This summer we've curated your Help I Have A Teenager playlist with a healthy dose of culture-savvy conversation parents actually want - Parenting Out Loud. 

This week:

• Gen Z’s latest reason for giving parenthood the side-eye
• The guilt trip of not loving every second with your kids
•  Amelia’s campaign to stop parental group texts (bold move)
• Stacey’s epic analogy for baby number three (you’ll never see tricycles the same way again)

Hit play and welcome to the group chat you won't want to mute.

Plus, it’s our recommendations:

🪩 Stacey recommends a boogie with your friends at a disco club.

🛏️ Amelia is bringing back the tried and tested *checks notes* hot water bottle.

🧇 Monz is a fan of this fool-proof snack: Take 8 Weet-Bix, 1/4 cup cocoa, 1 cup of desiccated coconut and a can of condensed milk. Stir all ingredients together, roll it into balls, roll in coconut and store in a bag in the freezer. 

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What to read: 

• 'Why a third child is like ordering dessert.'
• 'Dear kindy mums who've judged me for being "the other mum", here's what I want you to know.'
• 10 women on the moment they realised their mother was a narcissist.
• Gentle parenting is all over Instagram. But it's not always gentle on parents.
• 'I felt like I was the perfect mother. Until I had my third child.'

THE END BITS: 

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CREDITS:

Hosts: Monique Bowley, Stacey Hicks & Amelia Lester

Group Executive Producer: Ruth Devine

Senior/Audio Producer: Leah Porges

Junior Content Producer: Tessa Kotowicz

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.