Toddlers are SCIENTISTS, the 2026 World Cup & going to a kids’ party WITHOUT kids?!
6/15/20261 hr 37 min
This week on Two Parents & A Podcast, happy Monday & welcome to our FIRST week of 3 episodes a week!!! (Mon/Wed/Fri…) And YES, we are kicking things off with a LITTLE chaos (there were storms in Texas last night and everyone was up all night!!) So if you think this episode feels all over the place… IT IS!! (welcome to the inside of our brains on a Monday morning lol). On today's episode: we get into a parenting concept that has officially rewired our brain: toddlers are SCIENTISTS!!! We are SO down to let our kids experiment + learn from their mistakes (safely). Plus, our #1 toddler hack: give them two choices (it has saved us in SO many standoffs already). First we get into the World Cup… it's taking over our lives (and America) in the best way possible!!! The TikTok video of girls asking "wait, when did the US get into the World Cup?!" sent us, the European fans are LOSING THEIR MINDS over Buc-ee's, ranch, & unlimited refills (& sales tax not being on the list price?!), and Rod Stewart canceled his concert to go to a World Cup game (Harrison's defense: no chance, you'd NEVER do that for a group stage match — it was laryngitis). Plus, Elon Musk officially became the world's FIRST trillionaire after SpaceX's IPO (Stock School with Harrison incoming!), the Summer House butterfly effect (Harrison's wildest theory yet on Jesse, Sierra & West), and the question we cannot stop thinking about: will Taylor & Travis ACTUALLY get married at MSG?! (& who would perform?? 🤔). And the IRL stuff: Rocky's 8 week update (the reflux is significantly better!!), the importance of building your mom community (a huge s/o to my Austin moms 🥹), going to a kid's birthday party WITHOUT kids (the dual parenting brain is REAL), our BICKER OF THE WEEK (where Alex hid Harrison's laptop outside our studio… you just have to watch hahaha), RIP the summer job (only 30% of teens had one last summer?!), and we went to basically adult summer camp this weekend & we're never recovering!! LOVE YOU GUYS! Timestamps: 00:00:00 Welcome back to Two Parents & A Podcast! 00:04:05 European World Cup fans are losing their minds over Buckee’s, ranch & unlimited refills 00:10:59 Americans have no clue the US is in the World Cup 00:21:14 Why don't TV/movie casts get their own reality show?! 00:24:40 The Summer House butterfly effect 00:31:55 Why do waiters always announce that non-alc beers are non-alc?! 00:38:26 Elon Musk became the world’s first TRILLIONAIRE?! 00:49:58 Will Taylor and Travis ACTUALLY get married at MSG?! 00:55:05 Our #1 Toddler Hack: give them two choices 01:02:05 Toddlers are SCIENTISTS 01:09:02 Rocky's 8 week update 01:10:33 The importance of building your mom community 01:13:40 Going to a kid’s birthday party WITHOUT kids?! 01:16:14 Is it OK to yuck others’ yums?! 01:19:25 Parenting tip: Mother-son dates 01:20:15 BICKER OF THE WEEK: Idk what to call this you just have to listen hahahha 01:23:54 RIP the summer job: only 30% of teens now have summer job 01:30:00 We went to adult summer camp over the weekend 01:33:40 LOVE YOU GUYS! #twoparentsandapod
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First 90 secondsHarrison Fugman· Host0:00
The lightning woke up Bubby last night. Like, the rain and the lightning, the thunder- She was scared ... woke, sort of, I guess the thunder woke her up.
Alex Bennett· Host0:05
Mm.
Harrison Fugman· Host0:06
Yeah.
Alex Bennett· Host0:07
But I read at, at... Okay, what is it? At age two, I'm gonna mess this up. Something about at age two, though, something hasn't caught up in their brain, so monsters become real, but there's no way for them to understand that they're not real. So, like, fear is a big part. Like, she thinks the lightning can attack her right now. She doesn't understand she's in a house.
Harrison Fugman· Host0:30
But that was very clear from last night.
Alex Bennett· Host0:32
Yeah, it was.
Harrison Fugman· Host0:32
Because when I went in, um, so I guess you went in and gave her the, to try to give her the paci to calm her, and I looked at the Nanit, and there was no... She was, what's the, she, like, she was hysteric.
Alex Bennett· Host0:47
Yeah. She, she was scared.
Harrison Fugman· Host0:48
And she's never like that. So I went in there and I, I sat with her on the chair, and she was, like, pointing, and she was like, she was just so scared.
Alex Bennett· Host0:57
At the lightning?
Harrison Fugman· Host0:58
I, I, I couldn't tell at what, at what.
Alex Bennett· Host1:01
Well, at that- She wasn't u- Like, the words she was using weren't words she normally uses, and so we just hushed, hushed her to calm down- Yeah ...
Harrison Fugman· Host1:10
and then brought her into our bed.
Alex Bennett· Host1:11
You didn't hush her, you shhed her.
Harrison Fugman· Host1:13
Shhed her.
Alex Bennett· Host1:13
Hush I think has a connotation of- Shh ... I told you to stop talking.
Harrison Fugman· Host1:16
Shh.
Jules· Panelist1:17
Like, I think shh has a negative connotation.
Alex Bennett· Host1:19
Except for with a kid.
Jules· Panelist1:20
Oh.
Alex Bennett· Host1:21
Shushing, like, I shh the kid.
Jules· Panelist1:23
Shh.
Alex Bennett· Host1:23
That's, um- No, hush is nice.
Jules· Panelist1:25
Shush is mean.
Alex Bennett· Host1:26
Really?
Jules· Panelist1:26
Yeah.
Harrison Fugman· Host1:27
Look at that.
Jules· Panelist1:28
Bicker of the week. [laughs] Jules, it's usually