Your Child Is Not Your Mini Me | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 69
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m talking about why our tiny humans are not our mini mes, even when they look like us, sound like us, or remind us of ourselves. This one is about parenting without projecting, seeing their hearts before assuming their intent, and remembering that behavior is often communication, not just a power struggle.
I’m also getting into terrible twos, big feelings, labels, inner child moments, asking better questions, and learning to let my tiny queens grow beyond the version of them I thought I knew.
Come sit with me for this one. It might call us out a little, but lovingly.
00:00 Three for Three, Baby
00:44 Blind Boxes and Little Joys
02:12 Disneyland, Coffee, and Life Catch Up
04:02 This One Might Call Us Out
09:35 The Comment That Started It
11:19 Why Mini Me Bothers Me
13:04 When We Project Our Story Onto Kids
15:10 Listening Before Assuming
19:05 Stop Boxing Tiny Humans In
20:06 The Terrible Twos Reframe
23:20 Behavior Is Communication
26:38 Letting Them Grow Beyond Our Version
29:34 Questions That Help You Know Them
34:54 Empathy for Them and Yourself
41:44 Making Room for Their Hearts
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | well, hey you. Can you believe it? I mean, we're three for three. When we said we're going to do it, |
| 0:07.8 | we're going to do it. We can do anything. We can do anything. Okay. I am so proud of us. |
| 0:14.9 | If you've just joined us, this is the after hours with me at the podcast. The podcast that talks about parenting, but really is, |
| 0:22.8 | you know, we're just friends chatting. We talk about everything, but we are three for three. |
| 0:27.0 | We said we were going to do 52 episodes this year, and we are already consistent for three weeks, |
| 0:32.9 | and that's a win. In fact, we were, a win was week one. Okay, so let's just, let's just go there. |
| 0:38.6 | But I mean, I'm proud of us. So I just want to soak that in for a second. You guys, |
| 0:44.7 | I also think I have a problem with blind boxes. I, I am obsessed with them. I love watching |
| 0:53.1 | people unbox them. I love buying them myself. I love watching people unbox them. |
| 0:54.3 | I love buying them myself. |
| 0:56.5 | I did order the queens the My Little Pony ones. |
| 0:59.4 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:01.5 | The Skoll Panda. |
| 1:03.0 | The school Pantas are like cute, |
| 1:04.4 | but then they came out with a My Little Pony collection. |
| 1:06.2 | Are you kidding me? |
| 1:07.3 | Say less. |
| 1:08.7 | I literally ordered them. |
| 1:09.9 | And then that next day I was at Popmark picking up a birthday present for one of the girls' friends for their birthday and they had one in store and I literally like bought it on my app in store so I could pick it up right then just so we could open it after school. I'm the problem. Blake goes why Amanda? I can't help the literal I'm the problem. Blikos. |
| 1:29.0 | Why, Amanda? |
| 1:29.7 | I can't help. |
| 1:39.0 | The literal, like, excitement, the rush of endorphins I get, the actual, like, it is so fun to open those boxes. |
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