Your Algorithm Is Not Your Kid’s Algorithm, Grade 6 Memories, & The Parking Garage Disaster
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Thursday May 28th, 2026: Welcome back to The Mom Room! Today’s solo episode starts with a realization I think a lot of parents are missing when it comes to social media and kids. The reason TikTok or Instagram may seem “harmless” to you… is because YOUR algorithm is tailored to YOU. My feed? Mostly Pomeranians, home content, Bravo drama, and random mom-life videos. So naturally, I assumed kids weren’t really stumbling across anything too concerning besides the occasional swear word.
Then one day I searched “massage” on TikTok looking for physio therapy exercises, self-massage, and lymphatic drainage videos… and what came up honestly shocked me. It completely changed the way I think about kids having unrestricted access to search features and social media in general. We need to talk about it.
I also take a nostalgic detour into my childhood obsession with No Doubt and Gwen Stefani, including the iconic story of how my Grade 6 teacher somehow got a No Doubt t-shirt signed by Gwen just for me (still not over it). And finally, I tell the story of how I managed to absolutely destroy my car in an underground parking garage in Toronto a couple weekends ago… because apparently I need at least one humbling experience per month to keep me grounded.
A little parenting, a little nostalgia, a little chaos. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the mom room. |
| 0:08.6 | I am back from Vegas, but I'm recording this before I went to Vegas. |
| 0:13.6 | And I wanted to tell you guys just about my love of No Doubt and Gwen Stefani growing up. |
| 0:20.6 | So when I was in grade six, I was with, |
| 0:24.8 | so there were two grade six classes and I was with Mr. Lowe, okay, McLeod Public School in |
| 0:31.8 | Sudbury. And every year people were so aware, |
| 0:38.3 | like it was like a thing at the school |
| 0:41.3 | that when you were in grade six, |
| 0:43.1 | and if you were in Mr. Lowe's class, |
| 0:44.9 | you did something called the music project, okay? |
| 0:49.0 | It's wild to me that I remember this |
| 0:50.6 | because I don't remember anything. |
| 0:53.0 | But this is like ingrained in my head. |
| 0:56.6 | Grade six was so special. Like he was such an amazing teacher. We did so many things that I |
| 1:02.8 | remember to this day that made an impact on me. This being one of them. So the music project was like a 20 minute presentation that you gave |
| 1:15.4 | to the class by yourself. And in grade six, that's a big deal. Like it was such a big deal to people. |
| 1:22.8 | And you got to pick a band, a singer, an artist, anyone that you wanted. |
| 1:30.4 | And you would do like a 20 minute presentation about their career. |
| 1:36.1 | And you could play music videos, parts of music videos, parts of interviews. |
| 1:43.2 | So back in the day, when I was in grade six, |
| 1:46.7 | this would have been like you recorded things onto a VHS tape and they would wheel in the TV |
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