Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAsk Amy - My Kid Is a Know-It-All!
Amy takes a question from a listener who wants to encourage her know-it-all daughter to speak up while discouraging her constantly correcting everyon…
5 years, 8 months ago
Asking For What We Want, And Teaching Our Daughters To Do The Same (with guest Marisa Porges)
Episode 167
From board rooms to town halls to IEP meetings to doctor's offices, there are places where women speaking up for what they want or need are either ig…
5 years, 8 months ago
Ask Margaret - Is There Any Way to Get My Kid to Stop Throwing Stuff?
Margaret answers a question from a mom who is pretty freaked out by her 20-month-old's habit of throwing stuff when he's angry.
If you have a question…
5 years, 8 months ago
Advice We Totally Hate
Episode 166
As soon as you become a mother unsolicited advice-givers are everywhere, telling you to “sleep when the baby sleeps.” Or “it gets easier.” Or “enjoy …
5 years, 9 months ago
Ask Amy - How Can a New Mom Make Friends Right Now?
Each week Amy or Margaret answers one listener's most pressing question.
This week Amy answers the question, "How can an introvert make new friends es…
5 years, 9 months ago
Two Kinds of People- Which Are You?
Episode 165
We asked our listeners to divide the world into two kinds of people, and to stake out their claims on one side.
Sleep cuddler or stop-breathing-on-me?…
5 years, 9 months ago
Ask Margaret - When Does This Get Easier?
Margaret answers a question from the What Fresh Hell Podcast Group from a listener who asks when (if ever) life with her 2 and 1-year-olds is ever go…
5 years, 9 months ago
Hitting the Wall: Get Us Off This Coronacoaster!
Episode 164
Even the cheeriest and sunniest of parents are hitting the wall. We're over it. This stinks. Even the most ‘We’ll make a fun obstacle course in the y…
5 years, 9 months ago
Bad Mom Moments (with guest Arianna Bradford)
Fess up: everyone's got a Bad Mom Moment. Or twelve.
We tend to hold these things really close, our shame rooted in deep certainty that no other mothe…
5 years, 9 months ago
Ask Margaret - I'm So Worried About Being Away From my Kid
Every week Margaret or Amy answers one listener's most pressing question.
This week Margaret answers the question, "I know it's silly but I'm really w…
5 years, 9 months ago