Let’s Do Medium Maycember with Rachel Feintzeig
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What does Maycember mean and why is it chaotic?
sometimes our stupid videos bring people together it's our gift can we make a medium maycember like are there things that we can truly give up your maycember gpa gpa being your general parental anxiety finally a gpa that i can just like nails
And that's why we got Laugh Lines. Hey everybody, I'm Kim Holderness. And I'm Ben Holderness. Welcome to Laugh Lines. Okay, if you've ever forgotten totally that it's your kid's spirit week, and today in particular in which it was wacky tacky hat day and you had to sit there and carpool and fashion a wacky hat out of like chewing gum and a ball cap that you had in the backseat.
We're your people. I'm having flashbacks of wacky, tacky day. It's usually pretty easy. They usually just went into my closet, stole all of my ties that were pretty expensive and then got crap all over them and I could never use them again.
How can parents manage their anxiety during busy periods?
Yeah. So you know that feeling in December where every weekend is triple booked and there's something to do every single day? Well, somehow May got the memo and that's why we call this month
maycember because it has all the craziness of december but we've added standardized testing and uh end of year pageants and everything possibly like that you would have to do at the end like the award ceremonies for all of the schools um graduations from eighth grade to ninth grade like all kinds of stuff that like maybe didn't even exist uh back when we were younger
We have a fantastic guest in the pod today, and we're going to challenge some of the things that I think we could stop doing. But first, okay, we call it Maycember. Somebody said we coined the phrase. Were we the first people to say this?
Right, so it was weird because people started reaching out to us like, you guys coined Maycember, and we're like, did we? And so if you Google Maycember...
The online content creator duo, the Holderness family coined the term Maycember.
I mean. Did we? It's one of those things that I think we just said because it felt like December.
I feel like we heard that term from somebody.
What insights does Rachel Feintzeig share about underachieving?
What? Dictionary.com. Okay. Has you. Okay. What? The term was popularized by the holder. Popularized by. Maybe we popularized it. Who coined Macember across their musical family theme blog and social media channels. Guys, this is dictionary.com.
Dictionary.com? Yeah, but I want to give some, like, just in case there's somebody else who actually said it before us, we may have heard that.
Yeah.
We're not claiming to have invented this.
How do we define 'medium' parenting during Maycember?
The internet is. And that's good. We did do a lot of content about it. And we did. I think we definitely popularized.
To be clear.
Yeah.
I don't remember hearing it anywhere else. But I also don't remember it feeling like a lightning strike that we called a mace ember. It didn't feel like a big deal. Yeah. Anyway, this relates to nothing. Well, we have an amazing guest. We're going to talk about some of the things we can challenge. We have done a lot of mace ember content to the point where dictionary.com thinks we invented the word.
What is the GPA scale for parental anxiety introduced in this episode?
Should we play one or a few of those videos?
Yeah, let's have a little mashup. A little may mashup. A little mace up.
Ah. Have yourself a merry Maycember. That name fits just right. Cause it's like December, but without the lights. Yeah, it really sucks. We got all these things to do.
Okay.
Can I be really honest here? Yep. Come talk to me. We are not fully in Maycember anymore.
How can parents balance school events and their own well-being?
Yes. What happened, babe? We have to move our daughter home from college.
Yes, that's part of it.
That's part of it. we are, our kids are in college and in high school and all of those end of year things are just not happening.
So here's the three big things that have happened to us. Number one is the obvious aging out, right? Like people make lesser deals of things the older they get. Right. Right. Number two is driver's licenses. Yeah. Huge. That is, that is absolutely massive.
What are the common pressures parents face in modern parenting?
And number three, our second kid, If he got a reward from NASA for discovering a new galaxy that we could live in, I don't think he would tell us. I think we'd have to sort of wrest it out of him.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Maycember mean and why is it chaotic?
0:00–1:07
2
How can parents manage their anxiety during busy periods?
1:07–2:24
3
What insights does Rachel Feintzeig share about underachieving?
2:24–2:52
4
How do we define 'medium' parenting during Maycember?
2:52–3:20
5
What is the GPA scale for parental anxiety introduced in this episode?
3:20–4:31
6
How can parents balance school events and their own well-being?
4:31–5:05
7
What are the common pressures parents face in modern parenting?
5:05–5:44
8
What are the final thoughts on embracing a 'medium' approach to parenting?
5:44–45:13
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