Tween and Teen Crimes

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Comedy, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

From socks-and-slides footwear to mysteriously disappearing spoons and phone chargers, teens and tweens can really rack up the infractions. In this episode, Amy and Margaret break down the baffling behaviors that define life with older kids—tween and teen “crimes"—as reported by parents in the What Fresh Hell community. Paradoxical and criminal behavior further includes having “nothing to wear” despite a full closet, hoarding personal money while freely spending that of your parents, and needing an immediate text response while ignoring all incoming messages. Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode: Our episode "Teaching Kids About Money" An embarrassed teen at school pickup The speakers Margaret purchased for her teens' rooms What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ What Fresh Hell podcast, mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, tween parenting, teen parenting, parenting tweens and teens, teen behavior, tween behavior, funny parenting podcast, parenting humor, life with teenagers, teen habits parents hate, executive function teens, teen independence, parenting frustrations, What Fresh Hell podcast, raising teenagers, parenting community stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal.
0:03.0	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab.
0:08.0	Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure.
0:11.0	Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal.
0:16.0	Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last.
0:20.0	This can't be fixed. What? Until the 2nd of February. From 11am, includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst that's last.
0:24.1	This can't be fixed.
0:25.8	What fresh hell.
0:28.1	Laughing in the face of motherhood.
0:29.1	That's words to live by.
0:31.7	With Margaret Abels and Amy Wilson.
0:35.9	No one had anything that was not fundamentally pajamas.
0:41.1	A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas so you don't have to.
0:43.1	Dinner, don't you hear me?
0:48.1	And then 20 minutes later, they wander downstairs and like, dinner's like halfway over?
0:58.2	Hello, everyone, and welcome to what fresh hell laughing in the face of motherhood. This is Margaret. This is Amy. Today,
1:05.0	dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun team and tween crimes. I actually, you know what, I don't have a tween anymore.
1:14.4	I only have teenagers in my house right now. I only have one teenager left. But I've very recently had tweens and I can speak to their crimes and let me tell you, having just vacationed with a large group of teenagers and tweens,
1:22.3	I've got much to say on this time. This is good. This is well time because all of us have just
1:26.5	spent more time with our tweens and teens, you know, in the last several weeks than we might have chosen to.
1:31.5	Throughout the rest of the year. So we're ready. We're ready for you today. This was Anna's episode idea. She said, I so enjoyed husband crimes that I'm now pondering tween and teen crimes. She said this in our Facebook group, Facebook.com slash groups slash
1:45.5	watch Fresh Hellcast. And, you know, everybody went to town like they always do. We are ready.
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