Parenting Expert Gen Muir Gives Surprising Advice!

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
All right, we've been talking about lazy parenting hacks, and
we've really come to the conclusion that all parents really
just want to lay down. That's all we want to do,
and you can play around us. So we thought it's
time to get an expert on.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Jen muer is a parenting expert, and Hailey pieces looking
at me, going I could do with a parenting expert. Yeah,
all the time.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I think we all could.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Everyone needs a parenting expert in their life. And she's
got all sorts of research here, which is gonna surprise you.
I reckon a little bit, Hailey, make you not alone.
Good morning Jen.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Good morning guys. How are you?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
We are well? Jen?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I got to say a stat alarmed me and made
me feel a little bit more normal but sad at
the same time. This is the start of eighty percent
of ossie parents feel guilty about not having enough playtime
with their kids.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Guilty, I know, and you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Parents are under so much pressure and the guilt. I'm
here to ditch the guilt. So we're parenting in a
world that is harder than the one our parents parented
us in. We're working harder, but actually, do you know
what's interesting about this stat is that parents are actually
playing with their kids more, even working parents then stay
at home parents. We're in the seventies, really, I know,

(01:32):
so we're actually doing better than we think. And the guilt.
I'm here to sort of ditch the guilt because I
think it doesn't help us.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
And I'm gonna be honest. I love silly play, right,
That's how I am in my life with my kids.
I do all kinds of silly fun things with them.
But I'm not gonna lie. I can't be bothered a
lot of the time. Like when you do do silly
play with the kids, do you feel so good?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
You feel so.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Connected to them afterwards, and it's so nice, I know,
But the act of doing it, so I'm just tired.
I don't want to get down on my knees and
play all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I know, and that's what I want parents to know
because I'm a mom of for boys and I know
how hard it is time, Like I completely get it,
and yet it actually saved us time. So I've got
a couple of really quick hacks that I think could
help parents out there. So number one, my youngest child
is he's just born resistant. Like if you ask him
to pick up his toys or feed the dog, he's like, aha,

(02:25):
why me? You know all of that stuff? Now if
I ask him to feed the dog, he will collapse.
But if I ask him to feed the dog, as
if I am the dog, I have put on the
dog's boys, h will you feed me? He was laughing,
And every single time he will feed the dog with ease.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
And then I make a great tip.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
And then my second piss is use technology. So we've
got the Amazon Alexa in our kitchen and while I'm
cooking dinner, there's like a program built into it where
kids can just walk up and say, hey, Alexa, let's
get silly. I've got four boys, so they like the
fart sounds of all the choices of the silly programs
that have got but you know, outsourcing it or even
just playing a silly song in the car. Again, I

(03:06):
have to recommend fart because it's true.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I've got boys too. I get it hours of.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Fart three year old man, and I will admit that
farts are still pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I kind of think we don't have to get on
the floor and do thirty minutes of play. You might
have a child that doesn't want to put their shoes
on and you just say home, does the shoe go
on my head? The child is laughing and next thing,
the shoes are on.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Right. So the silly parenting stuff can work for the
younger people. Hailey's got a thirteen year old. Does silly
start to go out of fashion for thirteen year olds?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, you've got to be careful with it.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, I get the roll of the eyes, like you're
a loser.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Mom's a dork. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Look, my fifteen year old told me on the weekend
that I have negative aura, and I'm that's not a
good bit.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's not a good thing to have negative Or I
get told I'm a bum, you're a bumb mom. You
also get called bro all the time. So what can
we do with the teens?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Jam?

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, Look, you've got to choose your moments with the teens.
They're almost like cats versus dogs. You've got to wait
till the cat comes to you. If they engage you
in a silly moment, go with it as if it's
the cat coming to you. Go with it, but don't
be too needy, is my advice. If you're too needy,
you push them away.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
We appreciate your time. Thank you so much for taking
us through a bit of silly parenting this morning.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thank you so much for having me