Welcome back to feeding the mouth that bites you, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

I'm Cynthia Yanov, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, Dr. Ken.

Cynthia, did you watch the World Series?

Well, I'm going to just give you all a little insight.

You don't ever need to ask if I've watched a sporting event because I'm married to Mike Yanoff.

And so I've seen it.

If it's on, my husband is a sports fanatic. So yes, I did see a little bit of

the end. And who were you going for? Were you happy with the result? I think here's what's weird.

My family's not super athletic, but I get so intense that I try very hard to not get involved. And so I'm certainly not a Dodger or

Blue Jays fan. Had a slight thought for the Americans, but, you know, I'm kind of feeling bad for

Canada lately. So I had as close to no investment as possible. What about you? Yeah, I had no investment. Other than

our family loves Clayton Kershaw. And so, you know, the Dodgers, his last season, that. But I'm the

least athletic person you've ever met. And I mean, you could literally scour your brain, Dr. Ken,

and be like, okay, this is the least

athletic person I know. And then you could put me right there because it's, and it's, and the thing that's

a problem about it is that I'm, I'm married into very athletic. And then our kids got that gene. And so now

they're just real mean about it.

Like, you know, it's like a joke.

They'll throw like an apple across to me. And you know, they know I can't catch it and it'll fall in the floor. They want to see you turn around and protect yourself. Terrible. Still doing that, are you, mom? Yeah. So there we are on the athletics. but I love that we're talking about this because especially as a mom who has done athletics

pretty much my entire parenting career.

I feel like I've, yeah, we've walked this road.

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