August 22, 2025 • 28 mins
Tudor Dixon shares her journey as part of the sandwich generation—balancing parenting, elder care, and family life. From tech and parenting to family vacations and meaningful connections, she explores finding joy and purpose in the chaos. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today. You get Me.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You get Me because the past few weeks have been
interesting and I just wanted to share a little bit
about my.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Life with you.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And right now I'm literally rushing into the studio to
record this because life can be a little crazy sometimes.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Today I had to run my mom to the University
of Michigan. And I found this out just yesterday. This
is like one of those things that happens to you.
And it was like, hey, I think I tore my
retina and I called and got this appointment for tomorrow,
drop everything and take me.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And I was like, oh, okay, of course, yes, this
is my mom. I'm going to do this.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So I don't know this has probably happened to you guys,
but I was changing everything around because I had to
move on my schedule and one of my friends was like, yeah, well,
welcome to the Sandwich generation. And I was like, am
I in the Sandwich generation? And am I now the
person that takes care of my kids and my mother?
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And I don't really think that, but it started to
hit me hard. I started thinking about it, and I
was like, I mean, I guess in a little bit
of a way. I am, But I think we're different
than our parents generation because my mom when she hit
that point, we were older because she had me younger
than I had my kids, so we were older when
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she was taking care of her mother. And I think
it was different also because there wasn't so much to
distract my parents. And I'm really starting to realize this
because we're so busy and we allow busyness to invade
every part of our lives. And I know you guys
probably see the same things that I see, where there's
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like this person on social media. It'say, hey, just so
you know, your kids are suffering because you have your
phone too much at home.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You should put your phone down.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And I'm doing this video because I'm an influencer and
I'm a great parenting advocate, and I'm telling you exactly
how to do this, and you're.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Thinking the same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'm thinking, Well, why are you putting this on social
media to tell me? Obviously you took time to be
on your phone to record this video to put on
social media to make me feel guilty about the fact
that I am also on my phone. We are all
doing it. There's no solution. It's not like you're just
going to give it up. I have friends who are like,
we have a rule at night, we put our phones
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in the basket. None of us are on our phones,
and that's fantastic. I wish that were my house, but
it's not, and I almost I kind of don't want
that to be my house because I also think we're
an incredibly social household, and my kids have times when
they talk to their friends.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But it was like a.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wake up call that I am now taking care of
my mom in a way, not really but at times,
and I'm busier by choice than she was at my age,
and it was I kind of have had a double
wake up call on this recently because we went on
this vacation and I wrote an not bet about it.
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You can read it in the Washington Examiner. But it's
pretty simple. We really hadn't gone on vacation in a
long time. So we've been on vacations. I shouldn't say
that we've been on vacations, but did I really allow
myself to go on a vacation because we have spring
break every year and my parents have a house. We
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lost my dad a few years ago, so my mom
is in the house in Florida, and it's been like
just easy to take the kids there, and it's like
moving from one house to another and still carry on
with business during the week, and I say, oh, yeah,
I can. I can do a zoom call while I'm
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at my mom's house, and I could do a podcast,
and I could go out on TV and I can
have a dinner.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And it wasn't really vacation because I've allowed myself to
be too busy. So I started thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
About it, and I'm like, I go out. When I
was campaigning, I would. Everybody was like, oh, you're going
to Florida for spring break.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You could meet with people while you're there, and they
schedule like four nights.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That I'm meeting with someone.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then even after I got out of the campaign season,
it was like, well, there are still people who I.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Want to meet with while I'm down there, So when
I go, I will.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And then you start calculating and you're like, how many
nights of spring break do I get with my kids
in their lifetime. It's like, what one hundred and thirty
maybe maybe maybe less. And I decide that I'm going
to take some of those to do business. But honestly,
I didn't even realize it until this summer. I went
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on vacation with my kids and my mom and my
sister's family and we went to Hiltonhead Island. So hilton
Head is a place that my parents took us every
year when I was a kid because my parents actually
met there, so went and it was just an escape.
And when I was a kid, I didn't even think
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about this until I was there. When I was a kid,
my parents were just totally invested in us. My dad
would golf during the day, but the rest of the
time it was my mom was at the beach with us.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
She was playing with us. We would go back to
the house, we would have a meal, we would go
out to the shops.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
We would come back and play games. It was totally
focused on us. Because there were no cell phones. There
was nothing to distract you.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
When you left work. There wasn't even email.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I mean, you think about it's like hard for my
kids to even comprehend you were disconnected. You unless someone
found out the number of the house you were staying
at or your hotel.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You didn't have anybody calling.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So that I kind of did that when I went
on vacation with my family this time, and my kids
were like, this is amazing, this is so great. And
one time we were in at the and I was
in the waves with my girls. You know, phone is
someplace else. I am totally engaged with them, and my
oldest who is sixteen, she was right next to me,
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were playing in the waves and she goes, she whispers,
thank you, mommy, and I said, what are you thanking
me for? She's just being out here, being with us.
And it was like this recurring theme with my girls.
We're just so grateful that you're here. And it was
kind of like this wake up call. Have I been
great at being the Sandwich generation? Because part of that,
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at the other end of that sandwich is my kids.
And I would say, you know, I went on spring
break with them, or I was campaigning and I took them,
and I see this all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I think now I'm like hyper.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Aware of politicians who are out there with their kids,
and I think it was great for them.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Don't get me wrong, because my kids are super outgoing.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
They can talk to any adult, They are up on
the current topics, and they can have these amazing conversations
with no fear, and I think a lot of that
was campaigning. But I mean, it's not like my kids
are like, oh man, I'd really like to go back
and see the world's biggest ball of yarn.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You know, it's like you do things like that when
you're campaigning. You're like, now, look at that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I took my kids to see the world's biggest ball yarn.
They don't care, and they're literally never going to tell anyone.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's like the.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Least important thing that's ever happened to them. The things
you do with your kids, they've got to be meaningful.
And I'm telling you this not from the standpoint of
a parenting expert, but I hear people on social media constantly,
Like I said.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Those little videos where someone's like, you are not a
good parent if you're doing this. Look, we're all figuring
this out.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's the interesting part about parenting is there's literally no
rules outside of the Bible.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
There are no there's nothing that says when you come home.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I mean the very few rules of like, you know,
you have to feed them and give them a warm
place to sleep, and you know, give them water.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But the general rules of like how.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You parents, like, oh you can't give a phone at
this age, and you can't have a bicycle until this age,
and you can't have a Really no one has all
of those answers, but I will tell you that I
have become incredibly close to my kids, and I've realized
that that vacation time is so incredibly important because we
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are sandwiched between our kids and our parents, and as
soon as one of those groups gets independence, the other
group is losing independence and they need you, and it's
a weird balance. But I've found that with my kids,
being really close to them and being their best friends
has been one of the best choices that I can make.
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And this I find interesting because I've heard a lot
of people who have come out recently and said, don't
be your kid's best friend.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You're not your kid's best friend. You're the disciplinarian.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So I went on this vacation and my kids talk
to me about everything, and we talked about school and
all their fears, and we just had time to talk
about going into high school and what that's going to
be like, and they told me everything. Let's take a
quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
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A few years ago, one of my girls says to me,
they went to middle school camp. And so in middle
school they go to camp and they're like away from
me for one night, right, So that's like a big
deal because they're with all their friends and it's away.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
From their parents, and you're like at home thinking.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
This is great because I finally have a night by
myself and they're at at middle school camp, thinking like,
I don't know what I'm thinking about this because I'm
away from my parents, but it's like this transitional time.
So apparently all the girls are in middle school camp
and they're t talking about boys, and my daughter says
something about them.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I was talking to my mom about this boy.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I liked, and one of the girls goes, what do
you mean you were talking to your mom about it?
And she's like, yeah, I was telling my mom about
this boy that I liked, and she said I would
never tell my mom about any boy that I liked.
So then they go to bed and she hears, hey, hey, Elan,
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what's it like when you tell your mom about boy
that you like?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And she goes, I mean, I don't know, I just
talked to her about it.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And we go through it and we discuss what it's
like and why I like him, and she goes, man,
I'd never be brave enough. My mom would be so
mad at me if she found out I liked a boy.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'm like, that's the best.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
One of the best parts of watching them grow up
is hearing how they react to friends, how they react
to relationships, what they think about boys, because at a
certain point they're gonna I have a boyfriend, and I
don't want them hiding that from me. And I found
that these parents that are massive disciplinarians, they don't have
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a strong relationship with their kids. They think they do,
but their kids are hiding a lot from them. Like
I said, I'm not a parenting expert. I don't know,
but my experience with my kids has been like the
more we talk about things, the more open we are,
the more I know about their lives. So we get
back from vacation and we're getting ready for school, and
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my girls are like, oh, you know, we're going to
go back to school and we're going to see these
friends and these friends, and my one daughter is like, man,
I'm going to see friends that are going through this
really awkward phase right now. And I said, what do
you mean they're going through an awkward phase. And she said,
you know, we've got these two groups of parents at school,
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which I think is really fascinating because there's like so
many experts out there right now and when should you
kid have a cell phone? But this is like the
this is the message from the actual kids.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So they said, yeah, there's all.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
These kids now in high school that are getting their
first phones, so they're going through that phase. And I'm like,
what's the phase. So let me preface this by saying
I've always kind of been a believer that you don't
have to ban your kids from having a phone until
a certain age. But I will also say I was
a kid that when I got into fifth grade, I
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was on the phone every night talking to my friends.
My mom would have to pick up the other line,
kick me off the phone, tell me to do my homework.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But it was like a part of my life that
was so important.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Talking to my friends, having that interaction was so important
to me. Then I look at my kids and I'm
I think they don't have phones that are in the house,
and this idea that it's like they can't have a
phone at all, Well, then that critical part of their
life where they go from especially girls. I mean I
only have girls, so I don't know about boys. But
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the critical part of their life when they start to
communicate with their friends on their own. It's really like
it starts when you're ten, you're in fifth grade, when
you're a girl. But these kids missed it because they
went we were in this generation where we're like the
first generation parenting with phones, and these other parents like,
don't do not get your kid a phone so bad,
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they're gonna be depressed, they're gonna have all these problems.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So then it was interesting because you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Know, my theory was never that. I always thought they
should be able to communicate. So they're like, man, there's
these kids in high school. They're going through their awkward phase,
like what do you mean, Well, you know, you pull
you you send out these messages and they're embarrassing and
they don't know how to handle it, and they're starting
to watch things they've never watched before, and they start
to say weird things at school and I'm like, man,
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this is like a side of the the modern cell
phone that nobody talks about. But I have this great
relationship with my girls. So they tell me that I
was talking to my girlfriend about it, and I'm like, hey,
do your kids have a phone? And her kids are
in middle school, and I was telling her this situation
about like the whole awkwardness, and she goes, man, I
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never thought about that, but she said, yeah, my son
is he just got out of sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
He'll be going into seventh grade.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And she said, I read his text messages and I'm like, buddy,
you're saying.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Some weird stuff. She's like, well, man, what if he
were saying this when he was in high school? Exactly?
So for people out there, it's like this big.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Push right now, do not be your child's friend. I
am my girl's friends. I am also their disciplinarian, but
I am in every part of their life. And guess what,
my mom was in every part of my life, every
part of my life. My mom was my absolute best friend.
I remember when I would come home from going out
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at night, my parents were always up, they were never asleep,
they were always waiting for me, almost like codically, but
they were.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Like super overprotective.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So every time I went out in high school, and
I also think like when I was a kid, that
was another weird difference kids went out every single night,
and my girls, like their friends, don't go out every
single night. But I would go out, and when I
would come home, every time I would, my parents would
call me up to their bedroom and I would sit
down on the end of their bed and tell my
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mom everything that went on, everything about my friends, everything.
And so I feel like it as this kid now
in the Sandwich generation, my mom is still my best friend.
I get to talk to her about everything, and I
get and she talks to my kids like we are
all very, very close, and we all know we've all
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gotten close even through this technology. But being away from
technology really really reinforce the fact that I need to
make space for my kids when I am home, because
technology is different. When I got home from the when
I got home from going out. When I was in
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high school, my parents weren't sitting in the bedroom on
their phones. They were watching weird shows like Nick at
Night and you know whatever the equivalent of Blue Bloods
was back then, you know, like they're up there watching
Sometimes they would watch those stupid shows that were like
the Mari.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Povit Show, and they'd be like, oh.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You could be doing really bad, and we just saw
a girl that was doing really bad things.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I'm like, maybe you should not watch these shows.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Mom and dad, like, those were the shows that were
on when I was young, But that's what it was.
They were watching TV, you know, they weren't like doom scrolling.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Now. My mom will come to me and.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
She'd be like, do you know what they're doing to
children in India. I'm like, Mom, that's not actually happening.
This is something you saw on Facebook. Nothing is true.
That's the worst part. Like, none of the stuff is true.
So you're sandwich between what telling your kids what's true
and telling your parents what's true because they read something
like that's a lie, this is AI it was manufacturing.
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No I saw I saw a video like, no, you didn't.
It is a weird place for us to be in
the sandwich generation, But I also think it's a good
place as godly parents to sit and work through all
of these issues with them. You've heard me say before
that I talked to my girls about who they are,
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and that to me is really important to know who
they are and to hear through their.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Own voice who they are.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And if I were focused on only discipline in the
stern exterior and I know parents who feel it to
be a godly parent it has to be hardcore discipline
and a stern exterior, and that works for some families,
but for me, my godly parenting approach is to come
alongside them and say, tell me what's happening in your life,
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and let's determine who you are in God's image, what
gifts God has given you, and how you can use
who you are and those gifts God has given you
to grow in life. And I feel like that was
helpful to me when I was young too with my mom,
and it might have been a little different approach, but
she was definitely talking to me about who I am,
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so they know I'm of their authority, but they also
know that I'm there. And I guess this is the
sandwich because when we were in hilton Head, so we
went to hilton Head. Like I said, we lost my
dad in twenty twenty two. This is our first time
back to hilton Head. My parents met in hilton Head.
It's my first time back to hilton Head without my dad.
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And I think this is the first time that I
really felt like.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
There's a difference. This is a different.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Season in my life. My girls, my oldest is driving.
She's independent and when we're home, she can go wherever
she wants and just head out with friends. She has
that independence now.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And my mom is a.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Little more cautious now without my dad, and I think
that she was. You know, there were times in Hilton
Head that I could tell she was sad, and we
were sad. You know, my dad not being there felt crazy, crazy, wrong.
She's so strong, but it's like that was her other half.
So she's a little slower, she's a little more cautious.
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She didn't go out to the beach as much. And
I think that's a moment too as an adult, where
you go those days aren't coming back, and that's hard.
And I didn't have enough of those days with my girls.
I spent that time of busyness not stepping back and saying, man,
I'm going to spend all the time, all the vacations,
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pouring into them every minute, and I want to take
this time now to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Because it was such a wake up.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Call to be there, having my mom in the house
with the girls and seeing my mom slow down and
my mom take naps, you know, like this is a
woman who never napped and here She's like, she's at
a different point in her life and I need to
pour into my kids what she poured into me. So
she's listening to all of their stories. She's playing the
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games at night, she's watching the movies. But it's just
a little bit different. On the way back from Hilton Head,
so I made us drive. That also drove her crazy.
My dad would never have driven to Hilton Head. And
I'm like, yeah, hey, why don't we make an adventure
of this? Why don't we drive? Mom's like, what are
you talking about? Why would we do that? Like, why
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wouldn't we do that? We're taking the dog. It'll be great.
We'll stop in Lexington, we'll take the girls on a
college tour of my alma mater. It'll be fantastic. And
I actually, I do think it was great. It was
a long ride, and I think she was kind of
horrified by it, but it really didn't feel that bad
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because we got to talk the whole way. Then on
the way back, this is like that moment where you
see this vulnerability and you're like, man, things are changing.
She goes, the letters on my phone are getting distorted.
She's look at my phone when I type the letters,
look weird. Is something happening to my phone? Like no,
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but she had just had this cataract surgery.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm like, I think it's just maybe it's just.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Your cataract surgery. Maybe something's different. She's like, I don't know,
it's really weird. I feel like my vision's a little different.
So she comes home and she goes to the doctor's
office and they were like, yeah, it looks like your
retina's torn. And my sister and I are like, oh man,
this is a problem. We have to get this fixed
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right away. She sends her scans to the University of Michigan.
They call her and they're like, I think we should
see you tomorrow. So then we're panicked, you know, like,
oh my gosh, she's going to be blind. What are
we going to do? My sister's in Florida. She's like,
you gotta take her. And I'm immediately, of course, like yeah, yes,
And in my mind, I'm like, oh my gosh, what
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am I How do I get all of these things done?
Which hence is the reason I'm like rushing to do
a podcast and telling you about my whole life. But
I feel like this is something we all go through.
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. This is the point when my
friend goes, oh, you're in the Sandwich generation.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I'm like, hm, and I kind.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Of feel it right because I just rushed from a
parent meeting the other night, going from work to the
parent meeting, just had school orientation. Feel like this is
like pretty mom focused. Moms are probably more so in
sandwiched between. And then it's like I am trying to
get everything ready for the first day of school, parent
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meeting orientation, school supplies backpacks, everything all the last few
minutes of summer, and it's like they think I have
a torn retinas. So we have to take a day
and drive over to the University of Michigan.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And I'm like absolutely.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So we get in the car and this is like
this is part of having a parent, like this would
never have happened with my dad. But my mom is like, yeah,
this is the address, this is where we're going. And
for some reason, it never dawns on me that I
should be like, show me where they told you this
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is the address, because why wouldn't it be that's what
she's saying. So we drive and as we're driving, it's
like Gretchen Whitmer for six years has said she was
going to fix the damn roads. So she decided to
do it all in the last like eighteen months of
being governor. So I give her credit. They're getting fixed,
but it is hellish to drive across the state. So
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we get in the car and it's like, your time
of arrival is ten, which is great because our appointment's
at ten forty five. But then as we're driving, the
GPS is like ten seventeen, ten twenty six, ten thirty six,
ten thirty seven, and I'm like, oh my gosh, we're
going to be late. So then you know, technology says,
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oh go this way, and you go on all these
back roads you and then we got there at ten fifteen.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
We droven.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
We walk into the building this my mom says, this
isn't Brighton, it's not in ann Arbor. I'm like, oh, okay,
that good, that's closer. We walk up to check in
and the lady's like, your appointments in ann Arbor. And
there was like a full five seconds where I was like, well,
we're screwed. We drove all the way across the state
and now we're going to miss this appointment. And then
I'm like, no, we are making this. I was like, listen,
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I know you are going to try to walk slow
to the car, but you've got a hustle woman. We
are getting you to this appointment. And she was like, okay,
all right, we're gonna go. We bust a move down
to ann Arboro. We got in there, waited forever, so
I guess it didn't really matter that we were late.
The guy says, yeah, you've got to have surgery. So
I'm like, okay, we're going to figure this out. We're
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going to my sister and I are going to figure
out how we get her through this, and.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I'm glad to do it.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I absolutely love being a part of the Sandwich generation
because I get to take care of my kids and
I get to be there for my mom because she
was there for me in so many cases, not only
when I was pregnant.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
My gosh, when I went through cancer, I had to
go Ugh. When you go through.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Breast cancer and you have a double mastectomy there, I
am not good with medical things, and they have these
drains coming out of your body and they're disgusting. And
my mom was like I will be there for two weeks.
I will sit next to you in a hotel room
in Baltimore and empty these drains for you. I am
so grateful. Did I get to do something for her back?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Anything? I will do anything, In fact, even on the
way home. This is so my mom.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So we are coming home and it's like, there's this
huge slowdown on the highway. You've got to get off
and take this detour, and we're in her car. We
would have taken my car, but I had to take
my car for an oil change because I made her
take my car toohill Net. You know, we'd just driven
my car for a really long time. So of course
I'm like, oh, this also happens to be on the
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day we're going to u M on the day that
I am getting an oil change. So we get off
the highway and we drive two and a half miles
to what is going to be a fourteen mile detour.
When we get two and a half miles in, it's
a dirt road. And she's like, oh, yeah, no, I said,
what do you mean, No, We're not taking this car
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on a dirt road. I'm like, we're going to be
on the highway for an extra twenty minutes. If we
don't take this dirt road, She's like, I got time. Awesome,
let me turn this car around. We will not take
your heaven forbid, we go through the car wash. Will
not take your car on this dirt road. We will
get right back on the highway.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And then and we did.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Of course, why because she's my mom, and if she
tells me I'm not taking her car on a dirt road,
guess what, I'm not taking her car on a dirt road.
So we got back on the highway. We waited in traffic,
and we got to sit and talk. And I love it.
I get them all. I get my mom, I get
the kids, and I enjoy them.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I guess what.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Everybody loves the sandwich. And for a short period of time,
I get to be in the middle of the sandwich
and it seems like the very best spot. I am
good at being needed, I am not so good at needing,
and I'm headed to the.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Other side of the sandwich. I know it.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I hope I have made good enough friends with my
girls that they will drop everything and wipe their schedule
clear to jump in the car and drive me to
U of M.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
When I need it, so I.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Think that my friend was actually complaining when she said,
welcome to the sandwich generation, but I say welcome indeed.
I am so glad I get to be in the
middle of the sandwich for this short period of time.
And I hope you guys enjoy whatever part of life
you are in as well. Thank you so much for
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sandwich
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today. You get Me.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You get Me because the past few weeks have been
interesting and I just wanted to share a little bit
about my.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Life with you.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And right now I'm literally rushing into the studio to
record this because life can be a little crazy sometimes.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Today I had to run my mom to the University
of Michigan. And I found this out just yesterday. This
is like one of those things that happens to you.
And it was like, hey, I think I tore my
retina and I called and got this appointment for tomorrow,
drop everything and take me.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And I was like, oh, okay, of course, yes, this
is my mom. I'm going to do this.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So I don't know this has probably happened to you guys,
but I was changing everything around because I had to
move on my schedule and one of my friends was like, yeah, well,
welcome to the Sandwich generation. And I was like, am
I in the Sandwich generation? And am I now the
person that takes care of my kids and my mother?
(01:02):
And I don't really think that, but it started to
hit me hard. I started thinking about it, and I
was like, I mean, I guess in a little bit
of a way. I am, But I think we're different
than our parents generation because my mom when she hit
that point, we were older because she had me younger
than I had my kids, so we were older when
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she was taking care of her mother. And I think
it was different also because there wasn't so much to
distract my parents. And I'm really starting to realize this
because we're so busy and we allow busyness to invade
every part of our lives. And I know you guys
probably see the same things that I see, where there's
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like this person on social media. It'say, hey, just so
you know, your kids are suffering because you have your
phone too much at home.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You should put your phone down.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And I'm doing this video because I'm an influencer and
I'm a great parenting advocate, and I'm telling you exactly
how to do this, and you're.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Thinking the same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'm thinking, Well, why are you putting this on social
media to tell me? Obviously you took time to be
on your phone to record this video to put on
social media to make me feel guilty about the fact
that I am also on my phone. We are all
doing it. There's no solution. It's not like you're just
going to give it up. I have friends who are like,
we have a rule at night, we put our phones
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in the basket. None of us are on our phones,
and that's fantastic. I wish that were my house, but
it's not, and I almost I kind of don't want
that to be my house because I also think we're
an incredibly social household, and my kids have times when
they talk to their friends.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But it was like a.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wake up call that I am now taking care of
my mom in a way, not really but at times,
and I'm busier by choice than she was at my age,
and it was I kind of have had a double
wake up call on this recently because we went on
this vacation and I wrote an not bet about it.
(03:05):
You can read it in the Washington Examiner. But it's
pretty simple. We really hadn't gone on vacation in a
long time. So we've been on vacations. I shouldn't say
that we've been on vacations, but did I really allow
myself to go on a vacation because we have spring
break every year and my parents have a house. We
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lost my dad a few years ago, so my mom
is in the house in Florida, and it's been like
just easy to take the kids there, and it's like
moving from one house to another and still carry on
with business during the week, and I say, oh, yeah,
I can. I can do a zoom call while I'm
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at my mom's house, and I could do a podcast,
and I could go out on TV and I can
have a dinner.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And it wasn't really vacation because I've allowed myself to
be too busy. So I started thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
About it, and I'm like, I go out. When I
was campaigning, I would. Everybody was like, oh, you're going
to Florida for spring break.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You could meet with people while you're there, and they
schedule like four nights.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That I'm meeting with someone.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then even after I got out of the campaign season,
it was like, well, there are still people who I.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Want to meet with while I'm down there, So when
I go, I will.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And then you start calculating and you're like, how many
nights of spring break do I get with my kids
in their lifetime. It's like, what one hundred and thirty
maybe maybe maybe less. And I decide that I'm going
to take some of those to do business. But honestly,
I didn't even realize it until this summer. I went
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on vacation with my kids and my mom and my
sister's family and we went to Hiltonhead Island. So hilton
Head is a place that my parents took us every
year when I was a kid because my parents actually
met there, so went and it was just an escape.
And when I was a kid, I didn't even think
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about this until I was there. When I was a kid,
my parents were just totally invested in us. My dad
would golf during the day, but the rest of the
time it was my mom was at the beach with us.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
She was playing with us. We would go back to
the house, we would have a meal, we would go
out to the shops.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
We would come back and play games. It was totally
focused on us. Because there were no cell phones. There
was nothing to distract you.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
When you left work. There wasn't even email.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I mean, you think about it's like hard for my
kids to even comprehend you were disconnected. You unless someone
found out the number of the house you were staying
at or your hotel.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You didn't have anybody calling.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So that I kind of did that when I went
on vacation with my family this time, and my kids
were like, this is amazing, this is so great. And
one time we were in at the and I was
in the waves with my girls. You know, phone is
someplace else. I am totally engaged with them, and my
oldest who is sixteen, she was right next to me,
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were playing in the waves and she goes, she whispers,
thank you, mommy, and I said, what are you thanking
me for? She's just being out here, being with us.
And it was like this recurring theme with my girls.
We're just so grateful that you're here. And it was
kind of like this wake up call. Have I been
great at being the Sandwich generation? Because part of that,
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at the other end of that sandwich is my kids.
And I would say, you know, I went on spring
break with them, or I was campaigning and I took them,
and I see this all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I think now I'm like hyper.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Aware of politicians who are out there with their kids,
and I think it was great for them.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Don't get me wrong, because my kids are super outgoing.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
They can talk to any adult, They are up on
the current topics, and they can have these amazing conversations
with no fear, and I think a lot of that
was campaigning. But I mean, it's not like my kids
are like, oh man, I'd really like to go back
and see the world's biggest ball of yarn.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You know, it's like you do things like that when
you're campaigning. You're like, now, look at that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I took my kids to see the world's biggest ball yarn.
They don't care, and they're literally never going to tell anyone.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's like the.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Least important thing that's ever happened to them. The things
you do with your kids, they've got to be meaningful.
And I'm telling you this not from the standpoint of
a parenting expert, but I hear people on social media constantly,
Like I said.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Those little videos where someone's like, you are not a
good parent if you're doing this. Look, we're all figuring
this out.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's the interesting part about parenting is there's literally no
rules outside of the Bible.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
There are no there's nothing that says when you come home.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I mean the very few rules of like, you know,
you have to feed them and give them a warm
place to sleep, and you know, give them water.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But the general rules of like how.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You parents, like, oh you can't give a phone at
this age, and you can't have a bicycle until this age,
and you can't have a Really no one has all
of those answers, but I will tell you that I
have become incredibly close to my kids, and I've realized
that that vacation time is so incredibly important because we
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are sandwiched between our kids and our parents, and as
soon as one of those groups gets independence, the other
group is losing independence and they need you, and it's
a weird balance. But I've found that with my kids,
being really close to them and being their best friends
has been one of the best choices that I can make.
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And this I find interesting because I've heard a lot
of people who have come out recently and said, don't
be your kid's best friend.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You're not your kid's best friend. You're the disciplinarian.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So I went on this vacation and my kids talk
to me about everything, and we talked about school and
all their fears, and we just had time to talk
about going into high school and what that's going to
be like, and they told me everything. Let's take a
quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
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A few years ago, one of my girls says to me,
they went to middle school camp. And so in middle
school they go to camp and they're like away from
me for one night, right, So that's like a big
deal because they're with all their friends and it's away.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
From their parents, and you're like at home thinking.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
This is great because I finally have a night by
myself and they're at at middle school camp, thinking like,
I don't know what I'm thinking about this because I'm
away from my parents, but it's like this transitional time.
So apparently all the girls are in middle school camp
and they're t talking about boys, and my daughter says
something about them.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I was talking to my mom about this boy.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I liked, and one of the girls goes, what do
you mean you were talking to your mom about it?
And she's like, yeah, I was telling my mom about
this boy that I liked, and she said I would
never tell my mom about any boy that I liked.
So then they go to bed and she hears, hey, hey, Elan,
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what's it like when you tell your mom about boy
that you like?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And she goes, I mean, I don't know, I just
talked to her about it.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And we go through it and we discuss what it's
like and why I like him, and she goes, man,
I'd never be brave enough. My mom would be so
mad at me if she found out I liked a boy.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'm like, that's the best.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
One of the best parts of watching them grow up
is hearing how they react to friends, how they react
to relationships, what they think about boys, because at a
certain point they're gonna I have a boyfriend, and I
don't want them hiding that from me. And I found
that these parents that are massive disciplinarians, they don't have
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a strong relationship with their kids. They think they do,
but their kids are hiding a lot from them. Like
I said, I'm not a parenting expert. I don't know,
but my experience with my kids has been like the
more we talk about things, the more open we are,
the more I know about their lives. So we get
back from vacation and we're getting ready for school, and
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my girls are like, oh, you know, we're going to
go back to school and we're going to see these
friends and these friends, and my one daughter is like, man,
I'm going to see friends that are going through this
really awkward phase right now. And I said, what do
you mean they're going through an awkward phase. And she said,
you know, we've got these two groups of parents at school,
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which I think is really fascinating because there's like so
many experts out there right now and when should you
kid have a cell phone? But this is like the
this is the message from the actual kids.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So they said, yeah, there's all.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
These kids now in high school that are getting their
first phones, so they're going through that phase. And I'm like,
what's the phase. So let me preface this by saying
I've always kind of been a believer that you don't
have to ban your kids from having a phone until
a certain age. But I will also say I was
a kid that when I got into fifth grade, I
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was on the phone every night talking to my friends.
My mom would have to pick up the other line,
kick me off the phone, tell me to do my homework.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But it was like a part of my life that
was so important.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Talking to my friends, having that interaction was so important
to me. Then I look at my kids and I'm
I think they don't have phones that are in the house,
and this idea that it's like they can't have a
phone at all, Well, then that critical part of their
life where they go from especially girls. I mean I
only have girls, so I don't know about boys. But
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the critical part of their life when they start to
communicate with their friends on their own. It's really like
it starts when you're ten, you're in fifth grade, when
you're a girl. But these kids missed it because they
went we were in this generation where we're like the
first generation parenting with phones, and these other parents like,
don't do not get your kid a phone so bad,
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they're gonna be depressed, they're gonna have all these problems.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So then it was interesting because you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Know, my theory was never that. I always thought they
should be able to communicate. So they're like, man, there's
these kids in high school. They're going through their awkward phase,
like what do you mean, Well, you know, you pull
you you send out these messages and they're embarrassing and
they don't know how to handle it, and they're starting
to watch things they've never watched before, and they start
to say weird things at school and I'm like, man,
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this is like a side of the the modern cell
phone that nobody talks about. But I have this great
relationship with my girls. So they tell me that I
was talking to my girlfriend about it, and I'm like, hey,
do your kids have a phone? And her kids are
in middle school, and I was telling her this situation
about like the whole awkwardness, and she goes, man, I
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never thought about that, but she said, yeah, my son
is he just got out of sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
He'll be going into seventh grade.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And she said, I read his text messages and I'm like, buddy,
you're saying.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Some weird stuff. She's like, well, man, what if he
were saying this when he was in high school? Exactly?
So for people out there, it's like this big.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Push right now, do not be your child's friend. I
am my girl's friends. I am also their disciplinarian, but
I am in every part of their life. And guess what,
my mom was in every part of my life, every
part of my life. My mom was my absolute best friend.
I remember when I would come home from going out
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at night, my parents were always up, they were never asleep,
they were always waiting for me, almost like codically, but
they were.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Like super overprotective.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So every time I went out in high school, and
I also think like when I was a kid, that
was another weird difference kids went out every single night,
and my girls, like their friends, don't go out every
single night. But I would go out, and when I
would come home, every time I would, my parents would
call me up to their bedroom and I would sit
down on the end of their bed and tell my
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mom everything that went on, everything about my friends, everything.
And so I feel like it as this kid now
in the Sandwich generation, my mom is still my best friend.
I get to talk to her about everything, and I
get and she talks to my kids like we are
all very, very close, and we all know we've all
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gotten close even through this technology. But being away from
technology really really reinforce the fact that I need to
make space for my kids when I am home, because
technology is different. When I got home from the when
I got home from going out. When I was in
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high school, my parents weren't sitting in the bedroom on
their phones. They were watching weird shows like Nick at
Night and you know whatever the equivalent of Blue Bloods
was back then, you know, like they're up there watching
Sometimes they would watch those stupid shows that were like
the Mari.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Povit Show, and they'd be like, oh.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You could be doing really bad, and we just saw
a girl that was doing really bad things.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I'm like, maybe you should not watch these shows.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Mom and dad, like, those were the shows that were
on when I was young, But that's what it was.
They were watching TV, you know, they weren't like doom scrolling.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Now. My mom will come to me and.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
She'd be like, do you know what they're doing to
children in India. I'm like, Mom, that's not actually happening.
This is something you saw on Facebook. Nothing is true.
That's the worst part. Like, none of the stuff is true.
So you're sandwich between what telling your kids what's true
and telling your parents what's true because they read something
like that's a lie, this is AI it was manufacturing.
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No I saw I saw a video like, no, you didn't.
It is a weird place for us to be in
the sandwich generation, But I also think it's a good
place as godly parents to sit and work through all
of these issues with them. You've heard me say before
that I talked to my girls about who they are,
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and that to me is really important to know who
they are and to hear through their.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Own voice who they are.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And if I were focused on only discipline in the
stern exterior and I know parents who feel it to
be a godly parent it has to be hardcore discipline
and a stern exterior, and that works for some families,
but for me, my godly parenting approach is to come
alongside them and say, tell me what's happening in your life,
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and let's determine who you are in God's image, what
gifts God has given you, and how you can use
who you are and those gifts God has given you
to grow in life. And I feel like that was
helpful to me when I was young too with my mom,
and it might have been a little different approach, but
she was definitely talking to me about who I am,
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so they know I'm of their authority, but they also
know that I'm there. And I guess this is the
sandwich because when we were in hilton Head, so we
went to hilton Head. Like I said, we lost my
dad in twenty twenty two. This is our first time
back to hilton Head. My parents met in hilton Head.
It's my first time back to hilton Head without my dad.
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And I think this is the first time that I
really felt like.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
There's a difference. This is a different.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Season in my life. My girls, my oldest is driving.
She's independent and when we're home, she can go wherever
she wants and just head out with friends. She has
that independence now.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And my mom is a.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Little more cautious now without my dad, and I think
that she was. You know, there were times in Hilton
Head that I could tell she was sad, and we
were sad. You know, my dad not being there felt crazy, crazy, wrong.
She's so strong, but it's like that was her other half.
So she's a little slower, she's a little more cautious.
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She didn't go out to the beach as much. And
I think that's a moment too as an adult, where
you go those days aren't coming back, and that's hard.
And I didn't have enough of those days with my girls.
I spent that time of busyness not stepping back and saying, man,
I'm going to spend all the time, all the vacations,
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pouring into them every minute, and I want to take
this time now to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Because it was such a wake up.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Call to be there, having my mom in the house
with the girls and seeing my mom slow down and
my mom take naps, you know, like this is a
woman who never napped and here She's like, she's at
a different point in her life and I need to
pour into my kids what she poured into me. So
she's listening to all of their stories. She's playing the
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games at night, she's watching the movies. But it's just
a little bit different. On the way back from Hilton Head,
so I made us drive. That also drove her crazy.
My dad would never have driven to Hilton Head. And
I'm like, yeah, hey, why don't we make an adventure
of this? Why don't we drive? Mom's like, what are
you talking about? Why would we do that? Like, why
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wouldn't we do that? We're taking the dog. It'll be great.
We'll stop in Lexington, we'll take the girls on a
college tour of my alma mater. It'll be fantastic. And
I actually, I do think it was great. It was
a long ride, and I think she was kind of
horrified by it, but it really didn't feel that bad
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because we got to talk the whole way. Then on
the way back, this is like that moment where you
see this vulnerability and you're like, man, things are changing.
She goes, the letters on my phone are getting distorted.
She's look at my phone when I type the letters,
look weird. Is something happening to my phone? Like no,
(21:29):
but she had just had this cataract surgery.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm like, I think it's just maybe it's just.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Your cataract surgery. Maybe something's different. She's like, I don't know,
it's really weird. I feel like my vision's a little different.
So she comes home and she goes to the doctor's
office and they were like, yeah, it looks like your
retina's torn. And my sister and I are like, oh man,
this is a problem. We have to get this fixed
(21:54):
right away. She sends her scans to the University of Michigan.
They call her and they're like, I think we should
see you tomorrow. So then we're panicked, you know, like,
oh my gosh, she's going to be blind. What are
we going to do? My sister's in Florida. She's like,
you gotta take her. And I'm immediately, of course, like yeah, yes,
And in my mind, I'm like, oh my gosh, what
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am I How do I get all of these things done?
Which hence is the reason I'm like rushing to do
a podcast and telling you about my whole life. But
I feel like this is something we all go through.
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. This is the point when my
friend goes, oh, you're in the Sandwich generation.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I'm like, hm, and I kind.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Of feel it right because I just rushed from a
parent meeting the other night, going from work to the
parent meeting, just had school orientation. Feel like this is
like pretty mom focused. Moms are probably more so in
sandwiched between. And then it's like I am trying to
get everything ready for the first day of school, parent
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meeting orientation, school supplies backpacks, everything all the last few
minutes of summer, and it's like they think I have
a torn retinas. So we have to take a day
and drive over to the University of Michigan.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And I'm like absolutely.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So we get in the car and this is like
this is part of having a parent, like this would
never have happened with my dad. But my mom is like, yeah,
this is the address, this is where we're going. And
for some reason, it never dawns on me that I
should be like, show me where they told you this
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is the address, because why wouldn't it be that's what
she's saying. So we drive and as we're driving, it's
like Gretchen Whitmer for six years has said she was
going to fix the damn roads. So she decided to
do it all in the last like eighteen months of
being governor. So I give her credit. They're getting fixed,
but it is hellish to drive across the state. So
(24:01):
we get in the car and it's like, your time
of arrival is ten, which is great because our appointment's
at ten forty five. But then as we're driving, the
GPS is like ten seventeen, ten twenty six, ten thirty six,
ten thirty seven, and I'm like, oh my gosh, we're
going to be late. So then you know, technology says,
(24:22):
oh go this way, and you go on all these
back roads you and then we got there at ten fifteen.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
We droven.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
We walk into the building this my mom says, this
isn't Brighton, it's not in ann Arbor. I'm like, oh, okay,
that good, that's closer. We walk up to check in
and the lady's like, your appointments in ann Arbor. And
there was like a full five seconds where I was like, well,
we're screwed. We drove all the way across the state
and now we're going to miss this appointment. And then
I'm like, no, we are making this. I was like, listen,
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I know you are going to try to walk slow
to the car, but you've got a hustle woman. We
are getting you to this appointment. And she was like, okay,
all right, we're gonna go. We bust a move down
to ann Arboro. We got in there, waited forever, so
I guess it didn't really matter that we were late.
The guy says, yeah, you've got to have surgery. So
I'm like, okay, we're going to figure this out. We're
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going to my sister and I are going to figure
out how we get her through this, and.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I'm glad to do it.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I absolutely love being a part of the Sandwich generation
because I get to take care of my kids and
I get to be there for my mom because she
was there for me in so many cases, not only
when I was pregnant.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
My gosh, when I went through cancer, I had to
go Ugh. When you go through.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Breast cancer and you have a double mastectomy there, I
am not good with medical things, and they have these
drains coming out of your body and they're disgusting. And
my mom was like I will be there for two weeks.
I will sit next to you in a hotel room
in Baltimore and empty these drains for you. I am
so grateful. Did I get to do something for her back?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Anything? I will do anything, In fact, even on the
way home. This is so my mom.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So we are coming home and it's like, there's this
huge slowdown on the highway. You've got to get off
and take this detour, and we're in her car. We
would have taken my car, but I had to take
my car for an oil change because I made her
take my car toohill Net. You know, we'd just driven
my car for a really long time. So of course
I'm like, oh, this also happens to be on the
(26:30):
day we're going to u M on the day that
I am getting an oil change. So we get off
the highway and we drive two and a half miles
to what is going to be a fourteen mile detour.
When we get two and a half miles in, it's
a dirt road. And she's like, oh, yeah, no, I said,
what do you mean, No, We're not taking this car
(26:52):
on a dirt road. I'm like, we're going to be
on the highway for an extra twenty minutes. If we
don't take this dirt road, She's like, I got time. Awesome,
let me turn this car around. We will not take
your heaven forbid, we go through the car wash. Will
not take your car on this dirt road. We will
get right back on the highway.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And then and we did.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Of course, why because she's my mom, and if she
tells me I'm not taking her car on a dirt road,
guess what, I'm not taking her car on a dirt road.
So we got back on the highway. We waited in traffic,
and we got to sit and talk. And I love it.
I get them all. I get my mom, I get
the kids, and I enjoy them.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I guess what.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Everybody loves the sandwich. And for a short period of time,
I get to be in the middle of the sandwich
and it seems like the very best spot. I am
good at being needed, I am not so good at needing,
and I'm headed to the.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Other side of the sandwich. I know it.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I hope I have made good enough friends with my
girls that they will drop everything and wipe their schedule
clear to jump in the car and drive me to
U of M.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
When I need it, so I.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Think that my friend was actually complaining when she said,
welcome to the sandwich generation, but I say welcome indeed.
I am so glad I get to be in the
middle of the sandwich for this short period of time.
And I hope you guys enjoy whatever part of life
you are in as well. Thank you so much for
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listening to me on the Tutor Dixon podcast today. For
this episode and others, go to Tutor dixonpodcast dot com.
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tune in next time to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Have
a blessed day and go out there and have a
(28:49):
sandwich
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