Main Idea: You’re not their friend. You’re their mom. Do the hard work of parenting. Link to the podcast When Hollie was little, I used to send kids home when they asked for food. They could have water and they had to drink it in the kitchen. Sometimes I made popcorn. But they had toContinue reading “S2 E9: Meanest Mom in the Neighborhood”
Category Archives: Show Notes
S2 E8: Hey, you kids get off my lawn!
Main Idea: Property rights are complicated. How do you navigate them? How do you explain them to kids? Link to the podcast All right, in the first place, we think of this as “Don’t hurt people. Don’t take their stuff.” And we think about “stuff” as including property. After all, the founding fathers wanted “life,Continue reading “S2 E8: Hey, you kids get off my lawn!”
S2 E7: Do You Really Get What You Pay For? Student Loan ROI
Main Idea: Are student loans worth the investment? Should the government be in this conversation? What’s your career path and would you actually need college to do this? Link to podcast It’s a pretty common story in this day and age. Kids graduating high school with the expectation is that they will go to collegeContinue reading “S2 E7: Do You Really Get What You Pay For? Student Loan ROI”
S2 E6: Let Grandma Starve
Main idea: When we’re in crisis, we cry out for government. We’ve been taught to do just that in a cycle that benefits only those in power. Rarely those in need. Link to the podcast Social Security and how we’re never gonna see that money. “Benefit” and other euphemisms for how social security fucks us.Continue reading “S2 E6: Let Grandma Starve”
S2 E5: Candy and Cuss Words
Main Topic: Cussing in front of your kids: yay or nay? Subtopic: Valentine’s messages and the use of words for good or evil. Link to the podcast. It’s almost Valentine’s Day and the GenXer in Kasie wants to reject the Hallmark Holiday on principle. According to this link science says it’s perfectly okay to swearContinue reading “S2 E5: Candy and Cuss Words”
S2 E4: Lemonade Stands and Liberty Part 2: Taxes Kill Business
Main Idea: Taxes on the self employed discourage entrepreneurship and try to force us all into corporate control mechanisms; health insurance tied employment, retirement savings tied to employment encourage dependence on corporate entities instead of entrepreneurial ventures and creativity, Link to the podcast Last week, we talked about how licensing laws and ordinances impede entryContinue reading “S2 E4: Lemonade Stands and Liberty Part 2: Taxes Kill Business”
S2 E3: Lemonade Stands & Liberty
On January 30, 2021 @ 6:30 p.m. Livestream via Streamyard to YouTube, the Libertarian Moms took on all those grown-ups looking to regulate lemonade stands. Cuz, seriously? Topic: Kids getting policed for not having a business license Link to the podcast It started with a meme. As Libertarians, we know the best way for governmentContinue reading “S2 E3: Lemonade Stands & Liberty”
S2 E2: The Crisis Cycle
January 22, 2021 @ 6:30 p.m. Livestream via Streamyard to YouTube The Crisis cycle: what happened, who’s to blame, further investigations, how to talk to your kids — the media-infused Model for our ongoing outrage and disquiet. Legit, just Google “the crisis cycle” and you’ll get where we’re going with this. Many of us operateContinue reading “S2 E2: The Crisis Cycle”
S2 E1: “A” is for Accountability
Season 2 Episode 1 broadcast live at 6:30(ish) on Saturday, January 16th. Examination of last week’s insurrection in context with the BLM / Portland conversation where it was okay to destroy fed property then, why not now? Kasie’s hypocrisy on this and grappling with whether we need to “remove” the President for being a dick.Continue reading “S2 E1: “A” is for Accountability”
Episode 15: Eventually You Lose
Main idea: Losing with dignity is part of playing the game. Who we are: Kasie, daughter Hollie is 12 and she watched an entire room of drunk adults lose their shit over the Clemson game Saturday night. Jessica, I’m in Greenville and have two sons Jackson (12) and Caldwell (8) Melissa, I’m in the LowcountryContinue reading “Episode 15: Eventually You Lose”
Parenting Porcupines 