Progress and Presence Beat Perfect Parenting | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 68

After Hours With Amanda

Kids & Family, Parenting

5.0 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m talking about a morning where I messed up as a mom, said something that wounded, and realized I could not just wait until the end of the day to repair it. So I used my lunch break, pulled one of the tiny queens out of school, apologized, got Chick fil A, opened blind boxes, and learned something I do not want to forget.

This one is about parenting mistakes, repair, preteen emotions, presence, progress, and why our kids do not need perfect parents. They need parents who keep showing up and trying again.

00:00 Episode Two of 52
01:01 Inside Out Is Too Real Right Now
02:00 Whole Foods Smoothie Drama
02:40 I Messed Up This Morning
04:28 When a Sting Becomes a Wound
06:07 Pulling Her Out to Repair
07:08 Progress and Presence Over Perfection
08:02 Showing Up With Urgency
10:19 What Pursuit Feels Like in Relationships
11:41 Preteen Emotions and the Control Board
14:35 I Do Not Know What I Am Doing
16:04 Staying Present When They Push Away
18:10 Distance Creates the Wedge
19:05 Body Image, Food, and Outside Noise
20:38 Learning What Hat They Need Me to Wear
22:26 Chick fil A, Pop Mart, and Baby Molly
25:24 Progress and Presence Beat Perfection
26:39 When They Need You the Most
28:19 Becoming the Matlock of Emotions
30:18 Foxhole People and Showing Up
31:06 Not Every Seat Needs to Be Filled
34:19 Podcast Dreams and 2026 Energy
35:13 Progress, Presence, and Marriage Too
36:11 You Are Doing Really Good

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to episode two of after hours, well, two of 52 of this year.
0:06.9	Okay, which means we might have to work in a double episode somewhere so we ensure that we get 52 in the year.
0:12.1	But welcome back to After Hours with Amanda.
0:14.6	I was desperate to talk to you this week.
0:17.3	When I tell you I was desperate to speak on this that I want, like what I want to
0:21.5	talk to you about, I want you to know that this has a story, okay? So much of what we're going to be
0:27.2	talking about today has a story. And I have stuff that I have to be doing today. And I was like, no,
0:34.7	no. When I get home, I don't care what I have on my agenda. I don't
0:38.1	care what is pressing, what emergency will erupts. I am talking, like this episode is happening.
0:43.7	And not just because this week got away from me. And I was like, no, I committed to do this
0:49.9	and to show up for myself and keep a promise to myself and that matters.
1:00.3	But also, because, excuse me, I don't know if you heard that, I totally burped him.
1:01.2	I'm trying to play that off.
1:02.3	God willing, you didn't hear it.
1:06.7	And now I just outed myself as actually burping and it is what it is because we're us.
1:16.2	But when I tell you that this Lego set right here, baby, has never had more relevance in my life, when I tell you that I would love to, I would be brought to tears to meet the team behind inside out.
1:26.3	As a parent, as a person, frankly.
1:31.2	But the relevance of this, of Inside Out too in my life right now,
1:35.8	the relevance of it all.
1:37.2	I can't even tell you these little magical cubes of what we're feeling,
1:42.0	these little double-sided emotions of all the things that are
1:47.3	inside the safe? Okay. By the way, you're going to catch me drinking my smoothie because
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