Welcome back, friends, you're listening to Parenting for the Culture, and I am your host,

Sheree Sims. Happy New Year. I don't know for still saying that, but we've had a couple of new

years. So I'm still saying happy New Year. Again, I am Sheree Sims, the host of Parenting for the Culture.

I am a mama to six beautiful heavens. I wrote it down so I could tell you all their ages.

But if you ask me on the street, I'm not ever going to get their ages right because there's too many of them. But I have a new teenager. She turned 13 at the beginning of January. So that is new for me.

And I will be talking about that on this podcast. I have an 11 year old, a 9 year old, a 7 year old, and twin 4 year olds.

And we have five girls and one boy. The boy came with a girl. That's the 4 year old. And he for some

reason thinks that he is getting a baby

brother somewhere along the way. It's not happening. So if y'all have a baby somewhere, a baby boy,

and you want to come bring him to hang out with Daniel so Daniel can feel like he's somebody's big

brother, hit me up because he is not getting a baby brother from over here. I am also an early

educator and an educator.

I teach ages preschool through middle school.

And I am this year's PBS Early Learning Champion

and very proud to partner with PBS in early education support and parent support.

So as always, I love to start my episodes with the peak and pit of my day.

The peak and pit is something that I actually do at home with my own family, around the dinner

table, sometimes in the car, depending on time. And it's just how we connect with one another.

It's an easy and fun way to share our days and kind of bring about topics, situations,

thoughts, things that happen during the day that maybe

wouldn't otherwise come up. So today, the peak of my day, which is the best part of my day,

is watching my children play together. My three littles came home. They're still into all of their

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