Our Moms Were Totally Right About This

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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It's time to confront one of life’s most uncomfortable truths: how our moms were often right—especially when we were convinced they were totally wrong. From dead-end relationships to to coat-free winters, Amy and Margaret reflect on the advice they might have once ignored, but now repeat to their own kids. We also discuss our listeners' own versions of mom wisdom: trusting your intuition about friends and partners, wearing sunscreen, following up on job applications, buying fewer but better things, making lists, and remembering to eat, walk, or take a bath when emotions run high. Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode: Our Fresh Take with Gabrielle Blair The thread in our FB group about all the things our listeners' moms were right about What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ What Fresh Hell podcast, mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, parenting podcast, mother daughter relationships, parenting teenagers, mom advice, generational wisdom, teenage rebellion, parenting humor, midlife parenting, letting kids fail, choosing battles, emotional regulation, What Fresh Hell podcast, modern motherhood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.8	This will not fix my mood. What fresh hell. Laughing in the face of motherhood.
0:38.5	You sound like a cat being tortured.
0:41.5	With Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson.
0:44.2	No harm now follows you in a couple years.
0:46.2	A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas so you don't have to.
0:50.6	There is nothing less cool you can do in 2026 than be correctly dressed for the weather.
1:01.3	Hello everyone and welcome to Wet Fresh Hell laughing in the face of motherhood. This is Margaret.
1:06.3	And this is Amy. This week, oops, our moms, we're right. We hate it when that happened. Yeah, yeah. We hate it when
1:14.1	that happens. I'm going to start, I'm going to lay a little Mark Twain on you. How do you feel about that?
1:18.8	I find he great, very good about that. Yeah, he's got a lot of good ones. Mark Twain once said,
1:24.3	when I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant, I could barely stand being
1:29.9	around him. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
1:37.9	I do think that, I mean, I don't have a hard time now engaging with my mom being right about anything.
1:44.6	You know, like, sure, but a life of wisdom. So maybe I've outgrown the idea that my mom wasn't
1:49.5	right. But it's funny to go back and think about what did I resist at the time? That was
1:52.9	definitely true. I took this ride more than most, I think, and I have talked about it. My mother
1:59.2	and I, when I was in high school,
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