Inspired by John and Sherry at Young House Love Has a Podcast [https://www.younghouselove.com/podcast-155/], we discuss the Rule of Age 10, which posits that your youthful obsessions can identify your calling in life. Turns out, this rule might be right on.

With the 2010s coming to an end, everyone's talking about the bests of the decade. We, of course, had to talk about this topic our way: By complaining about parenting trends that trouble and annoy us. Mentioned: Our episode on college reveal events [https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18922238]—and happy birthday to us!

NBC made Making It into a two-week-long "event" instead of a season, and the show felt overpackaged. But we still enjoyed watching creative makers make things. Mentioned: The Extra Hot Great podcast discussion of the season [https://www.extrahotgreat.com/280]. On The West Wing's "Requiem," we said goodbye to both Leo McGarry and John Spencer, with lovely tributes both on the episode and on the West Wing Weekly podcast [http://thewestwingweekly.com/episodes/718]. And here's the ID on the mystery pallbearer at the funeral [https://westwing.fandom.com/wiki/Requiem].

Sure, there are things we can (and probably really should) teach our grown and nearly-grown kids how to do. But then we'd be out of a job, and we kind of like this parenting gig.

A while back we talked on a Speed Round about places we'd like to visit, and thinking a little more along those lines, we share some other things we'd like to do before it's too late, from education to travel to all being in the same room. Do you have a bucket list?

Is moving away from home an absolute rite of young adulthood that we must force our kids to engage in above all else? Or can we give the kids a break and let them stay in the nest while they struggle to get started in a crummy job market? We share our own movin' out stories and wonder what's next for our kids.

It's time for one last rummaging through the grab bag to end the week. Today, have some fun with a chat on our fave songs to entertain or maybe annoy our kids with, plus our thoughts on dogs’ birthday parties.

From the grab bag today: Chats on comfort food and weird things we’ve found. But first, we’ll look back on that time when Nicole wore two different shoes. (While we’re at it, you might want to take a quick look to make sure yours match; we know how things can get this time of year.)

For today’s grab bag selections, we have an important conversation from earlier this year on … um … Kim Kardashian’s bathroom, plus an emotional look at our favorite … emojis. Yeah, we’re a little goofy this week. Hope you can use a little of that today.

We’ll be back next week to chat about the whole season of "Making It," along with the “West Wing” episode “Requiem.” Meanwhile, we pulled a couple of entertainment-related episodes out of our grab bag for today: a discussion of our relative merit in a zombie apocalypse and a brainstorming of parenting-related horror movie concepts inspired, back in April of 2018, by the movie A Quiet Place.