Your Heartfelt Messages In Response To Amanda Keller's Reflection On Raising Her Children

Yesterday, we entered the blub zone as we reflected on Mia Freedman's beautiful words on raising her children. 24 hours later, we received an onslaught of heartfelt messages that we couldn't help but share!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. I find it if
I just put Wendy Matthews the day you went away on,
that puts you into the bloods. Look, it's all very raw,
isn't it. And yesterday I was referencing an article that
Mere Friedman wrote about being the mother of sons and
how it's the longest breakup of your life and how

(00:21):
exquisitely painful it is to watch them grow away from you.
That was so eloquent what you said. There are many
crazy things about being a parent, and one that definitely
wasn't in the brochure is the way you don't actually
parent one person one child. Your parents very differently have
a newborn, a baby, a toddler, a preschool schooler, a
primary age kid, a preteen, an adolessad, a full blown teen,

(00:42):
a young adult, and then an adult.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
And they all answer to the same name, and they
all call you mom, and you never notice the inflection
point where one morphs into the next.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm sorry, I was beloved. I just wanted to say,
isn't this a great piece of riety you? Oh? But
me as words and me balling. It just touched a
nerve we had about a thousand Facebook messages and messages
from all over the place. Yesterday from Michelle, I love

(01:17):
listening to you too. I'm scared to listen on the
bus because I keep blubbering, uh Annett Wallace says. And
now my own son's about to have his own child,
another level of emotion. This really women just understood this
so implicitly. Beth has written thanks for sharing people who
write things like this to help us almost spiritually hold

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our hand as we try to get through the path
of parenthood with our beautiful children intact, emotionally and physically.
What about this one from Dannielle. I was listening to
you on the way to work and I couldn't stop
sobbing tears of unconditional love and heartbreak. I miss my
precious ginger curled baby, the toddler, the young child. I
know I'm increasingly not the sun around which his world revolves.

(01:59):
Although my I strung, my strong, willed, beautiful, opinionated, social
media obsessed teen is near and still wants his cuddles
every day. I miss him. Isn't that the thing that
you miss who they've been because you don't see them?
And this one came from Helen yesterday. She said, I
have two boys twenty nine twenty seven. They still live
at home, and everything he said hit home in a

(02:20):
big way. My oldest boy is telling me I need
to cut the cord, and he's not my little boy today.
He's having an operation. He asked me not to take
him or pick him up. He wanted his dad. He explained,
I'd make him feel a bit anxious and dad would
be relaxed. While trying to keep my emotions relaxed. I
swallowed hard and said, sure, I understand, while inside my
heart was breaking. So as I was listening to you

(02:40):
and crying my eyes out, his dad was taking him
to hospital after the operation. He was in recovery and
I received a call from the hospital to say he
was good. My heart burst because even though he didn't
want me there, he gave them my number to call.
He sent me a message to say I'm a bit
sore and I love you, And she said the words
you've read through your tears are so true. And to
be honest, I've spent the day thinking back to when

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my little boys became men and thinking you I've missed it.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Where are you going again? I know that's sad, so that.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Thanks to Mia for writing that article that just we're
all in this together. The exquisite pain of loving your
adult son.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Very well said.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Now, can we get back to talking about butt pots
and they Pandas joins the and Amanda, good morning, an
tell you