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A (0:00)
This is an iHeart podcast.
B (0:04)
I want it to be true, but it's not. It's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty.
A (0:09)
One more thing.
B (0:13)
So I got a couple of examples here of growing up and responsibilities as a youth that are at cross purposes. So I don't know what I think about this here. So be interested in your alls experience. So my 13 year old right now is really big on cooking himself breakfast in the morning, something he kind of picked up in Boy Scouts from doing it at camp. But he's been frying himself up eggs and bacon for breakfast every morning. And he did it the first time yesterday and I asked him how he went and he said, well, I overcooked the bacon a little bit and there was an eggshell in my eggs. I said, first time, I said, that's the way it turns out for everybody. I said, so that'll be fine. Said the right direction. But the idea being in theory, and this is all in theory, as I will point out, that, you know, you learn to do stuff for yourself and that will blah, blah, blah, something when you're older, blah, blah, blah. And I think often about how like I had never done any laundry in my life until I left my home as an 18 year old. My mom did all my laundry, all our laundry, as a mom, my whole life and, and, and cooking too. I never cooked anything ever did any laundry. And the, the, the story I hear from people is, you know, they won't know how to take care of themselves. I figured out how to do laundry in like five minutes when I got to college and I was fine. So I'm not sure, I mean, other than it would have helped my mom to not have to do it. I'm not sure it hurt me any and any way that I didn't do.
A (1:48)
It really, other than that first time or two, like the cooking eggs thing. You're exactly right. Yeah, I remember that.
B (1:55)
Oh, oh.
A (1:56)
You got to be more careful when you crack the eggs or you get a little bit in there. And, and by like a plate of eggs, number two, I was up to speed.
B (2:03)
All right, before I go to my second example, that is it kind of counter purposes to this. What was your experience, Katie? Did you do some stuff for yourself as a kid?
C (2:14)
Not really. I mean my mom did the laundry and cooked for us and all that stuff. And I really only learned how to cook when I started working at Trader Joe's and I was the, the demo girl that made the samples and that didn't.