, Diz gets some tacky.
0:26.3	Theresa takes cover and we talk to Dr. Amamizama
0:30.1	about homeschooling for African American children.
0:33.0	Woo!
0:35.0	Hey, you know what I'm excited about, Theresa?
0:38.0	What?
0:39.0	Extra wooing because this Saturday, August 26th.
0:45.0	So like two days after this show comes out.
0:47.5	Correct.
0:48.5	We are live at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles at 2 PM. doors open at one. The show runs about an hour 20.
0:56.4	The bar is open. We have Kay Cannon joining us. Live Genius and Fales. We'll be signing books after the show and saying hi so please go to
1:05.5	one bedmother podcast dot com for ticket info under live shows yeah that going to be so much fun. It is going to be so
1:15.1	so excited. The most fun. Yes. Speaking of the most funds, how are you Teresa?
1:20.4	I'm fine.
1:22.6	Do you think, because we're recording this during the solar eclipse,
1:25.0	and I'm wondering if maybe this show will be injected with magic somehow.
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