Deep Dive: Does Having Kids Ruin Your Marriage Forever?
This Deep Dive series revisits some of our previous episodes about dynamics with our parenting partners. Have you and your spouse slipped in...
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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood
Hosted by funny moms Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson, “What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood” is a comedy podcast about the never-ending "fresh hells" of parenting. Amy and Marga...
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Fresh Take: Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley of "I Mom So Hard" on Surviving Middle School Parenting
How do we parent middle schoolers while simultaneously experiencing the PTSD of our own middle school years? Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley...
Weaponized Incompetence—and Weaponized Passivity
There are several sneaky ways for the people we work with, or live with, to get away with participating less in the work that needs to happe...
Deep Dive: Is It Sometimes Easier When Our Spouses Aren't Around?
This Deep Dive series revisits some of our previous episodes about dynamics with our parenting partners. There are lots of reasons why someo...
Fresh Take: Meg Stone on Campus Sexual Violence and Empowerment Self-Defense
This episode includes discussion of rape and sexual assault. As parents, we have been horrified by the reports of sexual violence on Cornell...
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Beth Gellman-Beer spent her whole career fighting for kids with disabilities — first as a student written off as “lazy,” then as a federal c...
Conflict Resolution: How to Fight Fair and Repair Relationships
How do we handle conflict with those closest to us without damaging the relationship or going in circles? We discuss why some people avoid c...
Deep Dive: When Our Kids Have Different Relationships with Our Parenting Partners
This Deep Dive series revisits some of our previous episodes about dynamics with our parenting partners. Do you feel like the odd parent out...
Fresh Take: Sam Kelly on Teaching Kids About the Mental Load
What if kids didn't need chore charts and constant supervision in order to participate in the lives of their households? What if the "mental...
Episode 1,000! How Doing This Podcast For a Decade Has Changed Our Parenting
What have 10 years of doing this podcast taught us about being better parents? In this, our 1,000th episode(!), we look back at the biggest...
Deep Dive: We Caught Our Spouses Being Awesome
This Deep Dive series revisits some of our previous episodes about dynamics with our parenting partners. We asked the listeners in our Face...
Ectopic Pregnancy and the Increasing Danger to Mothers' Reproductive Health
Trigger warning: On today's episode we will be discussing pregnancy loss, abortion, and maternal death. Please be advised if those topics ar...
When Kids Hate Transitions
Why do some kids completely fall apart when it’s time to leave the playground, get ready for school, or switch activities? We dive into why...
Deep Dive: Is This Battle Worth Fighting?
This Deep Dive series is all about reducing the friction between ourselves and our kids when trying to communicate with them, whether it's y...
Fresh Take: Dr. Siggie Cohen on Setting Boundaries Without Dismissing Kids' Feelings
We want our kids to feel validated and heard. We also don't want to engage in five-hour negotiations every time they have to do something th...
Which Behaviors Should You Fix and Which Should You ignore?
Which kid behaviors need to be addressed in the moment—and which are better ignored? We discuss when to fix behavior and when to let it go,...
Deep Dive: When One Family Member's Moods Are Running the House
This Deep Dive series is all about reducing the friction between ourselves and our kids when trying to communicate with them, whether it's y...
Fresh Take: Fran Hauser on How to Make Time for What Actually Matters
How much of your time is actually going toward what matters most to you? Career expert and author Fran Hauser joins us to talk about her new...
Transitions
We want our kids to grow and stretch their wings, but that doesn't mean every milestone is easy for parents. We talk about the complicated e...
DEEP DIVE: What Happened to My Sweet Child?
This Deep Dive series is all about reducing the friction between ourselves and our kids when trying to communicate with them, whether it's y...