Hey everyone welcome to Why Mommy Drinks. This is Betsy Stover and today I'm joined

by two amazing people. First of all my guest co-host today is comedian Amy Albert.

Hello. Hello. Lovely as ever. Nice to see you. So great to see you. So great. And with us again is writer,

sometimes actor Laura Wilcox. Hello. Thank you for having me. Thank you for coming back to the show.

Oh I appreciate it. I'm excited to be here. So I have three kids there. All boys. Three, eight. Nope. I don't have a three-year-old.

Five. You want to do it? I did. I have a five-year-old and eight-year-old and a ten-year-old. Amy, what you got?

What? Five. I didn't know. I thought I still think of him as like two. A little guy. I have two kids and boy and a girl.

My girl is five and a half and my boy turns three next to me. Oh my goodness. My little baby. And what about you Laura? What you got over there?

I have a daughter who will be two in a month. And then she's trying to... I was going to say... Usually that was the age where my kids started to try to kill me.

Yeah. What's she doing? She's a very... I mean it's great, right? You want your daughter to be strong. Will the pinninated?

You want your daughter to be very comfortable expressing their emotions. You want your daughter to be comfortable saying no.

And to be not afraid to say no and to really assert her wants and needs. This is what I need. This is what I want. Here's what I will not abide by. Here's what I will not do.

Those are all good qualities for adults. Absolutely. She's doing all of those things. She's doing really, really well. She's really assertive. I'm really proud of her and it's the fucking best guy.

I feel similarly. My end as well. Yeah, all the things that make for good strong, really amazing grown-up people. Sure aren't terrible.

Yeah. I'm like no, no, no, with me I want you to be quiet, obedient, maybe the most scary.

I know. No one's scared of me. No one. I was scared of my parents, I feel like, but my kids look at me and they're like, oh my, it's adorable. You think I'm going to do what you say?

It's so cute. Yeah. My kids will straight up look at me and be like, I won't be doing that. And it's hard because then you're like, oh God, do I have any recourse?

I know. And your kids are old enough, Betsy, to be like, I know you're tired from the pandemic and from us. We know we weren't.

Because I tell them all the time. Yeah. All the time. Everyone I am done. I am past the end of my rope. I cannot.

Last night they were like, fucking around in their room and screaming. And it was like lights out. Of course, every time it lights out, somehow there's a fucking light on.

I go in there and I turn this light off and this light off and I turn the bathroom light off and I'm like, no lights.

I have to, because I feel like if you're in the pitch black, you won't get out of your bed. And they were still like getting out of their bed and stuff.

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