Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Parents Feel Kids Today Are Growing Up Twice As Fast
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- 0:00Speaker 1: For six point seven FM. It's Jack and Nina. Good morning.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Thank you for having us on. Time speeds up as
- 0:06Speaker 1: things go on.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Make the most of your summer with your kids.
- 0:09Speaker 3: Oh yes, right, Well, kids feel like they're growing up
- 0:12Speaker 3: in the blink of an eye. And that is true
- 0:14Speaker 3: because you know, it seemed like when they were younger. Oh,
- 0:18Speaker 3: I can't wait for them to walk. No, no, I
- 0:20Speaker 3: can't wait for them to Yeah, well they're gone.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Sixty six percent of parents, but with kids between fifty
- 0:25Speaker 2: five and seventeen, feel a single year passes as quickly
- 0:28Speaker 2: as two when it comes to watching their children grow.
- 0:31Speaker 2: What's the saying? The days, the days go on forever,
- 0:34Speaker 2: but the days are long, but the years are short.
- 0:36Speaker 2: That's it.
- 0:37Speaker 1: That's a good system.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well it's a good it's how it works, right,
- 0:41Speaker 2: it takes I mean just like that. I don't have kids,
- 0:44Speaker 2: but even when I babysit a niss or a nephew,
- 0:47Speaker 2: you know, like the day is so long, you love them,
- 0:50Speaker 2: the day so long, Oh my gosh, what am I
- 0:53Speaker 2: going to do with this kid all day?
- 0:54Speaker 4: But then they grow up and it's and then they're
- 0:55Speaker 4: find believe they've got well, I have shoes and bad eggs.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Older than nieces and nephews, right, and kids, it just
- 1:02Speaker 2: doesn't last, that's you.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Now, I mean I had kids later in life.
- 1:08Speaker 3: I was forty when I had kids, and it just
- 1:11Speaker 3: seems so, you know, they grew up.
- 1:14Speaker 1: I mean, they're not that old.
- 1:16Speaker 3: And my daughter's still at home, so we're still doing
- 1:18Speaker 3: things with her, but it's very different.
- 1:19Speaker 2: It's very different, I'm sure than taking I.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Still like taking him to the beach the sun would
- 1:23Speaker 1: set on the water.
- 1:24Speaker 2: You still do rape trips with your daughter all the time,
- 1:26Speaker 2: stuff like that. Parents say the prime years her family
- 1:28Speaker 2: trips are roughly ages seven to fourteen, and that's true. Right,
- 1:31Speaker 2: Once they get into be teenagers, they're a little pain of.
- 1:34Speaker 1: The yeah, yeah, like they're going to be with you.
- 1:37Speaker 2: Well, the grumpy period is like fourteen to twenty five.
- 1:42Speaker 1: I know some people have never outgrown the grumpy.
- 1:44Speaker 5: Period, absolutely, but no, I we're very fortunate to have her,
- 1:48Speaker 5: and of course we see our son a couple of
- 1:49Speaker 5: times a year and enjoy him.
- 1:51Speaker 2: But yeah, they're adults, and then there you go. Supposedly,
- 1:55Speaker 2: supposedly that's the word of they saying the same thing
- 1:57Speaker 2: about me. True,