Connecting the Dots: Not Just Another Parenting Podcast

Monologuing no more!  In this two part episode, I'm dialoguing with my friend, Alice, about parenting into your children's young adulthood.  This is part 2!  Be sure to listen to Part 1 first.I call Alice "The Most Experienced Parent that I Know" because she has seven children, all of whom are older than mine, and I love talking about parenting with her.  I hope you enjoy listening!CONTENT WARNING:  In this episode we talk about things that parents, young adults, and children might be anxious about, including violence in schools and child abuse at the hands of caregivers (and others).  While we don't get into specifics, the topics are mentioned.  

Monologuing no more!  In this two part episode, I'm dialoguing with my friend, Alice, about parenting into your children's young adulthood.  I call Alice "The Most Experienced Parent that I Know" because she has seven children, all of whom are older than mine, and I love talking about parenting with her.  I hope you enjoy listening!CONTENT WARNING:  In this episode we talk about things that parents, young adults, and children might be anxious about, including violence in schools and child abuse at the hands of caregivers (and others).  While we don't get into specifics, the topics are mentioned.  

We can raise our children so that they're equipped to build the world we want instead of adhering to the norms of the world we're trying to get away from. 

In this short episode, I reflect on the ways that I've made my home full of pleasure and comfort for myself so that I am well regulated and better able to meet my own parenting goals.  Check out the corresponding Instagram post to see pictures! Or facebook if you're old, like me.

After spending 17 days at home with my kids for winter break, I reflected on the relationship between screentime, hands-on parenting, and low restriction environments.  In homes where adults don't have a lot of time or bandwidth to interact with the kids and where there are a lot of restrictions about what the kids are allowed to do, it is very natural that those kids might have more screentime.  This is another example of "we can't have it all, at the same time" and is a good opportunity to think about and settle into what's most important for you right now.  For me, it's creating a low restriction home, where my kids can make a lot of messes and spend a lot of time making them, so that they are deeply engaged in mostly calm play instead of quietly watching TV (which they also do PLENTY of, because I don't prefer hands-on parenting).  Check out the corresponding Instagram post to see pictures of my kids messes!  Or facebook if you're old, like me.

How well are we modeling empathy, perspective-taking, and gratitude in our daily lives so that our children will learn these critical justice-building values?Let's explore it together.

How did COVID impact our parenting, particularly for those of us who were having and raising babies in 2020 and who had kindergarteners in 2020?This is a heavy topic to talk about.  Make sure that you take good care of yourself, even if that means skipping this one.Trigger warnings: Talk of COVID, anxiety, and infant feeding issues

Welcome back for Season 3!  The back to school season has me thinking about grades and connecting the dots between our habit of expecting success to be easily measurable as 100% and what we should reasonably expect from our children.

I love it when there's evidence that my long-term goals for my kids are in motion.  This meltdown turned out to be an unexpected milestone.

Finally!  After months upon months of teasing this episode, here it is:  I'm talking about how I gave up family dinner so that I could work towards the family dinner that I really wanted.