July 18, 2025 • 23 mins
Returning with another back-to-school preparation episode, I focus on the critical importance of keeping your emergency contact information updated with your child's school.
• Working in schools taught me how common it is for emergency contact numbers to be disconnected or outdated
• Parents often forget to update contact information during school transitions (elementary to middle, middle to high)
• In emergencies, schools sometimes must send police to homes only to find families have moved
• Choose emergency contacts who are reliable, have transportation, and can actually respond if called
• Provide teachers with preferred contact methods (calls for emergencies, texts for behavior issues, emails for documentation)
• Always keep school numbers unblocked on your phone
• Make sure to promptly return contact verification forms when sent home
• Discovered a personal wheat allergy after years of mistakenly believing I had dairy sensitivity
• After eliminating wheat, experienced rapid improvement in swelling, rashes, hives, and stomach issues
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey guys, welcome back to the gag is pod.
I am your girl, charlie Shantae.
Thank you for kicking in withme on another episode, and you
know what I always say if thisis a new episode and it's
probably Friday, but if it's nota Friday and you're listening
to this, on whatever day youlistening to it, I appreciate
you for being here and before weget started, please make sure
(00:33):
that if you are not following usalready, please make sure
you're hitting that plus signbutton or the little checkmark
button on whatever platform youare listening to this on.
Please make sure you'refollowing us on IG at the gag is
pot, and it is the same handleon YouTube as well.
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IG.
Well, if you would like, youcan follow me on my personal
page on IG.
Smartfit__okey on IG.
Go ahead and grab your drink,go ahead and grab your snack or
(00:54):
whatever it is you do when youlisten to this and we're going
to jump right in.
Please excuse me if it soundslike I'm a little out of it.
It has been a whirlwind of aweek and I'm very tired and I
don't really feel well, butnonetheless, I'm here, I'm
(01:14):
showing up and I'm going to giveyou all this information
because school is getting readyto start back, and how dare I
not give you some tips andtricks to be prepared to send
the children back to school,whether that be kindergarten,
middle school, high school orcollege?
I'm going to make sure that Iencompass everyone this year,
(01:35):
this go-round, since you guysenjoyed it so much last year and
I got my trusty list, so makesure nothing gets left out.
So I'm going to start.
As you guys know, this podcastis pretty much born out of.
(01:56):
It was created because, youknow, my husband got killed and
I wanted to tell my story and ithas more so kind of evolved
into more parenting and thingslike that.
But it's OK.
So there is a foundation thatmy husband's picture in his bio
that I wrote is featured on, andso sometimes I just get random
(02:17):
letters in the mail how a childhas done a project and they had
to pick a hero from the site andthey write letters and then the
letters go to the organizationand then that organization sends
them out to me and I have beenprivy to get one.
I used to read fan mail andthen I stopped getting fan mail,
and I don't consider this fanmail, but it is just something
(02:40):
that I want to read before weget started, and I'm not even
sure how old this kid is thatwrote it, but nonetheless I
appreciate it.
It says Dear Spencer family.
I am sending this in honor ofClarence T Spencer.
I learned about Clarencethrough the Travis Malion
(03:02):
Foundation's Fallen Hero page.
Currently, I'm a freshman whohopes to become a doctor like my
parents.
As Memorial Day arrives, I findmyself thinking about the brave
individuals who sacrificed forthis country.
I wanted to express mygratitude for Clarence's service
and honor his legacy.
(03:23):
Clarence valued the ideas ofthis country Lord, have mercy
sometimes.
It's right Of this country andwas willing to risk his life to
protect it.
I can only imagine howdifficult it must have been
(03:44):
losing such a positive andcaring individual.
Clarence served with courage,ultimately protecting freedom
and creating a safer country.
I am truly grateful for strongheroes like him.
I will not forget theindividuals and sacrifices they
took to make this country asafer place.
I truly wish I could have metsuch a humorous and loving
(04:08):
person.
All right, all right.
I appreciated that letter verymuch, so I tried to skip over
some identifying factors,because the child does identify
himself and where he lives.
But I'm not going to put thatbaby personal information out
(04:29):
there.
But I thank you for that letterto myself and to my family.
We greatly appreciate it.
Anytime we are recognized, itdoesn't go unnoticed and I
appreciate it.
We appreciate it.
Yeah, it's lucky to berecognized as such, however,
(04:52):
nonetheless still appreciate it.
It's 17 years later.
Let's go ahead and jump intotoday.
So you know, last week wetalked about physicals and stuff
like that, and so let's, let'swe're going to continue on with
(05:14):
a little bit more paperwork,because I didn't want to throw
all of that into one episode.
I kind of wanted to space itout because I know it can be too
much.
And you know, we have somepeople who are moving to
different school districts, somepeople who are putting their
kids in pre-K, putting them inkindergarten, and then we have
some who are going into collegeand for the most part the
(05:35):
paperwork is pretty much thesame.
But when I start breaking itdown into elementary, middle,
high and college, you may hearsome of this information again
because it's pertinent.
High and college you may hearsome of this information again
because it's pertinent.
So, like the way that theseries is starting off.
I'm starting off with differentI call it like specialty
sections.
Like last week was like yoursports paperwork, stuff like
this.
This week we're going to talkabout your registration and you
(05:57):
know, contact information forthe school and different stuff
like that, and then we'll talkabout food, packing lunches,
dressing, school clothes andthings as such.
So, like I said, some of thisinformation may be not per se
repetitive, but I may referenceit again.
So don't be like, oh, shetalked about this already, so I
ain't going to listen.
You may have heard me talkabout it, but I may go a little
(06:20):
bit deeper into what it is I'mtalking about.
So, with last week, me talkingabout the paperwork, why did the
child paperwork get rejected?
Yes, and this is one of thethings that I talked about last
week they make sure you giveyourself enough time in case
your paperwork gets rejected orsomething is missing.
Come to find out that the formnumber was the wrong form number
(06:44):
.
I went line by line for the oldform that I had filled out in
the new form and there was nodifference, just the data at the
top had changed.
They put 2025 instead of 2024.
Okay, fine, whatever.
So I had to go all the way back.
Unfortunately, he was sick oneday and he ended up having to go
(07:05):
to the doctor.
And when we was there I waslike, look, this is the wrong
form, can you refill it out?
And they were like, no problemat all, filled it out right on
the spot, before I had left theappointment, submitted it.
He's good to go.
He got cleared to play sports,but that's just a testament.
And that all of thatencompassed over a week.
So that just goes to show youmake sure you get this stuff
done early.
(07:25):
That way you have time toadjust fire.
And his doctor's office is like35 minutes from our house, so
it's not like I could just passby it on my way to or from work,
like I literally have to go allthe way on the other side of
town to get it taken care of.
But got taken care of I don'thave to worry about that until
(07:46):
next June again.
So there's that, the importanceof updating school paperwork.
So when you register your kidsa lot of times you know kids go
to the same school year afteryear after year.
When they transition fromelementary to middle or middle
to high, their paperwork followsthem right.
(08:07):
I think sometimes we get alittle complacent because we
don't realize that during thosetransitions of times we change
our phone number, we change whoour emergency contact is.
We may even change jobs duringthat period of time, and it's
very imperative, especially intoday's world, that we have the
(08:31):
correct contact information.
I remember working at the schooland we needed to get a hold of
a kid's parents and we try allthe numbers that's on the
contact list and guess what?
None of them numbers work.
And then sometimes I've seen itto where it's been, last resort
, that we would have to send thepolice out to the child's house
to try to get in contact withthe parent, only to find out
(08:53):
that they don't even live thereno more.
And so we would literally haveto, you know, utilize outside
resources, like the sheriff orsomebody, to kind of find these
parents.
You know, because you know Lordforbid your child have an
emergency at school.
I've seen it to where we can'tget a hold of nobody and it's
(09:17):
because they got the schoolnumber blocked.
Like why would you block theschool number?
Like you know you have a childthat goes to school, why would
you block that number If you'rea working parent like myself.
Luckily, I have my cell phoneand then I have a personalized
desk number.
So I don't always provide mydesk number but my cell phone.
(09:37):
I always have my cell phone onme because just I'm away from my
desk, so I always have my cellphone.
I always make sure that it's upto date.
I always make sure that mycontact emergency contacts are
up to date with people who Iknow.
I'm not just putting Susie fromnext door, I'm not just putting
my home girl next door.
I'm not just putting my homegirl on there.
(09:58):
I'm not just I'm putting peopleon there who are reliable,
somebody that has a vehicle,somebody that can come pick up
your child if need be.
I, you know, I just make sureyou got the correct people on
there.
I'm trying to think who I got onmine.
I got like five people on therefor New Face, because he has
(10:25):
asthma.
He does get sick easy.
So you know, like if I'm in ameeting and I can't leave, then
you know, I know that if one ofthese five people is called,
they're going to be able to goand pick him up.
They're not going to be likewell, did you call his mama?
You know, did you call anybodyelse before you called me Like
(10:47):
what, and I and I think I don'teven really know, I think I may
be a few children's emergencycontact.
I think I may be a fewchildren's emergency contact.
I don't even know.
I'll find out if so ever need,or if they parent text me and be
like, hey, I put you onemergency contact, or like
they'll ask me like, is thatokay if I put you down for you
know little Susie Q as heremergency contact?
(11:08):
Put me down, that's fine.
You know I may have had a dayoff and I need to pick up little
Suzy Q or something, or youknow the parent running late and
I need to pick you knowanything like that.
Please, please, please, Icannot stress that enough.
Please make sure that you keepyour contact information up to
(11:31):
date.
Oh my gosh, keep it up to date.
I've also seen times where we'vehad to ask the kids because
every child got a cell phonewhat is your mama number?
Do you call your mama on thephone right now and then after
that and ain't no school?
Try to call me.
I know we didn't.
We, we tried to call you but weain't got your number.
Don't get them.
(11:52):
People up there my number.
If they need to contact me,just keep calling me.
Like how you doing well, man,if your child is passed out and
we can't get in their phone,what good is that gonna do us?
So please, please, keep yourchild's contact information up
to date in that front office.
(12:12):
I don't know.
Like I said, we live in Florida,so I don't know where, like
other school districts orwhatever like that I know.
Like maybe a month into schoolthey send home the actual
contact card.
It asks if the information isup to date and if it is not,
scratch it out, put the rightcontact information.
You could probably send out2,500 and probably get about 400
(12:34):
back.
Like that's just how muchparents don't care.
When new faves bring me that, Imake sure it's all correct.
Boo boo, boo, boo boo.
Give it back to them, send itback.
If you don't trust your kid,drop it off, put it in an
envelope, mail it to the school,get it back to the school.
We live in an area where we arevery prone to hurricanes.
(12:57):
They use this information toget information out about school
, to let you know about busesand different stuff like that.
So make sure your informationis up to date.
And then middle school and highschool, and I think they
probably do this in elementary,I'm not sure I know.
In middle school and highschool when you go to a
(13:19):
teacher's classroom they have asign-in sheet.
On that sign-in sheet theytypically have your name, your
student's name, place for youremail address, a place for your
phone number, student's name,place for your email address, a
place for your phone number.
They do that because they maynot always have the ability to
(13:41):
go in the system and look upthat information.
I know when I was in a school Iwould have like parent contact
information and I was justlooking at my phone the other
day and I still got a kid's mamain there.
It say so-and-so mama phonenumber, so-and-so mama phone
number.
I can take it out of my phonebecause I'm pretty sure they
didn't change their phone numbera hundred thousand times since
they didn't have that.
That'd been like eight yearsago.
(14:02):
They have you write down yourcontact information.
What your preferred method is, Ialways write down for New Face,
I always put my phone number.
I'm like if it's an emergency,call me.
If he just needs a littlestraightening, text me.
If it's just something you needto document, email me.
(14:22):
You have all of my contactinformation.
I don't give out my work phonenumber because, like I said, I'm
never I'm at my desk butsometimes I don't be at my desk
but I'm like the quickest way toget a hold of me is send me a
text, cause even if I can'tanswer my phone, I can see your
message pop up on my watch Likethat's how in tuned I am um with
with my child and his teachers.
(14:43):
If he needs some straightening,he getting out of line, shoot
me a text.
If you need some on the spotcorrection, go ahead and shoot
me that phone call, cause Istopped what I'm doing to, to,
to to get some straightening,cause I we don't play, we don't
play that.
So there's, I've given you two,two different ways that you can
(15:06):
keep your child, that you canprovide a link between you and
your child school.
Make sure you have the updatedcontact information.
Make sure your emergencycontacts are up to date.
Make sure your emergencycontacts information is correct,
not just their name.
(15:27):
You know, sometimes you knowyour friends, they change their
number a lot, so make sure theyhave the correct number on there
, because what's an emergencycontact?
And then you ain't got theright information for them.
If at all possible.
If you can, please make surethat you provide your
information to the teacher aswell, probably in a different
(15:54):
well, I know in a different way,because it ain't going to be
today.
In a different episode I'm goingto talk about the other means
of communication.
So when I break it down and Italk about back to school and I
start talking about classes andschedules and stuff like that,
I'll break down, like thecommunication, the different
apps and stuff like that, likethese episodes, when I'm just
(16:15):
talking about a certain topicinformation, are going to be a
little bit shorter, but then,probably the week before school,
you'll get the long extendedversion.
That's kind of like itencompasses all of this
information into one plus a lotof new information.
Okay, last but not least, thisis just going to be a little
(16:38):
quick.
You can make this up.
There's going to be a shortepisode today.
Like I told you guys, I'm alittle under the weather, but
I'm just trying to push throughso that I can ensure that you
have this information for backto school.
I don't know if I talked aboutthis last week, but I'm
definitely going to talk aboutit in the coming weeks when I
(17:01):
talk about allergies and foodallergies.
Um, I'm going to do a storytime on YouTube.
I just had to find some time tofilm it.
Uh, I hadn't been feeling goodfor a very, very long time and I
just kept brushing it off,brushing it off, and I was like
you know, I got to leave thisdairy alone because this dairy
(17:22):
is going to be the, it's goingto be the bane of my existence.
So I wasn't feeling good.
I went out of town last monthand I think I got like some food
poisoning or what have you.
So I went to the doctor becauseI was like it's been a couple
of weeks now, it is stilllingering.
I don't know what's going on.
(17:44):
So I was like she's like, well,let's go, you know, see if you
have an infection, whatever,whatever.
Okay, so I said, well, since Igot some blood work done, I was
like, can I get an allergy paneltoo?
I was like, because my stomachache could not be food poisoning
.
It could be something that I'meating and I'm not aware of.
To my knowledge, I know that Iam allergic to citrus, lemon,
(18:07):
lime, oranges, stuff like that.
So I go and I get the allergypanel and I found out that I am
allergic to something that Iconsume every day.
And so I'm thinking back andI'm like I am lit.
(18:29):
I was literally making myselfsick every day and I did not
even know it.
I am allergic to wheat, notgluten, and I don't have a
gluten allergy.
I don't have celiac.
I'm allergic to wheat Wheat Ieat bread, I eat biscuits, I eat
(18:50):
cookies, I eat chips, littleDebbie cakes, all that.
But guess what?
All that has in it Wheat.
And it was weird because Iwould be like, oh my God, like I
would eat the stuff and I wouldbe like, oh my God, this has so
much dairy in it because I feellike trash.
So come to find out I'mallergic to wheat.
(19:11):
I'm not even allergic to dairy,so I done switched to like
almond milk, oat milk, all thisnon-dairy stuff, like trying to
find dairy-free cheese and allof this kind of stuff, because I
think I'm allergic to dairy.
When this whole entire timeyour girl was allergic to wheat
and it was to the point like I'mgoing to have to put like some
(19:35):
before and after pictures up orsomething like that.
I think I've been off of wheatfor six days now I'm not swollen
, I ain't had no stomach aches.
My rashes are going away, myhives are going away.
I had hives in my head and Ijust thought that I came in
(19:58):
contact with some citrus and Iwas just like, oh, I got to be
more careful because I done atesomething with citrus in it.
Meanwhile, the day before no,the day that I found out that I
was allergic to weed, I foundout after work, and that
particular day we had cateredcarabas and when I tell y'all, I
(20:18):
busted down on about sevenpieces of little strip breads
with a little basil on it andstuff.
Yeah, and so since I haven'thad any gluten, like my stomach
been okay Because, like I said,I'm thinking I got like food
poisoning.
I think I still have foodpoisoning, but that's neither
here nor there.
My stomach has been good, mystomach has been fine.
(20:43):
I ain't had no symptoms Like mylips ain't swollen up and I'm
not swollen up.
Like I talked to Nick earlier.
We was on FaceTime.
She's like dang girl, you lookslim.
I said I'm not swollen anymore.
Um, like clothes fitting alittle different already.
And I was like wow.
I texted my trainer.
(21:03):
She's like you know what?
That makes so much sense.
So now you know, I just got tokind of change my protein
powders and you know cause I hadcan't have whey protein because
that's made with wheat.
But, like I said, y'all will geta story time.
I'm not sure when y'all goingto get a story time, but y'all
going to get one.
But we have come to the end oftoday's episode.
(21:23):
Unfortunately, I don't have asong lyric of the week for you.
Like I said, I'm a little underthe weather.
I've been a roller coaster of aweek and I just want to make
sure that I get this out fory'all so it's not all jumbled
together, so that I wouldn'thave to do like two episodes in
one week.
But if you are not already,please make sure you are
(21:45):
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(22:09):
Until next time, I am your girl, charlie Shantae.
This is the gag is podcast.
Bye, guys.
Hey guys, welcome back to the gag is pod.
I am your girl, charlie Shantae.
Thank you for kicking in withme on another episode, and you
know what I always say if thisis a new episode and it's
probably Friday, but if it's nota Friday and you're listening
to this, on whatever day youlistening to it, I appreciate
you for being here and before weget started, please make sure
(00:33):
that if you are not following usalready, please make sure
you're hitting that plus signbutton or the little checkmark
button on whatever platform youare listening to this on.
Please make sure you'refollowing us on IG at the gag is
pot, and it is the same handleon YouTube as well.
If you would like, you canfollow me on my personal page on
IG.
Well, if you would like, youcan follow me on my personal
page on IG.
Smartfit__okey on IG.
Go ahead and grab your drink,go ahead and grab your snack or
(00:54):
whatever it is you do when youlisten to this and we're going
to jump right in.
Please excuse me if it soundslike I'm a little out of it.
It has been a whirlwind of aweek and I'm very tired and I
don't really feel well, butnonetheless, I'm here, I'm
(01:14):
showing up and I'm going to giveyou all this information
because school is getting readyto start back, and how dare I
not give you some tips andtricks to be prepared to send
the children back to school,whether that be kindergarten,
middle school, high school orcollege?
I'm going to make sure that Iencompass everyone this year,
(01:35):
this go-round, since you guysenjoyed it so much last year and
I got my trusty list, so makesure nothing gets left out.
So I'm going to start.
As you guys know, this podcastis pretty much born out of.
(01:56):
It was created because, youknow, my husband got killed and
I wanted to tell my story and ithas more so kind of evolved
into more parenting and thingslike that.
But it's OK.
So there is a foundation thatmy husband's picture in his bio
that I wrote is featured on, andso sometimes I just get random
(02:17):
letters in the mail how a childhas done a project and they had
to pick a hero from the site andthey write letters and then the
letters go to the organizationand then that organization sends
them out to me and I have beenprivy to get one.
I used to read fan mail andthen I stopped getting fan mail,
and I don't consider this fanmail, but it is just something
(02:40):
that I want to read before weget started, and I'm not even
sure how old this kid is thatwrote it, but nonetheless I
appreciate it.
It says Dear Spencer family.
I am sending this in honor ofClarence T Spencer.
I learned about Clarencethrough the Travis Malion
(03:02):
Foundation's Fallen Hero page.
Currently, I'm a freshman whohopes to become a doctor like my
parents.
As Memorial Day arrives, I findmyself thinking about the brave
individuals who sacrificed forthis country.
I wanted to express mygratitude for Clarence's service
and honor his legacy.
(03:23):
Clarence valued the ideas ofthis country Lord, have mercy
sometimes.
It's right Of this country andwas willing to risk his life to
protect it.
I can only imagine howdifficult it must have been
(03:44):
losing such a positive andcaring individual.
Clarence served with courage,ultimately protecting freedom
and creating a safer country.
I am truly grateful for strongheroes like him.
I will not forget theindividuals and sacrifices they
took to make this country asafer place.
I truly wish I could have metsuch a humorous and loving
(04:08):
person.
All right, all right.
I appreciated that letter verymuch, so I tried to skip over
some identifying factors,because the child does identify
himself and where he lives.
But I'm not going to put thatbaby personal information out
(04:29):
there.
But I thank you for that letterto myself and to my family.
We greatly appreciate it.
Anytime we are recognized, itdoesn't go unnoticed and I
appreciate it.
We appreciate it.
Yeah, it's lucky to berecognized as such, however,
(04:52):
nonetheless still appreciate it.
It's 17 years later.
Let's go ahead and jump intotoday.
So you know, last week wetalked about physicals and stuff
like that, and so let's, let'swe're going to continue on with
(05:14):
a little bit more paperwork,because I didn't want to throw
all of that into one episode.
I kind of wanted to space itout because I know it can be too
much.
And you know, we have somepeople who are moving to
different school districts, somepeople who are putting their
kids in pre-K, putting them inkindergarten, and then we have
some who are going into collegeand for the most part the
(05:35):
paperwork is pretty much thesame.
But when I start breaking itdown into elementary, middle,
high and college, you may hearsome of this information again
because it's pertinent.
High and college you may hearsome of this information again
because it's pertinent.
So, like the way that theseries is starting off.
I'm starting off with differentI call it like specialty
sections.
Like last week was like yoursports paperwork, stuff like
this.
This week we're going to talkabout your registration and you
(05:57):
know, contact information forthe school and different stuff
like that, and then we'll talkabout food, packing lunches,
dressing, school clothes andthings as such.
So, like I said, some of thisinformation may be not per se
repetitive, but I may referenceit again.
So don't be like, oh, shetalked about this already, so I
ain't going to listen.
You may have heard me talkabout it, but I may go a little
(06:20):
bit deeper into what it is I'mtalking about.
So, with last week, me talkingabout the paperwork, why did the
child paperwork get rejected?
Yes, and this is one of thethings that I talked about last
week they make sure you giveyourself enough time in case
your paperwork gets rejected orsomething is missing.
Come to find out that the formnumber was the wrong form number
(06:44):
.
I went line by line for the oldform that I had filled out in
the new form and there was nodifference, just the data at the
top had changed.
They put 2025 instead of 2024.
Okay, fine, whatever.
So I had to go all the way back.
Unfortunately, he was sick oneday and he ended up having to go
(07:05):
to the doctor.
And when we was there I waslike, look, this is the wrong
form, can you refill it out?
And they were like, no problemat all, filled it out right on
the spot, before I had left theappointment, submitted it.
He's good to go.
He got cleared to play sports,but that's just a testament.
And that all of thatencompassed over a week.
So that just goes to show youmake sure you get this stuff
done early.
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That way you have time toadjust fire.
And his doctor's office is like35 minutes from our house, so
it's not like I could just passby it on my way to or from work,
like I literally have to go allthe way on the other side of
town to get it taken care of.
But got taken care of I don'thave to worry about that until
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next June again.
So there's that, the importanceof updating school paperwork.
So when you register your kidsa lot of times you know kids go
to the same school year afteryear after year.
When they transition fromelementary to middle or middle
to high, their paperwork followsthem right.
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I think sometimes we get alittle complacent because we
don't realize that during thosetransitions of times we change
our phone number, we change whoour emergency contact is.
We may even change jobs duringthat period of time, and it's
very imperative, especially intoday's world, that we have the
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correct contact information.
I remember working at the schooland we needed to get a hold of
a kid's parents and we try allthe numbers that's on the
contact list and guess what?
None of them numbers work.
And then sometimes I've seen itto where it's been, last resort
, that we would have to send thepolice out to the child's house
to try to get in contact withthe parent, only to find out
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that they don't even live thereno more.
And so we would literally haveto, you know, utilize outside
resources, like the sheriff orsomebody, to kind of find these
parents.
You know, because you know Lordforbid your child have an
emergency at school.
I've seen it to where we can'tget a hold of nobody and it's
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because they got the schoolnumber blocked.
Like why would you block theschool number?
Like you know you have a childthat goes to school, why would
you block that number If you'rea working parent like myself.
Luckily, I have my cell phoneand then I have a personalized
desk number.
So I don't always provide mydesk number but my cell phone.
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I always have my cell phone onme because just I'm away from my
desk, so I always have my cellphone.
I always make sure that it's upto date.
I always make sure that mycontact emergency contacts are
up to date with people who Iknow.
I'm not just putting Susie fromnext door, I'm not just putting
my home girl next door.
I'm not just putting my homegirl on there.
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I'm not just I'm putting peopleon there who are reliable,
somebody that has a vehicle,somebody that can come pick up
your child if need be.
I, you know, I just make sureyou got the correct people on
there.
I'm trying to think who I got onmine.
I got like five people on therefor New Face, because he has
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asthma.
He does get sick easy.
So you know, like if I'm in ameeting and I can't leave, then
you know, I know that if one ofthese five people is called,
they're going to be able to goand pick him up.
They're not going to be likewell, did you call his mama?
You know, did you call anybodyelse before you called me Like
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what, and I and I think I don'teven really know, I think I may
be a few children's emergencycontact.
I think I may be a fewchildren's emergency contact.
I don't even know.
I'll find out if so ever need,or if they parent text me and be
like, hey, I put you onemergency contact, or like
they'll ask me like, is thatokay if I put you down for you
know little Susie Q as heremergency contact?
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Put me down, that's fine.
You know I may have had a dayoff and I need to pick up little
Suzy Q or something, or youknow the parent running late and
I need to pick you knowanything like that.
Please, please, please, Icannot stress that enough.
Please make sure that you keepyour contact information up to
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date.
Oh my gosh, keep it up to date.
I've also seen times where we'vehad to ask the kids because
every child got a cell phonewhat is your mama number?
Do you call your mama on thephone right now and then after
that and ain't no school?
Try to call me.
I know we didn't.
We, we tried to call you but weain't got your number.
Don't get them.
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People up there my number.
If they need to contact me,just keep calling me.
Like how you doing well, man,if your child is passed out and
we can't get in their phone,what good is that gonna do us?
So please, please, keep yourchild's contact information up
to date in that front office.
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I don't know.
Like I said, we live in Florida,so I don't know where, like
other school districts orwhatever like that I know.
Like maybe a month into schoolthey send home the actual
contact card.
It asks if the information isup to date and if it is not,
scratch it out, put the rightcontact information.
You could probably send out2,500 and probably get about 400
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back.
Like that's just how muchparents don't care.
When new faves bring me that, Imake sure it's all correct.
Boo boo, boo, boo boo.
Give it back to them, send itback.
If you don't trust your kid,drop it off, put it in an
envelope, mail it to the school,get it back to the school.
We live in an area where we arevery prone to hurricanes.
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They use this information toget information out about school
, to let you know about busesand different stuff like that.
So make sure your informationis up to date.
And then middle school and highschool, and I think they
probably do this in elementary,I'm not sure I know.
In middle school and highschool when you go to a
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teacher's classroom they have asign-in sheet.
On that sign-in sheet theytypically have your name, your
student's name, place for youremail address, a place for your
phone number, student's name,place for your email address, a
place for your phone number.
They do that because they maynot always have the ability to
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go in the system and look upthat information.
I know when I was in a school Iwould have like parent contact
information and I was justlooking at my phone the other
day and I still got a kid's mamain there.
It say so-and-so mama phonenumber, so-and-so mama phone
number.
I can take it out of my phonebecause I'm pretty sure they
didn't change their phone numbera hundred thousand times since
they didn't have that.
That'd been like eight yearsago.
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They have you write down yourcontact information.
What your preferred method is, Ialways write down for New Face,
I always put my phone number.
I'm like if it's an emergency,call me.
If he just needs a littlestraightening, text me.
If it's just something you needto document, email me.
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You have all of my contactinformation.
I don't give out my work phonenumber because, like I said, I'm
never I'm at my desk butsometimes I don't be at my desk
but I'm like the quickest way toget a hold of me is send me a
text, cause even if I can'tanswer my phone, I can see your
message pop up on my watch Likethat's how in tuned I am um with
with my child and his teachers.
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If he needs some straightening,he getting out of line, shoot
me a text.
If you need some on the spotcorrection, go ahead and shoot
me that phone call, cause Istopped what I'm doing to, to,
to to get some straightening,cause I we don't play, we don't
play that.
So there's, I've given you two,two different ways that you can
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keep your child, that you canprovide a link between you and
your child school.
Make sure you have the updatedcontact information.
Make sure your emergencycontacts are up to date.
Make sure your emergencycontacts information is correct,
not just their name.
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You know, sometimes you knowyour friends, they change their
number a lot, so make sure theyhave the correct number on there
, because what's an emergencycontact?
And then you ain't got theright information for them.
If at all possible.
If you can, please make surethat you provide your
information to the teacher aswell, probably in a different
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well, I know in a different way,because it ain't going to be
today.
In a different episode I'm goingto talk about the other means
of communication.
So when I break it down and Italk about back to school and I
start talking about classes andschedules and stuff like that,
I'll break down, like thecommunication, the different
apps and stuff like that, likethese episodes, when I'm just
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talking about a certain topicinformation, are going to be a
little bit shorter, but then,probably the week before school,
you'll get the long extendedversion.
That's kind of like itencompasses all of this
information into one plus a lotof new information.
Okay, last but not least, thisis just going to be a little
(16:38):
quick.
You can make this up.
There's going to be a shortepisode today.
Like I told you guys, I'm alittle under the weather, but
I'm just trying to push throughso that I can ensure that you
have this information for backto school.
I don't know if I talked aboutthis last week, but I'm
definitely going to talk aboutit in the coming weeks when I
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talk about allergies and foodallergies.
Um, I'm going to do a storytime on YouTube.
I just had to find some time tofilm it.
Uh, I hadn't been feeling goodfor a very, very long time and I
just kept brushing it off,brushing it off, and I was like
you know, I got to leave thisdairy alone because this dairy
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is going to be the, it's goingto be the bane of my existence.
So I wasn't feeling good.
I went out of town last monthand I think I got like some food
poisoning or what have you.
So I went to the doctor becauseI was like it's been a couple
of weeks now, it is stilllingering.
I don't know what's going on.
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So I was like she's like, well,let's go, you know, see if you
have an infection, whatever,whatever.
Okay, so I said, well, since Igot some blood work done, I was
like, can I get an allergy paneltoo?
I was like, because my stomachache could not be food poisoning
.
It could be something that I'meating and I'm not aware of.
To my knowledge, I know that Iam allergic to citrus, lemon,
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lime, oranges, stuff like that.
So I go and I get the allergypanel and I found out that I am
allergic to something that Iconsume every day.
And so I'm thinking back andI'm like I am lit.
(18:29):
I was literally making myselfsick every day and I did not
even know it.
I am allergic to wheat, notgluten, and I don't have a
gluten allergy.
I don't have celiac.
I'm allergic to wheat Wheat Ieat bread, I eat biscuits, I eat
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cookies, I eat chips, littleDebbie cakes, all that.
But guess what?
All that has in it Wheat.
And it was weird because Iwould be like, oh my God, like I
would eat the stuff and I wouldbe like, oh my God, this has so
much dairy in it because I feellike trash.
So come to find out I'mallergic to wheat.
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I'm not even allergic to dairy,so I done switched to like
almond milk, oat milk, all thisnon-dairy stuff, like trying to
find dairy-free cheese and allof this kind of stuff, because I
think I'm allergic to dairy.
When this whole entire timeyour girl was allergic to wheat
and it was to the point like I'mgoing to have to put like some
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before and after pictures up orsomething like that.
I think I've been off of wheatfor six days now I'm not swollen
, I ain't had no stomach aches.
My rashes are going away, myhives are going away.
I had hives in my head and Ijust thought that I came in
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contact with some citrus and Iwas just like, oh, I got to be
more careful because I done atesomething with citrus in it.
Meanwhile, the day before no,the day that I found out that I
was allergic to weed, I foundout after work, and that
particular day we had cateredcarabas and when I tell y'all, I
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busted down on about sevenpieces of little strip breads
with a little basil on it andstuff.
Yeah, and so since I haven'thad any gluten, like my stomach
been okay Because, like I said,I'm thinking I got like food
poisoning.
I think I still have foodpoisoning, but that's neither
here nor there.
My stomach has been good, mystomach has been fine.
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I ain't had no symptoms Like mylips ain't swollen up and I'm
not swollen up.
Like I talked to Nick earlier.
We was on FaceTime.
She's like dang girl, you lookslim.
I said I'm not swollen anymore.
Um, like clothes fitting alittle different already.
And I was like wow.
I texted my trainer.
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She's like you know what?
That makes so much sense.
So now you know, I just got tokind of change my protein
powders and you know cause I hadcan't have whey protein because
that's made with wheat.
But, like I said, y'all will geta story time.
I'm not sure when y'all goingto get a story time, but y'all
going to get one.
But we have come to the end oftoday's episode.
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Unfortunately, I don't have asong lyric of the week for you.
Like I said, I'm a little underthe weather.
I've been a roller coaster of aweek and I just want to make
sure that I get this out fory'all so it's not all jumbled
together, so that I wouldn'thave to do like two episodes in
one week.
But if you are not already,please make sure you are
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following us on whateverpodcasting app you are listening
to us on.
Make sure you click that checkmark in the top right-hand
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Until next time, I am your girl, charlie Shantae.
This is the gag is podcast.
Bye, guys.
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