“I Think Waffles Are Very Healthy” with Noah Gardenswartz & Ester Steinberg | 32

I Love My Kid, But...

Wondery

Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week, comedians (and married couple!) Noah Gardenswartz and Ester Steinberg join Megan, Chris, and Kurt. They love their kids, BUT…how is it possible to be the gentle, warm, and caring parents we all aspire to be while we’re in a raging fight with our spouse? After Megan’s husband forgets his passport on a recent family trip, she finds herself torn between wanting to launch him into the sun, but also needing him to give her a break from single-parenting. Conflict with your partner is going to happen, but the last thing Megan, or any parent, wants to do is bring that anger and resentment to a toddler’s bathtime. When Noah decides it’s waffles for dinner, Ester can’t help but light the bickering fuse. But as unhealthy of a dinner as waffles may be, showing their two kids that adults arguing and then (after hours of uncomfortable silence) resolving a conflict, is in fact a very healthy emotional skill to develop. Hopefully that’s how our kids remember it years later in therapy!

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0:49.6	Hey, fellow parents. Just a heads up that this show may have kid in the title, but it is not for
0:55.3	kids. We, uh, we cuss a lot. And so if you're with your kids, you might want to save this for later.
1:06.8	My name is Noah Garden Swartz, and I love my kids, but I'm already counting the days until I can send them away to summer camp for the entire summer.
1:14.2	Oh.
1:16.7	My name is Esther Steinberg and I love my kids, but they better stop fucking cussing in school so that they can still go to fucking school.
1:27.1	From Wondery, I'm Chris Garcia.
1:29.4	I'm Megan Galey.
1:30.4	And I'm Kurt Brown, Oler.
1:31.7	And this is, I love my kid, but.
1:56.1	Folks, welcome to I Love My Kid Bot, the show, where you will feel better about yourself as a parent because we tell you how we're doing it.
1:57.9	It's not great.
2:00.8	I am here, of course, with Megan Galey and Chris Garcia.
2:01.4	Hi, guys.
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