Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Special Message You Can Give Moms This Weekend
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- 0:00Speaker 1: One to six point seven Light FM. Good morning, It's Covey,
- 0:02Speaker 1: Christine producer Kristen and Covey. It is Mother's Day weekend,
- 0:07Speaker 1: and if we take a moment for all the incredible
- 0:10Speaker 1: work that moms are doing.
- 0:12Speaker 2: I bowed down to you. Mom's oh my Rduca, Kristen, yeap,
- 0:15Speaker 2: my wife, every mom out there, I worship you.
- 0:18Speaker 1: I stand in awe of you. I do tell a.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Flora did a little survey what do moms most want
- 0:24Speaker 1: to hear? And they say, it's a really simple message.
- 0:27Speaker 1: You're doing great. That's it. You're doing great. You're doing
- 0:31Speaker 1: great moms, I promise. Because they're saying that moms are
- 0:35Speaker 1: experiencing mom guilt. Ninety one percent of women surveyed said
- 0:39Speaker 1: they suffer from mom guilt. Ninety one percent.
- 0:41Speaker 2: They're putting too much pressure on themselves.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Well, and there is all that pressure they're feeling it. Yeah,
- 0:46Speaker 1: they feel like they're not doing enough as a mom
- 0:51Speaker 1: and just need some reassurance and of course some support
- 0:53Speaker 1: and being hit really really hard right now. Gen Z
- 0:57Speaker 1: Mom's millennial moms right parenting experts. They say the pressure
- 1:02Speaker 1: is just unbelievable right now. Because they're also looking at
- 1:06Speaker 1: social media where people are kind of making it look easy.
- 1:09Speaker 2: I can really mess with your head, you know.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Yeah, it sets up these different expectations. And in response,
- 1:14Speaker 1: Teleflora it's launching a campaign reminding moms that love matters
- 1:18Speaker 1: more than perfection.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Wow.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's kind of deep. It is
- 1:23Speaker 1: really deep and true. Such an important message because yeah,
- 1:26Speaker 1: your moms are everything.
- 1:28Speaker 2: They're doing everything, and that's what makes a good mom too,
- 1:31Speaker 2: because I'm not saying you have to worry if you're
- 1:34Speaker 2: a mom, but if you are worrying all the time,
- 1:37Speaker 2: that's because you're just fueled to be even better and
- 1:39Speaker 2: better and better. Yeah, and unfortunately that also comes with
- 1:44Speaker 2: pressure on yourself, right, But you're not sitting there with
- 1:46Speaker 2: your feet up.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I know. Also like reading about the
- 1:50Speaker 1: lack of sleep moms are going through, and it's not
- 1:52Speaker 1: just because of the hours so to speak. It's also
- 1:55Speaker 1: because of that anxiety, right, and the racing thoughts. Am
- 1:58Speaker 1: I doing enough? There's more to do?
- 1:59Speaker 2: Like now, one day it's not enough to celebrate moms.
- 2:02Speaker 2: I will say that, Yeah, Sunday's Mother's Day. We're gonna
- 2:05Speaker 2: acknowledge you moms, But you every day. Really, we should
- 2:09Speaker 2: stops as a partner, stop think about how amazing you
- 2:14Speaker 2: are and how you're keeping our house afloat. About you,
- 2:19Speaker 2: we'd be imploding and I'd be in a ditch. It's
- 2:23Speaker 2: not just about the kids, it's about me too. Yeah,
- 2:24Speaker 2: all right, we're coming right back. More variety from the
- 2:26Speaker 2: eighties through today and a trivia battle. You know, we're
- 2:29Speaker 2: celebrating moms, of course, but we're also celebrating teachers all
- 2:32Speaker 2: this week, huh, Teacher Appreciation Week, and we'll have two
- 2:36Speaker 2: teachers from my daughter's school, Naomi. Yeah, they're gonna play
- 2:39Speaker 2: together at seven forty five for a little trivia battle
- 2:43Speaker 2: here at lightf