Higher Thinking With Ashley And Bar

In today's episode we start by getting into the whole old school parenting vs. new school parenting. Which is better? Should we fully break the cycle or just do some tweaking? There seems to be a thin like with parenting and as we all know, there is no handbook and can also depend on how your kids need to be parented individually. Is it still okay to smack your child's hand? That leads us into the question of "why aren't men on birth control?" and why does the burden have to be on us in that way? Yet they have the nerve to try and speak on abortion or the NERVE to be a deadbeat dad. And child support, is it always fair? Of course in everything we talk about today, these are just our opinions and also depend on certain situations. Thanks for listening!

In today's episode we talk about starting our business called Aries Beauty Studio! We have been talking about opening up a beauty studio for a while now and BOOM, we're making it happen. Jeff Bezos is going to space, why can't we open a studio? Don't ever let someone make you feel insecure about your decisions to follow your dreams. We speak on having to filter out all the "how are you going to do all that?" and the "that's gonna be hard" comments because yeah, no sh*t it's going to be hard. But you can be a mom, a wife, a friend and a damn business owner or a nurse or a MF rocket scientist if you want to. All you have to do is put in the work and shut out people's negativity. 

This episode we decided to do a Q&A where we answer all of the questions that you all asked! Some juicy, some about relationships and everything in between. We had fun answering some questions and of course, as always going off on tangents about who knows what. 

During today's episode, let us just first apologize for all of the cat meowing and children playing in the background. We normally don't record with all the kids home, so if you hear them playing in the backyard, apologies in advance but they were having fun. But in this episode we went down the conspiracy rabbit hole for the first time on this podcast. We speak about Epstein's plane, the ALLEGED activities that Michael Jackson was involved in, and of course, serial killers because we all love some true crime moments. Also we get into spoiling your kids with material things vs. spoiling them with experiences such as traveling. What is more important and does social media tend to influence how we think we should or should not spoil our kids?

On today's episode we talk about whether "no new friends" is a good thing or not? Spoiler alert, we think that's trash advice. We speak about how growing and evolving can cause you to lose friends and that is okay. New friends can teach you new things and open your mind. Outgrowing friends doesn't mean you are a bad friend or that you are disloyal, it just means their season in your life is over. 

In today's episode, we discuss the premier of Teen Mom 2 and how the transition has been. We also speak on how social media has changed the way our children will grow up, how it affects anxiety/depression and so much more. How did we go from staying out until the street lights on to the world we live in now?