WHO LEFT US IN CHARGE?!: A teenage dad, an ADHD stepmum, and how we survived becoming parents

LATE BLOOMERS

Rich & Rox Pink

Self-improvement, Education

5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week on LATE BLOOMERS, Rich and Rox talk about becoming parents... without ever planning to.

Rich became a dad at 18. Rox became a stepmum with ADHD, trauma, and zero idea what she was doing. Neither of us signed up for this, but somehow, here we are — co-parenting, healing, messing up, and figuring it out one meltdown at a time.

We talk about what our childhoods taught us (and didn’t), why parenting can trigger your deepest wounds, and how we’re trying to do it differently — with love, honesty, and the occasional family-sized panic.

If you're a parent, a step-parent, or just someone trying to break the cycle and build something better than what you had — this one’s for you. You don’t have to get it perfect. You just have to keep showing up.

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0:00.0	Today we're talking about parenting. Don't worry though. We're not going to try and teach you how to
0:03.8	parent because we are not qualified. It's more about survival of parenting. Just about surviving.
0:10.5	Before we get into it, we would just love to tell you about our brand new kids book, ADME that is
0:16.8	available to order now. This is a picture book, basically, about what it feels like
0:22.4	growing up with ADHD. It is actually for kids age three to nine. However, we've had a lot of
0:28.1	comments from adults saying, can I buy it for my inner child? Yes, you absolutely can. I'm just
0:33.5	going to read you very quickly at the back of the book, because it's going to be way better than
0:37.0	anything I could say. I have a secret that lives in my brain. I call him Ady, but that's not
0:43.6	his name. Doctors told Dad it's called ADHD, but that's way too boring for Ady and me. Sophie's
0:50.2	life with ADHD, or as she sees it, with her best friend, Adi, is filled with all sorts of highs and lows, from doodles to paint spills, distractions in maths and more.
1:03.8	Follow Adi and Sophie on a journey from misunderstanding to love and acceptance.
1:08.8	Right. Let's get into it. Welcome to late bloomers where we are getting our lives together eventually.
1:15.8	I'll say eventually this time.
1:17.5	Oh my gosh.
1:18.9	The parenting episode.
1:20.5	Yeah, okay.
1:21.6	So I think it's best if we just kind of...
1:26.6	Well, we've got five questions, haven't we, that we'll both answer.
1:30.4	Yep.
1:31.0	Just to keep us on point.
1:32.6	Yep.
1:33.4	So shall I start asking you?
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