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Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Lucy Whitehouse (Anna's mum) on 'doing it all' and the grandparent gap

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for the mothership to open up about the pain of watching our generation of women burning out trying to do it all. We don’t want it all but we are, indeed, doing it all. She speaks to Anna and Polly about the grandparent gap - the silver saviours papering over the childcare cracks. Highs, lows, peaks and troughs from two generations of mothers trying to simply get through the day.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If I had to picture a moment of calmfulness, it would have to be at the beach.

0:05.0

On the edge of the sand, with the waves at my toes, what's yours?

0:10.2

Calm's Herbal Remedies.

0:12.2

Calm's days, a traditional herbal medicine used for stress, exclusively based on traditional use only, contains Valerian Root. Always read the label.

0:22.1

This is a Global Player Original podcast.

0:35.2

Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker. I'm your host Anna Whitehouse, the founder of

0:40.1

Motherpucker, and our best mate, Polly Hazard, in the DMP House.

0:46.7

Coming up, we have none other than my mother. Oh, it's a good one. Lucy Whitehouse is going to be

0:53.6

banging on about the grandparent gap,

0:56.7

but also we sit in solidarity about how we are that transitional generation

1:03.1

that is not trying to have it all, but is ending up doing it all.

1:07.4

Yes.

1:07.8

So there you go.

1:08.7

That's coming up, my mum.

1:10.3

But before we crack on, I just want to get something off my chest.

1:15.3

This feels like an increasing therapy session, this introduction.

1:18.5

It does, although we are lacking, severely lacking an expert who can find some sort of solution

1:25.1

for the mess that we get ourselves into.

1:27.8

100%.

1:28.6

Am I your therapist?

1:29.8

If you are, I'm doomed.

1:32.9

So I booked myself in for a massage on Friday.

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