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Cat & Nat Unfiltered

Parenting Unfiltered: Failure to Launch

Cat & Nat Unfiltered

Cat & Nat

Kids & Family, Parenting, Momtruths, Society & Culture, Comedy, Funny, Relationships, Life, Women's Podcast

52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Parenting teens feels like uncharted territory. It doesn’t get easier, it just changes. This might be one of the most challenging phases yet: helping our kids learn how to launch. What used to be a natural progression into independence now feels far less automatic, and more dependent on us. We love that our kids still want to be close, but does that closeness help them grow or quietly hold them back? Will we have to literally push them out of the nest? And how much should they really be sharing with us?


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0:00.0

this is not to brag, but have made their lives very fun. Like when I tell people, when I tell people that my kids, if I'm going somewhere in the car, they're all getting in the car with me. If I'm at home, they're all at home with me. Yeah. And everyone's like, what? You could literally live in a one bedroom apartment. They're always with me. And everyone's like, wait, they just get in the car to go in an errand with you. I'm like, yep, they all get in the car to go in an errand with me.

0:24.5

Drop it like a high. Drop it like a tie. Natalie, what do I do?

0:30.9

I hope it's giddy, giddy. So, you know, as parents, we just got back from Holiday with them, which was two weeks. Yeah. Well, I didn't go on a holiday. They were on a break. They were on a holiday from school. A vacation. What's it called? A break. Okay. They were on a break. And, you know, everyone always looks forward to it. It's like you put all your eggs in a basket to go on vacation and spend

0:54.2

time and I remember actually saying to someone they're like oh are you excited to go away I'm like I'm

0:57.4

really excited to have my kids like to myself I said this I don't know who I said it to but I'm excited

1:02.7

to have them each to myself and then I realized that life isn't meant for people to spend 24-7 together.

1:14.5

I think, okay.

1:15.5

So I was at home and it went by fast, which was great because sometimes it doesn't.

1:20.5

I think because of how the break was that Christmas, our Christmas was a week into the break.

1:32.1

Okay. So sometimes you have Christmas right when they get out of school. Yeah. So it's like on the Sunday. Like they get out of school on Friday. Christmas is on like.

1:37.0

What day the week was a Christmas? It was Thursday. Okay. So they had almost a week off. Oh. And then they had

1:42.9

Christmas and then it was New Year's and then they were back to school. Sometimes when it's really early and then you have two weeks of nothing, it's really long. Yeah. Sometimes when they're little in Christmas, you have a week waiting until Christmas with nothing because you have to stick around for the family. Oh, and I didn't do Christmas on Christmas so I'm like, why didn't it feel that way for me? It's because I did Christmas before I did Christmas on the day that they finished school. Yeah. So for me, I had two weeks after Christmas. Yes. Because we had the break in between where it was like you had Christmas Eve and you had events and we did things leading up to it. I had my brother's birthday, then the cousin Christmas. I had the exact opposite. that had Christmas and then two weeks. So you had two weeks of idle time, which is very different than when you have something. Because it's so busy before Christmas. Like there's so many things that you have to do and get ready. And there's an energy and the kids live and they're excited. And that idle time doesn't feel idle because you're at people's houses and everyone's in a mood of like fun it's like oh let's go for drinks oh we're going here so the

2:39.8

the vibe is different than having idle time for two weeks well it's also hard it's because like

2:47.5

you know you want to appreciate your time and also when i on a holiday, you want to, like you want to, you want to be grateful for the opportunity that you are. Like, I'm on a beach with my family. Like, what could, what negative thoughts could cross my mind? Like, it is a dream come true. What could cross your mind? Kids are not meant to go on vacation. We took them, we made them go on like exercise runs in the morning. That's not enough. Kids need to be run like puppies. This is like that's so true. Boys are like puppies. They need to be run. Not all boys. Yeah. But when they said the boys are like puppies and they need to be run to exude their energy and work out and get rid of, I swear it's like the testosterone or something and like expel it, then they can be like normal human beings. This is true. This is something girls, a lot of girls don't have. I have one who needs that. Yeah.

3:43.4

Who definitely a girl who needs to be run like a puppy.

3:57.2

You know, I feel, okay, I'm going to say we are the product of our children because you and are both guilty of always planning and not stopping.

4:02.3

You and I from a very young age, and this is not to brag,

4:04.0

but have made their lives very fun.

4:08.4

Like when I tell people, when I tell people that my kids,

4:10.0

if I'm going somewhere in the car,

4:11.4

they're all getting in the car with me.

4:14.9

If I'm at home, they're all at home with me.

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