This is Biz, and if hosting One Bad Mother for over 10 years has taught me anything,

it's that parenting is hard and nobody gives a shit. So belly up to the low bar,

where fine is good enough and you'll never feel alone. This is One Bad Mother.

This week on One Bad Mother, that's gonna leave a scar. I talk to Amanda Deakman, author of the

book Low Demand Parenting and Leading Voice of the Euro Diversity Parenting Movement about

parenting burnout. Welcome, Amanda, though we're gonna talk about more than just that. Amanda, welcome.

That's my first ever singing introduction. So I'm so glad to be here.

All right, before we get into it and we could just sing the rest of the show, if you'd like,

it could just become that podcast. Is that podcast at the Parenting Singing Podcast?

It's like how we like squashed out all of our emotions by singing it. Tell us, Amanda, who lives

in your house? I live here. I'm Amanda. I am 40 years old. And oh, see? Just for everybody who's

listening, Amanda has three children. And at any moment, they could come in needing something.

And so just like real parenting, we're gonna roll with this.

Duh-duh do dee dee dee.

Maybe we'll edit this. Maybe we'll leave it. But can you hear the, um, I can't hear any of the

things at the background. No. Okay, yay for the daddy. And if we can, everybody listening,

we'll just think it's coming from their own house. So, don't worry. Okay. All right, so we got you,

we established that we know there's at least one other person because they've

entered your room. I live here with my husband who has been my partner since we

were 19 and he is a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of

North Carolina and our three neurodivergent kids. My oldest is 11. My middle is

nine and my youngest who just entered the room is six and I use pseudonyms for

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