Nursing and Cursing

Moms! We missed you! We left you hanging and we are so sorry. One of us had a baby, two of us moved to Florida, and one of us…well. Heads up for the absolute biggest Plot Twerk™️ the thread has ever known. Let’s just say, Kate hasn’t been the only one up all night. 😮‍💨😮‍💨 Listen now to New Dick, Who Dis?

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2023

Hi Mamas!!! We miss you so much!!!  This ep is a lil check in/check up and a welcome to our mini season 6 🥳🥳🥳🥳 How was your summer? It’s ok -SAME. If even a mask and 6ft of personal space can’t keep your toddler from somehow being the loudest, closest person in your life, WE UNDERSTAND.   We’re not ok. Somehow there was no summer and there is no school. Just a groundhogs day montage of masks, misery, coffee, wine and zoom. SIGH And 50 weeks later, Kate is *still* pregnant. And we’re back with some Nails n Fails. All of which are fails. Damn you 2020. 

Transcribed - Published: 19 August 2020

Well mamas, we made it to the season finale of Modern Civilization /Life as We Know It. I mean, the season finale of Nursing and Cursing Season 5. And everything is fine. Totally fine. To celebrate, we are bringing you something brand new : OUR KIDS!! In this episode, we ask the kiddos :is mom cool? What’s this podcast all about ? Does she ever get grumpy ? Some of them gave us the cold hard truth, and others clammed up, scared of retribution. And Sarah coins a phrase that will make her a millionaire, or at least get her fine ass trending on Twitter. Love you mamas so much-what a ride this season has been. See you in the fall! Until then, let’s all manifest a quick and safe delivery for Kate’s babe and A FULLY FUNCTIONAL IRL FALL PLAN 4 SKOOLS!

Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2020

Parenting is hard enough when you and your partner agree on things(still waiting for that over here, but whatevs) But what about those parenting issues you just *dont* agree on. From: are the kids developmentally on track, to should we say yes to a bedtime snack? Shit is hard. Do you compromise ? Disagree in front of the kids? Have a low grade hissing fight later? Or shrug and give in ? As usual, We have no idea. And for our loyal listeners, friends and fans, we are sharing some big news at the bottom of this episode. As always, we love you and thanks for the ride of our lives ❤️

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2020

Welcome to the No Zone! Mom, can I ...? Nope. No. Not today. I said no. Don’t ask me again. This is your first warning ....cut to us handing out negative consequences for poor choices all damn day. Anyone else feel like they’re just constantly saying no and taking shit away? Kate calls it normal. Ali calls it violent communication and Molly says she needs to process her past. Same ol same ol around here! And welcome back to fails : we got some damn doozies for you this week. WE LOVE YOU!

Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2020

Hey Mamas! This week, Nursing & Cursing is turning our voice OFF and turning ON the voices of Black parents, hosts, educators, authors, scholars, reporters and doctors through podcasts that teach. We’ve compiled a list of other podcasts (and there are so many more) that are helping us stretch and open to new perspectives, voices, ideas, and action steps. Please join us in the learning so we can be better teachers for our babies! Love, Nursing & Cursing

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2020

Hi Mamas. Wow. This week has been a painful and powerful reminder that some conversations with our kids are scary and uncomfortable and can’t wait any longer. Yes -we are talking about race and racism. As 5 white moms, we know that we have a true responsibility to help our kids confront and contextualize today’s realities in the hopes that tomorrow can be better and more equal for all. This week, we were honored and excited to welcome author (and FATHER 👋🏻OF👋🏻SIX👋🏻) Jelani Memory to our show. Jelani wrote the book that we all need right now: A Kids Book About Racism. It’s a truthful, simple, warm, and engaging book aimed at younger kids that has been helping us spark honest conversations with our children. We got Jelani’s perspective on today’s unfolding events and why it’s so critical to be having these conversations with our kids over and over again as we help them understand and process the world around them. Then we let this bad ass dad go get his 6 kids to bed 😉.

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2020

We know we aren’t the only ones trying to be productive parents and make good use of ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL this time at home with our children, right? What’s it gonna be, kid? Losing the training wheels? Potty training? Swimming without your floaties? What do you do when YOU’RE ready for a milestone, but your kid ISN’T? Oh, and get a load of Christine’s fail ... hint: It’s the sequel to kicking the bed.

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2020

Hey mamas! How you doing this week? We are barely hanging on and so grateful to you for being on the journey with us. This week Kate crowd sources some of life’s big decisions. As a New Yorker with 3 kids and a baby due days before school starts ...what should she do this fall? When she left her house in March she figured she’d be back in 2 weeks and setting up the crib. But things are looking unclear. Should she go back to the city and suck it up? Or stay where she is and accept that this year is gonna look and feel very different from what she imagined ? Help a pregnant sister out.

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2020

Welcome to the ep you never knew you needed: Quarantine Game Night!! This week we take a quick break from spiraling /staring into the abyss/ making whips /crying jags/ and laundry and play our version of 20 Questions and Would You Rather. Our bras are off, our souls are crushed, our minds are fried, and we invite you to pull up a lawn chair 6ft away and JOIN US!!! We love you!!

Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2020

Oh, hey. Still. Here.At.Home.With.Our.Kids. You??? This week we are asking the hard -hitting questions like: is a vaccine coming? Should masks be mandatory? Will there be a second wave? Can I have another whip? Are you watching Normal People? AND HOW MANY KIDS IS THE HARDEST NUMBER IN LOCKDOWN!!? Is it 2 sibs who constantly bicker? 3 kids where one can be left out? Nope. We crunched the math and the hardest number is O N E. Cuz the buck stops with mom for EVERY-FUCKING-THING. Sarah takes us through a day with a full time job and a full time toddler. Phew. Love you mamas-you’re holding up half the sky.

Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2020

Hoooooolllly shit we are still doing this???? Remote learning. Mmm.. ..it was cute 2 months ago, but we are into our second locked -down-with-our family-menstrual cycle now. The kids are over it (those that were ever on board to begin with ), and we are FRIED. Are you a teacher? A parent with school age kids, or today’s current nightmare : BOTH (so sorry Molz). Parents, teachers, kids ...we salute your efforts but what say we wrap this thing up? See ya in September for a do-over? Cuz mama is about to say some grown up words on your next classroom zoom. And have you guys had whipped coffee yet? Cuz we are chugging it and accomplishing nothing at 90mph.

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2020

null

Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2020

Pregnant mamas! The world is ending. Healthcare is a minefield, the economy is a garbage fire and your laundry pile is sky fuckin high. You feelin #blessed yet?? How are you coping with being pregnant right now? Is this your first kid? Your 5th? Is this baby a bright light at the end of a tunnel or the cliff edge you’re suddenly racing toward? or all of the above. If your pregnancy cravings include some effing alone time and a meal you don’t have to make yourself-we are with you and we get it.

Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2020

Hi Mamas. 👋 We’re still out here cooking Three. Meals. A. Day, stuffing our faces with that quarantine trail mix (that we’re not supposed to touch til dark days), and sharing space with husbands who, it turns out, aren’t *as* good at multi-tasking as we are. Tune in to hear our biggest marital blow ups since quarantine began, putting a spotlight on how bitchy the N&C wives can really be. 😬

Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2020

Momrades! We are back with another corona special and this time we are comin atcha from la cuarentena in Spain. Our friend and special correspondent Bonnie is a Canadian living in Spain with her husband and toddler-she’s been living the quarantine lyfe a little longer than most of us and offers a glimpse into what we might be able to expect as this thing moves across the states. Hint : we will need art supplies and bidets if we are gonna make it. Love you all and here with you always.

Transcribed - Published: 22 March 2020

The sequel is always worse than the original and this ep is no different. It’s Coronavirus II. Last week we were worried our trip to Mexico would be cancelled....my lord what a quaint time. This week, life on earth has been cancelled- but for some reason we still have to make dinner and do laundry. Even the fall of man can’t cancel chores. Thank god for screens, friendship, wine and coffee. Wherever you are we got you. See ya in hell (aka quarantine with da kids).

Transcribed - Published: 19 March 2020

This week we discuss what’s on everyone’s minds. The mother fucking corona virus. Yes, the respiratory virus is a health crisis, but being quarantined with your partner and kids is a MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. The trips have been cancelled, the hands have been washed-ish, we have all the toilet paper. Now all we gotta do is survive being in lock down with the people we love the most. THOUGHTS AND FUCKIN PRAYERS.

Transcribed - Published: 13 March 2020

Hellooooo mamas! This episode is about weekends! Honestly, is there *anything* your kids can’t ruin🧐 You’ve been grinding hard all week and finally it’s the weekend! But wtf does that even mean when you’re a mom? Is it time to catch up on chores, errands, housework, soccer practices and birthday parties?? Or do you say fuckit and let the screen time and cereal roll while you pretend to sleep til 9am. Or both?! And what about you and your partner : date night and reconnect after a busy week or nah? Love yous!!

Transcribed - Published: 12 March 2020

Death is a part of life. Ugh. As middle aged adults, we can barely talk about it without choking up or shutting down. So what do we say (or not say) when our kids want to talk about death and dying. This week on the mic we muddle our way to some answers that we are using for now, but listeners we would love to hear your thoughts on this heavy topic. And Kate admits to a problem and may need an intervention.

Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2020

Hey kids, pack your bags! mama is taking you on a GUILT TRIP! This week we are coming clean about one of our most effed up parenting “strategies,” : laying a guilt trip on our kids. Oh no sweeties, that’s ok. You just carry on wasting mamas time and money, no need to lift a finger around here when I brought you into this world to serve you 24/7!!!!!!!! Does it work: yes. Will it come up in our kids’ future therapy sessions : also yes. Whoops. And Sarah rips one in Zumba ...again!?!

Transcribed - Published: 27 February 2020

null

Transcribed - Published: 20 February 2020

Happy Valentines Day to our true loves!!! This episode we hit the romance hard and walk our listeners through planning the perfect honeymoon. Tropical beaches. 5 star resorts. Margs. Stacks of artisanal pancakes by the pool. And not a husband in sight. You read that right: the sister wives of Nursing and Cursing are heading to Mexico for the ultimate girls trip. So leave the lingerie at home and grab your oversize kaftan, we doing this! Happy Valentine’s Day to our listener sisters ! We love you and we wish we could whisk each of you away on a trip cuz we know you deserve it❤️❤️❤️

Transcribed - Published: 13 February 2020

Hey mamas! This week we are talking The Talk. Who told *you * where babies come from? Was it your parents ? Your friends ? An older sibling ? Or did you just figure it out by watching Jerry McQuire and dry humping your 8th grade boyfriend til your Umbros chafed, like a certain Nursing and Cursing host??? How do you talk to your kids about sex and babies??? Check out how we’re breaking the bad news over here!

Transcribed - Published: 6 February 2020

What up babes. Every mom is a working mom -whether you get a paycheck for your labors or not. But this week we are talking about what it’s like when your coworkers and /or your supervisor don’t have kids. Do you feel lame or guilty or flustered because you’re trying to keep up? Or do you feel jealous and resentful because they have it so easy and they just don’t get it? Or do you feel proud as fuck that you’re busting your ass and doing so much. Or all of these or none of these. Let us know. We got your back no matter where you at. And Molly finds out that Chipotle is just like space : no one can hear you scream.

Transcribed - Published: 30 January 2020

null

Transcribed - Published: 23 January 2020

You know how having kids makes you feel like you have lost control of everything? Your home. Your time. Your body. Your money. Your bowels and bladder. Wait?! What. Yes this week’s episode is all about we can’t hold it anymore. We’re losing our shit. No, literally. Welcome to Shart Week. Your underwear’s not safe.

Transcribed - Published: 16 January 2020

Hello babes!!! Welcome to a brand new year! A whole nother mother of a decade! This week we bust out our crystal balls and take a look at the next ten years. Where will we be with our kids? Careers? Marriages ? Who will be divorced and who will be in a 3some? Will our teenagers be talking to us or vaping in the basement and giving us the silent treatment ?? And kate plucks a chicken in the first nail fail of 2020.

Transcribed - Published: 9 January 2020

null

Transcribed - Published: 26 December 2019

Happy Holidays Listeners! We hope this Holiday Newsletter Episode finds you well! 2019 was a spectacular year for the ladies of Nursing and Cursing! We had tense moments with our in-laws, screaming matches with our toddlers, blow -ups with our husbands! We got new jobs, used cars, and vasectomies for our husbands! Our kids achieved the bare minimum and are still alive to kick our car seats! Join us as we discuss the REAL shit that would go in our holiday newsletters. We love you mamas! Happy holidays !!

Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2019

This week we try and work out if we are raising sociopaths or regular kids or yes. It’s bad enough when they destroy your house, refuse dinner, fight with their siblings and try to take down your mental health from sunrise to sunset, but even worse....is hearing from their teachers/babysitters/friends’ parents that they’re......ANGELS. Seriously WTF. Kids be gaslighting us and making us feel CRAZY. Listen up and let us know if you got a Dexter type kid like us.

Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2019

Welcome mamas! In this era of slow, present parenting, we are discussing an unpleasant (and universal?!) reality: parenting rage. This isn’t raising your voice the third time you tell them to put their shoes on, this is Mother Hulk. When anger boils over and moms flip out. Has it ever happened to you? We discuss our most intense rage experiences with our kids. This is the conversation you won’t find in that Instagram feed of mini me outfits and bento box lunches. We love you and we know it’s hard because ....Despite all this rage, We are still just moms in a cage!

Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2019

Happy Thanksgiving mamas!! This week’s ep is all about family -specifically siblings, and how amazing and insane and loud it can be to raise them. Are you raising siblings? How’s it going ? Are they friends ? Frenimies? How do you deal with the dynamics ? We are totally blowing it. We will take any advice you have. Until next week-may your turkey be moist (ew) and your sweats be forgiving . We are grateful for you.

Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2019

School pick up and drop off. What is it that makes it so hellish? The crazy parents ? The crazy kids? The traffic ? The time crunch? The sleeping sibling you gotta haul around ? The fact that that you’re guaranteed to be wearing old blown out pjs the one day you actually have to get out of the car? And 50% of our fails involve a case of mistaken identity. Hmmmm.

Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2019

Helllo mamas!!! This week we talk about one of our parenting pet peeves : when people in our kids’ lives fill ‘em up with candy and junk food. It makes them hyper, rots their teeth, ruins their appetite-and worst of all -makes it harder for us to bribe them in a real moment of necessity. Listen in an let us know: are we right, or are we uptight? 😘😘

Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2019

Snip snip and we ain’t takin bangs! This week’s episode is all about.... Vasectomies! One of the Nursing & Cursing husbands is gettin fixed-listen in and find out which one. Does your partner have one? Do you wish he did? Or wish he didn’t :/ Know anyone with a vasectomy baby? And do they *really* tell the guys to ice their balls and take two full days of rest?? we are real suspicious. 🧐

Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2019

Happy Halloween Mamas!! Gather round if you dare. This episode features some of our most hair raising moments as mothers. Snakes ! Rats! Pumpkin spice candles! We’ve got it all.... if you’re brave enough to take a listen. Muahahahaha (evil laugh).

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2019

Do you have an anxious kid? A nail biter, a bed wetter, a kid who can’t sleep, who struggles with a change to her surroundings or schedule ? How do you cope and what do you do? This week we talk about how much we worry about our kids worries and how much their anxiety stresses us out. As usual we have more questions than answers. And chrissy shares the most magical fail we have ever heard.

Transcribed - Published: 24 October 2019

Gasping for Hair. This week’s eps is all about your kid’s hair. Was your baby born with a full head of hair? Bald? Did she grow a toddler mullet?! Does she have the same hair as you? Has she ever cut it herself? Have you?? Does she let you wash or style it? And dude, WHAT .ABOUT. LICE!?! Listen in and help us out. Kate hasn’t brushed mavis’s hair since 2017 and there might be something nesting in it 😬

Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2019

When it comes to raising kids, what’s your favorite age? A snoozy (or screaming?!) newborn? A sleep-trained and smiley 9-month old? Elementary school? Or for those of us at this shit too long, is it tweens or teens?! Or will you be like us, blaming this mess on a “difficult phase” til 2030 and just waiting on the promise of a favorite stage round the next bend 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ This week we weigh up the best and worst of every age. And if the toddler stage is your fave, go ahead and unsubscribe and get yourself some loving professional help. 🥴👍🏻

Transcribed - Published: 10 October 2019

Hey mamas. How do you feel watching your kids struggle to overcome challenges? How do you know if they’re just frustrated or if they’re truly scared? Should you intervene and help them, or encourage from the sidelines while they work it out? You can’t learn how to ride a bike without falling off a couple times, right? But then what if you break a leg and never get back on😬🤷🏻‍♀️ This week we talk about how confusing it can be to know when to step in and when to step down. Good news is, we have gotten wrong a bunch of times and the kids are *basically* ok. And fails that go on so long Molly is gonna cancel us.

Transcribed - Published: 3 October 2019

Hey momarades! This week we are talking about School Picture Day. Do you plan your kid’s lewk and order 72 wallet sizes for everyone you know? Do you let your kid style herself and cherish the authentic moment she is capturing? Or did you fucking forget it’s picture day again and send your kid to school in the shirt she wore yesterday, hair that was washed a week ago and then mean to order prints but totally forget 🙋🏼‍♀️ whatever your picture day style, we got you covered. And so many fails, we need a spin off 🤦‍♀️

Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2019

Click here to Download: The Mother Load with Constance Zimmer & Missi Pyle    

Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2019

Moms, it’s finally 5pm. It’s been a long day, you’ve worked hard. Lets unwind and head to the Witching Hour shall we!? Oh, what’s the the witching hour? Well it’s *just like * happy hour except that instead of beer and LOLs with your friends, it’s inconsolable crying with your baby, mind numbing exhaustion, uncooked food and no end in sight! Yes, this week we dig in to the darkest time of day:the witching hour, which affects children ages 0-12yrs from the hours of 4~12am for roughly 10 months a year. NBD!

Transcribed - Published: 19 September 2019

Welcome back mamas!! We missed you! We hope that you all had wonderful summers. And if you spent 768 hours preparing to take your kids to the beach only to have them bug you for a snack / a shit /a nap /the iPad as soon as you lathered the reef-safe sunscreen on, WE.FEEL.YOU. This week we ask : are we turning into our parents. GULP. Are we making the same mistakes they did, or making our own brand new mistakes? Both?! What will our kids say about our parenting? Yikes. And as ever, some unforgettable fails. And nails. But duh mostly fails. Welcome to season FIVE!!

Transcribed - Published: 12 September 2019

Me gazing at a photo: Can you believe that was only 2 years ago?!? It feels like a life time ago! She was so young!!! And so cute! She’s grown so much, she’s so much bigger now! I miss that phase! My husband: Oh you lookin at pics of the kids ? Me: Nope. Pics OF MYSELF BEFORE I BEGAN TO SPEED AGE!!!! Seriously WTF. This week we celebrate turning 100 episodes, by discussing how we were just going along aging totally normally, and all of a sudden we are sleep -deprived ancient hags with sagging boobs, hollow eyes, and that’s on a good day. Please don’t tag Roldan + Fields. Thanks for the best season ever mamas! we will miss you this summer! See you in the Fall ❤️❤️❤️

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2019

Wine not ?? Pour yourself a refill and listen up. This week we are talking about moms + booze. Do we need it /earn it /deserve it as overwhelmed women looking to take the edge of during our kids’ live-stream, real-time paw patrol plot breakdown, or is something darker going on? And Kate drops some Claritin Jr and gets CRAZY.

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2019

Shout out to the father's out there !

Transcribed - Published: 14 June 2019

You know how we lie awake at night and worry that we’re not doing enough for our kids? This week we discuss an alternate truth: we’re doing *way too much* for them. From chores to homework to relationships to activities, are we making this whole childhood gig too easy for them instead of preparing them for the shit show of adulthood?!? As always : it turns out we are doing it wrong. 🙄 and Sarah comes at us with a Wednesday update. 😾

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2019

This week we are talking about the tech we can’t live without. We use one app to get around, one to shop, another to shop, one to budget, one to sleep, one to get odd jobs done, one to shop, one to make friends, one to stalk friends, one to shop, and then one to sleep cuz wow all that convenience was stressful af. And so many fails!

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2019