Tiny People Are Not Terrible | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 58

After Hours With Amanda

Kids & Family, Parenting

5.0 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about toddlers, teenagers, the terrible twos, threenagers, and why I think we need to stop labeling tiny people before we actually understand them. This one starts with Christmas break chaos and the Olympic sport of getting school program seats, then moves into parenting, emotional regulation, meltdowns, food preferences, repair, and seeing hard moments as discovery instead of deficit. If you have ever felt overwhelmed by a stage your child is in, I hope this feels like permission to pause, breathe, and look again.

00:00 Last Day Before Christmas Break
00:25 The Christmas Program Seat Olympics
02:31 Christmas Break and No Cheer
03:13 North Pole Visitors Took Over
04:10 Every Other Week Podcast Rhythm
04:30 Running Away From Comparison
06:05 Why We Need to Talk About Toddlers
06:49 Terrible Twos and Threenagers
08:38 The Street Example Parents Always Use
10:17 The Target Meltdown
11:55 Adults Still Get Disappointed Too
12:57 Stop Setting a Negative Tone
14:25 Deficit or Discovery?
16:06 Teenagers Get Labeled Too
17:15 I Hope You Have a Daughter Like You
20:12 What Labels Make Us Miss
20:34 The Corn Story
23:03 Running Away Is Communication
24:06 Parents Can Change Their Minds
26:31 Stop Labeling the Age Group
29:38 What I Would Say About Throwing Toys
31:03 Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
33:17 A More Compassionate Way to Parent
36:05 Choices, Magic, and Starting Over
36:53 Deficit to Discovery
40:33 If No One Has Told You Lately

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome back to another episode of After Hours with Amanda.
0:06.0	If you are new here, it is a particularly good day to tune in because it is the last day of school for Christmas break.
0:12.2	And when I tell you, I can literally fill myself reaching the end of that kind of like exhaustion, excitement.
0:20.6	Like, we're so close.
0:21.8	And we just have to get to the Christmas program tonight to get seats.
0:25.5	And I want to talk to you about this.
0:26.9	I want to talk to you about the Olympics that is getting your Christmas program seats.
0:32.5	I don't know if this is like your school or if this is just our school.
0:35.5	I know there's several friends who have kids at different schools and their school is just as bad as mine. Our drop off for the tiny people
0:43.0	is not till 6.30 and people will straight up be in that parking lot at 5 p.m. 515. You're not even
0:48.6	allowed in. They open their little door to come on and all that at 6.30 is drop off. So they'll open at like
0:56.5	6.20 or whatever. The program doesn't even start until 7. And when I tell you, thinking about it right now,
1:02.8	my stomach is churning. And it's not even because I care. It's because it was so intense last year.
1:10.2	And I, all I want to to do I just want a little
1:13.0	aisle seat where I can see see my girls okay I'm I'm going to get a little little video here
1:19.3	a little video there but it is insane I'm talking like people you start seeing someone get out
1:26.0	of their car to go line up people are hopping out of their car to go line up. People are hopping
1:27.8	out of their car to go line up. It's like, it is an actual Olympic sport. I just don't think
1:32.1	that people realize the level that it is an Olympic sport. So my goal this year is just to breathe,
1:39.6	arrive, find a decent seat, and be seated.
1:47.0	I don't even know what I'm wearing.
1:47.7	I could care less.
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