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Climbing Trees · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for our American Mamas. Dear Mamas,
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  Speaker 1: am I a horrible mother because I let my son
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  Speaker 1: climb trees in a park? Well, let's ask our American Mamas. Mamas, Mamas, Mamas.
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  Speaker 1: And I told me not to come.
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  Speaker 2: She said, that ain't the way to happen, no.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now are our American Mamas, Terry Nedeville
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  Speaker 1: and Kimberly Burleson. Okay, so... I used to climb trees
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  Speaker 1: as a kid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Is letting kids climb trees a bad thing now?
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  Speaker 1: Because I used to climb.
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  Speaker 3: The trees in my front yard, and they were like
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  Speaker 3: two-story trees. I mean, I went pretty high up in
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  Speaker 3: those trees. Is that a bad thing now?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently, to some parents, you're a horrible parent if you
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  Speaker 2: let your kid climb a tree because it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it happened at a park. You know, these
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  Speaker 2: parents were just horrified that this mom was letting her
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  Speaker 2: child scale the tree, and then she came right back down. And...
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  Speaker 2: people were shaming her, you know, and judging her, and
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  Speaker 2: she was like, we had tree houses. We climbed trees. Like,
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  Speaker 2: what is wrong with people? These helicopter parents. We talk
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  Speaker 2: about the past, and we romanticize the past and what
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  Speaker 2: we did as children, and then we condemn people for
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  Speaker 2: basically doing what was done in the past.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the playgrounds of the past were Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Very different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The monkey bars alone. I know.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 2: The spinning thing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, that's, so the merry, yeah, the merry-go-round.
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  Speaker 4: The metal.
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  Speaker 1: The metal merry-go-round, those things.
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  Speaker 3: But just the, you know, well, the metal slide, which
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  Speaker 3: would give you third-degree burns in the summer. But the
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  Speaker 3: monkey bars, you know, like the dome that you would
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  Speaker 3: climb up to the top, man, I broke my arm
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  Speaker 3: on one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody did. I mean, we did the lemon drop off
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  Speaker 2: of those things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think back to our childhood, and I'm, Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: there will be reels that will come across my phone,
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  Speaker 4: and it's of like the 80s or 70s when little
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  Speaker 4: kids are building ramps. And you've got like three little
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  Speaker 4: friends laying down right in front of that ramp so
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  Speaker 4: that the guy that's riding the bike is going to
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  Speaker 4: evil-knievel it, going to ride over those friends of his.
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  Speaker 4: And those were the days, man, we had to stay outside.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this is when our grandmothers covered their furniture
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  Speaker 4: with plastic and told us to stay outside anyway. But
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  Speaker 4: we didn't have the fear of getting hurt because if
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  Speaker 4: we got hurt, you just.
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  Speaker 2: Dealt with it, you know? I think the problem is
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  Speaker 2: we have the fear with our own kids.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we had a little girl in our neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: Susan Pullis lived across the street. She was my best friend.
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  Speaker 2: She had this, you know, two little girls, one little girl.
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  Speaker 2: You know those little wiggle racers? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So my heel, our cul-de-sac goes down at a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: really steep heel. And her little four-year-old would be on
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  Speaker 2: that little wiggle racer with no shoes on, no helmet on,
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  Speaker 2: feet up in the air, going a hundred miles an hour.
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  Speaker 2: And I literally was not breathing the whole time. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going, Susan, Susan, Susan, Susan, Susan. She was like,
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  Speaker 2: she's fine. She's fine. She hits the end of the cul-de-sac,
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  Speaker 2: flies into the neighbor's grass. She gets up, laughs, and
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  Speaker 2: wants to do it again. And I literally am about
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  Speaker 2: to faint. I cannot believe it. My brother-in-law said, you
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  Speaker 2: should have had more suns. You should have had more
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  Speaker 2: sons because Terry's boys would fight. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: they would fight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay's boys would fight and they still do. And I
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  Speaker 2: am not, cannot breathe. I cannot handle it. And I
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  Speaker 2: think it's personalities. Like I just get so nervous. Somebody's
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  Speaker 2: going to hurt themselves and other people. I think you
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  Speaker 2: got to have sons to be like, it's okay. If
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  Speaker 2: they break an arm, they break an arm. And so
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  Speaker 2: I think all those moms that were judging her are
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  Speaker 2: just more like me. They're just scared. Somebody's going to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hurt themselves.
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  Speaker 3: You know, until you hurt your brother, he doesn't stop
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  Speaker 3: picking on you.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if there's really something to that. Like, is
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  Speaker 4: it moms of boys, do they become a little more
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  Speaker 4: relaxed about things like that?
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  Speaker 3: Mark Driscoll's a pastor in Arizona. He's a Apparently friends
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  Speaker 3: with Charlie Kirk, but he's big on social media. But
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  Speaker 3: he's got a clip like, yeah, if you're parents of boys,
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  Speaker 3: it's just different than raising girls because.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to climb trees.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Kimberly and I had some doozies.
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  Speaker 2: Fights.
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  Speaker 4: Like, fights, fights.
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  Speaker 2: Not just verbal. Mom was like, why don't y'all love
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  Speaker 2: each other?
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  Speaker 4: So I tell my friends who are younger that have
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  Speaker 4: little girls, they're like, oh, my gosh, they're fighting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, listen.
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  Speaker 4: Listen. We freaking fought. You know, if I wore anything
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  Speaker 4: out of her closet, it was on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like Donkey Kong.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't ask for my permission.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And so she would, with her long fingernails that
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  Speaker 4: she could grow, would call me, and I would just
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  Speaker 4: punch the fire out of her.
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  Speaker 2: I know we've shared it before, but we got in
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  Speaker 2: a huge fight. We were in high school. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: we were on the school bus.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And the principal was the driver of the school bus.
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  Speaker 3: Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: And we were, I'm talking punching. Back and forth on
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  Speaker 2: the seats. We were the first one he picked up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So it was just the two of us.
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  Speaker 2: Just the two of you on the bus. Back and
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  Speaker 2: forth on this side, this side.
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  Speaker 1: Two of us.
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  Speaker 2: He pulled over. Yeah. Yeah, he pulled over and he said,
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  Speaker 2: do you want me to turn this bus around and
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  Speaker 2: tell you? And we're like, no, sir. You know what
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  Speaker 2: else he said?
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  Speaker 4: It was so embarrassing. He said, what would your, y'all
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  Speaker 4: just made the homecoming court. What would your friends think?
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  Speaker 4: And we're like, with blood. They know.
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  Speaker 2: They know what we do. We love each other, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it was.
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  Speaker 4: Over me borrowing something out of her closet.
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  Speaker 2: She had better taste.
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  Speaker 4: She knew what to buy.
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  Speaker 2: That was not... It was something bigger, I'm sure. But
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  Speaker 2: my mom, she used the wooden spoon. She would pop
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  Speaker 2: us with the wooden spoon. So we got called into
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  Speaker 2: his office, and he had put a wooden spoon up
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  Speaker 2: on his wall with our name on it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 2: And said, if I ever... Catch y'all fighting like that again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a sophomore in high school when this happened.
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  Speaker 4: Can you believe that?
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that.
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  Speaker 1: But did you climb trees?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, but our mom, that's what we were saying.
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  Speaker 2: We would be like saying, Mom, you got to get down.
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  Speaker 4: She loved climbing trees.
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  Speaker 1: Your mom climbed trees.
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  Speaker 2: She loved them.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burleson, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.