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Cat & Nat Unfiltered

The Weirdest Phase in Parenting..Is This One!

Cat & Nat Unfiltered

Cat & Nat

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

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Your toddler didn't come with a manual. Neither does your teenager and honestly? It's so much weirder.


Cat & Nat are back pulling absolutely zero punches on the part of parenting nobody talks about: the older kids. The ones who can technically do their own laundry but somehow still can't. This week they're getting into garbage-bag parenting tactics, the totally different puzzle that is every single kid you raise, and the absolute fever dream of teaching a teenager to drive.


Spoiler: someone gripped the dashboard. Someone else may have cried.


Come for the chaos. Stay for the moment you realize you're not alone and maybe, just maybe, you're doing okay. Even if your dishwasher is still half-empty.



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0:00.0

She's so confident.

0:01.0

She's like, why are you acting like it's not that close? It's actually fake. I'm like, you are lying. This cannot be real. You can't just drive a car. You've never, you've been a passenger. And now you expect me as a mom to let you just get behind a wheel and just drive around the city. Taylor has no, not nervous at all. Well, they need to be. I agree. I'm not okay with this.

0:32.1

You know, as a parent of four children, never really thought about what it would be like as they get older, just like had them.

0:36.1

Never really thought about what it would be like to parent four kids.

0:36.8

Oh. How could we? Like, I just never thought about it. I just thought I like to parent four kids. Oh.

0:38.2

How could we?

0:58.6

Like, I just never thought about it. I just thought I want to have four kids. Never. What would it look like? What kind of schools would they go to? What were the struggles they were going to have? Oh. Never sat and been like, well, I know it's going to be a struggle, but somehow I got through it. I just thought it would just be. What's your struggle? No, I was just saying that I recently got an email from a teacher basically saying, like,

1:10.1

in a very nice way, your kid was unable to do a test because said child is always late for school.

1:10.4

Yeah.

1:44.7

So we always do math. What's that about for you? The beginning of the day. So if he's missing it, it's not his fault that he doesn't know how to do it. It's because you're not there. So you got, you got parented. It's a really nice way. And I was like, I literally said I was like, I, you know what? Maybe I should have three kids. You know, it's like the energy level for the last. It's like you kind of just, like I kind of just, I think everything will be fine. The best is after this email. She goes to me, I don't think he's going to go to school tomorrow. You got this in the middle two days ago.

1:46.0

I don't think he's going to go.

1:47.4

Dead.

2:02.9

You know, I always have this feeling that, like, I can go and outside school, make them catch up because I, like, I was... What a pain in the ass. No, it is a pain in the ass. It is. But you know when they say like the amount of actual like structured learning throughout a day at schools like 20 minutes or something?

2:03.8

What?

2:02.6

Sounds like a little bit right that is that's that's fake news yeah yeah yeah you look you

2:10.1

looked at you looked at a step that you just wanted to see you're like you took what you wanted

2:14.1

from probably a bigger picture yeah and I was probably served exactly what I wanted to hear.

2:18.6

I'm going to say, yeah. That's what I'm going to say. But they do have a lot of fun and there's a lot of distraction at school. So sometimes I don't think if I just get an hour-long tutor, that can make up for a week's missed school. You know, you'll tell yourself whatever you want to think. I know. I know. And guys, I have to say, like, if it was your first, you'd be a lot more paranoid.

2:36.8

Oh, some people,

2:35.0

if it was your first, you'd be a lot more paranoid. Oh my gosh. Yes. I mean, I sent her to a school

2:40.4

specifically because I thought she did it, which in theory, who even knows, but you know,

2:44.9

you got to be so careful with your first. I would say you take little bits and you learn along the way and then the tricky thing is each kid needs something different.

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