When You Have No Idea What You're Doing, You're Right | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 7
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about feeling underqualified as a parent and why “I don’t know what I’m doing” does not have to mean failure.
I’m sharing the story of leaving the hospital with London, realizing no magical parenting knowledge had arrived, and wondering why it was harder to adopt a cat than leave with a baby.
This one is about parenting without ego, learning alongside our tiny humans, apologizing when we need to, and becoming a safe place for our kids instead of pretending we have all the answers.
00:00 Closet Chaos and Tech Issues
01:43 What This Episode Is Really About
02:16 Pregnancy in Sacramento Summer
04:03 First Baby Expectations
05:20 Leaving the Hospital With London
06:44 Wait, They Just Let Us Leave?
07:44 The Cat Adoption Comparison
09:03 You Are Not Qualified, and That’s Okay
10:59 Pots and Pans Do Not Make You a Chef
12:22 Giving Parents and Kids Grace
13:41 Learning With Your Tiny Human
15:31 No Room for Ego in Parenting
16:47 Seesaw, Not Hierarchy
19:01 When I Felt Out of Control
23:07 Your Child, Your Journey
28:24 Parent, Friend, or Tour Guide?
32:13 Apologies Matter More Than Ego
37:22 Teaching Kids They Can Tell the Truth
40:47 Embrace Not Knowing
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay. Welcome back to After Hours with Amanda. I know we were gone last week, but y'all, |
| 0:05.8 | the computer issues, the computer issues, okay? Not to mention the like strings of silence, |
| 0:13.6 | I had no idea were happening on my last two episodes because I'm using a different program |
| 0:19.1 | on a different computer and I'm feeling so techy until I'm losing |
| 0:23.2 | like a minute of the podcast, which is just like beyond beyond. But I am winded. I am winded because |
| 0:29.8 | I am running around like a chicken with my head cut off. But now that we've just dived in because |
| 0:36.3 | I have no chill, obviously obviously and no intro music which |
| 0:39.6 | to those of you that have reached out to me about intro music y'all are the salt of the earth |
| 0:43.8 | i just cannot commit to figuring out any of that stuff right now so we're just going to keep it |
| 0:49.9 | like down and dirty in my closet i've got coffee that I've been trying to finish for the last |
| 0:54.6 | like four hours. By the way, it's iced. People are like, oh, you should get hot coffee and then |
| 0:59.3 | ice it. And I'm like, no, I just continue to ice my iced coffee that then becomes like coffee |
| 1:04.8 | flavored water. But yeah, I figured out, so this is what was happening. Well, the first program was |
| 1:10.7 | like glitching. |
| 1:11.3 | So then I did another program when I recorded the other episode and found out that if I don't |
| 1:15.4 | move the good old mouse on the computer, well, then the silence happens. I didn't know like when |
| 1:21.3 | your computer went to screensaver mode. I mean, I don't want to call myself a professional, |
| 1:26.3 | but this just feels like the things professionalism is made of. |
| 1:30.3 | I'm super stoked about this episode. |
| 1:32.2 | I'm so freaking excited to share with you guys what I want to talk about today. |
| 1:38.2 | I feel as though even though this is going to revolve kind of, you know, around that parenting schick. |
| 1:42.7 | I have three children. |
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