DadMode: Parenting, Gaming, Streaming, Life
"DadMode" is a podcast where two gaming-loving dads discuss everything from live streaming to fatherhood in a humorous and relatable way. Join Josh aka Moorph and Bearded Nova as they share gaming adventures and parenting anecdotes, offering a unique blend of entertainment and insight for fellow gamers with kids.
DadMode: Parenting, Gaming, Streaming, Life
The Highs and Lows of Parenting Teenagers
Ever wondered why your teenager's mood can switch faster than a light bulb? Join us as we slip into "dad mode" and share our humorous, sometimes frustrating, attempts to connect with our teens. From a rare day out at a luxury cinema to the mixed reactions they had to new clothes, we'll take you through the unpredictability of teenage attitudes. Listen in as we recount the moments when our kids retreat to their rooms despite our best efforts to engage them—and the fleeting victories when they finally show some interest.
But that's not all! We dive into the growth spurts and social changes our kids face, comparing the differences between siblings and how introverted and extroverted personalities navigate social events. We'll also share the lighter side of teaching teens about work ethic, filled with sneaky ice cream runs and the unexpected twists that accompany their first jobs. Whether you're a parent in the trenches or just looking for a good laugh, this episode offers a relatable and entertaining look at the rollercoaster ride that is parenting.
Josh aka Bearded_Nova
I'm from Australia and am what you would call a father who games. I have 5 kids so not as much time to game as I used to. But I still game and stream when I can. So come join me on Twitch in chat as we chill out.
Business Inquiries: Bearded-n0va@aussiebb.com.au
Josh aka Moorph
I'm a US-based husband and father of two boys. I work full-time and have been a content creator since 2000. I'm a YouTube partner, Twitch and LiveSpace streamer who founded a content creation coaching company called Elev8d Media Group (elev8d.media). I'm a blogger, streamer, podcaster, and video-er(?).
Business Inquiries: josh@elev8d.media
Turning off normal human male mode. Switching to dad mode. Welcome in to dad mode With your hosts Bearded, Nova and Morph.
Speaker 2:I ask people what it's like when you have teenagers. They say think about what it was like when you were a teenager, but I was perfect, so I don't think there was anything weird there. But since you have three or two and you have more coming like, what kind of changes do you see?
Speaker 3:Attitude. It's just attitude, but you shouldn't be seeing that by now. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like just a snappiness is the best way to put it you don't know what happened, oh it's okay, we're both really sarcastic. Yeah, my oldest just picked that up.
Speaker 3:I think there's a level of it goes from sarcasm to just rudeness, though you know what I mean. Like they at that age, they cross that line where they're not being sarcastic, it's just rude Constantly. You're like pick your attitude. You know what I mean. I think, like Wednesday, just go on. The wife had a great idea to have the day off, but both of us just put an annual leave and had the day off. Work. No kids, they're all gone to school daycare.
Speaker 3:We went to the movies, watched the new Quiet Place film. You know we went into like the luxury cinema so you get the hot food as well. So you know, I got the pizzas and like three different types of popcorn and fucking, you know we're loaded up with food. But where the cinema was? We'd never been to that one before, but it's attached to they call it D dfo here, which is like a direct factory outlet. So it's like a. It's like a, a mall full of retailers and it's where they send all their older stock. But like the stuff like you're not going, unites that are no longer but they've still got surplus of it goes there. It's discounted. Yeah, we actually have it too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's where the cinema is. It's in the middle of this.
Speaker 3:So afterwards we decided to go walk around and have a look at everything and while we were there we were in the Nike store and I got some new Jordans, actually like three pairs for like $100, which is cheap, as because I don't buy myself anything normally Like I'm pretty happy not to buy it. But I was wearing my Air Maxes and I forgot how comfortable of a shoe they are and I've had them for like four years. I mainly wear work boots. You're probably the same. You've got shoes that you hardly ever wear, yep, but they last forever. So there's no point of buying a new pair of shoes because you still got the one from years ago. And so I've gone around there. These shoes are really comfortable.
Speaker 3:I remember that saw some jordans. The wife's like you should get a pair, and I'm like okay, and then I'm looking at them like I don't know what one I want to own because obviously they're going to last me probably until I retire. Now at the rate I go through shoes, ended up buying all three. But while we were there, you know, I saw some pants and she's like, oh, we should get the kids some pants, like some like workout pants, but you know the comfortable pants you can wear around everywhere. So she goes we'll just get these tights for the girls. So I said, okay, so we've got that home. 12-year-old happy this is great. Love them, puts them on, feeling good. 16-year-old.
Speaker 3:It was like attitude towards it, and that's what I mean by the teenage attitude. It's like you know, I said to my wife later I'm like well, why react like that? You got something for nothing. There was no reason for us to. It wasn't you needed them, it was purely a nice thing. Going, hey, we'll just buy these, yeah for you. Yeah, there you go, surprise, and then you get attitude for stuff like that. That's the teenage. You don't know what you've done, what brought it on. It just yep, something like that happens and that's what you're going to put up with.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, I mean like right now, like I pick him up from camp or when I get him from school. Yeah, he walks in the house, immediately goes to his room. I do not see him again unless there's dinner.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's normal. I just expect that for years now. That's just the standard. Yeah, I mean like yeah, yeah, yeah, unless they want to come out and annoy like a sibling or do something. They're like just you know.
Speaker 2:I think I find it frustrating because, like now that he's older and I can have like a real conversation with him about stuff, now he doesn't want to hang around. You know what I mean. So it's like but you just got good. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, I know you got interesting.
Speaker 3:You do good stuff. I was just saying, yeah, my son, you know getting into basketball and things like that. I'm like, oh cool, we can go down to the basketball court now and play ball. Yeah, like that's not cool. I even brought a hoop and set it up in the backyard, made sure it was regulation height. I was like you know, let's just keep you practicing your shooting. I'm not going to sit you on a court that's not high enough, because we want to set it to the same height as you're playing. So you've got that muscle memory, etc. Yeah, it doesn't get used.
Speaker 2:No, no, we did the same thing. We set up a basketball hoop because I had one growing up. I use it all the time. So we moved to this house.
Speaker 3:We got one, set it up up. They use it a bunch the first summer and then, like the last three summers, barely barely possible. It's growing up. I'm going to bring up a story of mine. All my friends had a lot of different basketball hoops set up in their yards growing up. It was cool going over there to friends and doing that.
Speaker 3:I really wanted one. Yeah, this is we're talking about primary schools, you know early, early school. So I really wanted one. Parents brought me this really cool Charlotte Hornets it wasn't even a team that I was following back then, but it was the 90s, you know and they got me a Hornets board. It looked really cool. That thing got hung up finally to use when my son was three years old. My parents carried this thing around for like 20 years in the shed. I was waiting for the day for it to go up. It never went up anywhere until my son was like three and then they hung it up about I don't know a few feet off the ground it wasn't that much and then I think someone ran around the corner and hit the side and broke it, so like it didn't last long.
Speaker 2:It basically lasted long enough to deteriorate on the time did you ask like why didn't you hang this up when I was a kid?
Speaker 3:I did just yeah, we'll get to. It just never happened.
Speaker 2:I just gave up on the idea you know, what's funny is like my mom treats my, my kids, so much better than I treated growing up, like she's always around and like she and she built a play scape thing for them and they're always getting donuts and ice cream and crap. Where did this person come from?
Speaker 3:Because I don't care. I tell my wife all the time I can't wait to be a grandparent more than I can be a parent, because I know the rules are out. There's no rules when you're a grandparent. That's when it's time to like, just be a totally different person. It's like a new level to fuck with your kids in the head. Really, you know what I mean. You're just, you're fun. All of a sudden You're like you know, let's have a soft. You go into bed, drink some soft drink, soft drink. Going around everywhere there's fucking bags of lollies. You don't care, let's watch the whole series. Exactly, not allowed out at night.
Speaker 2:We're going to the city my wife keeps saying when the boys have kids, I don't want to do that, but now, if I can fuck with them a little bit more, I'll do that.
Speaker 3:it's a new level. You get to be this person that they just look at and it frustrates them. You know what I mean. Like I watch my parents, you watch it with your mom, I watch it with my mom. It frustrates you a little bit. It's like why do you get to undo everything that we do as parents, right, and care yeah. And don't care.
Speaker 2:I remember specifically, I was like Mom, please don't do this thing, you know, with the boys or whatever. And of course she's like whatever, and then she'll do it anyway. Yeah, yeah so.
Speaker 3:I remember I picked up two of the girls Wednesday with my mom and for a couple of days, and then I got there and you know they were talking about things. I'm like, oh, what did you have? You know, we had nuggets and chips. This night we had that and I we had ice cream for breakfast. Blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, oh cool, did you have any fruit? Did you, did you eat any fruit? And one of the children looked me dead in the eye and said I drank cordial which is, I guess, like Kool-Aid, basically, basically, because it was a fruit flavored drink. That's acceptable level of fruit intake for my children, apparently, while they were there. Yeah, they'll go to, they'll go to like a dessert. There's a couple of restaurants over here that only just do desserts type of thing. Yeah, and they'll go out and have lunch or dinner would just be a dessert bar, you know, that's, that's the stuff my mom.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to lie. I kind of want to hang out with your parents.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she's just. Let's let them do what she wants.
Speaker 2:Wow. Well, yeah, and I think we've talked before how I also can't wait until the boys like, get their own apartment. I can't wait. And people might be thinking, oh, you want them to move out.
Speaker 3:No, Because I never going to move out of home, like I always thought the oldest is. Just she's just going to be the one that's here forever, type of thing. She just never leave the nest and I always assumed 12 year old would do that as well. If she'd leave, she'd be pretty quickly to get out. But we're going through a stage that I like to call grandma hands.
Speaker 3:That she has, where she has the strength and grip and posture of like a 90-year-old, so she can't actually do anything with her hands. It's like if you're asking her to wipe, it's like this real like no pressure on the cloth but the hand is just barely touching it. She can't open jars, she can't open anything. Like she's just got these hands. She's just frail and weak and I realized the other night that she's probably not moving out either, unless she has a carer attached to her, because she couldn't get ice cream out of the tub. Like you have to wait for her older sister to do it, because it was just the spoon and the ice cream was too much for her hands. It's 12. Yeah, it's just like that. But you just see, you can see it in the grip that there's just no force or anything behind anything that she's doing. It's like you can. I don't know if she feels like she's the Incredible Hulk or something where she's unaware of her full potential and it feels like she'll crush everything unless she withholds her own power, right.
Speaker 3:But, that's not the case. It's really not the case. I keep telling her don't worry, I don't think you're going to break anything. Yeah, but she's not moving out either. Now I'm stuck with two kids apparently so my oldest.
Speaker 2:He turns 13 in October. He is two inches shorter. I'm 5'10". He's two inches shorter than me and he's now moved up to men's medium for clothes. He's a big kid, so he hasn't really hit his growth spurt yet. He's going to be way taller than me and every now and then he likes picking up his brother, who's like 65 pounds, and I'm like, hey, can you go get a bag of pellets from the shed? It's like 40 pounds. I don't think I can lift it. Yes, you can. He'll pull the ice cream thing. I can't scoop it out. Dad, I'm like you're as big as me. Yes, you can, you can. I'm still holding a rank in my house for hot. Are you still playing? I am for now, obviously, but it won't be long. I'm thinking by the end of next year. Easily he'll be past me, but I'm not worried at all. He'll make his little jokes but at the end of the day he realizes I could kick him out.
Speaker 3:I think the sun's probably going to get me. I feel like he'll pit me on some 5'11". He's probably going to pit me. I don't know where he's standing in height, but every time I see him he looks like he's, you know, taller and taller.
Speaker 3:The eldest. I feel like she may have just hit her last growth spurt, because girls, they have their growth spurt earlier than men. Yeah, so they kind of finish that mid-high schools. You know where they stop really. So I feel like she's maybe popped hers. The other two girls maybe one might be tall. I feel like one's going to be tall, the other one won't be.
Speaker 3:And then little Dakota we found out the other day because we had to go get her 12-month needles and they do like you check your weight and your height to make sure the progression's going right. She's like a five percentile in height and weight, so she's tiny. I really don't think that's going to change. I think she's just going to stay short forever. I don't even think she's going to get taller than her mom and that's, that's saying something. But that's probably a good thing for my wife. I tell her that I'm like, hey look, you might have one child that's not tall. Then, yeah, she thinks that's a bad thing. I'm trying to put a spin it in a good way yeah, so my boys couldn't be more different.
Speaker 2:So my oldest is he's like in the 90th percentile for height. Yeah, my youngest is in like the 10th or 15th yeah, I mean and he's, he's turning 11, so he's just gonna be a little dude. Yeah, he's a little dude like we keep. We tell, hey, you know, don't worry, you'll hit your bro spurt, and I'm like, yeah, you'll be like five, five, five, six maybe. Yeah, because I don't think the percentiles really change all that much.
Speaker 3:No, once you kind of stick to a path. Then the percentiles, I believe it turned out. I didn't realize, but it's a worldwide thing. So our growth chart's the same as your growth chart, et cetera. It's a World Health Organization. Most people I personally thought that every country would have different growth charts to a degree. You know what I mean. Yeah, obviously they're just looking at it as a worldwide thing instead of as a nation thing.
Speaker 2:So yeah, um.
Speaker 3:So you're saying, going back to teenagers growing up, changes, introvert or extrovert children.
Speaker 2:Oh, my oldest is an introvert. I think my youngest is more of an extrovert because he loves talking to people. He hates being by himself.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 3:Okay, because I was going to say that I think that changes we talked about us being teenagers and just never being home, being ghosts, you know disappeared in the world of our parents' eyes.
Speaker 3:And both my two daughters here at home the older two they're both very introvert, like we just had vacation, two weeks school vacation, because that's how our school system works and I think we saw no, I'm pretty confident, neither girl actually saw either none of their friends for the entire two weeks.
Speaker 3:They may have talked to them on the phone, but that's kind of like their happy places to live in the cave, the smelly cave that they live in their room and just message, text message, if that's as much of a social life as that they need, whereas my 13-year-old son he's as much as he's a gamer and likes doing things he likes still gaming with a mate at either their house or they're coming over. So he's still got that. Yeah, I personally feel like it does have a little bit to do with their attitude. You know how much social interaction, as much as they can, you know, introvert or not, I still feel like kids still need that social interaction or else they get grumpy, I guess is the best way to put it and, as I said, my two stay at home majority of the time, but the moment they spend a bit of time with friends or go do that, they've got a slight attitude change, for a couple of days at least.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not a fan of big social things Like I, my, my company had a picnic today and you know I have to like work myself up to get to go to it and interact with people for two hours it's it's. I remember walking up and I'm about to open, or walk around the corner where everybody is, and she said I took this deep breath in All right, here we go. You know, oh God, I hate it. And then I stood in the same general spot for the whole two hours, or two and a half hours. I was there because I knew if I walked anywhere else I'd have to talk to more people. So I know they're like you want to go get something to eat? I'm like no, because then I have to talk to all the people that are over there. So I'm going to stay here.
Speaker 3:I never do those company things either. I think I went to one like one of my previous workplaces. I went to one of the social events. It was at an amusement park for anyone that wanted to go, and I think the only reason I went was because it was $10 per person, like per family member, and that included their lunch. So I thought for $10, that's cheaper than the ticket plus their food. So let's just go do that. They can have fun at the amusement park. And the entire day I, we walked around besides watching like one of the shows where they had like a area for all of us to sit in. That was the only time that I really saw everyone at work, other than that I would see them as I'm walking around the thing, but it's like try not to make eye contact with them.
Speaker 2:We don't, we don't need to socialize with black people we don't, and I don't know why people think that that's a great idea. It's like I talk to you in the office because I have to. Yeah, I have no talking to you outside of these four walls.
Speaker 3:There was. I would say, though that was the majority of the company that I worked with. However, the other cause I'm in sales, the other sales there's a couple of other sales guys that I worked with had no problems socializing with, because there was times where we'd have to go away and a couple of us who live further away would have to spend the night in closer or whatever. So you know we're all staying at the same hotel. We'd all go get dinner together, we'd all have breakfast together, we got drinks together, so kind of. We got used to spending a lot more time away from our families together, so we did have like that. You know, there was a group I guess I was a lot more socially friends, but they didn't go to those social events at work either. You know what I mean. It's more like we're not going to them. If we want to go do something, we'll go do it as ourselves, as you would with normal friends.
Speaker 2:I guess yeah, and I think I've always been this way and my older son is going to. He's the the same way. I'm curious as to when he actually becomes a teenager and gets into high school and his friend group increases if he's going to want to do more hanging out things. I do know that when I got my license and I started dating, my personality changed even more it does and my family became kind of dead to me once I started dating, like all I cared about was dating.
Speaker 3:The other big one around dating and teenagers, and I think it's something that needs to in a way I'm going to talk to my son about anyway is not pushing away friends or whoever there is dating. You know what I mean. Like don't, don't forget the people that will always be there for you, whereas that person most likely isn't. Let's be, I'm going to be realistic, you know what I mean. Right, and like, how old is? She hasn't dated, so I haven't had to worry about that yet, but I feel like that probably would be the case there.
Speaker 3:I watched my youngest sister date and the guy she said it's a dick, no one likes him, no one likes him in the family. But at the same sense, she's lost all her friends, all her close friends, because of that, and I don't think they're together now. But that's gone, that friendship. If it goes for too long, you lose that friendship, you lose that. Then you're left with nothing, I guess. So, yep, I think that's a conversation. Definitely that I need to have children when they get to that point is make sure yeah, not to abandon friends they won't listen.
Speaker 2:No, they won't you listen. I don't think I will listen because, dating someone, she became my world, you know in a way and I was like this will last forever.
Speaker 3:They last like three weeks, you know, and it means I'm going to be pissed off all your friends and family exactly, but like I still want to have that conversation with them, just so they're aware I guess that's the best way to put it A little bit self-consciously aware as a whole for it. Yep, work. Work's a new one that you'll have to deal with too, I guess.
Speaker 2:Getting a part-time job Probably start earning some money though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, don't expect him to repay you ever. That doesn't happen.
Speaker 2:No, but if they want this thing, we'll work for it, Okay here's one.
Speaker 3:It was the 12-year-old's birthday the other day. Something was happening. The wife and I went out for an hour. We just had to run out. I think we had to go pick up some gifts or whatever. We always joke with the eldest about when she's going to buy us dinner because she's working. Yeah, okay. So we've gone out. Wife and I were good. We didn't go buy any food or go out for lunch without the kids. We were pretty good there, Came home and the elders had ordered pizza while we were gone, then shared it with the 12-year-old and they ate it all before we got back, but they had to show us the photos that had happened. Guess what we did? We got it. We got it. It's like they purposely waited until we were gone, so there was no return favor of food ever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's messed up.
Speaker 3:It's rude. I wanted pizza, so we went out the next day, the wife and I, and we went to sushi. So fuck them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so my, my wife and I do that too. Like they boys want whatever it is we bring we get. So like we, we, we used to sneak shit, they sneak shit, they do Right. Like we all sneak. Like I snuck out and got us ice cream like a month or so ago. Yeah, like right after they went to bed I ran out to the place and got ice cream and, you know, kind of snuck it upstairs. My wife and I, we had to eat it in the bedroom because the boys were still wandering around.
Speaker 3:We kind of hide it real quick yeah, don't worry about it, yeah no we do that all the time like we'll go to, we'll go to the shops to go pick up some stuff and like kmart or something. And then there's like a little sushi thing. It's like, oh, let's just, let's just sneak a couple of rolls of sushi and quickly sit down and eat them down before the kids go on all the coffees. Or yeah, yeah, when your kids are working, they're not, they're not gonna be to you any other way. And think about all those times that you brought a takeaway and there's no return. I've heard that you did show up. Oh, no, I'm sorry, I'm going to step back. You showed up once after work with coffee. I brought myself a coffee and she brought my wife a coffee, which was really nice, yeah, except my wife is lactose intolerant and she forgot and then got her full cream milk. Well, the fart was there. The fart was there, yeah, but you know it's even work changes their attitude a bit. I guess is what I was getting at there, because you know, during the school holidays she had a clock shift or something coming up and she worked a fair bit, because that's probably the majority of time when kids get to work is during holidays. Because they don't. Yeah, there's, there's rules here to limit how much a kid can work during school. You know, workplaces have to respect that. And so she's got all these shifts. Then her auntie's over, so she's like I'm gonna have time off. I'm like don't take time off, this is the time for you to actually make money. Like, why do you need to take, why do you need to cancel a three hour shift? You've got all this time. It's not affecting you in any way.
Speaker 3:In her opinion, she had to work till 10 o'clock one night, from like seven till 10. Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So apparently she needed, because she works at mcdonald's, so apparently she needed to have this take cancel another shift in preparation for four days time for when she was going to do this shift, because she was going to be tired and I'm like, well, if you're tired, just sleep in. Like you have four days to sleep in, like if you're tired from sleep in. But she was up six o'clock every day. It was just a, I guess. Yeah, I mean, it had nothing to do with being tired, she just didn't want to work. It's already starting to see that work is hard. Oh god, it's tiring having to work and then, and then you get that. I guess I feel like a evil, evil villain just every time that's kids like telling me that it's so hard being working about it. Yeah, I mean I like the.
Speaker 2:My boys are both that way. I'd like to tell them I started working on a farm when I was 10 and then when I was 15, I got like a regular, like department store job, yeah. But I remind them of that, like, yeah, I've been working since I was 10 years old, dude, earning, earning money, you know, working in whatever it was paper boy, can I have 20 bucks? No, no, you can't. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3:yeah, for the 20 bucks that's that's been me with the children is really much. You want money. Okay, what are you doing to earn that money? You go to. You go. You can't just have nothing's given to you for nothing. You need to work for it. Pick it a list of things. You come to me and go hey, I'm going to go do this. If I did this, would you give me $20? And I'll go yeah, okay or no, or maybe in some cases I'll turn around and go that's not $20. I'll give you $30 if you do that. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I'm an them extra for it by all means yeah they have this thing, they know that if they want to buy something kind of expensive, they'll ask for extra chores for a while to earn money for it. And it's cool. But every now and then they're like I want to buy this thing for $500. I'm like no, no, I don't want to give you $500.
Speaker 3:I guess that's a limit when you, when you, when you do, you are doing the chores. And money for chores, how, how much do you give them? I guess there's a point where you're like I'm giving this child a lot of money, very yeah.
Speaker 2:And for a half ass job. Let's be honest, like at least my kids, you know once it's mad, cause I've sort of outsourced a lot of my household responsibilities to my children and they do a pretty shitty job. They're bad employees.
Speaker 3:I once dangled big pay in front of my children to do some laborious work because at the time of 4Cover moving into where we are now and we're on our property I needed to go get rid of a lot of saplings and small trees and cut down the trees in the yard. So I offered the children $50 an hour to come help me. Holy shit, yeah, so none of them were teenagers. Then they were all little little. I'm like I'll give you guys $50 an hour if you come down and just stack stuff or move stuff, just help me out.
Speaker 2:Not one of my children came if you call, if you message me, I would have got on a plane. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's good money, like I was like trying to. I was trying, but that was before the true the daily chores thing, like the weekly chores list, came into play at the house. But I was trying to. Yeah, they were always asking for things and that was me like I'm about to do something. You guys want to and I've been telling them before they had to do, like you know, to take the rubbish out or whatever. This was a way of hey, if you want something, just ask us for money. Like ask us how to earn money and we'll make it. So this is. You know, they were always asking for money but not a way to earn it. So one time was me like, well, hey guys, I'm giving you an opportunity here to show you as how you can earn. You know, come out for two hours, basically, and you got way more than what you were asking for. Or even an hour you can make what you want. Yeah, oh, didn't happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know what. The first of all, I don't think I would ever offer my kids 50 bucks an hour generous that day what that would be that I would need help with.
Speaker 3:I'd have to be desperate yeah, it was as I said, it was we, it was. What was it? Like? Four acres there that I was walking around, that's a lot. Yeah, there was, there was a lot. I didn't do all of it, I was just doing small areas where I'm like, oh, that's more dense than others. I'll take out a few trees and just leave one type of thing. Yeah, yeah, like, oh, you know, and I knew it probably wouldn't have taken an hour With all the kids. It would have taken way less with lots of help from me, but it took me like four hours because I had no one helping me.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, right. So I think that's the bottom line here is I shouldn't be doing it.
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