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Birthday Month Special! | Understanding Our Parents Better Now That We Are Parents | DPP

·1 hr 28 min·5 clips

Jessica says a grandparent’s indulgence is “the reward I get for raising you right.”

The Dew Parenting Podcast opens with Linda Ijefo Suleyman and Ibrahim Suleyman welcoming friends into the room. They joke about who brought whom back on the show and who has been around long enough to earn the title of friend. The tone stays playful and teasing, but the conversation soon shifts toward family and upbringing. A wedding connection comes up, and the hosts lean into the easy back-and-forth of people who know each other well. That banter keeps the episode moving while the deeper subject becomes clearer. They talk about how becoming parents changes the way you look back on your own mother and father. One side of the conversation points to a refined, dignified family style. The other leans into a warmer, noisier, more openly affectionate home. Both are treated as real family patterns rather than caricatures. The hosts describe how one parent seemed intense in childhood and is now understood differently in adulthood. What once felt strict now reads as a determined effort to push children toward something better. The episode traces that mother's story from a village childhood to Lagos at fourteen. That move becomes a major turning point in the conversation. It helps explain why she developed a strong sense of where her children should be headed. The hosts also connect that background to the way family values get reinforced across generations. They treat the home environment as something that can steady a child long after they leave it. There is a clear sense that the episode is about translation: taking what was learned in one generation and trying to carry it forward into the next. The conversation moves through love, pressure, correction, and ambition without sounding clinical. It stays rooted in family scenes and remembered lines rather than abstract theory. The closing thanks to friends and listeners brings the whole thing back to community and gratitude.

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A candid conversation about parenting, memory, and seeing parents differently.

The episode unfolds as a close family conversation about how parents can look different once their children carry similar responsibilities. It works best when it resists tidy conclusions and stays with the small, familiar stuff, from wedding banter to childhood discipline to the…

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