Nursing And Cursing

Happy Holidays Listeners! We hope this Holiday Newsletter Episode finds you well! 2019 was a spectacular year for the ladies of Nursing and Cursing! We had tense moments with our in-laws, screaming matches with our toddlers, blow -ups with our husbands! We got new jobs, used cars, and vasectomies for our husbands! Our kids achieved the bare minimum and are still alive to kick our car seats! Join us as we discuss the REAL shit that would go in our holiday newsletters. We love you mamas! Happy holidays !!

This week we try and work out if we are raising sociopaths or regular kids or yes. It’s bad enough when they destroy your house, refuse dinner, fight with their siblings and try to take down your mental health from sunrise to sunset, but even worse....is hearing from their teachers/babysitters/friends’ parents that they’re......ANGELS. Seriously WTF. Kids be gaslighting us and making us feel CRAZY. Listen up and let us know if you got a Dexter type kid like us.

Welcome mamas! In this era of slow, present parenting, we are discussing an unpleasant (and universal?!) reality: parenting rage. This isn’t raising your voice the third time you tell them to put their shoes on, this is Mother Hulk. When anger boils over and moms flip out. Has it ever happened to you? We discuss our most intense rage experiences with our kids. This is the conversation you won’t find in that Instagram feed of mini me outfits and bento box lunches. We love you and we know it’s hard because ....Despite all this rage, We are still just moms in a cage!

Happy Thanksgiving mamas!! This week’s ep is all about family -specifically siblings, and how amazing and insane and loud it can be to raise them. Are you raising siblings? How’s it going ? Are they friends ? Frenimies? How do you deal with the dynamics ? We are totally blowing it. We will take any advice you have. Until next week-may your turkey be moist (ew) and your sweats be forgiving . We are grateful for you.

School pick up and drop off. What is it that makes it so hellish? The crazy parents ? The crazy kids? The traffic ? The time crunch? The sleeping sibling you gotta haul around ? The fact that that you’re guaranteed to be wearing old blown out pjs the one day you actually have to get out of the car? And 50% of our fails involve a case of mistaken identity. Hmmmm.

Helllo mamas!!! This week we talk about one of our parenting pet peeves : when people in our kids’ lives fill ‘em up with candy and junk food. It makes them hyper, rots their teeth, ruins their appetite-and worst of all -makes it harder for us to bribe them in a real moment of necessity. Listen in an let us know: are we right, or are we uptight?

Snip snip and we ain’t takin bangs! This week’s episode is all about.... Vasectomies! One of the Nursing & Cursing husbands is gettin fixed-listen in and find out which one. Does your partner have one? Do you wish he did? Or wish he didn’t :/ Know anyone with a vasectomy baby? And do they *really* tell the guys to ice their balls and take two full days of rest?? we are real suspicious.

Happy Halloween Mamas!! Gather round if you dare. This episode features some of our most hair raising moments as mothers. Snakes ! Rats! Pumpkin spice candles! We’ve got it all.... if you’re brave enough to take a listen. Muahahahaha (evil laugh).

Do you have an anxious kid? A nail biter, a bed wetter, a kid who can’t sleep, who struggles with a change to her surroundings or schedule ? How do you cope and what do you do? This week we talk about how much we worry about our kids worries and how much their anxiety stresses us out. As usual we have more questions than answers. And chrissy shares the most magical fail we have ever heard.

Gasping for Hair. This week’s eps is all about your kid’s hair. Was your baby born with a full head of hair? Bald? Did she grow a toddler mullet?! Does she have the same hair as you? Has she ever cut it herself? Have you?? Does she let you wash or style it? And dude, WHAT .ABOUT. LICE!?! Listen in and help us out. Kate hasn’t brushed mavis’s hair since 2017 and there might be something nesting in it

When it comes to raising kids, what’s your favorite age? A snoozy (or screaming?!) newborn? A sleep-trained and smiley 9-month old? Elementary school? Or for those of us at this shit too long, is it tweens or teens?! Or will you be like us, blaming this mess on a “difficult phase” til 2030 and just waiting on the promise of a favorite stage round the next bend

Hey mamas. How do you feel watching your kids struggle to overcome challenges? How do you know if they’re just frustrated or if they’re truly scared? Should you intervene and help them, or encourage from the sidelines while they work it out? You can’t learn how to ride a bike without falling off a couple times, right? But then what if you break a leg and never get back on

Hey momarades! This week we are talking about School Picture Day. Do you plan your kid’s lewk and order 72 wallet sizes for everyone you know? Do you let your kid style herself and cherish the authentic moment she is capturing? Or did you fucking forget it’s picture day again and send your kid to school in the shirt she wore yesterday, hair that was washed a week ago and then mean to order prints but totally forget

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Moms, it’s finally 5pm. It’s been a long day, you’ve worked hard. Lets unwind and head to the Witching Hour shall we!? Oh, what’s the the witching hour? Well it’s *just like * happy hour except that instead of beer and LOLs with your friends, it’s inconsolable crying with your baby, mind numbing exhaustion, uncooked food and no end in sight! Yes, this week we dig in to the darkest time of day:the witching hour, which affects children ages 0-12yrs from the hours of 4~12am for roughly 10 months a year. NBD!

Welcome back mamas!! We missed you! We hope that you all had wonderful summers. And if you spent 768 hours preparing to take your kids to the beach only to have them bug you for a snack / a shit /a nap /the iPad as soon as you lathered the reef-safe sunscreen on, WE.FEEL.YOU. This week we ask : are we turning into our parents. GULP. Are we making the same mistakes they did, or making our own brand new mistakes? Both?! What will our kids say about our parenting? Yikes. And as ever, some unforgettable fails. And nails. But duh mostly fails. Welcome to season FIVE!!

Me gazing at a photo: Can you believe that was only 2 years ago?!? It feels like a life time ago! She was so young!!! And so cute! She’s grown so much, she’s so much bigger now! I miss that phase! My husband: Oh you lookin at pics of the kids ? Me: Nope. Pics OF MYSELF BEFORE I BEGAN TO SPEED AGE!!!! Seriously WTF. This week we celebrate turning 100 episodes, by discussing how we were just going along aging totally normally, and all of a sudden we are sleep -deprived ancient hags with sagging boobs, hollow eyes, and that’s on a good day. Please don’t tag Roldan + Fields. Thanks for the best season ever mamas! we will miss you this summer! See you in the Fall ❤️❤️❤️

Wine not ?? Pour yourself a refill and listen up. This week we are talking about moms + booze. Do we need it /earn it /deserve it as overwhelmed women looking to take the edge of during our kids’ live-stream, real-time paw patrol plot breakdown, or is something darker going on? And Kate drops some Claritin Jr and gets CRAZY.

Shout out to the father's out there !

You know how we lie awake at night and worry that we’re not doing enough for our kids? This week we discuss an alternate truth: we’re doing *way too much* for them. From chores to homework to relationships to activities, are we making this whole childhood gig too easy for them instead of preparing them for the shit show of adulthood?!? As always : it turns out we are doing it wrong.