The Art of Family Shenanigans with Zak Rosen

What are a couple of your favorite examples of weirdly helpful things?

It was a very early episode on my show.

I had my friend on, Drew Philp, who's this amazing writer.

But he talks about, we live in Detroit where winters are just so brutal.

And by February, it's just like, God, when am I going to ever feel the sun on my face again? And when he gets that feeling in these cold Detroit winter mornings, he'll grab an orange and then take it with him into the shower.

And he'll get the shower all hot and steamy.

And then he'll open an orange and get this kind of burst of like citrus and kind of tropical flavor.

And just eat an orange in the shower.

You know, it's just like a little bit of, you know, just like a little lift.

You know, this reminds me of Weird Parenting Wins.

I feel like Weird Parenting Wins is in the DNA of my show.

I really do.

Yeah.

So, like, that's a book we did where we collected crowdsourced, unusual but effective parenting strategies from listeners.

It's absolutely that.

I have one for you that came after that book.

Oh, good.

Okay.

So this is something I developed during COVID times when we were all sequestered in our homes.

And I was trying to get my daughter to get out of the house and go for walks.

And she did not want to.

And so I would say, let's go for a walk.

I'm going to close my eyes the entire time.

Okay.

Probably not the safest thing, but I was like, I'm going to close my eyes the entire time and you have to lead me and tell me when there are things I have to, curbs that I have to step off of or up on when there's a bump in the sidewalk.