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Brianna Battles  00:01

Welcome to the Practice Brave podcast. I am the host, Brianna Battles, founder of Pregnancy and Postpartum Athleticism, and CEO of Everyday Battles. I’m a career strength and conditioning coach, entrepreneur, mom of two wild little boys, and a lifelong athlete. I believe that athleticism does not end when motherhood begins, and this podcast is dedicated to coaching you by providing meaningful conversations, insights, and interview topics related to fitness, mindset, parenting, and of course all the nuances of pregnancy and postpartum, from expert interviews to engaging conversations and reflections. This podcast is your trustworthy, relatable resource for learning how to practice brave through every season in your life. Cade Battles. Welcome back to the Practice Brave podcast. This is, I think, the third year in a row that we have recorded a podcast for your birthday, and we do that because Cade is the reason, the full reason that any of this within the business and storytelling exists, because it wasn’t until I became a pregnant athlete with Cade 13 years ago, that I realized how much was missing in the space for athletes, for coaches, and for mothers to realize that athleticism does not end when motherhood begins, that you can be an athlete and you can be a mother, and then we have this incredible opportunity to raise the next generation of athletes, and Kate was such a catalyst in that recognition. And thank you. You’re welcome. 13 is huge, like 13 is a teenager, obviously, and I like to interview Cade. I like to get an idea of where he’s at in life and what the last year has looked like for us and our family in raising him, you know, entering into this preteen era, he started middle school, and this, for nothing else, is really important for Kate and I to be able to look back on, and it’s important, I think, for other moms to get a glimpse of the seasons and eras and experiences that are ahead, and Kate is going to be answering questions honestly. Okay, so this past year we’ve had some updates. You got braces,

Cade Battles  02:37

yeah,

Brianna Battles  02:38

got braces. I guess we can start about a year ago. You broke your nose and got braces, like the next day, so that was, yeah,

Cade Battles  02:45

that was not fun.

Brianna Battles  02:46

That was quite a week for your face. So, how did you, how did you break your nose, Kade? Just so we don’t forget.

Cade Battles  02:53

Well, it was actually at my birthday party, and I was like towards the end, and I did like a double front flip off the trampoline into a foam pit, where I need myself right in the nose.

Brianna Battles  03:03

Yeah, so really kicked off 12 well. And then he got braces the next day, and I feel like there’s just.. there’s a significant shift. He finished elementary school, fifth grade, and entered middle school, and when they say no one prepares you for the leap that happens between 11 and 12, or 12 and 13. It is, it is so for real. The Kate is, I feel like you’re just so different than who you were even a year ago. This past year has been

Cade Battles  03:35

dramatic, changes you a lot.

Brianna Battles  03:36

Yeah, how

Cade Battles  03:38

since you’re going through

Brianna Battles  03:39

growth, yeah, growth, and you get exposure to new friends and new people, new routines. What has that been like? You went from elementary school, one teacher, same friend group for the last few years, and then what was like your first week in middle school like?

Cade Battles  03:54

Well, it was like really fun, and it was interesting because I got to have different teachers instead of just being stuck in the same classroom,

Brianna Battles  04:01

yeah,

Cade Battles  04:01

for the entire day, and then I also got to hang in different friend groups, which was fun,

Brianna Battles  04:07

yeah. And just, what was it like making friends?

Cade Battles  04:10

It was pretty easy, because we’re all in the same hallway, so

Brianna Battles  04:13

yeah, and you just go around and yap with everybody,

Cade Battles  04:16

yeah,

Brianna Battles  04:16

yeah,

Cade Battles  04:17

pretty much.

Brianna Battles  04:18

Well, my little extrovert here, who has no problem just talking and making his presence known, and so you kicked off the year, broken nose, knew you started wearing jeans, like that was new for you, did not wear jeans ever, and then middle school came, and as millennial parents, we’re seeing the early 2000s repeat, because yeah, baggy jeans are in, let’s see what else they wear, Birkenstocks, they pink has had its moment, and Cade, as of last week, bleached the tips of his hair, so that’s what we’re seeing here, it’s not too dramatic, he had it done by my friend. So it wasn’t me trying to bleach his hair, but yeah, it’s been a, it’s been a big year. So I want you to talk to me about, you know, you started your year of middle school and you played football. How did that go for you?

Cade Battles  05:12

Oh, really? Well, it was really fun too. And in a few weeks I’ll go into Allstate.

Brianna Battles  05:18

You mean in a couple days? Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, a couple days coming up, yeah. What is all state?

Cade Battles  05:25

Well, I got like elected, and it’s like all the state of Idaho versus the Treasure Valley, since the Treasure Valley is so big, and so I’m in the Treasure Valley team.

Brianna Battles  05:35

Yeah, what position do you like playing in football?

Cade Battles  05:38

Writing back,

Brianna Battles  05:39

yeah, why?

Cade Battles  05:40

Because I get the ball and I can run over people, you score touchdowns here

Brianna Battles  05:43

pretty fast, yeah. And okay, so you had a good football season,

Cade Battles  05:49

yeah.

Brianna Battles  05:50

Okay, and then we moved into your first season of competing for your middle school in wrestling. How was that? It

Cade Battles  05:56

was really fun. I placed, I went on varsity as a sixth grader, so that was really cool, and then I got, I got enough wins to go to district, yeah, for me,

Brianna Battles  06:07

yeah. So, you know, he had no background in wrestling, but obviously growing up doing jiu jitsu, so lot of similarities there, mostly in like that mentality and that grit. It was really cool to see him use that in his sport and be able to do it for his school, feel like that really opened up his, I don’t know, like I just feel like that you experienced a lot of growth in that short period of time with wrestling, with like, yeah, just within your school, within yourself. Would you say,

Cade Battles  06:35

yeah, definitely. It was also really fun, like competing against other people that were older than me, in like eighth and seventh grade, so

Brianna Battles  06:44

right, because you were, because you compete in a weight class, it doesn’t matter the age so much as a weight that you’re, you’re competing at, so you could get matched up with people who had a lot more experience, or who are a little bit older, and it was cool to see, cool to see Kate get out there, and I certainly learned a lot, Jared was able to help out coaching, and, and that was really, that was really impactful for Jared too, especially because a few months later, what happened in January?

Cade Battles  07:11

What did happen in January? I forgot.

Brianna Battles  07:14

Did we open a jiu jitsu gym?

Cade Battles  07:17

Oh yeah, talk to me

Brianna Battles  07:19

about what that’s been like from your perspective

Cade Battles  07:22

very busy, very

Brianna Battles  07:23

busy,

Cade Battles  07:24

that was just classes a lot, and but it’s really fun. It’s a good experience.

Brianna Battles  07:30

What have you liked about witnessing the business side of things? Because we’ve kept you pretty involved in

Cade Battles  07:36

1. I mean, sometimes it’s difficult, but it’s really fun, like helping other people that are interested in trying it.

Brianna Battles  07:43

Yeah, you’re helping out coach the kids, and

Cade Battles  07:46

yeah, that’s fun.

Brianna Battles  07:47

I mean, and you were part of that process from when it was just an idea, or when we brought it to you, we were like, okay, we’re thinking about doing this, we’re thinking about that, and seeing it all the way through, but watching it go from dirt to a building. What was that like?

Cade Battles  08:03

It was, it was really cool. I mean, it was just dirt, and we just had a lot, so we didn’t really know it’s gonna look like. And then it just built up.

Brianna Battles  08:13

So, you’ve been able to be part of that business, and what does it feel like to have something that is partly yours at third 12. I

Cade Battles  08:23

mean, it’s pretty cool, because, like, I get to brag to everyone that I have a jiu jitsu gym, and that they don’t, okay? And that, like, they should come.

Brianna Battles  08:34

Yeah, well, maybe let’s not brag and say I have a jiu jitsu gym and you don’t, but we can work, we can work on your marketing and sales tactics, Kate. Okay, yeah, all right. So then we went from wrestling, opened that gym in January, and then Cade, what did you start? You started basketball after that.

Cade Battles  08:52

Yeah,

Brianna Battles  08:52

yeah, okay. What was that like?

Cade Battles  08:55

It was really fun. I mean, I got to play in a club, so in like a real league for the first time, and that was really cool.

Brianna Battles  09:03

Yeah, and what did you like about basketball?

Cade Battles  09:06

Um, basketball was like it was also club, so and I got to compete with like really good people and different coaches that were went far.

Brianna Battles  09:18

Yeah, so yeah, you played basketball, and you really loved that, right?

Cade Battles  09:21

Yeah, that was really fun.

Brianna Battles  09:22

Yeah, and this is the year. This is it’s tricky. 12 is like this tricky age, because in our family we’re a big believer in playing multiple sports and not just going and specializing in one sport for a variety of reasons. My belief and experience as a coach, and the what the research says is, more versatility you can have, it as an athlete, the better off you’re going to be long term, not just with hopefully getting a scholarship, but with the ability to be a versatile lifelong athlete, and so Kate is playing a lot of different sports, this year was high freaking volume, a

Cade Battles  09:58

lot of sports,

Brianna Battles  09:59

yeah. So we went from again football into wrestling in a basketball and then I believe baseball and rugby started, right?

Cade Battles  10:08

Yeah, and then I was, yeah, baseball and rugby at this exact same time. So, yeah,

Brianna Battles  10:13

and what did you think about rugby? Because I was your first year playing that.

Cade Battles  10:16

Rugby is really fun, I mean, it’s a like to folk, it’s like football and soccer combined, so it was really fun for me. He got to run, he also got to hit people at the same time.

Brianna Battles  10:25

Yeah,

Cade Battles  10:26

um, but it was really interesting because you could only pass the ball backwards instead of football, where there’s plays.

Brianna Battles  10:33

Yeah, yeah. And it seems like the I really loved watching the culture of rugby. Tell us a little bit about that. What you experienced,

Cade Battles  10:41

like after the game, they, we’d all circle up, and it’d be like one on, like one by one, like in a circle, it’d be like me on one team, and then the other team, and then one of my teammates, so we all just circle out together, and then they give out these like wristbands for like player of the game, or something like that, from the other team to you, I got one, which is really cool for my first year, and then yeah, we all do a cheer together, and we’re done,

Brianna Battles  11:10

yeah,

Cade Battles  11:11

as a game.

Brianna Battles  11:12

I like that it’s like such a physical sport, but that at the end you come together and there’s a lot of camaraderie with both teams, and like that mutual respect, and I feel like I’m gonna have been involved in a lot of different sports, and that was such a unique thing to see, and I love, I loved that. I think it just helps create such a healthy culture of competition, of sportsmanship, and even like how the refs are treated, because the refs also award like a wristband and acknowledgement of, I don’t know if it’s a player of the game, but just recognize the player that they liked their hustle, they liked their attitude or their effort, or whatever, like their leadership on the field, and I think that just helps create such a healthy culture of competition and participation for these these young athletes.

Cade Battles  11:56

Yes,

Brianna Battles  11:57

so would you like to keep playing some rugby?

Cade Battles  11:59

Definitely, yeah, next year, seventh grade,

Brianna Battles  12:01

dude, you made me want to, like, play rugby. I feel like I feel like I missed my calling.

Cade Battles  12:06

Yeah,

Brianna Battles  12:08

you think I think I’d be okay, rugby?

Cade Battles  12:10

Yeah, usually pretty good,

Brianna Battles  12:13

pretty good, bro. What? Nothing. So rugby was done in conjunction with baseball, and so talk to me about baseball.

Cade Battles  12:26

Well, baseball this year is probably my last season, just because I have other sports that I want to continue in.

Brianna Battles  12:33

Yeah,

Cade Battles  12:34

and but baseball was really fun. It was really competitive too. Had to play teams from all over Idaho, so that was, that was pretty cool, but I mean,

Brianna Battles  12:45

what did you love about baseball? What do you love about baseball,

Cade Battles  12:49

like dead team, and like how the dugout is, and all that stuff? Yeah,

Brianna Battles  12:54

it’s fun, you guys have like fun energy and moments out there. What positions did you play?

Cade Battles  13:00

I played shortstop and second base,

Brianna Battles  13:02

yeah, yeah. We did a really good job, and we actually, I did like a post sharing that, or like a real sharing about how likely kids last year of baseball, and I think what people don’t understand is with baseball, there’s little league, but that only gets you to a certain age, and then there’s this gap between little league era and playing in high school, so it’s like this middle school ish timeframe, and at least in our area the only option to keep participating in baseball at his age is to play club, and most clubs require you to really be like all in, you have to try out for the team and be like very committed, and so for the kids that that’s all they want to do, that’s going to be their option, but a kid like Cade cannot, nor will I really endorse him going all in on just one sport at this age, and so you, they do unfortunately get forced to choose because there’s not, there’s not really a between league for them to be in right now, so it was bittersweet, like I’ve loved watching Kate play baseball, you’ve been doing that since you were five years old, four years old, four or five, and and it is bittersweet, because it was just one of those foundational sports of like little, honestly, like little boyhood, and really cool to watch him grow up in this sport, and I mean, who knows, like maybe, maybe there will be another opportunity or something for him to step into it again. Never say never in this family, because that always, the never up in a jiu jitsu gym. Here we are, but yeah, it’s it’s been like that was really bittersweet watching, and just being the parent watching that, and this is like, I feel like the first time you’ve really had to eliminate a sport that you’ve consistently done for years, you’ve always been able to juggle doing an album, and this was your first one, and it’s like, okay, I think I think the time is up on this, really bittersweet, because he’s he. A talented little player, but we know that Cade will use his talent in a lot of other sports, and throughout all of this, we’ve dosed jiu jitsu, right? Like, we just frequency of that changes. I motto at our gym is the minimum effective dose is still an effective dose, and so during his baseball and rugby season, and not to mention, like, chance was playing baseball and flag football, so, like, our schedule was insane. Still got to dose jiu jitsu, even if it’s just like once a week. Some seasons he can do more, like summer, we there’s a lot more opportunity for jiu jitsu, but really it’s this work that kind of complements whatever else is going on in life, and that frequency just looks different at different points in time. How has your jiu jitsu with, or your relationship with jiu jitsu, changed the last six months since opening the gym?

Cade Battles  15:51

Well, I mean, I really like it going to our own gym and having on stuff, and like on team, like it’s you’re all together, and jiu jitsu has helped me with a bunch of other sports that I do, like football, like kind of double leg someone, for example, like just tackling,

Brianna Battles  16:09

yeah, and even like that competition mindset, right? Like I tell everyone, like that’s it’s a hard sport to be competitive in, and if you can get out there in jiu jitsu, it will make every other game and competition so much easier, wouldn’t you say?

Cade Battles  16:24

Yeah, it’s definitely the hardest to get out there.

Brianna Battles  16:27

Yeah,

Cade Battles  16:28

like compete jiu jitsu,

Brianna Battles  16:30

yeah. And you did a competition, what month was that? Like February,

Cade Battles  16:32

like two months ago?

Brianna Battles  16:33

Yeah, and what happened at that competition with jiu jitsu?

Cade Battles  16:36

Oh, I won all my ranches, I got double gold and gee and no gi, so

Brianna Battles  16:41

yeah, and what happened on the podium?

Cade Battles  16:44

I got promoted to my yellow belt, yellow white,

Brianna Battles  16:48

yellow white,

Cade Battles  16:48

yeah,

Brianna Battles  16:49

by who,

Cade Battles  16:50

Professor Jared.

Brianna Battles  16:52

Who’s that?

Cade Battles  16:53

My dad,

Brianna Battles  16:54

dad got to promote you. How was that?

Cade Battles  16:57

Good. It was, I was not expecting it.

Brianna Battles  17:00

Yeah, it’s a pretty special moment. Yeah, it was really cool to see that we’ve had just a heck of a, like, you know, first half of this year, but really you’ve just grown a lot, and so now that we’re, we don’t need to keep talking about sports, but that’s just a huge part of your personality, your interests, our family lifestyle, everything. Let’s talk about, like, what it’s like to be 12 years old, almost 13.

Cade Battles  17:26

I mean, I don’t know. I mean, I’m gonna be a teacher, teenager, so yeah. Well, it’s gonna change, I guess.

Brianna Battles  17:33

Yeah, and I feel like this age is just for me as a parent’s really eye-opening to be like, okay, there’s like just like differences in lifestyle and parenting and what we’re okay with versus others, and it’s just like it’s hard to navigate as a parent. We want to feel like we’re doing the right thing, and you know, Cade sometimes feels frustrated, but ultimately I think that you understand where we’re coming from, because we try to have really honest conversations. For example, like he does not have a phone, but he has an Apple Watch, so he can text his friends, he can call us, but I don’t want him having just access to being on a screen all the time, even if I was monitoring it. So, what has that been like for you? You can be honest.

Cade Battles  18:26

I mean, it’s fun. I mean, I have friends that do have a phone, and I can see what, like, we do on it. So,

Brianna Battles  18:34

yeah. And sometimes kid gets frustrated when he feels like, you know, everybody just wants to be. is they’re just on their phone, or they’re just wanting to play video games, and again, that’s just not something that we really condone in our household, because honestly, we just.. I’d rather, rather say that, like, you have your whole rest of your life where that’s going to be part of your life, but right now, just staying busy and occupied and present in the moment, knowing how to have conversations in real life, and not just texting. That’s been a, that’s been a big thing that we have focused on in middle school, is if you have something to say, say to somebody’s face, you don’t need to text it, you know, like they think there’s a lot of drama that can go down in group text messages, as, as you’ve seen, I I know not everybody’s watching, but just your big eyeballs, but you see it, there’s just unnecessary drama, and that’s something that we just try to, like, you just kind of stay a friend to everybody and have hard conversations, or conversations in general, in real life, and learn how to talk to people, and you are such a yapper,

Cade Battles  19:42

yeah, yeah,

Brianna Battles  19:43

yeah.

Cade Battles  19:44

I mean, I’m not all in the group chats and stuff. I mean, I have some stuff for, like, my football camp that I’m going to in Allstate, which is just my football teammates, so not really drama there.

Brianna Battles  19:56

Yeah, yeah, no, it’s.. I mean, it is hard. It’s hard to, I think, sometimes feel like, well, other people get to do this or have that, and I don’t, and I just really appreciate the maturity that you’ve, you’ve shown in knowing, you know, something we say is like we’re raising you different because you are different, you’re different, and so you’re going to have different rules, you’re going to have different expectations, and different is going to be the thing that ultimately, like, sets you apart. It doesn’t have to be a bad thing, even another very trendy thing, right now, for 12 year old, especially 12 year old boys, is like e-bikes, and that’s just another thing that we’re not doing, not doing in our household. I say, you want to go fast, pedal, faster,

Cade Battles  20:40

yeah, lot. lot of my friends have e-bikes,

Brianna Battles  20:44

yeah,

Cade Battles  20:45

gets annoying because it’s so fast,

Brianna Battles  20:50

yeah,

Cade Battles  20:50

they don’t work hard to pedal this

Brianna Battles  20:53

well, yeah, and it’s for me it’s more about just like the safety, because if you see how we got a lot of little boys on our street, we see how a little boy energy is, and it’s just so easy to be trying to keep up with everybody, and so many accidents happen on e-bikes, and I think when you really understand, like, traumatic brain injuries and the neuro world, I, it’s just a hard no for me. Yeah, buzz, kill mommy, little bit, that’s okay. Gotta preserve your brain. Hell, feel like those are the two big things that we’ve had to navigate in middle school, is like what others are doing, or maybe what’s popular isn’t necessarily what is aligned with our family belief system and what we want for Cade, right now, then it’s really easy to give our kids too much autonomy, and ultimately it’s our responsibility to still guide them and protect them and allow more trust over time, like for example, we didn’t really let him have any, like, very selective of who he would text with his Apple Watch, but as time has gone on, he’s shown more maturity with that, and now he can text pretty much whoever it’s monitored, but for the most part it’s just like the tricky part of this era, and we try to have really transparent conversations with Kate about what and why things to be aware of when you get involved, when you don’t get involved, there’s been situations where he’s had to stand up for others and know how to, like, use his voice, know how to use his body to defend himself and defend others, and it’s just, yeah, middle school has really been eye-opening for me as a parent, and hard to think, hard for both of us to navigate, because there’s no playbook.

Cade Battles  22:39

Yeah, I’d say that too, yup, look,

Brianna Battles  22:43

we’re doing our best. I’m really proud of you.

Cade Battles  22:48

Thank you.

Brianna Battles  22:48

What was the best part of sixth grade?

Cade Battles  22:51

Their friends, all the friends,

Brianna Battles  22:53

yeah,

Cade Battles  22:54

everywhere you see them in the halls, and you’ll be like, oh yeah, what’s up?

Brianna Battles  22:58

Oh, yeah, my little extrovert, how are your grades this year? How did it

Cade Battles  23:02

really get actually did not have a 4.0 but stayed in the threes the entire year. Actually, was good. Yeah,

Brianna Battles  23:11

I’m really proud of you. You worked hard, and you know, we put an emphasis on effort, because to me, if you’re putting in effort, then your grades are going to reflect that it’s when you’re not caring and not trying that it’s like, okay, we see that. So I’m really proud, really proud of how you stepped up and learned to get a little bit more organized, slightly. You stressed me out a little bit with your binder.

Cade Battles  23:39

Oh, wow, my binder was a mess, the end of the year.

Brianna Battles  23:42

Yeah, yeah. So, maybe a better system in place for seventh grade.

Cade Battles  23:46

Yeah,

Brianna Battles  23:47

yeah,

Cade Battles  23:47

try to keep it that way.

Brianna Battles  23:48

Yeah, I think you’ve done a really good job stepping up, learning all of that. What advice would you give to somebody who’s going into middle school, no matter what their personality is, doesn’t have to be similar to yours at all.

Cade Battles  24:04

Make friends, just try to make as much friends as you can.

Brianna Battles  24:09

How do you do that if you’re not as extroverted as you? What if somebody’s like really shy and very nervous about going into Middlesbrough?

Cade Battles  24:17

Well,

Brianna Battles  24:20

find a cade,

Cade Battles  24:21

yeah, I guess, and then find someone that is really nice and that is popular, kind of, and hang with them, and then as time goes on, people start connecting to you,

Brianna Battles  24:38

yeah, just kind of to put yourself out there and be uncomfortable.

Cade Battles  24:42

Yeah,

Brianna Battles  24:42

it’s almost

Cade Battles  24:43

like much

Brianna Battles  24:44

learning to practice brave. So, cringe. Speaking of cringe, what are some of the words that are being used a lot? We’ve survived the six seven era. We’ve survived that, but that was this year

Cade Battles  25:02

890

Brianna Battles  25:03

is that.. that’s the new thing.

Cade Battles  25:05

No,

Brianna Battles  25:06

aura.

Cade Battles  25:08

That’s aura.

Brianna Battles  25:09

Yeah, what else we got?

Cade Battles  25:12

Cap

Brianna Battles  25:13

was that mean

Cade Battles  25:14

fly, pretty much.

Brianna Battles  25:16

Yeah, cooked.

Cade Battles  25:18

Yeah, you’re cooked. What

Brianna Battles  25:19

does that mean?

Cade Battles  25:22

You’re like you’re dead,

Brianna Battles  25:24

you’re dead,

Cade Battles  25:25

okay?

Brianna Battles  25:26

Yeah, okay, yeah, it’s pretty trying to think of all the other things you say, it’s like crashing out, yeah, that’s pretty normal, though.

Cade Battles  25:37

Yeah, crash out, um,

Brianna Battles  25:38

yeah, that’s something too crazy. I don’t know. You guys are just funny, funny with your, with your sayings. And then you find yourself as a parent saying them jokingly at first, and then you start actually saying them. I remember my mom doing that back, back when I was your age.

Cade Battles  25:56

Soin, I

Brianna Battles  25:57

should not be

Cade Battles  25:58

cringe,

Brianna Battles  25:59

so cringe. Okay, stop. So, what advice would you have for parents on how they can support their kids as they go into middle school at 12 year, 12 year old era?

Cade Battles  26:15

Help them with homework.

Brianna Battles  26:17

Oh my

Cade Battles  26:17

god, it’s so hard.

Brianna Battles  26:19

Yeah. Well, besides that, how about like from the emotional side of things? Because your brain has changed a lot this year. Talk to your kid, yeah,

Cade Battles  26:31

talk to them about how their day was at school,

Brianna Battles  26:33

yeah,

Cade Battles  26:34

and what they did,

Brianna Battles  26:35

even if they’re like, fine,

Cade Battles  26:37

yeah, keep talking to them,

Brianna Battles  26:39

yeah. We do a lot of car talks, huh? I feel like talking in the car is easier for us both to like talk stuff out.

Cade Battles  26:49

Well, we have a three hour car ride, so

Brianna Battles  26:51

we do have that coming up, but we do a lot of our talks in the car. One question I asked him, because instead of saying, like, how’s school going today, I would say things like I would ask him more of a question around like I would ask him, like, how was lunch day, tell me about lunch, because then that would give us an idea of like what his, what his day was like. He would tell me any of the drama happening, he would tell me about it, would give me insight on his friends, it would give me just have more insight on how that day was going versus like how was school good, be like ask the actual details,

Cade Battles  27:27

yeah,

Brianna Battles  27:28

yeah,

Cade Battles  27:30

yeah,

Brianna Battles  27:30

and that make it easier to to open up a little bit,

Cade Battles  27:33

yeah, definitely,

Brianna Battles  27:34

yeah, because then I start to kind of get to know the friends, that’s the other weird thing, is like in elementary school they know, like you know all of the kids that they’re around, primarily like you probably see the parents at pick up or drop off middle school. I’m like, I don’t know these kids, I don’t know these parents. So I wanted to start like hearing their names and creating some associations, just to know like who they’re around, because it’s just this weird role you take as a parent now where they’re living their own lives and experiences at school, and we’re not going to be there to help them guide it. We’re not as involved, but we have to provide like support structures in place to help them know how to navigate it from afar.

Cade Battles  28:14

Yeah,

Brianna Battles  28:15

so you do that. What else did we do? Talk at bedtime.

Cade Battles  28:21

Yeah, because I just don’t want to go to sleep,

Brianna Battles  28:23

yeah, protest sleep, and that’s, yeah, that’s a, that’s a way for us to leverage that, and then we do like a family movie night, at least once a week, like a Friday or Saturday night, one of those nights, and it’s just us four, and we have a night where we just sit as a family and connect, and that’s like a really important tradition for us to keep up, because we don’t do, we don’t do iPads, we don’t do video games, we don’t do a lot of unchecked screens in the house, so we really just try to, to focus on like our our family unit time, because most days are so busy that there’s no time for that anyway, so it’s nice to have like that that come down time.

Cade Battles  29:00

Yeah, definitely

Brianna Battles  29:01

like that tradition.

Cade Battles  29:03

Yeah, also just to stay up to watch a movie.

Brianna Battles  29:06

Yeah, well, hey, look, whatever, whatever works to get you to get you involved. Keep the kids close. This is the age where they start wanting to just like branch out more, and we just try to make sure that there’s a lot of food in the house for all the kids that they can, you know, come in and out and play, have a good time, feel supported, and, you know, just navigate this season together. What are you looking forward to most about turning 13? It’s

Cade Battles  29:34

my birthday, just, yeah, just being a teenager, I guess.

Brianna Battles  29:39

Yeah,

Cade Battles  29:40

I don’t really know what I’m looking up to.

Brianna Battles  29:42

Yeah,

Cade Battles  29:43

we’re looking forward to

Brianna Battles  29:44

all right. Well, hopefully we’ll have a good time, and like Havasu,

Cade Battles  29:49

yeah, that will

Brianna Battles  29:49

spend time together. So I’m really

Cade Battles  29:51

excited for that.

Brianna Battles  29:51

Yeah, like

Cade Battles  29:52

boarding.

Brianna Battles  29:53

Yeah, enjoy our summer.

Cade Battles  29:56

Yes, all right.

Brianna Battles  29:57

Caden, we love you. Thanks for growing up. Thanks for being part of everything that’s been created here. I like to look back and just remember what your year was like, where we were at, what you, what you looked like, what you sounded like, because every year just continues to be so incredibly different. And very proud of you.

Cade Battles  30:20

Thank you,

Brianna Battles  30:24

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