Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow To Prepare Our Kids Now to Be Grown and Flown (with guest Lisa Heffernan)
Episode 120
Kids don't usually seek to lose their dependence on us as parents- and why should they? Doesn’t a grilled cheese taste so much better when Mom makes …
6 years, 7 months ago
Parenting Styles: Which Ones Are We (And Should We Care?)
Episode 119
Helicopter moms, snowplow moms, tiger moms, free-range moms… we usually define all of these parenting types in the negative: well, at least I’m not T…
6 years, 8 months ago
Husband Crimes: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Episode 118
We asked you to tell us your spouses’ most unacceptable-- and also extremely minor-- household infractions.
356 of you responded.
Whether it’s turning …
6 years, 8 months ago
When Should Kids Tell?
Episode 117
Most little kids have an ironclad sense of right and wrong and are most happy to report on whoever might not be sharing in the dress-up corner. But a…
6 years, 8 months ago
Imaginative Kids: Is It Ever Too Much of a Good Thing?
Episode 116
Is there such a thing as a too-imaginative kid? Parenting experts say no. Dr. Paul Harris, professor of education at Harvard and author of The Work o…
6 years, 9 months ago
When Kids Prefer the Other Parent Over You (Or You Over Them)
Episode 115
Most of us have been (for better and for worse) recipients of the “only Mommy” level of attention from our little ones-- the sort of singular devotio…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Mom Gap: Getting Back Out There (with guest Christina Geist)
Episode 114
According to the US Department of Labor, more than a third of college-educated women pause their careers for some amount of time to raise their child…
6 years, 9 months ago
When Your Kids Take Everything Out On You
Episode 114
Most parenting experts say being our kids’ safe space includes letting some amount of their snarkiness roll off our backs. It’s normal. Don’t take it…
6 years, 9 months ago
Teaching Kids Empathy
Episode 112
What is empathy, exactly? It involves both emotion and action. For our kids, it’s an acquired skill- one that needs our guidance and encouragement to…
6 years, 9 months ago
House Rules That Work
Episode 111
We asked our listeners to tell us their go-to House Rules. Whether these words to live by are hanging in your kitchen written in cutesy script on a f…
6 years, 10 months ago