May 20, 2016
Today, we're fretting about Facebook. Here's a
road-map to our conversation so you can tune in where you like:
00:56 Intros and What's New With You — Catherine's traveling this week, and based on her recent flight, she can share a bit of human nature: If someone is removed from a flight due to a possible heart attack, fellow passengers will waste no time trying to claim the empty aisle seat. Meanwhile, Nicole has a bug guy coming to rid her home of black widows, so there's all sorts of life-and-death drama going on.
05:58 The Facebook Police — Used to be, moms would watch the neighborhood, and you always knew that if your kid was up to mischief, it would be handled and reported. For today's moms, the surveillance detail includes social media, but we haven't quite figured out yet what you do with that incriminating information. We discuss the merits of watching, ratting out, and maintaining blissful ignorance.
19:10 Big Day — Besides feeling the pressure to monitor other people's kids, we're feeling some Facebook heat to make a grand gesture for every birthday, anniversary, holiday, and who knows what-all. Is it allowable, Facebook etiquette mavens, to just blow it off, or does that make you a bad friend/spouse/child? How much time do you have to devote to finding old pictures and writing meaningful posts and feting every friend? We're beat.
30:45 Interview of the Week — Of course, sometimes kids take a break from social media to hit the playing field, and there's plenty of ways for parents to behave badly there too. Catherine interviews Janis Meredith, author of 11 Habits for Happy and Positive Sports Parents and the website JBM Thinks, about ways to stop doing those things you know you shouldn't be doing but just can't seem to find a way around.
42:08 Shameless Self-Promotion — Amanda has a new blog post up called My Kids Have Both Learning and Attention Issues and Autism, and It's Complicated; Terri has an old behavior plan on her Mothers With Attitude site that she's stll proud of; Nicole has some great articles o her own at The Inclusive Class; and Catherine will have some new sports parenting articles up on her VeryWell site sometime soon.
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