Drinking habits as parents, children's books & when your toddler calls you by your first name...

About this episode

The episode discusses parenting topics, children's books, and humorous anecdotes about toddlers and city names.

This week on Two Parents & A Podcast, happy Wednesday!! We open with a very important announcement: it's REST DAY (Harrison’s rest day lol but maybe all of you could join him), which somehow spirals into a real debate: is "downhill" positive or negative?! (If you're running, downhill is great. If your week is going downhill…? you see the problem.) Then Jules brings a word from the people: collective effervescence.. the term for that shared-energy magic that happened at Wrigley (and at every Fenway “Sweet Caroline”, and every Coldplay "Fix You”). We're working it into daily (or bi-annual) rotation. Plus Alex reveals her special power: she wakes up in the middle of the night and just KNOWS what time it is (psychic or circadian? The chair delivery prediction says psychic), and we realize we are officially living in the "late 20s" of the century.. which sends us straight into Y2K pandemonium and what our 4-11-year-old brains thought was happening in 1999 hahaha Then the home front: the kids book gift tip we're stealing forever (find your kid's favorite book and keep copies on hand as gifts.. Going to Sleep on the Farm is out of print but on ThriftBooks for $6!!), the universal truth…

People in this episode

Hosts: Alex Fugman, Harrison Fugman

Topics covered

• parenting
• children's books
• toddler behavior
• collective effervescence
• personal anecdotes
• city names

Keywords

• parenting
• children's books
• toddler behavior
• collective effervescence
• Y2K
• city names
• personal stories

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Going to Sleep on the Farm

Places: Chicago, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Austin

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