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August 18, 2025 14 mins

Tori is thrilled—it’s back-to-school week! This year brings new milestones (like Stella’s first time driving her siblings) and the bittersweet end of homemade lunches. From last-minute shopping chaos to kids’ evolving fashion tastes, Tori shares laughs, nostalgia, and all the relatable parenting moments that come with sending her kids off to school.

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio Podcast. Okay, it's officially
you guys, it's back to school week. Oh I just
got a pin of excitement. Well that's the first in
the weeks. It's back to school week, and I couldn't
be more excited. And we're in public school, so public

(00:32):
schools always start in August.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Private schools start.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
In September, and I'm always like, gosh, you know, they're
really cutting the summer short, you know, because our district
goes back in August. But now I'm like, thank you
so much public school district for cutting our summer short.
I am super excited. And this is going to be
a whole new ballgame this year because Stella has her license.

(00:57):
So technically, my kids they always do this. They go
back midweek like break them in, slowly, break us parents,
and slowly. They always go back on a Wednesday, and
the first Wednesday is like a half day kind of thing,
and just to get them slowly back into the routine.
But this is going to be my first year where

(01:19):
I have Stella driving, So she says, and I wonder
how this will She said, Oh, I can take Bow
to school. I can help take Katy and Finn I
can help pick up drop off. Sorry I'm weaking quietly
because they're all still here two more days. But uh,
I'm curious how long that will continue. Of just kidding,

(01:42):
she's outside sunbathing I just saw. Uh, so I wonder
how long that will continue because I feel like she
just got her license recently, she's super excited, and then
I have a feeling she might you know, drop bow
off once or twice and then be like, oh, I
can't do it. I have much weigh on me and
all my hopes and dreams would be dashed just like that.

(02:05):
But yeah, so it just me thinking though not doing
like a pickup or drop off actually made me sad
for a second, because then that would be Here's the
thing as a mom, or just as a parent in general,
you want to do or is it a female thing?
I just don't know, but you want to do everything,

(02:25):
but then you don't want to do everything. But then
if you didn't have to do everything, you'd be mad
not doing everything because everything is what you did and
you were so used to it and you just got
it done and you like complained.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Through it all.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
But you're like us women, Yeah, we can multitask and
we can do everything take it on. But yeah, I'd
be really sad if like it's like my write of
passage as a parent drop off some pickups and if
that was taken from me, I'd be really I don't
know'd be bummed out.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's like it's like lunch making.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Like I'd be like, oh, I used to hate it,
like and I'm not a planner.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
You guys know that.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
So I wasn't the type of mom I tried on
occasion that would like sort up the lunches the night
before and like everything'd be ready to go in the morning. Nope, Uh,
it would mean me at like you know, six point
thirty and like screaming running through the house like ah,
you know, trying to get everything in place.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
But now most of their schools and all of their
schools they have lunch that they provide for the.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Kids and it's free and you know, it's just like
one hot lunch choice. So if your kid doesn't like that,
you have to like back one. But bo was like
my last one that really held out and last year,
at the end very end of the year, he's like, Mom,
I tried a hot lunch and I was like, oh,
and he's like, I think I really like it. So

(03:49):
now I'm this year, I'm like, wait, am I never
making lunches again? Now? Like slowly things are being stripped
of me that were my rite of passage even though
I complained about them. Yeah, so there's that. And for us,
our school starts in two days, and have I done
back to school shopping?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's me, of course, not no, nothing, because this is
just like me with Christmas, Like do I go Christmas
shopping like most parents?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
My friend used to tell me like, oh my gosh,
I got the cutest thing for my kid, and it
was like August. And I'd always make fun of her
and I'd be like, what is wrong with you?

Speaker 1 (04:29):
But do you know what I look at that, I'm like,
she's always so calm near the holidays because she has
everything done. Me I'm shopping their Christmas list on Christmas Eve.
In fact, just the other night, I just had a dream.
I forgot about this till I'm speaking about it right now.
I had a dream that it was Christmas morning and

(04:50):
I woke up and I was like, they haven't given
me their Christmas list yet?

Speaker 2 (04:55):
How am I going to go out? What's open right now?
What can I get? And I was like panic.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
It was it's like that first day of school and
you walk in naked dream but it was Christmas. And
it's like, no, that's just me, my lack of planning.
I would make my life easier if I would plan.
So I just got off on a tangent. But what
I was talking about is the fact that back to
school is in two days and we have not done
back to school shopping. But in my brain, in the
Tory brain, in the Tory universe, that complicates everything, a

(05:25):
little bit of self sabotage there. I have tomorrow, the
day before school starts. So this is me every year.
So typically with five in tow, I will head out
the morning of the day before school and we'll be
buying everything.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's a lie.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
It is not the morning, it's like late afternoon the
day before school starts, and we will get back like
right around dinner time, and there's new sneakers thrown everywhere,
and there's socks and there's piles we're pulling it off
tab from Target bags and it's like, oh my god,

(06:05):
Oh at least I won't have lunches to.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Make this year. So there's a plus.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
So I'm gonna go back to school shopping tomorrow, which
is just ridiculous. It's too late to even like order
something on Amazon, Like I can't even get Amazon Prime
this fast. Anyway, tomorrow it'll be interesting. So when I

(06:29):
was a kid, back to school shopping, at least for me,
wasn't a thing because I went to private school. My
parents had me in private school my whole life, like
from kindergarten.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Through twelfth grade.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
So it was like uniform shopping like that was something.
Actually that was really fun. I have good memories of
that because my mom and I would go to uniform
shopping and it was Sioux Mills, know if that's still
a thing. It was like the uniform place, and they
would do it for all schools and we would go

(07:07):
and they'd have piles and you'd get to pick your
thing and do all that and that was always fun.
And then as the years went by, my skirts got
shorter and shorter and shorter. I remember that that was fun.
I went to an all girls school for high school.
It was like middle school, high school all together, and yeah,

(07:28):
that was a big thing. And seventh grade, I remember
we started in seventh grade and seventh grade, all the
girls would wear boxers, like boys boxers. Now they're like
boxer shorts they make and you know, and there's so
many options now because they finally caught on that girls
like wearing boxers. But back then, back in the day,

(07:53):
you didn't have that. So you'd just buy like a
pack of boys boxers and you'd wear them over your
under obviously, and then you would take your skirt and.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
You would roll it because you weren't supposed to hemmicks.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
You get in big trouble if you had a hems
because if you got a uniform check at school, they
would literally have a tape measure and they would measure
the length.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Of your skirt.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
So you had to be really tricky about it, and
you would just go and you'd.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Roll it, like roll it up, and then.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
If you'd see like a teacher passing by, you'd be
like drop the skirt, drop the skirt.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
And like unroll it fast. And we got really good
at it.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
But yeah, and then and then there'd always be the
girls and you always felt bad. But they didn't get
the memo about the short skirt. And not only do
they not have like a normal length skirt, but they
would like have the skirt all like blow their knees.
I don't even know how that's possible unless we did
get the skirt heames, but they had to be a

(08:50):
certain length and then we just rolled them more. Maybe
it was that, Maybe it was that. But I got
to say, uniforms rocked. And I know that's not as
relatable or accessible for everybody, but it really especially going
through your formative years being a girl going to an
all girls school, there was none of the pressure of

(09:11):
like looking cool or like, you know, brand names. I
feel like my kids and I guess I just assumed,
because they don't go to this lateist like private school,
that public schools wouldn't be as focused on what designers
you're wearing. But it's not true, and so it's like

(09:31):
you're trying to constantly keep up with something you can't
keep up. It's like, well, I have five kids, Like
they're not all going to go to school and designer clothes,
like it's just not a practical thing for what I
can provide for them. So it's challenging because all of
their friends are like even my twelve year old Finn

(09:54):
like son, you know, you always think like girls are
into designer stuff. Like he went through his phase. I
think I've talked about it before, where like Colone was
the big thing, and any money he would make or
gift cards he would get or any you know, can
I do this around the house and get like sort
of allowance which isn't really a thing.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Here, but he would get he would spend it.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
On clones and that was the big thing because I
think that they saw it on like TikTok and whatever.
So he's kind of out of the clone phase, which
I'm not mad about. But except we have like a
gazillion bottles like lining the walls in his room, but
that he never goes. But I actually never buy a
Perfumer Clone anymore because I can just go in there
and it's like Finn has this giant like wall of them,

(10:40):
and I just go and like spray myself.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I'm like, oh, a smell designer, ready to go.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Oh god. But yeah, even he was like naming all
these designers and these are the t shirts that are
in and these are the jeans, like the three hundred
dollars jeans, and I'm like, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
So yeah, it's ever, never ending.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, so I wish they had uniforms because I feel
like we weren't judged back then on what we wore,
and now they're just all judged on what.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
They drive, what they wear, what shoes they have.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's just a whole another level of bullying that they
don't need.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
I forgot.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I also have to get them all their pencil cases
and notebooks and oh.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
My god, new Stanley cup.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Just kidding, like if I heard word Stanley cup one
more time, because they get these expensive.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
The sounds so archaic now dream holders. You know, it's
just people that drink water, so I know nothing about it.
But then they lose them. This is how I know
bo is becoming.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Mature is every year he has a vision about like
his backpack. Like last year it was Dinosaur, the year
before it was Spider Man. And this year he said, Mom,
this year I just want all black. I was like, oh, buddy,
another rite of passage there. It goes picking out the

(12:12):
kiddos stuff. Yeah, he was so into dinosaurs last year
and now and with his T shirts, so everything had
to be like, you know, a fun logo on it,
and it had so first. You know, they grew up
so fast so first it went from all like you know,
Marvel and like Spider Man and Superman and all that stuff,

(12:34):
and then it's like, you know, Mario and Luigi and
all Nintendo game and stuff was back in, and then
it was like Dinosaur Dinosaur.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
He was all into that.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
And now he tells me I just want plain T
shirts like when you meet and he's like, nothing on it.
But he actually grew up really fast mid midyear last
year and he was like, I only will wear T
shirts that say Nike. I'm like, oh fuck me, sorry.
I'm like, oh my god, what do you mean? And

(13:08):
he's like, mom, I only wear Nike. I was like, okay,
Well he's still like Adidas, right, and he's like or
Adidas or Puma. Fine, He's like, but T shirt's only Nike.
I'm like, oh, I'm great Amazon. But now he's like,
I only want plain T shirts, like so it can
be any color, but it has to be playing. And

(13:31):
he's like and I really like the plain white teas
and I really like black teas. And I'm like okay,
but he's still into those sports pants.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah what do they call that sports where?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
I don't know? And his shoes to be Nike, and
he's gonna have an all black backpack that I'm going
to get tomorrow afternoon, that morning, the.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Eve before back to school. Yep, that's my life. Oh
my god. Well, happy back to school. It's okay, guys.
You know what we did it. We survived summer and
now back to the grinds. Have fun,
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