You invite them over the person that you're like questioning?

Yes, I would definitely encourage parents to do that because a lot of us just maybe have very brief interactions with these kids, you know, a minute here, a minute there.

And I would definitely invite whoever you may have concerns about over to your house for a dinner and see what they're like when they're sitting down because you may learn that they're completely different than what you thought.

Drop it like a hot.

Drop like a tie.

Natalie, what do I do?

I hope it's giddy-gitty.

I'm really excited to have a merry best on the podcast today.

I have to say, today we're going to be talking about how to know if your kids are hanging out with the wrong group, friends, boyfriend, whatever, or partner.

But when it said MPH, after your name, I'm like, master's in something, I had to Google it.

Masters and physical health. Close.

Public health. There's like a whole master's in actual public health. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah.

Oh, my gosh. Wow. That's amazing. And you are mom. You have two adult children, which is, it's just even better for us because you've, I mean, I can't imagine all the things you've already been through your bit ahead of us. Yeah. I call them emerging adults because I don't think we're really adults until we're what, 50 maybe. Oh my gosh. I still have some years to God. I don't think I'm an adult still.

No, that's over 50.

We have a couple.

We have some years.

That's great news.

So I feel like this is a topic that no one talks about because it is like there's so many other problems.

But to me, this may be one of the biggest problems because I guess what parents don't realize

is your influence gets less and less the older they get and their friends really matter, right?

They become everything.

And it's also, you feel like, is that really something you need to look into until it happens

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