EP7: Why taking your child on a holiday is exhausting, with Renee Reina
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
EP7. After taking her son on a five day holiday to visit family at "the cottage", Renee quickly realized it wasn't a holiday at all. At least, not for her. If anything, it was much more exhausting and stressful than staying home. Even with helpful family around, if you're the primary caregiver of a child, chances are you cannot relax when you're out of your child-proofed environment. By the time her son went to bed at 7:30pm, Renee just wanted to curl into a ball in a dark room and watch Real Housewives until she fell asleep.
In this episode Renee goes over why holidays or even afternoons out with a toddler are so much extra work and often not enjoyable for parents. Yes, there are enjoyable moments but, if your expectations include relaxation and an escape from everyday life, you might want to listen to this episode. Similarly, if you have people in your life who can't understand why you don't want to take your child to your Aunt's birthday party or the cottage one weekend, have them listen to this episode.
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| 0:11.1 | Lots of items are heading to school and they're not always necessarily coming back. They're either headed to the lost and found, they're left on the school bus, their friends take them home thinking they're theirs. |
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| 1:14.4 | parents nationwide. Welcome to the mom room podcast. My name is Renee Rina and I am definitely the mom |
| 1:35.5 | friend you have always wanted. It's Monday. It's 8.50 a.m. in the morning and I just |
| 1:42.0 | dropped Milo off at daycare. My voice is still raspy because I |
| 1:46.9 | haven't had enough coffee. But the daycare drop off went better than I expected. The girls were |
| 1:53.5 | super bubbly and nice and I think he recognized them because he had like little smiles here and there. |
| 2:04.2 | He didn't cry, but as she was carrying him in, he started to whine a little bit and I was like, oh, I felt so bad. But I'm hoping |
| 2:10.7 | that once he gets into his room with all his toys, that he has a super fun day. So we'll see. I have an app through the daycare that they |
| 2:21.4 | update constantly throughout the day they post photos and like what he's eaten, like dirty diapers. |
| 2:26.9 | Everything just loads up on the app, which is amazing. So I'll definitely be checking that |
| 2:33.2 | today. But anyways, this episode is not about daycare, |
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