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August 28, 2025 13 mins
Emily's son is getting to the age where a parent would have "the talk" with them. You would assume that it would be his dad but Emily has different plans...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So apparently Emily wants to get involved with something with
her son, and I just think this is wild, But
this is this is what Emily does. She always want
to get in there, you know, not kind of recognizing
that there there are some roles for parents to have,
and sometimes she tries to, you know, cannonball over that line,

(00:23):
you know, And so this is what she does. Though,
Like honestly, if it wouldn't have put her out, I
guarantee you Emily would have joined the been like a
Scout leader when Reed was trying to be in the
boy Scouts for like a minute, Like I guarantee you
she part of her kind of wished she was in
there instead of Robert, but like it was like late

(00:46):
at night, and so she didn't really want to be
involved in it. But if it was like during the
day or whatever, it didn't really put her out, she
I think she would have gotten in there.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's probably true. That really is probably true. Because also
the camping trips. I do like camping, but at the
same time, I saw it as an opportunity to be
alone at my house and then the two of them
go do something together.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
So I opted for that option.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
In this regard, so yes, So you're you're heavily involved
in everything, Yes, everything, which is not a bad thing
with your kid's life. I get that, but like I said,
there are there are limits and times when you might
want to step back just saying uh in this occasion,
I cannot even understand why you want to get involved

(01:29):
in this. But she's not listening to us. What is it? Well,
we're at.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
A big time in our lives here in the Griffiths
Barnes households.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Time.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
My man Robert and I are son Reid is fifteen now,
big man big man just started high.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
School boy freshman year.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Wow, big hang loose kid and hang looseka. He's any
day now he'll be a pointer at the cap guns
guns guns there just single guns. I think you start
with single when you work real excited right now, he's
a big hang with skids.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Ever going to be a piece guy? Do you ever
do that? He does that sometimes?

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Okay, that's with his arm in the air and his
head that.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
He does the peace sign facing you, you know, in
front of your chest.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
The West coast, Yeah, for the West coast. But is
he in the hip hop music?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
He is in a hip hop music, but he doesn't
throw up the one starting the West Coast in your pictures.
You get our photos in here West Coast guy, Like
if a list er somebody comes in.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
That's weird.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
That is weird.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I don't I don't feel like you should do that,
all right?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
That more mean yes, a big mail that's.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
So reads a B M O C right starting this guy.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, And so with the start of high school, I'm
even feeling nervous, like talking about it. We're gonna have
lots of new things going on.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know, you manifest this crap because.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Terrified, terrify of him making the same mistakes I did.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
Because you're a number one girl.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
What not?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
That what I'm terrified of him, like just making the
same mistakes, like cutting school, allegedly smoking weed when I
was like starting that when I was like fourteen and fifteen,
Allegedly going to house parties and getting drunk, like all
this stuff that I did in high school and all
my friends did in high school.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I'm like, definitely, I hear all that, but I don't
know why. And then maybe I'm not a naive parent.
I just feel like times are different, Like I would
know where my kid is going now, Like and with
the advent of cell phones and things like that, I
can see where you where you're at at any time.
So if you tell me you're gonna you're gonna go
over to a friend's house, and I see you're not

(03:54):
at that friend's house, kids, you are.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
Right, But what if you're because you know, because the
house parties are going on in my daughter's circle and what.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
You go with her? Right? Yeah, you're there, you Sky
and her daughter Sky tell us her husband they're going
somewhere else, really, and they sneak out, and they sneak
out together and they go to the party.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Crazy.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
But from what I'm hearing is the kids will be like, Oh,
we're going over to so and so's house. He's just
having a couple of people over. We're getting a pizza,
bah bah. And then it's literally like a house party
and kids are getting drawnk babe. So, so they're telling
you where they're going because they know you can track them,
but they're not actually telling you what's really happening at

(04:37):
the spot they're going.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
But that's that's been life as a teenager forever decades.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
Means I'm saying it's still going on as far as
I'm concerned, just the same way as it was when
we were kids.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
It's just it's it's harder now.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
All you got to do is, you know, you got
to you got to set them up in life, and
it's up to them, you know that. It's just like anything.
Like I had a big talk my daughter was going
to her first football game. You know what. She's a
junior now, so she's gone to football games before, but
you know, she's again, she's sixteen, so she's at that
crazy age. And so I just said to her, Hey, listen,

(05:15):
there's gonna be kids in your circle that are wanting
to do things that you know are wrong. You know,
you know what's right and wrong. And I go, just
don't do it. I go. I know there's gonna be
that peer pressure. I go, but if you want to
set yourself up for life, don't do it. And she
and she looked at me and she goes, oh, yeah,
no I know, And I go, okay, no, I'm serious,
and like look at me. I'm dead serious.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I go.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
I go, you know, we all done did dumb stuff,
you know, but I mean there's there's lines, and then
you can ruin your life. You know, you drive drunk
or whatever, you're done done.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
The kids now, I totally after there a sky saying
the kids now, by the way, they but they have
it so bad because I mean, you could say, I
mean my buddies. But well we're going to John's house.
We were a John's house, but then we just wanted
to go do some other things. So we drive around
and but now you can get followed everywhere staring at
his location. I would probably just end up leaving my
phone at someone's house and then trying to get a burner.

(06:07):
M h, like that's what you gotta do. That's probably
what Reed's gonna dot.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, that's the thing.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
They're not even getting the phone, so they're just leaving
their phone. They'll go out and then they'll come back.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
And it's smart too, because there's no evidence, won't take
any pictures, like an idiot, just leave your phones get hammered.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
That going on, That.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Going on, and I'm just worried about that, and I'm
I'm you know, nervous for what's to come. And with
that being said, which also comes along sometimes with all
the new experiences and the growing up and all this
other stuff.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Is sex you know, we know sky Wells Turvy when
she was like twelve or twelve was crazy crazy, Okay.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
I was actually fifteen, our kid's age.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
The one of like the two times she had sex.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, well there was two people. It wasn't just two times.
Sure it was too sure. Yeah yeah, my first boyfriend
and then my husband. Only two people. But you're right,
it was exactly this age.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
It was fifteen at the very end of summer, was
when I lost my.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Okay, that's I mean. I was with the guy. I
was like three years.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I was like the last crazy. Emily was the oldest
out of the four of us.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
That's wild.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
You guys all remember my gangbanger face. Right, Okay, there
it is out of context.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
I was with the guy for three years. You were
in a relationship when you were twelve, and you were
but she says it as if she was like twenty,
I was with a guy for three years.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, well you're with a guy.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
I was, yeah, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and then yeah, because
I started smoking.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
I started smoking.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
You were in a relationship when you were thirteen, You
stayed with the same boy for three years. That's like
think about that.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
It's weird.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Like kids go through like that's why I have a
boyfriend and then their boyfriend girlfriend for two weeks. Yeah,
and that's crazy going through goes through three years. If
I was your parents, I'd be like, hey, stop, no, no, no,
they were not they did not that gentleman. Yeah, and
then flowered you.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
And he was drunk, so a drunk at fifty yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
From I can't I can't do it anyway.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
So I know these things went on. You know, we
all lose our virginity. Lots of people do it in
high school. And I think that it's time to have
a serious talk with reed about sex and about safe
sex now. Years ago, years ago, there was a brushing
of the topic, which is very an elementary way to.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Talk about sex.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Where babies come from.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Where babies come from?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Store talk.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
But that's like not really getting into the nitty gradrabit,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Boys have wangers? Yeah, girls like that's pretty No, that's
that's having the talk.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
With the kids.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Those are the technicals, not wrong. So it's like you
brush over it and you had the little, the mini
talk with him. But now going into high school is
the time for the actual talk, like for talking about
you know, like getting a girl pregnant, talking about how
serious it is, actually getting into like the complications that

(09:24):
can happen, talking about abortion and like all those things,
and also talking about and giving him condoms and like
how to use them, how important they are.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Needles, that's true. What's the difference needles? If you're don't
do drugs, here's some needles. So you're safe with the needles.
You know, what's the difference. What's the difference?

Speaker 6 (09:51):
I feel there's there's some condoms they go have sex kids,
telling him to go, what's the difference, Just to.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Make sure that that's he hasn' in case there was
something to come up.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
So with this being said, I.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Not tell him to shoot the gun, but give him
the bullets.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Okayed.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
So with all this being said, though I have given
it a lot of thought, and with how involved I
am with Read and with how too close we are together,
and how sometimes Read and this guy by his guy,
his dad, Robert, his bro, his bro can have a
little bit of a silly funny ha haa relationship like

(10:33):
a Steve O Johnny Knoxville situation going on between the two.
I believe that it's my duty and I should be
the one to have the talk with him.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
You want his mom to show him how to use
a condom?

Speaker 5 (10:49):
Who didn't use one?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I've used him before? All right, all right, are you
out of your mind?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I think it'll sink in more seriously if it's me.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Somebody that has is a woman that I said, I agree,
you agree.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I this is like, this is the problem with these two.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
So here's the thing.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
Every family dynamic is different, and I think it is preferred,
probably in most families for the dad to do this talk.
But because I know the dynamic between Reed and Robert,
they're more like brothers, like they'll get in trouble together,
they'll joke around together, light farts on fire together. So

(11:36):
no disrespect Robert, because I know you're a good dad
and your son loves you very much.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
But I personally wouldn't trust.

Speaker 6 (11:45):
You to be serious and really let read know how
serious this is. I feel like you'd be like blowing
the condom up as a balloon and making like balloon
animals with it and like yeah, yeah, and like joking
about boo tubes or something.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Where gets Eugene Levy and Jason Biggs in an American Pie.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yes, yeah, but like even like more jackass version of it.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Imagine your mom sitting you down, I can't and showing
you how a condom works.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
No, I think that'd be a little weird, you know,
and I think we And what's crazy is we just
talked about it last week, how Reid wants his dad
to come to school with it.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
So the dynamic has changed.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
So clearly the dynamic is changing because he's getting older
and realizing that mom is a little cringe and does
want to be around it. Excuse you, just in general,
any mom.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
I'm cool, okay, cool, very close. I don't think you
have the ability to keep it cool.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I am going to keep it cool, and this is
most likely happening just.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Fy okay, but why won't you listen?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Because I've decided, Scott, I've decided is the right decision.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
Sky. Everything guy said is so accurate. Do you want?
Is that who you want to be? Is that who
you want to be?

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yes? I want to be.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
This is that's you know, that's not trying to cuddle together.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Thank god Skuy has a daughter. Let me just say
that because I can't even imagine that dynamic. I like,
that's just weirder than Emily, yes, which is hard to do.
So this weekend, so can you know again? Please don't
do this? Okay, please don't do this. Why won't you
listen to two of your closest guy friends and we're
telling you this is horrific.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
I've heard your words, I've listened, and you don't care.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Oh god, all right, Well, put on a video.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
For them, a video VH.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Honestly, honestly, that would do. It would be way better.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
And I don't think they're using CONTs.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
There are some weird, weird ones I don't I don't
enjoy those. But anyway, okay,

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