Not Right Now

This week, Claire and Quinn sit down with writer Kathryn Jezer-Morton.

She grew up on a commune, writes the column Brooding for The Cut, and just published a book called The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything.

They discuss kids running away, phone surveillance, Ozempic for rush, promposals, whether sharing Instagram Reels with your kid counts as affection and quality time, Kanye, and what they're watching with their kids.

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This week, Claire and Quinn react to Michelle Obama's viral week on the internet that broke the mom discourse in half. Also discussed: biological warfare (on audiobook), cicadas in the house, a broken bed jet remote, laundry as a consequence, and whether you can be the bad cop and still get invited to watch the Dodgers game with your kid at 10 pm.

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This week, Quinn and Claire discuss Lego sets for adults, Dolly Parton's canonization timeline, Tim Curry, Bill Gates and Epstein, AI in the classroom, who's actually a good person and how to explain that to kids who don't want the nuance, E. Jean Carroll, José Andrés, Olivia Rodrigo doing something impactful at 22, and whether you can just let your kids cheer for the Dodgers without explaining who owns them. (Turns out you can't, but you can try).

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We survived summer break! Claire spent 10 days trekking through Sweden and Quinn is back from the Outer Banks for two weeks with seven children, not all his. They catch up on the summer and then get into surviving the back-to-school gauntlet.

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• Check out the guided all-women hiking trips through Sweden https://talesandtrails.se/

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It's the last week in our Summer Rewind! We'll have a brand new episode for you next week, but until then, please enjoy this episode about somehow maintaining a relationship with your co-parent despite all the chaos.

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This week, Claire and Quinn tackle the brutal summer heat while diving into the complexities of maintaining a relationship with your co-parent. Finding couple time when everyone just wants to retreat to their separate corners is an eternal struggle, especially when you're balancing getting body-shamed by your own children and finding out your kid has been playing inappropriate games online.

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It's still August, which means we're still on summer break, which means we have another fan favorite episode for you to catch up on!

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This week, Quinn and Claire are diving into the ever-evolving world of childcare, from the brutal economics of quality care to the desperate measures parents take just to keep working.

They explore how childcare standards change from first kid (extensive vetting) to third kid (you haven't murdered recently), the impossible summer camp lottery system, and why sometimes a random college student willing to be a "play robot" is an essential worker.

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It's still summer, which means we're still on our summer rewind bullshit! Enjoy this episode about sleep, which remains forever relevant and eternal.

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Parenting and sleep deprivation.

From military-precise sleep training schedules to the anxiety spiral of a child who won't sleep, they share their brutally honest experiences with getting children (and themselves) to bed. Featuring tales of nine (yes, nine) pillow sleep systems, headbanging toddlers, and why separate bedrooms might save your marriage.

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That's right, we're still on summer vacation (sorry, not sorry!). We're diving into the archives again to bring you another one of our favorites: our expectations about parenting before we became parents vs. the reality. Enjoy!

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This week, we talk about the humbling experience of parenthood and how reality shatters expectations.

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Parenting might not be what you imagined, but finding humor in the chaos makes it all a little more manageable, even when you're the parent bringing yogurt-covered raisin snacks to baseball that no child actually wants (at least you tried!)

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• Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America by Rachel Louise Moran

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We're still on summer vacation! Here's another favorite from the vault. Hope you enjoy!

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This week, Claire and Quinn dive into the messy reality of all the different ways we cope with parenting, while everything else is happening.

From that stomach-dropping moment when your kid asks you "Did you get a call from school?" to balancing mental health with the news cycle, they explore how we all find ways to survive (medication, therapy, weed, wine, exercise, whatever) when our bandwidth is maxed out.

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• Bird flu podcast episode with Dr. Nahid Bhadelia

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We're on summer break! For the next few weeks, we're dipping into the archive and replaying some fan favorites. Hope you enjoy.

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This week, Claire and Quinn dive into how the show got its name - the eternal parental struggle of "Not Right Now" - from TikTok bans and VPN-savvy kids to fighting for five minutes alone in the bathroom.

Plus: the special horror of watching your kids figure out technology faster than you, deep fakes in elementary school, your child calling out your control freak tendencies, and how we're all just trying to parent through gestures wildly at everything while maintaining some semblance of sanity.

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• Etsy daily chore checklist for kids recommended by Quinn, that will definitely solve all of your problems once and for all

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