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All right, it is Mojo in the morning. Mojo, Shannon, Kev, got the whole gang here with us this morning so shannon uh lucy's going to be going to a new school next year and this is one of those things where not only is she going to be saying goodbye to a whole bunch of friends but you're going to be saying goodbye to a whole bunch of friends because it's not the same school that's been lucy's school forever that all the parent friends that you have are going to be at

you're sending her to a totally different school yeah so my my like group of friends my closest best friends are all parents of kids that lucy goes to school with at the moment isn't it funny

how the progression of your friendship base starts with your grow-up friends your school friends then you got work friends but you really hold on to a lot of your kids parent friends you know and

these are my ride or die girlfriends like I know that we will be friends always but it's just going to be really different starting you know in the fall because we are switching Lucy school she's going to a complete out of district so it's not like she's moving along in the progression with all of the other kids that she's been going to school with since preschool so this is like the wild wild west to us where we don't really know anybody hardly at this new school that she's going to be going to. So there was like a welcome event for all of the new families over the weekend. And I went into it really nervous for Lucy. And I was praying so hard that she would meet some girls that she would kind of vibe with and, you know, be excited about going to school in the fall, knowing that, oh, there's some girls that could be my friends. And so that was my prayer for her going into the weekend and sure enough she came out of this event with like six new best friends that's cool and she's been facetiming them on her ipad since the weekend and i'm so so happy for her she's so excited about it and these are all kids that are also starting something new too yes yeah so they came into this knowing and nobody okay so she's upset i was worried about her well there there i am and wes was with me standing at this event and i'm going oh my god we have to make I have to make new parent friends here too because I don't want to not know anybody you guys making adult friends is next level anxiety yeah and one would think because of what we do for a living that it would come very easy for me to just go up and talk to people and strike up a conversation it brought me back to college when you're put in a situation where you're scanning like a room going okay she looks kind of cool I feel like I could be friends with her he looks kind of cool I feel like like Wes would kind of gel with him and you're going okay do you do you want to go up to that couple over there and like start a conversation with them and what do we talk about and you don't want to ask people right off the bat like what do you do for a living because that's kind of you know shallow I don't know we were so nervous about this I always

feel like the what do you do for a living is It was the cliche first thing that people always ask.

Which we did not want to ask. And we didn't. We didn't the entire time. But it was just so funny to be put in a situation where you're interviewing other parents going, can I be your friend? Like, could we be friends for the next couple of years?

So all the parents were also there in the open house? You could see them there? All the parents were also there. So it wasn't like they dropped off the kids and then they're sitting in the car.

Right, so they had stuff for the kids to do, and then they had stuff for the parents to do. Okay. And the kids were all great. Right. They were all talking and hanging. And I feel like every parent was in the same situation of going, oh, my God, we haven't had to do this since college.

Yeah, nobody knows how to talk to each other.

And then I was like, do I get, do I ask this mom for her phone number or do I be a creeper? Like there was one mom, two moms that I met that I really liked. And I didn't, I felt weird asking for their phone number. So then I'm like, do I look them up on Instagram? Is that weird?

Do you introduce yourself?

To then follow them on Instagram?

To as, hi, I'm Shannon, Lucy's mom? Or how do you do that?

what my name tag said okay so my name tag said lucy sixth grade so you knew like oh your kid's going into sixth grade too your kid's going into fourth you know whatever i mean probably wouldn't

have worked for this event in particular but y'all just needed some alcohol there was no alcohol

only ice cream and veggie straws which doesn't give you the same buzz we had the same thing happen

uh to us and it's funny because the first parents that we met we walked into the room we transferred the kids from public school to catholic school and we walked into the room and the first parents we met were craig and kristen myers oh who you're still friends with who were still great friends with both of these guys yeah and um it was wild because i looked and i saw craig wearing white shoes like he was wearing like white dress shoes and i thought to myself i could never be friends with the guy that wears white dress shoes and white pants and i said to chelsea i go chelsea there's no way i go the wife's cool looking but you know like the husband looks kind of you know he look at you know and i'm like sitting there making this i'm doing this whole thing to myself and now i make fun of craig for the way that he dressed you know and now actually i look at it he's a great dresser but it was funny though because those were the first people we met and chelsea and i had the same exact thoughts that you had where we're like we're losing all

of our friends yeah which i'm i know i'm not but i do have to make friends in this situation so that when we go to school events like i can hang out with somebody and you want to know what really pissed me off you know who came home with like oh my god i'm gonna hang out with this guy and this

guy and this guy freaking west did he really that's funny he made friends faster hold on katie doesn't call it making friends what do you call it katie oh my gosh parent dating it is like

really insane it whoever invents the app for couples like parents to like date other parents because it's like a legit thing it causes so much stress and anxiety we just moved to a new county so we moved from genesee county to oakland county my husband is like we still like let's make friends i'm like oh my gosh like it's not that easy like i what if i don't like the mom and then it's like a whole thing and it's so much anxiety like new schools i hear you i still haven't met

any moms yet that is funny that's wild parent dating is such a great name i feel like that's what it felt like there's an app i'm googling it says the peanut app designed just like a dating app but for moms to connect build friendships and find support maybe that's that could be it

Even getting dressed for this event, I was like, am I going to be too casual? What in the world?

Lucy, what's up?

Like the last caller said, it's like dating. Like my sons play sports. And when we switch teams, it's like you feel like you're going through a breakup.

It really is. Yeah.

You bond with these people. You see them three times a week at practice. You travel out of town. You're in hotels. You go to birthday parties. And then like you switch teams and then you have to like. Start all over again.

Yeah, it's so tough.

And you're like, we'll stay in touch, we'll stay in touch, but. Can I tell you something? I took it harder. My son was just kind of like, okay, whatever.

Lucy, Chelsea and I used to, like, say to each other, maybe we shouldn't have Luke go play for a different team because that exact reason. Not because of him, but we thought that we would miss out on all the fun friends that we were buddies with.

But it also, like, the lines get blurred when you want to put your kid on a good team but you want to make friends and you and then it gets

kind of like messy yeah it's tough it's interesting i'll be interested to see shannon the open house compared to like what it's going to be like five years from now because the same school that lucy's going to will she go through high school then too or i don't know we'll see okay but at least middle school right next three years it'll be interesting to see like three years from now and say did you

make a friend and is it is it a friend that i met at open house weekend yeah because i think the school

know what they're doing because i think the schools want you to be as comfortable as they want your kids to be when they're going there because they want to make sure that it's a it comes a community you know yeah jacob what's up hey how's it going good jacob what's happening

first time long time um yeah i would just call my wife actually we have two kids and you know being stuck inside they're both younger three and a year and a half and you know it's hard to get out of the house and you know you find the people with kids that you can also hang out with and things like that so she's actually connected with a few friends off of I can't remember the name of the app but she has connected with with a couple moms and one of them she hangs out with and talks to regularly and we've gotten their kids together they she has kids the same age as mine yeah that's

that's nice that they have that for you I think that and most people don't realize that it that it that it's a thing i think one of the problems too with schools if if you're trying to make friends is that a lot of times especially middle school it becomes the pullback from your kids a little bit where you have to just drop them off in the parking lot and i think sometimes when you're in the parking lot you don't necessarily like i like when the kids are younger you go

into the school and you're more active there's room parties there's all sorts of things to

volunteer for like i i thought that high school was tough too because you want to become friends with like Luke's got some buddies of his I didn't know any of the dads at all until we would go either go to a game or something or even close to graduation when the kids all the dads got together and they did a dad's thing once and they invited me to come and I knew like maybe only three of the dads and like five or six of the dads now we became friends at that party yeah and I'm like this sucks man because it because it's one of those things where as they get older you don't go to the school as often to go do stuff yeah um celeste what's going on celeste

hi good morning morning what's happening so i live in muskegon and at my daughter's school we have to do morning or after school pickups so we all line up all the parents outside of the store and at the beginning of the school year it felt like a race to be the first one at the door so we could just grab our kids and get in the car. And then halfway through the year, we started actually talking to the parents because it was like, they look kind of weird, don't know if they're going to like us. And then once we became really good friends with these people, unfortunately, my daughter started getting picked on by one of the parents' kids.

Oh, jeez.

But we still see them every day at pickup. And it's like, are they going to be upset with us? Should we be upset with them because the bullying's not stopping? so now you have like the parents who have gotten along but now the kids are butting heads and I think that also makes it a little difficult finding parents to be

friends with. Boy that sucks by the way that's a whole different topic altogether when your really good friends kids are a-holes

yeah exactly

you know like you're like really good with mom or dad and then the kids like a total putz and you're like all I want to do is beat the crap out of that kid you know what I mean you don't want to call the kids kid ugly basically by saying he's a bad actor you know and you don't want to hang out with

your new friend that you just made because then that would force your kids to hang out together

and they don't even like each other exactly yeah um terrence brings up something interesting seasonal friends because of the sports right terrence yes so baseball season they're your baseball friends football season they're your football friends yep and and but it creates

healthy competition with the kids as they grow through high school because my sons and the kids that we play with they went to separate high schools but they all still compete yes and they

do travel or or any of the yeah that those kind of sports yeah the thing is the parents when they

get together at like out of town meets they're all drinking together and having fun together But at the end of the season, it's done. And then you don't see anybody until the next season again. It's like summer camp.

You know what I called it, Terrence? Baseball season was like this. I used to call it dry July because I drank so much during baseball season, during travel baseball season, and then it would all end in July, and I'm like, Chelsea, I've got to stop drinking because these baseball parents, man, they know how to party on the road. Roseanne says in West Michigan, this is even harder to make parent friends And why is that, Roseanne?

First time, long time. Hey, Roseanne. Roseanne's on the phone. I loved your show. Thank you. I love you guys. Yes, actually in West Michigan, I grew up in the Detroit area, and I've been out in West Michigan for 10 years. Yeah. My oldest is going to be six soon, and he just started school this year. And in West Michigan, there's a huge religious component. Okay. So in Detroit.

area it's very much hey what do you do for work to get to know someone and here it's what church do you go to so there is a lot of pressure around like the religious component and it it almost

comes off very judgmental actually interesting well no that is that is kind of interesting because there is there is a component of people that want to also be within their same faith and stuff so i yeah i never really thought about that that's it that's wild uh yeah it makes it pretty

hard but i mean we're just now getting to know some people in the community and stuff and we're still trying to build our village and i think it's really hard so i felt very validated when shannon said like meeting parents and stuff and we're hopeful that we get to build our village more and everything with our kiddos starting school can i tell you something roseanne though

when before our show started in west michigan everybody said there's no way that your show would do well in west michigan such a true because of everybody's religious denominations

They said we were too edgy, we were going to offend people.

And one of the things I realize is that I think that good people meet good people, no matter what you, you know, what you come up with.

Yeah, it should be based off of your character and who you are rather than what church you attend.

And I think that you may be putting too much on it, basically, off of knowing that they are part of a different church. And the way that you end that is you say, hey, you know what? If you don't have a church, maybe I don't have a church. Maybe I'm looking for one. And if I'm not looking for one, then just say, hey, whatever it is that you go do, you know, I love it. Pray for me, you know?

Yes, absolutely.

So, well, thank you for the call. I appreciate it.

Thank you. Take care. Bye-bye.

Ah, Shannon. Shannon, Shannon, Shannon. I can't believe little Lucy's leaving the nest.

Please don't say that because you can see me over here and I have a huge lump in my throat. I'm not okay with this. Not really. No. No.

I don't think you have a problem making friends at all.

Thanks. She's going to do great, by the way. Yeah. I think I'm the one that, a good conversation for another day.

All right.

You sure?

You about to cry?

I'll make you cry. Yeah. I like when you cry.

I literally just texted Wes. I'm like, I think I'm really struggling here with my baby not being a baby.

Yeah.

Okay. And I am not on my period.

Your shirt's red, though.

Listen, I'm not going to make you cry, but I am going to tell you that this is part of everything, and she is doing amazing. So you should be proud of yourself for how she's done.

for this to get emotional you've been holding that inside though yeah you know time to come out should we make her cry no please don't we should talk we shouldn't run away from it we here let's talk about it i don't know she's getting mad at me why why would she be mad make her laugh or something say something stupid no what's got you as emotional as you are right now though

that my that she's not going to be in elementary school anymore to me i like i even last night Just talking to her, I'm like, she's, like, old. And I just miss her being four years old, you know?

Yeah. Was it, like, a gradual thing?

I feel so stupid.

Or did it just kind of just hit you all at once?

No, it's been hitting me. I don't know why I'm so emotional about, like, a fifth grade graduation, the anticipation of that. I just. It's big. I don't know. Even you saying, like, you're not even going to see her a ton. You're just going to drop her off and she's going to be doing her own thing. It's like, I want to make her three or four years old again. I miss that stage so much.

That's so interesting. Josiah was in the kitchen this weekend and the difference of him now as a sixth grader, even from him being a fifth grader, is so drastic. The way that he talks, the way that his posture is, his personality, like the shift between fifth and sixth grade is so real and so noticeable, but it's so beautiful too.

yeah you know you're raising a beautiful human okay can i can i just say something to you as

somebody that has old kids that um and has gone through this part of your life that uh be be use this as an opportunity to get emotional and understand that but also let let her just enjoy this and you enjoy it and good things are going to come you know to you guys it goes time goes by

so freaking fast it does i just want to truly push the pause button and what's going on and

it's mojo in the morning show how are you hey mojo it's dan how are you doing everybody we're good shannon's a little emotional here and listen honey i love your heart it's so awesome and i'm i'm driving and i'm listening to you crying my kids are 26 and 23 it never stops honey you always think that they could be three years old again you're a great mom and your kids reflect that and there's nothing wrong with emotion honey that's what it's about yeah show it thank you for that call

What's up, Kayla?

Hey, good morning. I know, Mojo, you're trying to make Shannon cry. I'm not doing anything. No, I just cry now because of the song.

Yeah. Why does that tongue do it to everybody?

I don't know, but I have a fifth grader. He's going to go to fifth grade as well, and I haven't cried until now. Oh. And I'm like, oh.

It is a big step for parents. Because when you think elementary school, that stage, that era is done, And you're like, holy cow, there are like the rest of it is just going to be a blip.

Yeah. And I told my son I was going to cry at his promotion. He was like, but you still have, I have a four-year-old. He's like, you still have her. I'm like, but you're still my baby. For sure. Yeah.

And always will be, by the way.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Thanks a lot, guys.

See ya. Take care of yourself. Hi, Jules.

Hi. Hi.

Hi.

um i just wanted to tell shannon that my daughter just graduated from my school and i think that just being there and being present i don't feel like i ever missed anything for her and i think when they graduate from fifth grade it's just that start it's middle school but just watching them and being so proud of who they are becoming it's amazing and she will get through it and i'm sorry i'm crying too but it's just so beautiful and i'm just so happy that she is upset about it because think of all the kids that don't have parents that are upset about it

you know what's funny i i i went back and i said this to chelsea when we would get emotional at the stages that you're at shannon with elementary school going on to middle school and then you with high school and i said did our parents cry and she goes they did they just didn't show us and it's true because as much as true and when we think that just think of those that don't have it's true that you know we look back and go god our parents really never cared that much but they did care they just i think we're more open to show our emotions like this which is such a good thing yeah and i think i think so too and i think honestly you guys both want to cry how about your kids being held back i mean you could have lucy being held back in elementary school because she's a dum-dum and she's not a dum-dum so seriously how great is that this is true and

your kid couldn't be excited yeah they're like they're excited for the next chapter yes yeah

this is a good time yep all right we love you so much julia love you shannon thanks love you too

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