Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck. Joined as always in studio.

But my good friends, my partners in radio, Barnabas Piper, and Ronald J Martin.

Boys, we've got two really good topics dialed up today.

Thoughtful ones.

This may not be like a barrel of ha-has, but these are really

good topics, one suggested by a listener, one suggested by U-Pipe. So I'm excited to get into these. How you boys doing? Were you good?

Yeah, doing well. It feels like we're officially making the transition from school year to summer, which means everything feels a little out of whack, but because you know, one of the topics we're going to talk about is kind of teeing that up.

I still have kids at home, which means this phase in life is weird when you have to deal with them all summer long.

Dude no kidding it is a it is a big transition and you realize you have to like

curate an entire day for these people and it can be a lot.

Baby, where are you? Are you back home?

Yeah, back home.

Don't have a, I mean, have a busy summer in as much as I think you know when you don't have kids at home you can you can over stack things you know because you have a little bit of that flexibility and so I think that's you know staying on point

here and on topic with where we're heading I think that's one of the that's one of the

major challenges for me and Big M for sure is just making sure that there's margin and we're not just

running around like crazy people you know so there it is well boys let's take a

break and then we'll get into these topics all right right, we're back.

This was a really thoughtful one that we had submitted by a listener and it's actually one that

I've been thinking about a lot lately in regards to my own parents but also in regards to my own kids and

it's this how do we how do we transition from being parents of little kids to parents of adults?

And I think the philosophy on this has kind of changed over the years and I actually think about this one in a third way too which is I see a lot of other

people's young adult kids in my job as a college professor and this listener was looking for some advice and I think I want to get

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