Hi, guys. Welcome back to a preview alliance podcast. I am so excited we have survived summer.

Yay for us parents. Summer can feel like a marathon that is hot and never ends. But we are back to school time and I have

brought back our favorite. She's a mother. She's a grandmother. She's a teacher. She's an educator.

She's a founder and she is our guru on everything from reading to teachers to education. Pam,

welcome back. Thanks so much for having me. I love talking to you and to your

audience. So thanks. Well, we, as I said, are back to school. And offline, guys, I love Pam. I've

adopted Pam and I've shared my woes with Pam. So full discretion. This episode is just as much

for me as it is for you guys.

And what the title says is we promise not to believe everything that our kids say about you. If you promise not to believe everything our kids say about us, referring to our children and teachers.

So Pam, let's just dive in and let's get to it.

So our kid says something to us about the teacher, about something at school.

We finally get them to bed.

We've pulled ourselves up.

We got our laptop.

We're firing up an email.

What do we do?

Well, I mean, this is it because the other thing is maybe the main thing is what happens at night to a parent's mind is wild.

I mean, everything's worse at night.

You are reviewing the day, thinking of that absolutely beautiful face of your child.

And if there was something hard that happened during the day that is

going to be what keeps you up at night I can tell you I feel it with all the ache and beauty of

it is within me too so everybody listening just know that I'm there with you like both as a parent

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