Hey guys, we know that there were times when you were growing up that you pulled little

tricks on your parents to get what you wanted, right?

Maybe you're a teenager and you are doing this as we speak.

We know we've got some teenage listeners out there.

Or maybe you're a parent and you figured out how your kids are pulling fast ones on you.

Here at the Longest Shortest Time, we're working on a book called Weird Parenting Winds

and there's going to be a whole chapter on kids manipulating their own parents.

It's going to be one of the most fun chapters in fact, but we need to hear from you.

Yes you, right now.

Go to longachortistime.com and click Participate.

Then just fill out the Weird Parenting Winds form.

It's super easy.

And thanks.

After you have a baby, it can feel sometimes like you've fallen into a hole.

A big old parent hole.

You're isolated, overwhelmed, constantly on alert, just trying to keep this kid alive.

If you're lucky, you've got another grown up in the hole with you, your partner.

And if so, little by little, you and your partner can help lift each other out of the hole.

You take turns changing diapers, waking up with the kid.

You talk about all the hard stuff, how gross it is when you get baby poop on your clothes,

how you don't really feel like yourself anymore, how you're afraid you might never want to

have sex again, or maybe you're feeling turned on but by someone else.

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