The Invisible Ghosts that Haunt Us | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 6
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about parenting, school pressure, milestones, and the quiet spiral that can happen when your child needs extra support.
This one started with an email from Page’s school, and it made me think about expectations, identity, emotional growth, and how easy it is to make our kids’ progress feel like a reflection of us.
I’m sharing stories about Hooked on Phonics, potty training, academic pressure, raising tiny humans as individuals, and why I want to teach my girls not to just “get over it,” but to get into it and walk through it.
00:00 Welcome Back and X Games Mode
01:38 Staying on Topic, Somehow
03:57 Oreo Thins Are Superior
05:27 The School Email Spiral
07:26 Hooked on Phonics and Nilla Wafers
09:39 Expectations Start Early
10:39 My Own School Pressure
13:51 The Academic Pressure Nobody Warned Me About
14:59 Page’s School Meeting Email
15:55 Kids Are Individuals
16:18 When Did We Start Measuring Kids Like This?
17:25 Pacifiers, Milestones, and Parent Anxiety
22:27 Emotional Milestones Matter Too
23:17 Potty Training, Pee, and Perspective
27:00 The Pressure Behind Every Milestone
30:06 Their Stress Is Real Too
33:02 Expectations Are Not Identity
35:10 Don’t Get Over It, Get Into It
36:08 No Room for Ego in Parenting
38:42 Raising Daughters Without My Mom
40:18 Happiness, Joy, and Knowing Who You Are
42:31 Tools for Their Toolbox
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. It's After Hours with Amanda podcast, the parenting podcast that's not just for |
| 0:06.7 | parents. What do you guys think? I mean, honestly, that tagline has me feeling pretty cool. |
| 0:11.6 | One day, I feel like there's going to be some super spiffy music behind it. But for now, |
| 0:16.6 | we're just going to keep it raw and real and from my closet. |
| 0:25.2 | There are so many things I want to talk to you guys about because honestly, if I'm being honest, which that saying is always pezzled me. |
| 0:28.5 | Like, if I'm being honest, well, I wish you would be. |
| 0:31.4 | If I'm being honest, literally this is how my content creation goes. |
| 0:36.0 | I see all these amazing content creators out there |
| 0:38.1 | with these like idea boards and these three by five cards and these planning schedules and |
| 0:43.4 | these posting schedules. And I'm like, there is a method to that madness. And I see you. I admire |
| 0:49.0 | that. Literally though, how I live is I have a thought. I say it out loud. I record it in this microphone. |
| 0:56.8 | And then I post and publish. It's literally how it works. I literally speak without thinking sometimes, |
| 1:04.9 | which is a positive and can be a definite negative. But I think that just for me, I like to speak about what's going on. |
| 1:13.9 | I like it to feel in the moment. I like it to feel super authentic. Not that the other things are |
| 1:17.7 | inauthentic, but just for me and who I am, it has to be relevant to what's going on in my life |
| 1:23.6 | because I feel like that's how I share most from the heart. And there is this really cool |
| 1:27.5 | episode though that I am going to be creating that like came to my brain last night. But I was like, |
| 1:33.8 | no, Amanda, stay on topic with what you are going to do. This is going to be great for next week. |
| 1:40.0 | But I'm super excited to share that one with you guys as well because I think it's just kind of a |
| 1:43.6 | fun episode where we're just going to kind of take this musical journey, but I won't be using |
| 1:48.8 | any due to copyright issues. Although, wouldn't it be so cool if I could just share some of the |
| 1:54.2 | music? Oh man, without getting in trouble. I think that's probably what I get in trouble most for |
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