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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One of tonight and Hot Tomato we Gaily and Emily Jade,
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are you by the way, and tell us what you
think of the music we're playing for your chance to
win a bit of a stakek at the Vibe Hotel
vit vies.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, I'll tell you what's not vibing, and that's raising
a teenagers.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
What's happened now?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Five vibes are all wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I loaded something up to TikTok on the weekend and
she came screaming into the other room.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Take that down. You'll be roasted. I'll be roasted.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Take it down more to the points she'll be roasted exactly.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
But there's a new term called teenternity. Have you heard
of it?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So there's maternity leave, paternity leave. There's even like poorternity
leave for if you get like a new puppy and
you need to take time off to look after your puppies.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's when you get I thought porternity was that you
don't have money.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Money poor eternity.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No, So it's the same notion of your taking time
off to raise a baby. Now there's this new trend
that parents are taking time off when their kids are teens.
Obviously it's not paid or government funded, but they are
finding raising their teens so difficult that they're taking time off,
for example, during exam blocks to help their kid get
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through that, or one parent in the relationship has to
take time off to be the uber driver or help
them through their you know.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Emotional issues. It's getting so difficult to raise teens.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But also we are a generation of both working parents
where most of us had the luxury of mother at home.
You and I especially a mother at home helping us
through the tricky teen error. And I think, you know,
we've underestimated how hard that era is. Like I feel
like toddlers was just the warm up the toddler, you know.
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I know, like when I see new parents with their
babies and they're like, oh, this is so hard.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I've become that arrogant parent. Go, way do you have
a teenager? That's nothing way to have a teenager. It's
like working in customer service and the customer hates you all.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
The time because I know everything because they saw a
twelve second doctor on it. Anyway, I wanted to ask
the question of our listeners, do you believe in teenternity.
Have you taken teenternity and is it something that you
would consider. I just want to get a vibe.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Is it just time off that it's like a sick day.
Are you still meant to be getting paid by the business.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It might be you take your holidays around exam block time,
so you've had to sacrifice your holidays in order to
help your kids through exam times. So I'm not saying
people are doing underward things like taking sick days.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I'm saying they might even.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's a phrase for needing to help your teenagers out.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, have you done that?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Like Michelle Obama in her book The Light We Carry,
she actually talked about having to take steps back when
her daughters were teens because she realized they emotionally needed
her more than ever, and obviously they had a lot
going on, just.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
A little bit wise. Dad never home. Yeah, he's always
at work.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And I did see a TikTok parent so that she
took six months off because her son forgot how to smile.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
She wanted to make sure it was okay.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It took six months.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
On a serious note, yea, yeah, yeah, she said that
they did.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That it's the change from just having a vibrant kid
to a kid that goes yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
And I don't know. In my heart, I'm starting to
feel that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Not that I'm planning on taking eternity just yet, but
I'm seeing how difficult it is to raise a teen.
And I do have that mummy guilt of does she
need me more?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Now? Like is this the error where she fine?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Isn't it? Does she need you more? Or does she
need a break from you?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Double stock?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I think the door slamming, Yeah, I should be reading.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
More and started the break.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Double five. And I still got these Karate Kid Legends
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you and the family Wait one, I miss Karate Kid
Legends on the big screen in cinemas from June five.
Do you think this is a good idea? Would you
do something like this or have you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Done something eternity break? Have you taken it for your teen?
And why teach us what you did give us?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Call