May 13, 2025 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guys, I don't know how many of you have like
teenage kids. Obviously, no one in the room does. I mean,
I know that Cheechi's like two going on, Yeah, you know, seventeen. However,
this is the latest thing that you didn't know you
needed to do as a parent that I'm learning this morning.
It's called the college bed party. Have you heard about
this or you have? Yeah, you've heard about this. So people, parents,
(00:25):
by people, I mean parents only people with money in
this equation are having to spend big bucks to announce
their kid's college decision. So college bound teens decide this
month or have decided early decision where they'll continue their education,
and parents are having to spend lots of hours and
thousands of dollars on bed parties for the announcements, which
(00:45):
in itself we spriake them up with a different name
for it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I didn't sound right. But the craze it was popularized.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
In the South apparently involves decorating a high school senior's
bed to the extreme with all of the school themed colors, candy, balloons,
and merch and Fans say that this expensive ritual is
a festive way to mark the milestone. While critics view
them as over the top displays of excess.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And you know this probably.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Started with like a blanket and a pillow and somebody
posted that to social media, maybe some balloons or something,
and now it's probably gone to like where there's a
Rolls Royce.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
In the bed.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yes, that's the color of the school. Because because this
is not about the kids.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
This is one of those things and there are so
many of them that I've learned in parenting. This is
not about the kids. The kids benefit from this. This
is about parents not being outdone by other parents. That's
what this is about.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Our social media. You got to show off to everybody.
That's what it is, because you can just literally hold
up your letter.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Was that what we did.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
We would hold up our letter and smile and I
got a.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
T shirt or a sweatshirt or something and it worre
to school one day and they're like, oh, you're going
to ask them you. We didn't think you'd get in there,
just barely, right. I don't even book storted by the sweatshirt.
That's what I got. I did go to the bookstore too.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
When I got accepted to IC, I say me a Halsted,
I want to go get a T shirt.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
You're in a cab. Yeah, well, I mean, but.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's what this is about. And I've learned that's what
a lot of parenting it's about. It's kind of sad.
It is sad, but I've learned the more than my
friends have kids older, they get that a lot of
what they do, they love their kids, they want the
best for their kids. I'm not discrediting their parentsing, but
if it's not what they're doing, it's how they're comparing themselves.
How you're comparing yourselves to what other parents are doing
(02:28):
for their kids and how they provide it. And it's
such an unfair thing to do because the parameters are
never the same.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's like if you're a working mom and dad works,
and you know, you're not able to pick your kid
up every day from school, and you're not able to
make these bento box lunches with your customed sushi rolls,
and you know, get up at four in the morning
and make tepaniaki for your kid, or you know, say,
this is crazy, crazy stuff that you see online.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You're not exaggerating, that's real.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And then you know your friend is. But your friend
maybe doesn't have to work because or whatever. Maybe the
husband works, or the wife works, someone makes a lot
of money, maybe someone has a lot of money, maybe
someone has a nanny, you know, so then you can
you can do some of this stuff, and then other
parents can't do it, and then they start to feel,
you know, resentful and feel bad.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's like, this is crazy. Yeah, do you love your kid?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Are you providing you know, nourishment and love and and
you know, shelter. Okay, fund me a nice sweatshirt or
something when I get into college, because I'm gonna have
to pay for that too. I'm sure I don't. I
just feel like it's all a big show for just
other people. And that's what I've learned in parenting. It's like,
even before I had.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
My baby, I would see certain things and I'm like,
did we really have to do this whole thing, like
for the first birthday party? I know, culturally, for some
cultures that is like a huge deal and I love it,
But for me, I was like, we're just gonna do
a pizza party with an open bar, which actually was.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I thought it was. It was really quite the sacrifice
you had. Frankie J. Attend that as opposed to your wedding.
I saved the twenty thousand and the several Southwest tickets
that we had to buy. Yes, I mean I couldn't
believe it. I watched into Danny's Pizza and there was
Frankie Jay saying that, you know, I don't want to
try yeah, And I was like.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
This is crazy pizza.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And and Gigi was drooling on herself and you know,
begging to go outside.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So it was crazy. It was like, can you appreciate this?
That's the Frankie jaye.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, I did this for you, not for anybody else,
yougg and she knew exactly what was going on at
that moment at age one.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
And I love a party that appeals to I love
a kid's party that appeals to adults. Not that I
get invited in many of those, but when I do,
I love a parent who's considered here's the area for
the kids, and here's the area for the adults. You know,
we have food, we have nice drink.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I liked the It was a one year old party
that you had, but it was pizza and beer and
sports and there was like stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
For the adults to do. Too. I appreciated that.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And then the little corner we had the balloons and
the tattoo people whatever, which a lot of adults got
glitter tattoos, so hey, it was for everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I got a neck tattoo I saw got it on Yeah, no,
but mine was permanent. I didn't realize. I thought, yeah,
I got that too. In this company. Apparently if you
have a neck tattoo, you make a lot more money.
I've decided to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So yeah, no, that's why I left it. Yeah, I
thought I thought it was going to wash off, but
in fact I didn't realize that they were permanent tattoos
that you were having to children.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, I should have told you.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, but the tear drop, that was one I really
thought would go away. But anyway, so I have to
explain that one to my to my friends. But yeah,
so that's the thing you're supposed to be doing for
your kids today. I'm sorry if you If you're not,
then you're just not You're not up to bar. It's
you have to what can you possibly do to a bed?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean, my parents were sad, they were in mourning
because they were helping me pay for it. So They're
like this is going to suck. You know, there's no
bed party. It was like you better figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Girl. My parents were static.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
They were like, really get out, really, Like what when
is the first day you can go? Like that?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Is there a summer semester? And there was? And they're like, great,
you should go to that. Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I did ask for an early movement. I was I
was the one ready to go. I was like, can
I come up early in clim of these storms?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, and it's a it's a famous story in my house.
But my parents were very has helped me with college
and that was always the thing growing up, was hey,
if you can get into Harvard, we'll help you with that.
Like if you can get into Harvard, which of course
I could not. I barely got into Skysdale Community College,
but that was the thing. So it came down and
you guys have probably heard the story, but it came
down to two schools in Dallas, in the Dallas area.
(06:17):
My mom went to SMU and the rival was TCU,
and those were that I got into both and those
were the school So we flew to Dallas and we
went to TCU and we had the hottest tour guide
and I had the best time and I loved it
there and it was great.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Then we went to SMU.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It was fine, it was fine, didn't have a hot
tour guide, it was whatever. I was really influenced by
the tour guide. I was they knew what they were doing.
And so we go to dinner. My mom is like, well,
what's you going to be? And I said, Mom, I
want to go to Texas Christian TCU, the rival. And
she's like, hmmm, how you gonna pay for that? She
was not kidding.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh, you guys are as me. And that's where I went,
good decision, I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
My kids a knock on a u of them, Well
that really really don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What if they got a scholarship to the rival college
doing it?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
What if they got a full ride scholarship and they
were going to pay them nil money to go to
Ohio State. So my kids and athletes, yeah, man, il
money to go to Ohio the Ohio State University.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Oh, they can go there, they just can't go to
you about.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I don't know, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And there's it's there are certain colleges like once you
get affiliated with them, stuff gets weird. And I'm not
going to sit here and list them all because because
you know what they are, and I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I don't want to make people mad.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But there's there are some colleges that once you become
involved in one rhymes for Notre Dame, things start to
get a little weird.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm just saying, you know, yeah, U, I see, that's
one of them. Things start to get a little weird.
U s.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's funny. They don't claim you anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
They used to, but.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, no, you're statue. They took it down.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
They took it down like I wish they could take
my neck. Tapte off my neck. Your kids birthday party
by Chapter Teddy flipped in two minutes.
Guys, I don't know how many of you have like
teenage kids. Obviously, no one in the room does. I mean,
I know that Cheechi's like two going on, Yeah, you know, seventeen. However,
this is the latest thing that you didn't know you
needed to do as a parent that I'm learning this morning.
It's called the college bed party. Have you heard about
this or you have? Yeah, you've heard about this. So people, parents,
(00:25):
by people, I mean parents only people with money in
this equation are having to spend big bucks to announce
their kid's college decision. So college bound teens decide this
month or have decided early decision where they'll continue their education,
and parents are having to spend lots of hours and
thousands of dollars on bed parties for the announcements, which
(00:45):
in itself we spriake them up with a different name
for it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I didn't sound right. But the craze it was popularized.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
In the South apparently involves decorating a high school senior's
bed to the extreme with all of the school themed colors, candy, balloons,
and merch and Fans say that this expensive ritual is
a festive way to mark the milestone. While critics view
them as over the top displays of excess.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And you know this probably.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Started with like a blanket and a pillow and somebody
posted that to social media, maybe some balloons or something,
and now it's probably gone to like where there's a
Rolls Royce.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
In the bed.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yes, that's the color of the school. Because because this
is not about the kids.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
This is one of those things and there are so
many of them that I've learned in parenting. This is
not about the kids. The kids benefit from this. This
is about parents not being outdone by other parents. That's
what this is about.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Our social media. You got to show off to everybody.
That's what it is, because you can just literally hold
up your letter.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Was that what we did.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
We would hold up our letter and smile and I
got a.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
T shirt or a sweatshirt or something and it worre
to school one day and they're like, oh, you're going
to ask them you. We didn't think you'd get in there,
just barely, right. I don't even book storted by the sweatshirt.
That's what I got. I did go to the bookstore too.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
When I got accepted to IC, I say me a Halsted,
I want to go get a T shirt.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
You're in a cab. Yeah, well, I mean, but.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's what this is about. And I've learned that's what
a lot of parenting it's about. It's kind of sad.
It is sad, but I've learned the more than my
friends have kids older, they get that a lot of
what they do, they love their kids, they want the
best for their kids. I'm not discrediting their parentsing, but
if it's not what they're doing, it's how they're comparing themselves.
How you're comparing yourselves to what other parents are doing
(02:28):
for their kids and how they provide it. And it's
such an unfair thing to do because the parameters are
never the same.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's like if you're a working mom and dad works,
and you know, you're not able to pick your kid
up every day from school, and you're not able to
make these bento box lunches with your customed sushi rolls,
and you know, get up at four in the morning
and make tepaniaki for your kid, or you know, say,
this is crazy, crazy stuff that you see online.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You're not exaggerating, that's real.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And then you know your friend is. But your friend
maybe doesn't have to work because or whatever. Maybe the
husband works, or the wife works, someone makes a lot
of money, maybe someone has a lot of money, maybe
someone has a nanny, you know, so then you can
you can do some of this stuff, and then other
parents can't do it, and then they start to feel,
you know, resentful and feel bad.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's like, this is crazy. Yeah, do you love your kid?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Are you providing you know, nourishment and love and and
you know, shelter. Okay, fund me a nice sweatshirt or
something when I get into college, because I'm gonna have
to pay for that too. I'm sure I don't. I
just feel like it's all a big show for just
other people. And that's what I've learned in parenting. It's like,
even before I had.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
My baby, I would see certain things and I'm like,
did we really have to do this whole thing, like
for the first birthday party? I know, culturally, for some
cultures that is like a huge deal and I love it,
But for me, I was like, we're just gonna do
a pizza party with an open bar, which actually was.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I thought it was. It was really quite the sacrifice
you had. Frankie J. Attend that as opposed to your wedding.
I saved the twenty thousand and the several Southwest tickets
that we had to buy. Yes, I mean I couldn't
believe it. I watched into Danny's Pizza and there was
Frankie Jay saying that, you know, I don't want to
try yeah, And I was like.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
This is crazy pizza.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And and Gigi was drooling on herself and you know,
begging to go outside.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So it was crazy. It was like, can you appreciate this?
That's the Frankie jaye.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, I did this for you, not for anybody else,
yougg and she knew exactly what was going on at
that moment at age one.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
And I love a party that appeals to I love
a kid's party that appeals to adults. Not that I
get invited in many of those, but when I do,
I love a parent who's considered here's the area for
the kids, and here's the area for the adults. You know,
we have food, we have nice drink.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I liked the It was a one year old party
that you had, but it was pizza and beer and
sports and there was like stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
For the adults to do. Too. I appreciated that.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And then the little corner we had the balloons and
the tattoo people whatever, which a lot of adults got
glitter tattoos, so hey, it was for everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I got a neck tattoo I saw got it on Yeah, no,
but mine was permanent. I didn't realize. I thought, yeah,
I got that too. In this company. Apparently if you
have a neck tattoo, you make a lot more money.
I've decided to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So yeah, no, that's why I left it. Yeah, I
thought I thought it was going to wash off, but
in fact I didn't realize that they were permanent tattoos
that you were having to children.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, I should have told you.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, but the tear drop, that was one I really
thought would go away. But anyway, so I have to
explain that one to my to my friends. But yeah,
so that's the thing you're supposed to be doing for
your kids today. I'm sorry if you If you're not,
then you're just not You're not up to bar. It's
you have to what can you possibly do to a bed?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean, my parents were sad, they were in mourning
because they were helping me pay for it. So They're
like this is going to suck. You know, there's no
bed party. It was like you better figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Girl. My parents were static.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
They were like, really get out, really, Like what when
is the first day you can go? Like that?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Is there a summer semester? And there was? And they're like, great,
you should go to that. Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I did ask for an early movement. I was I
was the one ready to go. I was like, can
I come up early in clim of these storms?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, and it's a it's a famous story in my house.
But my parents were very has helped me with college
and that was always the thing growing up, was hey,
if you can get into Harvard, we'll help you with that.
Like if you can get into Harvard, which of course
I could not. I barely got into Skysdale Community College,
but that was the thing. So it came down and
you guys have probably heard the story, but it came
down to two schools in Dallas, in the Dallas area.
(06:17):
My mom went to SMU and the rival was TCU,
and those were that I got into both and those
were the school So we flew to Dallas and we
went to TCU and we had the hottest tour guide
and I had the best time and I loved it
there and it was great.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Then we went to SMU.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It was fine, it was fine, didn't have a hot
tour guide, it was whatever. I was really influenced by
the tour guide. I was they knew what they were doing.
And so we go to dinner. My mom is like, well,
what's you going to be? And I said, Mom, I
want to go to Texas Christian TCU, the rival. And
she's like, hmmm, how you gonna pay for that? She
was not kidding.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh, you guys are as me. And that's where I went,
good decision, I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
My kids a knock on a u of them, Well
that really really don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What if they got a scholarship to the rival college
doing it?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
What if they got a full ride scholarship and they
were going to pay them nil money to go to
Ohio State. So my kids and athletes, yeah, man, il
money to go to Ohio the Ohio State University.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Oh, they can go there, they just can't go to
you about.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I don't know, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And there's it's there are certain colleges like once you
get affiliated with them, stuff gets weird. And I'm not
going to sit here and list them all because because
you know what they are, and I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I don't want to make people mad.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But there's there are some colleges that once you become
involved in one rhymes for Notre Dame, things start to
get a little weird.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm just saying, you know, yeah, U, I see, that's
one of them. Things start to get a little weird.
U s.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's funny. They don't claim you anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
They used to, but.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, no, you're statue. They took it down.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
They took it down like I wish they could take
my neck. Tapte off my neck. Your kids birthday party
by Chapter Teddy flipped in two minutes.
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