Welcome to the Raising Boys and Girls Podcast. I'm Sissy Gough.

I'm David Thomas. And I'm Melissa Trevathan.

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Hey, Sissy Gough. How are you? Doing well? How are you? I'm doing well myself.

Okay. We're going to talk about responsibility. A really important one. Before we go there,

though, I think we need to talk a little bit about our responsibility growing up. I just

think I have to tell the truth as we start to talk about it because I'm feeling a little

convicted. So, we both had really amazing moms. We sure did. We both have lost our

moms. We miss them lots. And our moms were really different probably in how they tried

to instore responsibility with us. I was trying to think of something that I was responsible

for when I was growing up. And I just need to preface this to say, I was an only child.

My mom had some trouble getting pregnant. And so, I was very, very, very adored. And

I think she really didn't think I was going to get here. And so, I can't think of

one thing I was responsible for. That's terrible, mom. You were such an amazing mom. But I

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