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Handling the News With Our Kids
Episode 218
The news is hard for anyone to escape these days– and that includes our kids. Even the littlest ones might see a stray notification on a parent's pho…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ask Amy- My Kid Loses Everything!
All kids lose stuff sometimes. Some kids lose stuff all the time. Sometimes it's ADHD or general inattention. Sometimes it's just a slower developmen…
4 years, 11 months ago
Fresh Take: Heidi Murkoff on Maternal Health (And What We Can Do To Protect It)
Heidi Murkoff is a mother, a grandmother, and the author of the legendary What to Expect When You’re Expecting, with more than 19 million copies in p…
4 years, 11 months ago
Best Advice We'd Give Our Younger Selves
Episode 216
Youth is wasted on the young. We wasted our youth taking the wrong classes in college and layering imaginary agendas onto other people's dopey behavi…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ask Margaret - What To Do When Kids Say They're Bored
One of the most important lessons from the pandemic may be "It is OK for kids to be bored".
A lot of parents fear boredom because of the whining and c…
4 years, 11 months ago
Fresh Take: Olivia Martinez-Hauge on Special Needs Parenting
Olivia Martinez-Hauge is a marriage and family therapist specializing in the treatment of families, couples, and individuals who are caregiving for c…
4 years, 11 months ago
Super-Awesome Mom Hacks
Episode 215
Time for some easy wins! Here of some of our (and our listeners') favorite hacks for
naptime diapers laundry kitchen sibling squabblesand General Sa…
4 years, 11 months ago
BEST OF: What Kind of Monster?
It's a "Best Of" episode that launched a movement: What Kind Of Monster? Or #WKOM, as the Fresh Hellions in our Facebook group call it.
Our highest ca…
4 years, 11 months ago
Birth Order: Can We Fight It?
Episode 214
We see birth order play out pretty clearly, both in our own families and in our families of origin. But is it a bad thing? Is it a thing to fight bac…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ask Margaret- When Is It Okay For Kids To Keep Secrets?
We sometimes feel nothing should be kept secret between us and our children, but that's not really true. We do need to talk often with our kids about…
4 years, 11 months ago