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How Long Households Would Last Without Moms · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Light FM, Cubby Christine and kristin getting you Ready for
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  Speaker 1: a best of the eighties and nineties weekend That one
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  Speaker 1: from the nineties from Janet all Right. Mother's Day weekend
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  Speaker 1: is next weekend May tenth, May tenth, but never too
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  Speaker 1: early to talk about all the things women do because
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  Speaker 1: they run the world. I'm looking at you, Christine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at you, producer christ h I'll admit it. Goodn't
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  Speaker 1: do without you, Honey. If you're listening, I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for all you do keeping the house pretty much,
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  Speaker 1: you know. If I'm not catching on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Coco is all of the above. Survey found that their
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  Speaker 2: families wouldn't last a day without mom running things a day,
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  Speaker 2: do a love. They would fall apart. So this is
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  Speaker 2: Mom's Over two thousand moms were asked about their roles
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  Speaker 2: and what they do. And by the way, for Mother's Day,
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  Speaker 2: they really just want a day off. They're saying, a
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  Speaker 2: professional cleaner, a spa day, and a week without cooking.
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  Speaker 1: And some husbands may hear that and go, no, I
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  Speaker 1: got to get you something. But if the wife does
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  Speaker 1: say that, yeah, seriously, give her a.
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  Speaker 2: Day, give her some time. She needs some time to herself.
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  Speaker 2: So mom's top jobs, this is what they say they
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  Speaker 2: are constantly doing. They are the cleaner in the house,
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  Speaker 2: number one. They are the chef, the guidance counselor the
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  Speaker 2: event planner, the chauffeur. They are the professor or a teacher.
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  Speaker 2: They are the chief financial officer, the secretary, the chief
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  Speaker 2: operating officer, and the chief executive officer.
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  Speaker 1: That sums it up. Look, I'm not trying to kiss,
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  Speaker 1: but it's true. They do so much. Yeah, they are
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  Speaker 1: the foundation. They are the glue of the whole household.
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  Speaker 2: We're saying, it's not surprising that moms often find themselves
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  Speaker 2: overwhelmed and feeling in survival mode. That's your nervous system, right,
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  Speaker 2: which is completely on edge. And they said, like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of moms are saying, if it weren't for me,
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  Speaker 2: no one would make their appointments, you know, even for
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  Speaker 2: the husbands to get them to the doctor. All of that.
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  Speaker 2: They're keeping track of all of that.
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  Speaker 1: The things pop up on my calendar here because my
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  Speaker 1: wife and I have a family calendar, and I put
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  Speaker 1: things on the calendar occasionally, but nine times out of
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  Speaker 1: ten stuff is popping up that she put in and
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  Speaker 1: it reminds me, it helps me. So it's just one
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  Speaker 1: of the many things. And again you mentioned cleaner chef,
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Oh everything, absolutely, and the planner. So nearly one in
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  Speaker 2: five moms say they have never had a full day
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  Speaker 2: to themselves or they can't remember the last time they did.
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  Speaker 2: So once again, with Mother's Day coming up, give them
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  Speaker 2: a break.
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  Speaker 1: Right, give them a whole day and not the whole weekend.
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  Speaker 2: They are so beyond deserving. Yeah, if you.
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  Speaker 1: Want to shout out a mom doing great things, text
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  Speaker 1: us at four four three six three we have a
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  Speaker 1: trivia battle. We'll do that next