We're Not Fun Moms

The Girl Next Door Podcast

Kelsey Wharton

Kids & Family, Working, Books, Family, Creative, Cooking, Work, Mom, Honest, Life, Society & Culture, Married, Personal Journals, Conversation

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

From crafts to pretend play to arcades we are saying "no" and owning not being fun moms. We chat about the cultural pressure to be a "fun mom" and all the ways we aren't fun, but also a few ways that we actually are fun.

In Obsessions Kelsey is getting chatty and Erica is rocking some new favorite jeans. In Neighborhood News there was a brief but exciting weather event.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. We're two former
0:08.0	next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting
0:12.0	you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey friend. Hey friend. So today's topic is not fun
0:19.2	moms. Dun dun dun. But first, we did want to remind everyone before we get started that our Spring
0:25.7	Book Club episode will air May 6th and we'll be discussing the novel Ask Again Yes by Mary
0:31.7	Beth Keen. So grab a copy and join us. So this should be a lot of fun to talk about the ways
0:37.0	we are not fun as moms and how
0:39.2	we're okay with that. Yeah, we like talking about this off the show. We do a lot. So we're like,
0:43.5	we need to make this an entire episode. We will also touch on some ways we are fun. And I think just the
0:49.7	more general theme of how to go with your strengths in parenting and to be yourself as a mom.
0:54.3	So I feel like more than perhaps past generations, there is just this additional societal
0:59.9	pressure to be the fun mom.
1:01.8	What do you think about this?
1:03.9	I think it is totally unnecessary.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:06.2	And just stressing us out.
1:07.5	Not in the job description.
1:09.0	Not in the job description.
1:10.7	And I also feel like,
1:12.4	like we've talked about this, it's very nebulous. Like what does it even mean? Does that mean our kids are
1:16.5	having fun constantly? Right. Because I think there's parents that parent that way. Like if my kid is
1:20.5	unhappy. I'm not doing it right. Or that we're supposed to be having fun constantly. Yes. Or like that we're supposed to, every time they're having fun, we're supposed to be having fun.
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