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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kevin is the fun parent. Man. So this is a conversation.
I gotta get focused.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is a conversation that Josiah's mother, Jasmine, and I
have had before, and we have one more serious recently.
And shout out to Josiah's mom, Jasmine. Since I've started
on Mojo in the Morning Show, I haven't physically been
able to take Josiah to school, and Jasmine has been
the parent that has been the school parent.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
She's taking him to school most days.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I try to get him from school on most days
as often as I can. I'll be picking him up
from school today. But it's not the same when I
still have to bring him to her and she has
to be the one to make sure he gets a
bath or a shower at night, make sure he has
his uniform clothes, make sure he does his homework, has
to wake him up, make sure he's got his lunch,
make sure he's the school on time. And she's now
(00:49):
in a position, and has been in a position for
a few years now, where she's not the fun parent.
She's the one that's having the homework discussions that you
gotta go to bed right now discussions, the one you
gotta wake up in the morning discussions that what's your
test you have to study? Like she's that parent and
I get them primarily on the weekends, and I'm the
fun parent. We're going to the movies, We're going to
(01:11):
Dave and Busters, We're going to Zap Zone, like we're
doing all the fun things. And that is like now
our dynamic where kind of Josiah sees her as the
more strict parent and sees me as the fun parent.
And I would personally love to hear from other parents
who are operating in the same way, who.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Are the fun I like the fun parents and the yeah, yeah,
it's so fun parent, right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Because like I want to know from from their perspective,
the people who are Jasmine in this situation, like how
bad does it suck? And what are some things I
can do to alleviate that stress and give her times
where she can be looked at as the fun parent
as well, because I don't want to just like to
grow up and look at her like, man, you are
so mean or you.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Have to do a homework all the time, Like I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Want that to be their dynamic. But that's our family
dynamic right now. So we got to do to make
it work.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, you guys do a do a great job of
making it work.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And it's nice too because you guys are so positive
with each other.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We are now, we love, we have our docket number,
We've been in court, we've had our issues.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
We're in a much better place now. It's funny because
of you. Like I think about this, I think like
picturing Josiah. I figured during the week he's getting like
chicken with vegetables and maybe a potato and at Cavs
House pizza trying to cut down sweetwater wings.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's pizza, rice and beans, whatever's in refrigerator, whatever you need, Bro,
what bro fudge?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Brownie? Stress?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Like sometimes that's the food we brought about. Peter butter
Jelly sewers ecstatic. What's up Emily High?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Hey, I don't know if my camp. I'm a single mom,
so I have to play both sides, like the fun
you know, some side. Sorry, And my son's a teenager
now and a freshmanhigh school.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
And I'm I'm struggling because it's it's just you know,
if you're a guy, and if you're you've been a teenager,
you know, like the attitude is real so I'm trying
to find that balance of like are gonna say today
or we are we gonna have fun? Because it changes
every hour.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Do you ever just do you ever just vocalize that
with him and say to him, so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, I call him out like you're pouting right now,
and I'll do it all this stuff, but like I can,
I can see what you're doing, but it's in the moment.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Hey, hey, great job.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
By the way, mom, you probably you probably don't give
yourself enough credit, but seriously, you're you're raising a good human.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So great job. Marvin. What's going on? Marvin?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Are you the fun fund?
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I was thinking about Kevin.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Kevin.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Yeah, I'm the phone parent, like I said, you met. Yeah,
he's in a car now too.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
What's up? What he said?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
What's up? But yeah, I'm the fun parent. Like sometime
my wife, who like keep being there on his and
she'd be like, he need to go to bed. I'm like,
what it is is he gets? He gets he's a
four point oh student. I don't have no problem with him.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's cool.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
But you know what I think, every now and again,
you got to let her be the fun mom, like
you gotta you gotta be the one disciplined and telling
them to get off his oculus and let her be
the one that gets to have fun and play around
with him.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I think I think Kev's.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Thing of saying what he said about you know, Jasmine,
is that she does you don't want it. Later in life,
where Josiah is looking at his mom, going, you were
really not a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, look we got told in a card. Do we
have permission to ask him a question?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So Totlan, you're in this position. Do you view your
mom as the more strict parent? Do you view your
dad as the fun parent?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
A little bit?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And does that How does that affect the way that
you approach them for certain things? Like do you only
go to dad for stuff? Or like you try to
stay away from mom because she's more.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Strict most of the time, but sometimes.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, if you get in trouble at school, who do
you go to first?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Dally the phone?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
If your phone a friend, If you're in the principal's office,
you're calling dad up before you're calling mom up.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Probably, Yeah, have a good day in school, my man
keep up.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Thanks guys, Marvin, thanks buddy, thanks thanks for calling. Uh
Heather is the mom the strict right Heather?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
I sure, I am.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah. What's that like?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
First of all, keV.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
I would like to tell you that I appreciate the
fact that you take that into consideration because the other
parent doesn't always think about those things. I am a
longtime listener. This is my first time calling it. I
(06:31):
just wanted to talk about the struggles actually, you know,
the late nights of doing homework and bedtime struggles and
all those things. Like you know, you have those moments
where you're alone and you're doing these things and you're like, God,
it must be nice to be able to be the
Disneyland dad or Yeah, I don't get to take vacations
(06:53):
and I don't get to take them to Dave and Busters,
and I don't you know, not very often, so but
I get to see that than on the other end
of things, and you know, that kind of is not fair.
It doesn't feel fair, and it's actually frustrating a lot
of the time.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Completely honest with you, keV asked the question that he
wanted to ask. I don't know if you want to
ask this to Heather, but what can he do for
Jasmine to help her out? What would you want your
guy to do for you.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
You know, the days that you pick him up, maybe
you know, stay with him, do some homework with him
if he has homework, or I don't know, maybe on
a weekend, maybe let her keep him for a weekend.
Then let her take him and do things with him.
And if she can, I would think. I just feel like,
if there's maybe offer her, ask her what it is
(07:44):
that you could take off of her plate to help
her in these situations.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You know, Chelsea and I were co parenting obviously in
the same house together, but I was the Disney dad
and she was the strict parent. And one of the
things that she said to me one time, similar to this,
you know conversation that we're having, was she just wanted
me to support her and when the kids do have
a moment, like support her and say, guys, you could listen,
you listen to you know, I support what your mom
(08:09):
is saying right now. And so sometimes even just showing
the support probably Heather as good.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
That's the biggest thing I've learned from co parenting is
because especially Lucy at eleven like she's kind of sneaky.
She knows who to work, either myself or her dad.
And as soon as I say, like, the phone is
such a huge thing, she wants a phone so bad.
As soon as I say, dad and I have spoken
about this, we are on the same page. You're not
getting a phone. And then instantly it's like we're both.
(08:35):
We're both We're both the bad not fun parent. Do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, what's what's up? Mikey there?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Hey, what's up. How you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
We're good, buddy? Are you the Disney dad?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah? I think you know what.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
That's kind of a slur for single dads out here.
I'm just gonna throw that out there. I just don't
want to hear that.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
It's like I have the means.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
So my daughter is eight years old at her mom's.
We share fifty fifties, so we go back and forth,
and her mom she has a little sister, so it's
a little harder to take two kids to go do
stuff and everything like that. So I get branded with
the Disney term a lot. But it's like, I'm just
trying to take my kid to do fun stuff. We
still do the homework and everything like that. But I mean,
(09:18):
I just have the means to do it. But I
do understand and we support each other, but it's just
it's tough sometimes for her.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That's interesting. So she your daughter? Is it a daughter?
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, right now, Grace, Grace.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
So because you only because you hate what's what's going on?
You're hanging with the Disney dad right now. I love it.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
I'm just kidding to school, believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
No, Nah, forget school, let's go downs. But you definitely
that's it. You bring up an interesting point, especially if
mom has another child within, you know, in the next
relationship and stuff like that, maybe not doesn't have the means.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
To do it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Like that's uh, that's actually a really really interesting conversation
that you just brought up.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Hey, Grace, you love it? Like who do you love more? Grace?
Mom or Dad? Grace? Do you love good? Grace?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Great answer? Yes, it's a holiday time answer you. Hey,
thanks you guys for calling up.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Thanks for sharing with us.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Bye bye, guys.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I just read a text message and it was somebody
that said, this is why I love listening to your show.
Everybody on your show is so different and you guys
bring up the struggles that we all are bringing up
in our lives right now. Kevin, thank you so much
for bringing this conversation to the air.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Appreciate y'all for listening and giving feedback. That's what makes
it's a conversation. We're not talking to you, we're talking
with you all, so I appreciate you for feedback.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And if just I is listening, your mom is definitely
the smarter parent. So when at times
Kevin is the fun parent. Man. So this is a conversation.
I gotta get focused.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is a conversation that Josiah's mother, Jasmine, and I
have had before, and we have one more serious recently.
And shout out to Josiah's mom, Jasmine. Since I've started
on Mojo in the Morning Show, I haven't physically been
able to take Josiah to school, and Jasmine has been
the parent that has been the school parent.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
She's taking him to school most days.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I try to get him from school on most days
as often as I can. I'll be picking him up
from school today. But it's not the same when I
still have to bring him to her and she has
to be the one to make sure he gets a
bath or a shower at night, make sure he has
his uniform clothes, make sure he does his homework, has
to wake him up, make sure he's got his lunch,
make sure he's the school on time. And she's now
(00:49):
in a position, and has been in a position for
a few years now, where she's not the fun parent.
She's the one that's having the homework discussions that you
gotta go to bed right now discussions, the one you
gotta wake up in the morning discussions that what's your
test you have to study? Like she's that parent and
I get them primarily on the weekends, and I'm the
fun parent. We're going to the movies, We're going to
(01:11):
Dave and Busters, We're going to Zap Zone, like we're
doing all the fun things. And that is like now
our dynamic where kind of Josiah sees her as the
more strict parent and sees me as the fun parent.
And I would personally love to hear from other parents
who are operating in the same way, who.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Are the fun I like the fun parents and the yeah, yeah,
it's so fun parent, right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Because like I want to know from from their perspective,
the people who are Jasmine in this situation, like how
bad does it suck? And what are some things I
can do to alleviate that stress and give her times
where she can be looked at as the fun parent
as well, because I don't want to just like to
grow up and look at her like, man, you are
so mean or you.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Have to do a homework all the time, Like I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Want that to be their dynamic. But that's our family
dynamic right now. So we got to do to make
it work.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, you guys do a do a great job of
making it work.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And it's nice too because you guys are so positive
with each other.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We are now, we love, we have our docket number,
We've been in court, we've had our issues.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
We're in a much better place now. It's funny because
of you. Like I think about this, I think like
picturing Josiah. I figured during the week he's getting like
chicken with vegetables and maybe a potato and at Cavs
House pizza trying to cut down sweetwater wings.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's pizza, rice and beans, whatever's in refrigerator, whatever you need, Bro,
what bro fudge?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Brownie? Stress?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Like sometimes that's the food we brought about. Peter butter
Jelly sewers ecstatic. What's up Emily High?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Hey, I don't know if my camp. I'm a single mom,
so I have to play both sides, like the fun
you know, some side. Sorry, And my son's a teenager
now and a freshmanhigh school.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
And I'm I'm struggling because it's it's just you know,
if you're a guy, and if you're you've been a teenager,
you know, like the attitude is real so I'm trying
to find that balance of like are gonna say today
or we are we gonna have fun? Because it changes
every hour.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Do you ever just do you ever just vocalize that
with him and say to him, so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, I call him out like you're pouting right now,
and I'll do it all this stuff, but like I can,
I can see what you're doing, but it's in the moment.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Hey, hey, great job.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
By the way, mom, you probably you probably don't give
yourself enough credit, but seriously, you're you're raising a good human.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So great job. Marvin. What's going on? Marvin?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Are you the fun fund?
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I was thinking about Kevin.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Kevin.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Yeah, I'm the phone parent, like I said, you met. Yeah,
he's in a car now too.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
What's up? What he said?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
What's up? But yeah, I'm the fun parent. Like sometime
my wife, who like keep being there on his and
she'd be like, he need to go to bed. I'm like,
what it is is he gets? He gets he's a
four point oh student. I don't have no problem with him.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's cool.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
But you know what I think, every now and again,
you got to let her be the fun mom, like
you gotta you gotta be the one disciplined and telling
them to get off his oculus and let her be
the one that gets to have fun and play around
with him.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I think I think Kev's.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Thing of saying what he said about you know, Jasmine,
is that she does you don't want it. Later in life,
where Josiah is looking at his mom, going, you were
really not a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, look we got told in a card. Do we
have permission to ask him a question?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So Totlan, you're in this position. Do you view your
mom as the more strict parent? Do you view your
dad as the fun parent?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
A little bit?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And does that How does that affect the way that
you approach them for certain things? Like do you only
go to dad for stuff? Or like you try to
stay away from mom because she's more.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Strict most of the time, but sometimes.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, if you get in trouble at school, who do
you go to first?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Dally the phone?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
If your phone a friend, If you're in the principal's office,
you're calling dad up before you're calling mom up.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Probably, Yeah, have a good day in school, my man
keep up.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Thanks guys, Marvin, thanks buddy, thanks thanks for calling. Uh
Heather is the mom the strict right Heather?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
I sure, I am.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah. What's that like?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
First of all, keV.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
I would like to tell you that I appreciate the
fact that you take that into consideration because the other
parent doesn't always think about those things. I am a
longtime listener. This is my first time calling it. I
(06:31):
just wanted to talk about the struggles actually, you know,
the late nights of doing homework and bedtime struggles and
all those things. Like you know, you have those moments
where you're alone and you're doing these things and you're like, God,
it must be nice to be able to be the
Disneyland dad or Yeah, I don't get to take vacations
(06:53):
and I don't get to take them to Dave and Busters,
and I don't you know, not very often, so but
I get to see that than on the other end
of things, and you know, that kind of is not fair.
It doesn't feel fair, and it's actually frustrating a lot
of the time.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Completely honest with you, keV asked the question that he
wanted to ask. I don't know if you want to
ask this to Heather, but what can he do for
Jasmine to help her out? What would you want your
guy to do for you.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
You know, the days that you pick him up, maybe
you know, stay with him, do some homework with him
if he has homework, or I don't know, maybe on
a weekend, maybe let her keep him for a weekend.
Then let her take him and do things with him.
And if she can, I would think. I just feel like,
if there's maybe offer her, ask her what it is
(07:44):
that you could take off of her plate to help
her in these situations.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You know, Chelsea and I were co parenting obviously in
the same house together, but I was the Disney dad
and she was the strict parent. And one of the
things that she said to me one time, similar to this,
you know conversation that we're having, was she just wanted
me to support her and when the kids do have
a moment, like support her and say, guys, you could listen,
you listen to you know, I support what your mom
(08:09):
is saying right now. And so sometimes even just showing
the support probably Heather as good.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
That's the biggest thing I've learned from co parenting is
because especially Lucy at eleven like she's kind of sneaky.
She knows who to work, either myself or her dad.
And as soon as I say, like, the phone is
such a huge thing, she wants a phone so bad.
As soon as I say, dad and I have spoken
about this, we are on the same page. You're not
getting a phone. And then instantly it's like we're both.
(08:35):
We're both We're both the bad not fun parent. Do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, what's what's up? Mikey there?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Hey, what's up. How you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
We're good, buddy? Are you the Disney dad?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah? I think you know what.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
That's kind of a slur for single dads out here.
I'm just gonna throw that out there. I just don't
want to hear that.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
It's like I have the means.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
So my daughter is eight years old at her mom's.
We share fifty fifties, so we go back and forth,
and her mom she has a little sister, so it's
a little harder to take two kids to go do
stuff and everything like that. So I get branded with
the Disney term a lot. But it's like, I'm just
trying to take my kid to do fun stuff. We
still do the homework and everything like that. But I mean,
(09:18):
I just have the means to do it. But I
do understand and we support each other, but it's just
it's tough sometimes for her.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That's interesting. So she your daughter? Is it a daughter?
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, right now, Grace, Grace.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
So because you only because you hate what's what's going on?
You're hanging with the Disney dad right now. I love it.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
I'm just kidding to school, believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
No, Nah, forget school, let's go downs. But you definitely
that's it. You bring up an interesting point, especially if
mom has another child within, you know, in the next
relationship and stuff like that, maybe not doesn't have the means.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
To do it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Like that's uh, that's actually a really really interesting conversation
that you just brought up.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Hey, Grace, you love it? Like who do you love more? Grace?
Mom or Dad? Grace? Do you love good? Grace?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Great answer? Yes, it's a holiday time answer you. Hey,
thanks you guys for calling up.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Thanks for sharing with us.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Bye bye, guys.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I just read a text message and it was somebody
that said, this is why I love listening to your show.
Everybody on your show is so different and you guys
bring up the struggles that we all are bringing up
in our lives right now. Kevin, thank you so much
for bringing this conversation to the air.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Appreciate y'all for listening and giving feedback. That's what makes
it's a conversation. We're not talking to you, we're talking
with you all, so I appreciate you for feedback.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And if just I is listening, your mom is definitely
the smarter parent. So when at times
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