One dog destroys a bedroom carpet, another preschool decides carpet is exactly what a building full of potty-training toddlers needs, and somehow that’s only the beginning.

This week, Kendall and Emily get into the extremely specific ways moms learn to move silently (like, actually silent) through their own homes, the toddler meltdown that made Kendall realize her second kid is playing a very different game, and what happens when you watch your husband make a parenting decision and already know exactly how it’s going to end.

Plus: a camp experience that left Kendall furious, the emotional end of the full-time nanny era, kindergarten drop-off struggles, and Emily volunteering to be room mom because apparently she needed one more thing to do.

Basically: carpet, poop, tantrums, school feelings, frogs, and the quiet confidence of a mom thinking, yep. saw that coming.

1. You eventually know every floorboard in your house.

2. The second kid can make you question everything you thought you knew about toddlers.

3. Sometimes the hardest parenting moments are the ones where you’re trying not to show how angry you are.

4. “Let them learn the lesson” gets complicated when you know you’ll be dealing with the fallout.

5. School transitions can be good and hard at exactly the same time.

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