Adults-only dining, daddy-daughter dates & is THIS the only way kids actually learn?!

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0:48All right, Jules, great news for the listener this week. Do you know what that is? What? There's no ice concerns, no ice worries. Do you know why? I didn't get Harrison and Iced coffee. We went while we're a few minutes late recording for coffee today. sorry well we're a few minutes late recording today because we went to pick up our coffees from Swedish Hill per usual and Alex just at a rare time that I drove and Alex went in and she went in she came up with the coffee for herself she didn't get me coffee I didn't even get you a coffee so we the listeners ears are safe they're safe today I don't even know yeah I just I don't even have an excuse like I got you food because I didn't want you to be hungry and I didn't get you the coffee and then to parlay jewels i'm doing another fast and then alex is now saying that i'm not allowed to do the fast but my rule on the fast which i thought was very fair or my proposal was if i get grumpy once then she can tell me to stop fasting and she was like you're grumpy this morning i was like i was not grumpy this morning please give me an excuse to the point that when she came out without the coffee i was i was like was i grumpy and what did you say no No, you weren't.

2:06Here's my thing, though. I don't want, you said you were going to do a fast once a quarter. Once a month. Once a quarter. We literally have it on record, which is the beauty. I think I said both, but we're going to switch to once a month. You said once a quarter. No, now we're switching to once a week. Before I know you're going to be fasting every day. I love your personality and how intense. I am similar to this. You go very intense on things. We love High Rocks. We love Studio 3. we have all these and they're very healthy things that we love but equally so this fast i could see becoming every monday or like if you had a weekend where you splurged and we're just gonna fast on the other side of it i don't know that's the problem is i splurged this weekend and now you're fasting and now guess what now it's my problem we had four straight days of social events i had so much fun this okay hold on let's start ready i'm gonna get us in okay welcome back to another episode of two parents and a podcast okay now we can keep going we did we had an extra social weekend which this is what happened when i had tate too i have the baby and i over index on socializing and it takes me like three months to level out like i would do something tonight i would go to dinner well i put in a um a pork roast but you're fasting i forgot when i put it I forgot I was fasting.

3:30So now I have to eat a pork roast? I feel like we're very much like we operate on different dinner programs. We do. I just. You just have ground turkey and sweet potato. And I want tasty, yummy food that you don't eat. Well, when I was pregnant, I'm very obsessed with what I'm eating. And then when I have the baby, I go back to my normal habits, which are just like, I'm hungry. I don't want to. Cooking for me is not therapeutic. I watch our neighbors in the kitchen. They love cooking. It's their nighttime activity. They do it together. They do it together. They're in on the recipes. I wish I had that.

4:07I don't. I get hungry. I take the ground turkey. I put it in the pan and I add my favorite meal on the planet, corn and green beans and marinara sauce. Done. I can eat it every night. I know. That's very upsetting for me. Well, what are we going to do with this pork roast? Am I going to eat it? You're going to have the option to eat it. There's a lot of pork. Maybe I'll... Well, are you going to invite the neighbors to eat it? They would like that. Yeah. I rushed it because we were on the way out, and I really wanted to sear each side, which I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do anymore because of how I'm cooking it, and so it's not going to be my best work.

4:49Okay, well, we're going to get into the episode now. Subscribe if you're listening or watching. subscribe to the podcast like the podcast and it to a friend also thank you for listening um today's episode is a good episode it's a robust episode we have some tate and rocky info we've got some um things in the comments we've got a bicker of the week we've got oh google releasing mosquitoes which i'm very excited about the things we learned we just have some topical things like irl happening out in the world and then we've got some things happening in our lives. So it's just a bit of a mixed bag, if you will.

5:26Would you like to begin? A little classic episode. Yeah, it's a classic episode. Yeah. Jules calling in from Cape Cod, everyone. Oh my gosh, yeah. Right. Jules, hi guys. Give us the Cape Cod rundown, please. I'm sitting looking out of the lake right now, which is awesome. That's the rundown. Ooh, Jules. She said it's a bit cold, which I love. Yeah, but very nice. very nice very happy to be here jules called in today about programming she's like oh well no i'm not at the office and and the way in which it was phrased was like kind of she was at home with jenny and about to drive in and boom i go on instagram and there's a a big post from jules july well only harrison would forget that jules is going to cave cod Even though she texted us yesterday She worked on programming on the plane

6:24I moved slow yesterday I could tell Harrison thought I was there I was like I'm not there Reminder And he thought you meant that you were at home Hanging out with Jenny Jenny Bears Yeah Jules where is Jenny She's with Alex and Coop I can't believe you even asked that well just making sure just checking in it's a two-way dog sitting relationship over there that's very much true all right let's go ready we're gonna talk about okay this is the first thing we went out after swim lessons we went to on thursday we went out to dinner yes we did um and there was three dunas two high chairs and then the three couples and it was just like a ton of kids happening and we realized we were in the kids section of the restaurant fond of san miguel if you live in austin it's a nice restaurant it's a date night spot but on a thursday after swim it's also very fun to go to with parents and like i like taking the kids to restaurants that are loud like that because then like they can't cause a disruption but this is where this is where i'm leading to okay so a new survey found that 75 percent of americans believe restaurants should offer some form of adults-only dining, including child-free sections, late-night restrictions for kids, and quieter environments focused more on the dining experience than the family-friendly chaos.

7:51So, for example, perhaps a kid room, if you bring your kids, you go into that room. And if you didn't bring your kids and you're on a date night, you go into this room. Ironically, you guys, Harrison and I made a reservation two weeks ago for date night and they said are you bringing your stroller because we have a note with this hospitality area in Austin apparently that sometimes we bring strollers which is great because like they are so accommodating but we were on a date this time it was just the two of us and they sat us very clearly in the kids section so Harrison very kindly went over and he's like hey we don't have our kids tonight can we sit over in that area of the restaurants in reference to the more date night, lowly lit area.

8:33And they were like, yeah, of course. So we moved over there. Totally different vibe and experience. I'm just confused because you've referenced twice in this whole ordeal of a kid's section, and I just got to call it out. Neither of those restaurants have a kid's section. They're not. At Fonda, we were sat at a corner table. There was kids all around us. Did you not notice, though? That's what I said when I sat down. I said, oh, we're in the kid's section. Interesting. But like not a designated kid section. That's my point. These restaurants are already nonchalantly doing this. Okay. We just got to agree to disagree on this one.

9:15I think. I think we need to call the restaurant right now and we'll bleep the name and ask them if they sit people in a different place. I don't think either restaurant's open at 1025. This one. Please continue to hold. Your call is important to us. We know that your time is valuable. If you would like us to call you back, please press one. Otherwise, thank you for calling. How can I help you? Hi, how's it going today? Good, thanks. How are you? Good, thank you. I have a quick question. Do you sit, if you know someone's coming in with kids, do you sit them in a specific part of the restaurant or do you seat just based off of table availability?

10:00Usually just table availability. It depends on how busy we are. If you make a reservation beforehand, we can always note that there will be children so we can kind of plan more ahead of time. Okay, amazing. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Bye. Have a great day. You too. Bye. Yeah, I just knew that wasn't happening. It's absolutely happening. She's not going to tell you. Hostesses will weigh in on this. they it's a it's a nod it's an eye wink it's undercover they absolutely see the kid yes they do alex these are like hot restaurants with very limited availability like they are serving they are placing you based off of what table is is free no they're not like i'm with you if it's even up If a restaurant's empty and there's flexibility, then they can get more creative with it.

10:57Like, these restaurants, you've got to book well in advance. I'm telling you, prime time spots, if you come in with kids, they're seating you first in the kids section. And then they're seating the people without kids in the other section, 100%. There's a pop-in section and there's a kids section. We just called. This is not how it works. Was Jules going to say something? I was cheating. Yeah, as a former hostess of five plus years, 100%, you're keeping the kids away from the people on dates. Thank you. If you can. You're going to get bigger tips all around if you can, like, kind of set the vibe of the dining room.

11:37Okay. But from the horse's mouth. Okay. Okay. And people will tell us in the comments as well. But see, there you go. Bigger tips if you can set the vibe of the dining room. How about that? And I love it when a restaurant sets the vibe of the dining room. Like, if I'm there without my kids, I love kids, but I don't want the kids beside me. We just went down such a different path on this conversation than I thought. But I learned something. I really did learn something. Look around at Fonda next time. We were surrounded by kids. Okay. I mean, that, good for them. Like, then there's an added layer of planning that I was not aware of.

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14:08I don't feel like if Tate gets up and walks around, then I'm ruining somebody's date night. I feel like everybody else in the area is like, I got it. Yes. All good, girl. I understand. Here is, and I agree. I agree. The other side of this, which has blown my mind, is I can't believe, because this wouldn't have been on a radar pre-kits. I can't believe how few great kid-friendly restaurants there actually are. And what I mean by kid-friendly is like, give me a new age Chuck E. Cheese with good food, a great vibe, but also kid-centric activities. For example. How does that not exist? I would fund that in Austin tomorrow if someone had a good concept behind that.

14:56Like that's, let me, not if someone wants to go and execute that, investor number one right here. Well, that is the concept though. So we went to ski shores yesterday. You, all the, the food is great. The vibe is great. And you sit outside at these picnic tables, but they're very nice picnic tables. It's not really a picnic table experience. And you're right on the water. And then behind you on the other side is a green turf area with like hills and the kids all run around and play in there. Ski shores, 10 out of 10. Love it. It was one of our number one requested places to tell people to go when they come to Austin.

15:32It is also like 30 minutes from the city. And if you're going by car or by boat. So we need more ski shore centric restaurants in the city. Well, all cities need them. I think all parents probably have this in common where we would love a restaurant we could go to where the vibe is good, the food is good. And there is a closed in place where your kids can go play. And the key there is there has to be closed in. Otherwise, you're worried about kids getting out. Give me a Hillstone meets Chuck E. Cheese. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah. And like, I just think about how much time we spend at that.

16:09What's that place that's like so average? Like we're all the time because it's kid friendly. No, it's good. It's not average. It's just. I is very niche. It's good. for like it's good before 1 p.m yeah yeah yeah and i'm saying like relative down much time we spend there it's we the amount of time we spend there is not reflective of the offering i agree with that and to me it speaks to the opportunity for the restaurants and establishments to play both to the parents and the kids okay i'm gonna bring us i'm gonna zoom us in here a bit though Back to the original proposal of the tweet where 75 % of Americans believe restaurants should have some form of adult areas and then kid areas.

17:01Adult kid free areas on one side and then a designated kid area. If you went to a fine dining restaurant, let's call it a Hillstone-esque or a, I'm trying to think of other chains in other cities. But basically it's a nice spot for dinner. We're calling Hillstone fine dining? No, not fine dining. I'm just trying to think of a equivalent. There's different cities listening. They don't all have a hillstone. It's Red Rock in Oklahoma City. I don't know. Here it's Bartlett's. Cactus Club. Cactus Club in Vancouver. Okay. It's a really solid Thursday spot. The keg. What? I guess those are all the same owner.

17:42But you know what I'm saying? It's your solid Thursday spot. It's got a great burger, R &D Kitchen out in Orange County. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Okay. If you went in there, would you like there to be a dining room associated for kids? If you brought your children, you sit in this specific area. Then I have to ask you the question the other way. If you didn't take your kids, would you like to sit with all the adults? Yes, of course. But I don't think that it's not overly feasible. That's the problem. Sometimes you're going to over-index on kids. Sometimes you're going to over-index on no kids.

18:18more times than not, you're going to have less kids in the restaurant. And that's why my whole point to it is you need dedicated family-friendly restaurants that both the parents and the kids are happy. That is the answer here. Because the current restaurants, I don't really think can do it better. And also where I think this survey misses the mark in a massive way is like if you really care about not eating with kids just go for dinner at after 7 30 after eight o 'clock because that's when all the kids are in bed so like we are talking about like a very specific 5 to 7 30 p.m gap here where like if you're triggered by that don't go out and eat at those times yeah i i'm just gonna take it a little bit of a different direction here in terms of like, I wouldn't mind a kid's section because sometimes we take our kids with us to a restaurant that's really fun and nice and like being sat in the section with the kids on Thursday night was magical.

19:19I felt no pressure. I felt like I could exhale. I felt like we were all parenting together. I felt like me and all the other moms were making eye contact. Like your kid screams, no problem. No problem. I agree. I just think it's hard to do that if you're already a pre-established restaurant And I think the opportunity aligns on the other. I'm just kind of repeating myself. But I'll go back to Fonda a lot, you know, hoping that we get sad in that kid section and we can just let it ride together. Here's what we got to do here on the topic of the greater disagree. We got to go back to Fonda. We're going to go.

19:56And we got to in that room. I want to count the amount of tables and I count the amount of families that are there. My instinct. I will die on this hill. 15 tables in the room that we were in. Let's say 20 tables. Okay. Let's go to 20 tables. 19 will be kids. I think 20 will be kids. Under five will be kids. Okay, we will go check. So I'm saying under 25 % of the tables in the room will be kids. Okay. And I think that you like. Let's go after swim. But. On Thursday. So that means we're going to have another Thursday, Friday, Saturday social weekend. Okay. Or we can text everyone that went with us and ask them if anybody has a gauge on how many kids.

20:37No, I want to do the investigative. Journalism yourself. Journalism yourself. You want to do boots on the ground journalism. Okay. Okay, well, this is a good one for you guys to weigh in on the comments. Now, wasn't there also, did we talk about this on the pod, suggested kid areas on airlines? We already discussed this because Japan Airlines noted where babies are. Yes, yes. And so it is sort of the same thing here. Very interesting. But here's the thing, what I always think about on airplanes. When I see somebody, sometimes it's like an older man, being a little annoyed that there's kids there.

21:13I just want to say to him, you were a kid too once. Don't forget. Your mom had you on an airplane. Yeah, I've said it once. I'll say it again. If you get triggered by a baby on an airplane, then bring noise-canceling headphones. It is that simple. Noise-canceling headphones. We don't have time for this. And I told Harrison this today, speaking of, I got to get my hearing checked because I've been hearing a little like, like, is that that noise? Like a little, almost like a, um, when the microphone gets too close to the speaker and it goes like, you know? Yeah. That's been happening in my ears.

21:50That sounds terrible. Just on occasion. And it'll happen in little like, it'll happen like a five minute increment and then it'll go away for a week. Basically what I'm doing is I'll be sitting in the room and I'll just like on my, on the speakers, just like play this like annoying sound. No, it's like a tick. It's inside my head. Just a mess with her. It's a tick inside my head. When I was pregnant with Tate, I found out pretty quickly that most prenatals are not created equal, but parallel passes every test I threw at them. They're OBGYN-founded, third-party tested, clean label project purity award winner, and I was sold.

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23:32That's P-E-R-E-L-E-L-Health.com slash 2PARENTS. All right, so what's going on at home with Rocky Bears and Tate? So yesterday we had a breakthrough. well let me tell you this first I will Tate yesterday she loves to play with water cups right like takes the water pours the water into the other water vice versa yesterday not the best she took a coke zero she dumped that over we were like oh no because it's confusing to her that she can dump the water but she can't dump the coke zero so today I was watching a video it was like my Instagram algorithm was inside my head and it was this guy saying kids want to touch everything thing inherently right you got to imagine you got a little kid on the floor right below us right now they're grabbing your cup they're grabbing my cup they want the lip gloss they want the book you got to let them and your house is going to be destroyed for a while but it is very important science experiment in their brain that they're able to take that cup and dump it upside down because that is the only way they learn that water will then come out and if they drop the cup and it's a glass cup and they drop it on concrete ground, then the glass breaks.

24:42Like if you tell them no, they don't know why they can't do it. Yeah. I watch her mind just ripping when she is, when she's doing her water pours. And that's why I love it. I love it. And yesterday she needed to learn that the Coke can was going to come out on the white rug and be a brown color. yeah you're you're so on it today and i'm so not that i almost corrected you being like why did you call it a coke zero when it was clearly a diet coke because we only have diet cokes in ours we don't have coke zeros and then i remembered it was like a random coke zero mini that it's like been in our fridge for nine months it's been in our fridge since the super bowl because i bought them for the super bowl party because someone likes rum and coke zeros and you even said to me do we not have any diet coke here's why she turned you're dialed here's why she turned the coke zero upside down she knows diet coke is mama's she always sees a diet coke can goes mama and she brings it to me like another obsession we have is delivering items to the person they belong to to the tune that i will be carrying like seven milk like i'll be carrying all this stuff and you can't set it down she wants you to hold it so you're holding it all she knows diet coke is mama's but this coke's ear she didn't know whose it was because we never drink it so she dumped it upside down well she wanted to see what's inside yeah and it was brown in our face we just were okay and i went and got the carpet cleaner this is the other thing our carpet cleaner actually it's um dishwasher soap now because we're out of carpet cleaner which is working phenomenally well it's spray and wash it's the blue spray and wash bottle but it's her spilling stuff right now is no problem.

26:22I mean, I'm getting it up left and right. The only problem is if I don't see it happen. But if I see it happen, I can get it up. So that was okay. Now what I was going to say though, was I was holding Rocky yesterday and take came over. She were lucky where she never hits Rocky a lot of Bezos. And she's now learned the word Bezos, which means kisses. So she's like Bezos and like comes and gives him basis. But yesterday she was doing like not hits, but, but very tough pats. So we would grab her hand and we would say, bubs, suave, which means soft, kind, gentle, gentle in Spanish. And then she would say, besos.

27:00And so she'd give him a kiss. And I was like, why is she doing these tough pats? And then I pick him up and I'm burping him. And she comes over and she gives him a pat. And I was like, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. She's trying to burp him. She's mimicking my, because when I burp him. It appears like she's hitting him. Yeah. And it looked to us, didn't look like she was hitting him, but she just was doing these more aggressive pats than I'd ever seen her do before. And then I'm burping them, and I'm like, Suave, Tate? And she's like, I just saw this look on her face, and I was like, Harrison. It wasn't landing.

27:29Like, that was the crazy thing, is like asking her to be gentle and showing her to be gentle. It wasn't landing. Like, you can tell when it's registering, and you can tell when it's not. And it wasn't registering. And then she'd leave, come back 10 seconds later, and do the same thing. And we're like, something's off. And then I'm just burping her, and I was like, Harrison, she sees me burping him and she is just trying to mimic that. And of course this is confusing. So then we just settled for the Pats to be fine. And he doesn't care. Yeah. But it was this real, it was this moment of just like everything you do.

28:03The other day in the shower, so I had Bubz in the shower with me the other day, which is, by the way, just like the most fun activity ever. And there was a cup in the shower. No, there wasn't a cup in the shower. The body wash was in the shower and she wanted it, but I was washing my hair. so I used my feet like my toes and like lifted her the body wash she spent the rest of the time in the shower trying to lift it with her feet and I was like oh my gosh Tate like that was just something I was you know like I just lifted it up with my toes and like delivered it to her yep and then she sat in there trying to balance lifting the body wash with her toes and I was like this is so cute you mimic everything we're doing right now which is quite quite precious which leads me to we need to be on at all times can't be fasting cannot be fasting yeah because she didn't see you eating how's my performance as a fat well I'm not even fat like come on we gotta record like at 24 hours after a fast you worked out and now you're fasting that to me is the diabolical part here's someone to a workout class this morning I the guy we had dinner with I'm not sure this was on the radar your radar but you know that it came up at dinner on Saturday what came up at dinner like my workouts It's an A15 and I discussed all the stuff and he came.

29:15No way. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. Well, I don't know if they want. There's a million in the world. Nobody knows which one we were at dinner with. Okay. I. Do you know how much I love that? I couldn't believe it was you. He didn't text about it after. But that's what I like about it. He's like, I made my commitment at dinner. That is what. that would go so far with me. Like somebody saying, Oh yeah, I'll come. But like if I was having a jewelry showing, let's say for example, and I was a jewelry, a jewelry artist, what do you call them? A jeweler? I was a jeweler. And I said at dinner on Saturday night, like, Hey guys, I'm having a showing from 10 to noon.

29:54And they said, I'll be there. And they don't text me. They show up. I would love that. Yeah. Yeah. That would really like, I was very excited. That's awesome. In the class, you know, they do the welcome bread. First time. And I thought, I was like, yeah. You did? Yeah, we were across the room from each other. I'm so glad you went. I go. I don't miss. But imagine if you had missed today for some reason. And he was there. So the way we sat at dinner on Saturday night, there was three couples. I loved the way we sat. We had two long booths. And we did the girls. So we did. How am I going to explain this?

30:30Here's. I actually. It was great for two couples. It was bad for one. It was bad for one. I just realized. So we had a good. We had a good seat. I realized that the second we sat down, I said one couple sacrificed here because, okay, there's, so it was, it was two sides of the booth. Okay. So six seats total, three on one side, three on the other side. How am I going to even be able to explain this? I don't know. It went boy, girl, girl, boy, boy, girl. So on the bookends, there was two boys. And on the other side, there was two girls in the middle. There was a girl and a boy across from each other.