New Series Trailer | Don't wake the baby - Yorkshire podcast for parents

Welcome back to the blanket fort! It's time to unwind on sleepless nights to a wholesome mix of parenting, humour, and crafting.

All new content, same old us, and a few surprises! Make sure you've got notifications turned on to catch new episodes each Thursday. We can't wait to share it with you all! Here's a taster and a reminder of what we are about.

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We’re not here to provide answers but to share our experiences, explore how parenting has changed, and build an online community of parents for mutual support.

A fun, honest and unscripted conversation between Emma and Elliot on non-judgemental parenting and millennial-based topics, as we relax on an evening doing a craft or creative activity. 

We are a project in partnership with The Kairos Movement and supported by The Methodist Church, of which The Kairos Movement is a part.

Transcript

Welcome once again to the Crippin Household for Don't Wake the Baby, award-winning chart-topping podcast. I'd like to know what awards we've won. We've, uh, we've won the award for the Yorkshire Parenting Podcast with a husband and wife in the comedy category.  You made that up, that doesn't exist, does it?

Well I think we're the only podcast that fits that category, so we must be top of the charts for that.  Did you know we've been podcasting for a whole year? A whole year! Yep. With breaks.  Sure, you could add that in if you like.  My other host half is my other half, Emma. It sounds like we're physically like half a person. 

Uh, if you're new here, then we're a podcast to chat about parenting, do some arts and crafts. Tell funny stories about a child they'll one day hear. Be like, mum, why did you tell everyone? We also think we're kind of quite funny,  I suppose. Yeah,  people say I'm funny, but I don't know. It's not always intentionally so, I don't know, it's my clumsy,  you know. 

Listen along if you want to laugh at us. Yeah.  Fun fact time, I'm the one. Who thinks this is a comedy podcast?  What do you think this is, Emma?  I was thinking it's more of a sit-down kind of chit-chat podcast. Like a mum's kind of conversation in a coffee shop. I don't think it's a mum's conversation because you're not a mum, but No, yeah, yeah, yeah, but like just how you're approaching the kind of conversation.

Yeah. Yeah, because if it was a dad's conversation, we'd just sit around and probably wouldn't chat.  Next parenting story!  I thought we wouldn't get as professional as actually having an actual sound effect. Yeah. I can't see my face being like, this is messy. But okay, let's go with it. You can see the professionalism has upped so much.

The whole part of the room is currently like, got tons of stuff that we've just moved out of the way so we can record. We've not improved our space at all. Now, now we have a three year old, and if you're listening to this in the future, I don't know, what, six months or so? Then we also have a newborn. 

What's, uh, special about our podcast, Emma? What's unique? Why should people listen to us? I gotta say, we do like, everything that's unique. I think we're, we're married, which makes us a little bit unique. We're, I would say, we're mildly religious. I don't know. Mildly? Yeah. We're religious. But not the way that most people, I think, think of religious people.

I'd say we both have quite different upbringings.  So we bring quite different parenting. Do you want to say a special, special fact about yourself, Emma? I'm a quadruplet. Yeah. So I'm a multi-birth. And he is an only child. I'm an identical quadruplet. And he is an only child. I feel like Emma hides this a lot.

She doesn't really like to point it out. I feel like a lot of times It just doesn't come up in conversation. It's very hard. It's when people suddenly see another, One of, I say another one of you, one of my sisters. Another one of you. To them it's like, there's another Emma. And then they go, why did you ever tell me?

And I'm like, it doesn't naturally occur in conversation.  If Emma's special talent is having three people identical to her. Yeah, then my special talent is being a bit weird bit weird. I think  That's why people come listen to me because I'm a bit wacky It's a bit what he is. Yeah. Well, I suppose as well we do a bit of crafting as well It's kind of a bit different about our show.

Uh, you can follow along on YouTube or social media If you want a celebrity, or a professional, or good advice, then we are not for you. We're just like a little bumbling podcast. If you don't, if you don't understand what's going on, then go, go back and listen to all the other episodes. Or stick around and listen to some stuff here. 

Close that stair gate with a bang and slide down the stairs into the conversation today. Which is a perfectly normal expression.  Do let us know your thoughts, uh, if you disagree with us. Well that's tough, we are right.  I always get astounded when he suddenly goes on this, uh.  I'm joking, obviously. He's joking, he's joking.

I'm not, not really, we are right. He often does think he is right, he's very stubborn. I'm a stubborn man. He's a stubborn man. But let us know, get in touch, um, we'd love to chat with you about this topic. topic. If you hold strong views or no views or anything in between. Well if you hold no views, you're not going to talk, are you?

Yeah, yeah. Go comment and let, get in touch and be like, I have no views on this whatsoever. Your podcast is rubbish. So if that appeals to you, then uh, welcome. Yeah. Welcome to the show. Pull up a little beanbag. What can we look forward to in series three? We're going to be discussing second babies. You can follow our journey as we get tighter and tighter.

Have another baby and just collapse and it will be an entertaining ride for you and a terrible experience for us.  But you can follow along. Doesn't it sound joyful? You can tell I'm so excited to go right back to the beginning and have a baby again. It's going to be a Tough. I'm exhausted already. I'm just, yeah, I hope we have some more guests this series.

We haven't organised anything at all, but that is what we hope for. So maybe it will happen. Maybe it won't.  Because I don't think we often come across as quite articulate. Yeah. It's bad enough listening back to the episodes with the stuff that's left in. We're often saying nonsense. So one with our birth story, I say transaction instead of contraction and it haunts me still to this day.

When I ever listen back to it, now I can't listen to it. I say transaction. How stupid is that? It's not at all the same word. Just lean into it like me. Just say ridiculous nonsense things all the time.  Then, then you won't worry when you make a slip up of a wordy word, because all the words are wordy word nonsense to nonsense to the things. 

With that being said, we look forward to having you along in the Blanket Fort with us for loads of new episodes coming very soon to a Poddy, poddy platform near you. We'll be back soon enough, before you know it. Enjoy your life. Okay, goodbye, goodbye. I was going to say love you, but that's not right.

That'd be a bit weird. Goodbye, love you.  See you soon. Sweet dreams, sleep well.