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Solo Parenting: Navigating Parenting when your Partner is Long Distance

·1 hr 12 min·4 clips
Deji says the children are asking for their mother more often and that a 10th-birthday call made Aisha cry.
The opening is all word game noise. Start is the first answer they land on. They drift into Joy by Newsboys and then into Jeje. The mood stays teasing, with one voice pushing for the next word and another acting wounded about losing a win. Then the room turns toward crying when a no is coming. The warning is plain: use your words. A person can ask clearly instead of turning on the tears, and they call that pattern manipulative when it is being used to get a result. The argument lands because it feels like something every parent has seen before. A child wants a slushy, but an appointment gets in the way and the answer stays no. The reason is simple: money and timing. That opens the bigger lesson about what a child learns from hearing no. Saying yes to everything is not the point. An allowance can become a way to learn how to spend. It can also teach saving for something better or bigger. A Lamborghini turns into the joke example of a want that cannot run the house. The speakers keep correcting each other as they make the point. The closing wanders into a clinic shout-out. There is also a tease about Deji having something interesting coming up, but nothing more is said. A dad joke tries to land at the end. The whole thing stays domestic, loose, and practical while it talks about responsibility.

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A loose opening settles into a plain talk about limits, money, and children's big feelings.

The piece starts with a playful game about the first word, then moves into a blunt talk about children crying for what they want, why a parent might say no, and how to explain that no without blunting the lesson.

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When no turns into tears, this gives you a slushy-sized lesson in limits and patience.

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