This episode may contain explicit language.

This is Karen Feeding.

We're three friends with kids who get together every week to talk life, swap advice,

and keep each other sane while we muddle through this weird and wonderful thing called parenting.

I'm Zach Rosen.

I make another show.

It's called Weirdly Helpful. And I am dad to Noah, who's eight. And Amy, who's five, we live in Detroit. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry, who's 14, Oliver, who's 12, and Teddy, who's nine. We live in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I'm mother to Amelia,

who's 15, Avery who's 13. I'm sorry, Amelia's 16 now. Oh my gosh. I have a 16 year old,

and Avery's 13, and we live in Miami, Florida. We're here to talk about the ups, the downs,

everything in between when it comes to parenting.

And I promise you every week we're going to answer, or at least try to answer your questions.

We'll share our own parenting triumphs and fails and try to make this feel like the kind of conversation you'd have with your friends.

And today, we've got a smorgasbord of an episode for you.

We're going to do a dramatic reading of a hilarious article on motherhood.

And we're going to open up the mailbag to hear your advice and a fail or two. Oh, and we've got a very exciting update from one of our most talked about listener questions as of late. I wonder if you can guess. But first, we're going to share our triumphs and fails.

Lucy, wet our palate a bit. I feel like the world is a stage.

Spoken like a true theater mom.

Stick around.

We'll be right back.

Welcome back.

It's time for triumphs and fails.

Lucy, let's talk stage life.

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