When Your Kids Grow Up: From Toddlers to Teen Drivers

The Mama's Den

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4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When The Mama’s Den podcast first began, two of our 9 children hadn’t even been born yet. Fast-forward to today, and those two babies are now 4 years old, three of them are 7, three are 9, and one is 16 — and the emotional weight of that growth is hitting us in real time. This week, we open up about what it feels like to watch our children grow up right before our eyes. From the excitement (and fear) of driver’s licenses to overnight trips and realizing that some of our kids are no longer “little,” we talk honestly about the joy, nerves, pride, and anxiety that come with each new milestone. We reflect on how motherhood evolves as our kids become more independent — and how their growth forces us to confront our own: learning to let go, redefining our roles, and holding space for nostalgia while celebrating who our children are becoming. This conversation is for every parent navigating the bittersweet reality of raising kids who don’t stay kids forever. Whether your child is a toddler, a tween, or on the brink of adulthood, this episode will make you feel seen — and remind you that you’re not alone in this season. Follow The Mama's Den on Instagram at www.instagram.com/themamasdenpodcast

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0:00.0	What's up y'all? It's Ashley. It's Melody and Cody here. And you've tapped into the Mama's Den.
0:06.3	Sorry. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Mama's Den podcast.
0:10.8	No, no, I refuse. I refuse. It's already happened. We have to figure out a proper second line.
0:18.2	Well, that's a lot of work. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Mamas Den
0:22.4	podcast. We a bunch of mamas. And we like to shake our ass. Yes. And I wish I had a fat ass. Do you?
0:32.6	Do you? Yeah. Why? Because I have a little booty. I love a little ballet booty. Do you have a tiny waist and long legs?
0:39.3	What are you talking about?
0:40.3	Yeah, so now I'm a, what are those things called?
0:42.3	I put this on Do Not Disturb.
0:44.3	The praying mantis.
0:46.3	What?
0:47.3	That is no one is not you're going to say.
0:52.3	What is the, what is the part? The prayer mant mentors are, you know they're always like, that's why I laugh so hard because the visual was giving me accurate. It's so terrible. The first time she and I had, intropercy said, your legs are really long. Question, question. What made you use intercourse in that moment? I don't know. It felt appropriate. I was trying to make it appropriate.
1:11.6	We're at the beginning of the episode. We're easing people in it. Ashley's default is always a sexual. That's just what was the intercourse for me? The front of lobe. It's just when I think of my legs, I always think about him being like, your legs are really long. was like opposed to short legs, but my legs are longer than his.
1:29.6	So, you know, you have to think about those things when you're mating because... Well, you did it anyway. When you're mating. When you're mating. When you're mating. Intercourse. Intercourse. Mating. So that said, you guys mated. And now you have, how many children? Four. Damn, damn! That's, we're retiring then in 2026. Okay, we got, we go. If you go, If you can't even do it, you won't even allow yourself, then, if you keep doing that, it's gonna be damn forever. Okay, all right, forever. Truth. So Ashley, all your names, Chia. Yes. You have four daughters. Yes, Amira 7. 16, Lord. Zara is nine. Asia is seven and Talia is four. Four now. She's four. Yep. She. She's four. She's no longer three. She's four.
2:18.3	That's amazing. I love that for her. Me too. Yeah. Melanie Fiona. I'm Melanie Fiona. I have two kids. That's it. Nine and three. That's one of y'all. I put my phone and do not disturb. My phone's not ringing. Yours is ringing, baby. Your is vibrating, baby. Are you enjoying the vibration on this island?
2:35.3	We are unhinged two minutes in.
2:37.3	Who was common? I am Cody Elaine Oliver. I have three children. I'm a boy mom. Aristotle and Langston are seven-year-old twins, and Brooks is nine years old. I always think that that's crazy that you have twins. You have two of the same child.
2:51.4	That's wild. Well, they're two different people. It's not like he clone himself. The reality is they are different humans, but they are extremely identical. They are identical twins. I love your children. I just don't know who they are when I see them. Ever. I don't know which one is which. Sometimes I don't know either. Still?
3:07.4	Yeah.
3:08.3	No, fully factual.
3:09.2	I'm not even being funny.
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