Parenting in Public
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today we're parenting in public, or at least talking about it. We discuss why it makes us a little sweaty, the worse public parenting situations we've been in, and our best advice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our different |
| 0:08.8 | perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show |
| 0:13.9 | years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and |
| 0:18.1 | laugh about yet. Today we're chatting about parenting in public. |
| 0:23.2 | We'll talk about why it can be so dang hard, how our kids act in public, the less than |
| 0:28.8 | ideal public parenting situations we found ourselves in, and we'll share our best advice. |
| 0:34.4 | For friends of the show on Patreon, we're each sharing what parenting behavior we only do at |
| 0:39.4 | home and never in public. Okay, let's get into this. Parenting in public. Why does that phrase |
| 0:46.6 | immediately make me uncomfortable? Because it is. It is uncomfortable. Because it is. Yeah. |
| 0:51.4 | Okay. Let's talk about the reasons why parenting in public can be so hard and so uncomfortable. Okay. I was thinking about this. Like, what is it? Yeah. What combination of factors makes it feel, even when it's going okay. Yeah. Still uncomfortable. It's kind of a little always on guard. Yeah. Well, I think it's number one, you're trying to do other stuff. Yes. If you're in public, even if you just took your kids somewhere fun, you're putting on sunscreen |
| 1:14.8 | at the splash pad, you're maybe trying to have a conversation with a fellow mom. |
| 1:18.3 | Like you're always trying to do something else. |
| 1:20.8 | You are forced to multitask. |
| 1:22.2 | Yes, that feels stressful no matter what. |
| 1:25.1 | You're also trying to be like considerate of the people around you. |
| 1:28.3 | Right. And like be your best self. Yeah. And not have your kids be annoying the crap out of everybody. |
| 1:33.2 | Like you're trying, you know, you're mindful of that. Some people are, I guess. Yes. You're feeling judged whether |
| 1:39.8 | anyone's judging you or not. And kids tend to draw attention, both for good and bad reasons. |
| 1:46.0 | And then your kids have no shame. Your kids have no shame. That's the other thing. So you feel |
| 1:52.3 | all of the shame. So that is what feels particularly hard. I like that. They feel no shame. |
| 1:57.0 | You feel all of the shame. Yeah, I think that just really goes to, I think kids are either, |
| 2:02.2 | they can be uncomfortable in public, both just because of other people around or it's a |
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