Saying “NO” to your toddler, football season & is LinkedIn the new dating app?!

About this episode

The episode discusses child safety, parenting strategies, and health tips while addressing social media interactions and etiquette.

This week on Two Parents & A Podcast, happy Wednesday!! You guys know we record same-day, which means we get to open with actual breaking news: Meta agreed to a $17 BILLION settlement in the child safety trial. Harrison dusts off his finance-guy trick for understanding any settlement (go straight to the stock price.. what it did tells you everything) and we get into what actually changes for kids: time restrictions and nighttime blockouts. And while we're being all professional and stuff lol, Alex shares how she beat her 2 AM heartburn after Prilosec, Tums AND Pepto all failed. The winner? Baking soda and water. (NOT medical advice.. she literally ate a bag of chips first as a strategy lol) It's not until after ALL of this that we finally welcome you back to the episode :-) and Alex starts out hot. Backstory: she posted a TikTok about letting Tate wear her helmet and while mommy ALSO wears her helmet (red light mask).. and a comment saying "it's okay to tell her no" racked up over a thousand likes. So you're telling me a thousand people think we should say no to a toddler wearing a HELMET for fun?! Video two was born, the internet responded, and the ratio has spoken 💅 The real…

People in this episode

Hosts: Alex Fugman, Harrison Fugman

Topics covered

• child safety
• parenting strategies
• health tips
• social media
• toddler behavior
• etiquette

Keywords

• child safety
• parenting
• toddler
• health
• Meta settlement
• TikTok
• helmet
• etiquette

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta

Products: Prilosec, Tums, Pepto, Baking soda

Books & works: TikTok

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