August 12, 2025 • 6 mins
Fred saw his nieces over the weekend and he was constantly worried about their safety. Fred wants to know when that anxiety will slowly fade away...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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her brand new Las Vegas residency. Jennifer Lopez off All
Night Live in Las Vegas March thirteenth, twenty twenty six
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
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sixth through the twenty eighth.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
They talk better than they say. These are the radio
blogs on The Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Like we're running in our diaries, except we say them aloud.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We call them blogs. I'm gonna take this one, dear blog.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I uh okay, now wait a minute, I'm scared. Now
I pushed the button, but then I'm afraid if I
pushed the button again.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
We'll get suck on that. Okay, I don't know. I
pushed it twice. What I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I reset all the computers eight times, and now my
outlook works, so that's cool. But it was but it
was like the seventh reset, you know, Okay. Tech Support's like,
well duh. I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize
the seventh time would do it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
My bad. You're a big company outlook, my.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Bad, and many of us are having this issue, right
but they want me to call and I've done that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh yeah, you become it when you put a ticket in. Girl,
It's like, no, you work for us, now it's your blog.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So we had a little radio conference last week, and
then since I was in Texas, I went from Austin
to Dallas to see my nieces now.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And by the way, every.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Time I talk about going to Dallas, I'm going to
see my nieces now. My sister lives there as well,
my brother in law. They happened to be, you know,
the parents of the nieces. But that's not really why
I'm there. Let's be honest. I'm there to see my nieces. Polly,
who's four and a half and mave, who's I think
two ish?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm losing track of how ol day or it doesn't matter,
but I hang out with these girls and I'm supervised, right.
I think we're at the point now where I could
be unsupervised with at least Polly, because Polly can use
the bathroom by herself, and that was kind of the
big barrier.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I probably could have gone in there with her. We
could have figured it out, but like, I don't know,
I'm not I don't know how to do this parenting thing.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How old is she? Polly four and a half? Oh?
She suddenly helped wiping though. If it's a number two, well,
good for me. I guess it's fine. You're fine.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I would do it, it doesn't matter. Whatever she needs, whatever
she needs, But I don't. I don't really know what
I'm doing. So it's it's I think they'd probably like,
let me go figure it out, but I don't anyway,
So like we I just when did when do you
lose as a parent? This sense that they're going to
break at every turn? Because, like you know, we went
(02:49):
to Target because they had to get some stuff, and
then Polly wanted one of those little cake pops.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So we go over to the thing.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And I'm walking with her and like I'm holding her
hand and she's fine with that, but then she runs
ahead of me and I'm like, hold on, hold on,
and what are you doing? So I'm chasing after this
She's nothing going to happen. And then she's you know,
looking around and all this stuff at the Starbucks and
touching everything, and I'm just like, I'm like, I create
this like bubble around her, you know. And then I
don't know when do you? And then they're in the
(03:16):
car and I'm like, are you sure they builds it
in right?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Like you sure?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And my brother in law and my sister are like
they're fine, dude, Like everything's fine. When do you lose
this like sense that that you don't have to watch
every single step they make? I think it's you have
that second kid, because I think if this was just Polly,
your brother, your brother in law, and your sister would
not be that chill. I helicopter over these kids and yes,
then they're like jumping around on the couch. They're disassembling
(03:40):
the couch and turning it into a trampoline. I'm like Amanda, I.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Know is this and she's just chilling and I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Sitting on the couch, so like, I know that if
something happens to one of these kids, it's I'm gonna
get blamed, yep, because I'm sitting right there even though
this is all happening around me and they're just I'm like,
I don't know, PAULI don't do that, And I don't
want to be the guy that says don't do that,
but I I know if she's trips the one time
and I'm sitting there, that is going to be Bubba Broker?
Does it call me Bubba? So I'm just when do
(04:06):
you lose this sense that they're going to break all
the time? It is my question because I don't I
don't know when I'm gonna I don't know if there's
ever gonna be a time where I'm comfortable being with
them where I don't feel like if anything happens then
I will be excommunicated from the family, you know, but
you have a lot of nephews, yes, I mean, is
there ever a point where you take them out to
(04:27):
do stuff and you're like, just let them go, They'll
be fine.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They can go with me.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
When they can eat hot wings and watch Real Housewives.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's a good one. Which is what age? Would you say? Seven? Ten?
At what agees are the Housewives appropriate?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
But yeah, I need you to be able to, you know,
wipe and talk in all of that.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Okay, so you knew as a as a woman with
a maternal instinct with you know, with all these nephews, nine.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Of them, I lost counsel.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I can understand why even you won't take them on
your own until they're ten.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, pretty much?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Okay, good Now I feel better about this because I've
been a little resistant and even though I want to
to be like, come on, you come with me and
we're gonna go out and have a day, because I
don't know what would happen.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
There's a lot of angles. I wouldn't know how to deal.
I wouldn't know how to do. I wouldn't know what
to do. I wouldn't be able to triage you. I
wouldn't be able to handle it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
No, you know, I wouldn't know what to do, not
only because it's a girl, because it's a kid. I
wouldn't know what to do, yep, And so I don't.
But I'm just curious when this sense of like, Okay,
everything's gonna be all right, and and and the helicoptering ends,
and for me maybe the answer is never.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I can just hear it now, you know, poly skins
your knee. What did you let her do? I don't know, Amanda.
She was swinging off of the couch. I know she
climbed the wall earlier in front of you, and that
was okay. She was on the dining room table previously.
But yeah, I went to this place called the landing Strip,
(05:59):
but I under see it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But it's not by the airport. They loved her there.
You should have seen it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Man, she really took to those to turquoise and in
candy or whatever. Okay, so it's ten years old.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yes, that's the safer, safe age. But then I'm afraid
of like, okay, so ten's fine. And then we get twelve, thirteen, fourteen.
Now we get into some areas where I also don't
know what I would be doing. So that's scary too.
So I'm thinking maybe just twenty one.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
That's the say, not even then, not never.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, by twenty one, everything's under I mean not under control,
not mentally, but like there's some sense of there's not
no n bar
This is the Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's get you Hotel a trip for Tunisie Jennifer Lopez
her brand new Las Vegas residency. Jennifer Lopez off All
Night Live in Las Vegas March thirteenth, twenty twenty six
at the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace. Text dance to three
seven three three seven right now for a chance to
win two tickets to the March thirteenth show at two
Night Hotel's Day March twelve through the fourteenth, patted the
(00:24):
Flamingo Hotel, Casino Las Vegas and Brown Tavert Fair. A
confirmation text will be sent DENNERD message and data rates
may apply.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
All thanks to Live Dation.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster dot com for
all shows running December thirtieth through January third, and March
sixth through the twenty eighth.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
They talk better than they say. These are the radio
blogs on The Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Like we're running in our diaries, except we say them aloud.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We call them blogs. I'm gonna take this one, dear blog.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I uh okay, now wait a minute, I'm scared. Now
I pushed the button, but then I'm afraid if I
pushed the button again.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
We'll get suck on that. Okay, I don't know. I
pushed it twice. What I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I reset all the computers eight times, and now my
outlook works, so that's cool. But it was but it
was like the seventh reset, you know, Okay. Tech Support's like,
well duh. I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize
the seventh time would do it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
My bad. You're a big company outlook, my.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Bad, and many of us are having this issue, right
but they want me to call and I've done that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh yeah, you become it when you put a ticket in. Girl,
It's like, no, you work for us, now it's your blog.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So we had a little radio conference last week, and
then since I was in Texas, I went from Austin
to Dallas to see my nieces now.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And by the way, every.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Time I talk about going to Dallas, I'm going to
see my nieces now. My sister lives there as well,
my brother in law. They happened to be, you know,
the parents of the nieces. But that's not really why
I'm there. Let's be honest. I'm there to see my nieces. Polly,
who's four and a half and mave, who's I think
two ish?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm losing track of how ol day or it doesn't matter,
but I hang out with these girls and I'm supervised, right.
I think we're at the point now where I could
be unsupervised with at least Polly, because Polly can use
the bathroom by herself, and that was kind of the
big barrier.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I probably could have gone in there with her. We
could have figured it out, but like, I don't know,
I'm not I don't know how to do this parenting thing.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How old is she? Polly four and a half? Oh?
She suddenly helped wiping though. If it's a number two, well,
good for me. I guess it's fine. You're fine.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I would do it, it doesn't matter. Whatever she needs, whatever
she needs, But I don't. I don't really know what
I'm doing. So it's it's I think they'd probably like,
let me go figure it out, but I don't anyway,
So like we I just when did when do you
lose as a parent? This sense that they're going to
break at every turn? Because, like you know, we went
(02:49):
to Target because they had to get some stuff, and
then Polly wanted one of those little cake pops.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So we go over to the thing.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And I'm walking with her and like I'm holding her
hand and she's fine with that, but then she runs
ahead of me and I'm like, hold on, hold on,
and what are you doing? So I'm chasing after this
She's nothing going to happen. And then she's you know,
looking around and all this stuff at the Starbucks and
touching everything, and I'm just like, I'm like, I create
this like bubble around her, you know. And then I
don't know when do you? And then they're in the
(03:16):
car and I'm like, are you sure they builds it
in right?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Like you sure?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And my brother in law and my sister are like
they're fine, dude, Like everything's fine. When do you lose
this like sense that that you don't have to watch
every single step they make? I think it's you have
that second kid, because I think if this was just Polly,
your brother, your brother in law, and your sister would
not be that chill. I helicopter over these kids and yes,
then they're like jumping around on the couch. They're disassembling
(03:40):
the couch and turning it into a trampoline. I'm like Amanda, I.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Know is this and she's just chilling and I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Sitting on the couch, so like, I know that if
something happens to one of these kids, it's I'm gonna
get blamed, yep, because I'm sitting right there even though
this is all happening around me and they're just I'm like,
I don't know, PAULI don't do that, And I don't
want to be the guy that says don't do that,
but I I know if she's trips the one time
and I'm sitting there, that is going to be Bubba Broker?
Does it call me Bubba? So I'm just when do
(04:06):
you lose this sense that they're going to break all
the time? It is my question because I don't I
don't know when I'm gonna I don't know if there's
ever gonna be a time where I'm comfortable being with
them where I don't feel like if anything happens then
I will be excommunicated from the family, you know, but
you have a lot of nephews, yes, I mean, is
there ever a point where you take them out to
(04:27):
do stuff and you're like, just let them go, They'll
be fine.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They can go with me.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
When they can eat hot wings and watch Real Housewives.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's a good one. Which is what age? Would you say? Seven? Ten?
At what agees are the Housewives appropriate?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
But yeah, I need you to be able to, you know,
wipe and talk in all of that.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Okay, so you knew as a as a woman with
a maternal instinct with you know, with all these nephews, nine.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Of them, I lost counsel.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I can understand why even you won't take them on
your own until they're ten.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, pretty much?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Okay, good Now I feel better about this because I've
been a little resistant and even though I want to
to be like, come on, you come with me and
we're gonna go out and have a day, because I
don't know what would happen.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
There's a lot of angles. I wouldn't know how to deal.
I wouldn't know how to do. I wouldn't know what
to do. I wouldn't be able to triage you. I
wouldn't be able to handle it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
No, you know, I wouldn't know what to do, not
only because it's a girl, because it's a kid. I
wouldn't know what to do, yep, And so I don't.
But I'm just curious when this sense of like, Okay,
everything's gonna be all right, and and and the helicoptering ends,
and for me maybe the answer is never.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I can just hear it now, you know, poly skins
your knee. What did you let her do? I don't know, Amanda.
She was swinging off of the couch. I know she
climbed the wall earlier in front of you, and that
was okay. She was on the dining room table previously.
But yeah, I went to this place called the landing Strip,
(05:59):
but I under see it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But it's not by the airport. They loved her there.
You should have seen it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Man, she really took to those to turquoise and in
candy or whatever. Okay, so it's ten years old.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yes, that's the safer, safe age. But then I'm afraid
of like, okay, so ten's fine. And then we get twelve, thirteen, fourteen.
Now we get into some areas where I also don't
know what I would be doing. So that's scary too.
So I'm thinking maybe just twenty one.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
That's the say, not even then, not never.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, by twenty one, everything's under I mean not under control,
not mentally, but like there's some sense of there's not
no n bar
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