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BEST OF: Debbie Reber on Parenting Kids Who Are Differently Wired
“It's becoming increasingly clear that different ways of being are more 'normal' than most people realize, and that is truer with each passing year,"…
2 years, 9 months ago
BEST OF: How Little Parenting Can We Get Away With? (with guest James Breakwell)
Episode 327
Sometimes we need to stop trying so hard for things to get easier. We asked our listeners: where’s an area of your parenting where you got better res…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ask Amy: What Age Is Old Enough for Social Media?
At what age are our children ready for the sometimes shark-infested waters of social media? What limits can we set and tactics can we use to keep the…
2 years, 9 months ago
Fresh Take: Jennifer Wallace on Achievement Pressure
Two recent national studies underlined that there's a surprising group of children at risk for worse mental health outcomes: kids who go to high-achi…
2 years, 10 months ago
When Typical Parenting Advice Just Doesn't Fit
Episode 326
What happens when the usual parenting advice feels zero-percent applicable to our own situation? The first step is to let go of any "second arrow" se…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ask Margaret: My Kid Won't Eat a Bite of Dinner!
What do we do when, despite every tactic we can think of, our child refuses to eat dinner? Margaret puts a mom's anxieties around missed meals into p…
2 years, 10 months ago
Fresh Take: Bea Kim on Rediscovering Yourself After Motherhood
What does it mean to have an identity outside being a mother? How do we forge a new sense of self that includes motherhood but isn't defined by it? L…
2 years, 10 months ago
Crazymakers
Episode 325
We all know someone who causes chaos, lawful and otherwise, wherever they go. Those people, are called "crazymakers," a term first coined by Julia Ca…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ask Amy: Should I Care If My Teenagers Curse?
How do we tell our kids not to curse when they insist that everyone around them—maybe even their parents—do so? Amy explains different scenarios for …
2 years, 10 months ago
Fresh Take: Jamilla Svansson-Brown on How Motherhood Changes Us
Can we grieve the person we were before motherhood? Jamilla Svansson-Brown, who runs a YouTube channel with her wife Que, discusses how motherhood ch…
2 years, 10 months ago