17 Mar, 2009
A few words March Break: here’s yesterday’s CBC interview
Posted by andrea tomkins in: Misc. life|Multimedia experiments
The superlovely producer at CBC emailed me a copy of my interview for posting here at the Fishbowl.
I won’t be listening to it. I just can’t, even though I can’t remember what it is that I said exactly and want to double-check to make sure I sounded okay. (Related: I also cannot read an article I’ve written for any newspaper or magazine after it’s been published. It hurts me to do so.) I guess I invest so much into these things that it pains me to revisit them. I know that makes me sound totally neurotic, but there it is. :)
The thing I’ve learned about radio/tv interviews is that the the time allotted goes by extremely quickly.
By the way, Adrian Harewood is just as nice as you probably think he is, and a lot shorter. :)
There are a couple of things I wanted to say yesterday. First and foremost: Parents, please go easy on yourselves. No one expects you to be perfect! We all have this expection of being perfect moms (and dads). It’s unrealistic and it adds to our stress levels. We’ll knit booties! We’ll bake cakes! We’ll soothe fevered brows with saintly patience! Our homes will sparkle and our children will eat every veggie placed before them with gusto!
In the radio piece I was introduced as super mom. It was very kind of them do so so, but they have no idea about those two baskets of clean laundry I haven’t been able to find time to put away. A real super mom would have folded that laundry last week.
The other thing I wanted to say is that it truly doesn’t take very much to make kids happy. Kids (of a certain age of course) are just as happy poking sticks into a pile of mud as they are jetting off to a warm climate. Crazy but true.
Kids need down time (and outdoor time). Do yourself a favour and don’t schedule every waking moment of every day. Kids need time to hang out and yes, even be bored.
Oh, there is more I want to say but as you know it’s March Break and I am rushing through this post because there is a pile of other things that need my attention right now.
I’m only going to leave the audio portion of this post online for a few days, otherwise I’ll burn though my bandwidth (and I can’t afford to do so) !
Thank you to everyone who’s taken the time to write, comment, twitter, or call me about it the radio segment yesterday. I’ve had a lot of positive feedback about it. You are awesome and YOU (yes, you) are what keeps me going!
Without further ado, here it is:
[audio:http://www.quietfish.com/notebook/voice/MarchBreak09.mp3]
