The death of hosting, revisiting childhood hobbies & what do you do if your kid gets hit?!

This week on Two Parents & A Podcast, happy Wednesday!! Getting ahead of this: YES - Alex & Harrison are in the wrong seats (#SocialDistancing). We open with the moments you realize you're THE parent of the house: Alex packing a pizza-and-banana lunch for dance class, Harrison standing in the yard with the plumber feeling like his dad.. and the one that reminded Alex of her childhood: clacking around in heels before Dear Media by Day, hoping Tate remembers the sound the way she remembers her mom's. Plus a DM that's changing our vocabulary: when you're putting on makeup (or heels!!) in front of your daughter, say mom is getting FANCY, not pretty.. because she's always pretty, with or without it.

Then we break our own podcast rule to talk about the weather (a storm is coming and Jules flies out in the THICK of it), padel lesson one is complete (drenched, humbled, hooked), and Jules walks us through her Europe itinerary.. or total lack of one. Milan to Florence to a wedding to Santa Margherita to the south of France, with essentially nothing planned. Send her your suggestions!!

On the homefront: SLEEP UPDATES! Rocky's progress and Tate's new move of joining us in bed.

Then our internet convos: the unspoken rules of men's handshakes (dap, shake or bro hug??), and the big one: hosting in America has collapsed from 42% of people hosting monthly in 1975 to 12% today. We get into why, and our whole case: hosting does not need to be complicated. Monday we texted friends "we're having burgers tonight" and that was the invite. DoorDash counts. Paper plates count. Bring back hosting!! Next: OU vs. Texas week in a house divided (Tate is picking who Harrison bets on lol), the Brooklyn bathroom with a 10 minute TIMER, the case for revisiting your childhood hobbies (what was yours?!), and should we do a Survivor bracket?!

And we close with the one we really want your input on: if your kid gets hit or bitten, what do you teach them to do? We walk through the options, where we've landed for now, and why this might be a Dr. Brown question. Tell us what's worked for your family.

Hope everyone has a great week :-) LOVE YOU GUYS!

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Welcome back to Two Parents & A Podcast!

00:00:14 The moment you realize you're THE parent…

00:02:47 Swapping "pretty" for "fancy"

00:05:20 We're breaking our podcast rule to talk about the weather…

00:06:44 Padel lesson one: COMPLETE

00:07:49 Jules' Europe itinerary.. or total lack of one (send suggestions!!)

00:18:42 Rocky’s sleep update

00:23:43 Tate’s sleep update

00:25:48 The unspoken rules of men's handshakes (dap, shake or bro hug?!)

00:30:38 The death of hosting in the U.S.

00:37:12 OU vs. Texas week in a house divided

00:43:05 The Brooklyn bathroom with a 10 minute TIMER

00:46:52 The importance of revisiting childhood hobbies

00:55:20 Should we do a Survivor bracket?!

00:56:38 If your kid gets hit or bitten: what do you teach them to do?

01:01:59 LOVE YOU GUYS

#twoparentsandapod

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Sources:

*The death of hosting: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host

*Revisiting childhood hobbies: https://time.com/article/2026/09/22/revisiting-childhood-hobbies-is-a-way-to-learn-who-you-are-as-an-adult/

*The Brooklyn bathroom timer: https://time.com/article/2026/09/22/revisiting-childhood-hobbies-is-a-way-to-learn-who-you-are-as-an-adult/

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