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More Than Reality with Adam and Danielle

EP 46 - First Week of School Chaos: Anxiety, Breakdowns & Parenting Lessons

More Than Reality with Adam and Danielle

Adam and Danielle Busby

Relationships, Society & Culture, After Shows, Kids & Family, Parenting, Tv & Film

4.7 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The first week of school always brings chaos—but this year came with extra surprises for the Busbys. From a broken-down family van to first-day jitters and walking through anxiety with our kids, it’s been an emotional rollercoaster.In this episode, Adam and Danielle open up about the messy, real moments of parenting six girls—including how they’re learning to help Riley cope with anxiety, why Blake’s adjustment to high school has been a huge milestone, and how they’re leaning on faith and each other through the overwhelm.If you’ve ever felt the stress of back-to-school season, you’ll relate to this one. Parenting isn’t perfect, but it’s always worth it. 💛✨ Special thanks to Cozy Earth for sponsoring this episode! Use code MORETHAN for 40% off your order at CozyEarth.com.Welcome to "More Than Reality" with Adam and Danielle Busby, the proud parents of 6 beautiful daughters—5 of whom made history as the first set of all-female quintuplets born in the United States. After 10 incredible seasons of our hit TV show OutDaughtered on TLC, we’re taking you behind the scenes of our extraordinary life like never before. Join us as we navigate the joys and challenges of raising a family of 8, share unfiltered stories from our journey, and explore everything from parenting tips to personal growth. It’s life, love, laughter, and a whole lot of chaos—because our reality is so much more than what you’ve seen on screen.Tune in each week for a candid look into our world, where the real adventure begins when the cameras stop rolling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know, everybody knows the buzz bus. It's one of a kind. And I'm about to burn the thing down. I remember being like, oh, my gosh, this is like what a panic. And I'm feeling totally overwhelmed. It's like, I just need somebody to hold me. And so sometimes it gets to that. And I'm crying because, like, I know what that feeling feels like. And, you know, it's a blessing that I felt like I could be that for

0:23.3

her and like wow um just felt a good reminder that like man I'm so thankful that I'm here to be

0:32.5

able to hold her this is This is more than reality podcast, where we dive into all things, faith, family, and marriage, and share that there is so much more than the reality that you see on the surface.

0:52.2

Welcome to More Than Reality with Adam and Danielle Busby.

0:57.5

Hello, hello. What's up, guys? This is episode 46 of More Than Reality podcast. This is Adam and

1:04.2

Daniel Busby. And we are fresh off a new schedule. Oh yeah. New life routine of we are back on routine which feels so good to me

1:14.0

yeah. It's a little bit hectic. Yeah. It takes it takes like a week or so to like kind of level out

1:20.7

with the new schedule. I actually told the girls that today I was like it's so hard to get up. I'm like I know

1:26.4

I've been praying for y'all to sleep in until like eight, nine o'clock and I finally do. Yeah it is funny because it's so hard to get up. I'm like, I know, I've been praying for y'all to sleep in until

1:28.0

like eight, nine o'clock. It's funny. Yeah, it is funny because it's like, we get to right at the

1:33.8

tell end of summer and then they finally start to sleep in. How are we ever going to wake up so early?

1:39.8

I'm like, well, you did this last month. Yeah, you did this for half the summer, more than half

1:45.5

your life. Yeah. They wake up whenever the sun's up, but then two weeks before school starts,

1:52.7

they start sleeping until 10. Yeah. Yeah. You're in for a rude awakening. I told him my breakfast

1:58.3

today. I was like, listen, I was like, hey, we got to get

2:01.4

moving. We got it. We got to get to school. And it's first week of school. So it's extra

2:06.5

traffic-y. Like, we got it. We got to leave early. Traffic-y. Mm-hmm. That's a word. Yeah. Is it? Yeah. A lot of traffic.

2:24.1

So I don't know what I was saying oh and I said it's going to take about two weeks for your bodies to get adjusted two weeks my that's forever forever all right no no it won't

2:33.4

be forever.

2:36.1

It's a blink in this house.

2:41.0

All right, so we're going to take a little break for our sponsor today, which is Cozy Earth.

2:42.2

Cozy Earth.

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