In this week’s episode of Empty Nest Happy Hour, Amy’s back from a “relaxing” Grand Canyon vacation (spoiler alert: Google Maps nearly sent them to their doom via a Depression-era logging road), and Danielle is celebrating her well-earned break between jobs with a glass of wine and a reflective mood.

Grab your drink and buckle up (with an actual seatbelt, unlike the 80s), because we’re diving deep into the hilarious, horrifying, and downright nostalgic realities of growing up in the 1980s. From cigarette smoke in every corner to riding backwards in a station wagon, we unpack the parenting tropes that shaped us—and how we’re trying not to pass those along to our own kids (but let's be honest, we definitely overfunction sometimes).

Plus, a big cheers to that for adult-kid vacations, needy dogs, and Da ...