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The Parenting Podcast
Episodes
227 episodes
The Invisible Backpack: What Are We Sending With Them? | Ep. 225
We won’t be beside our children for every moment that shapes their day. But our influence doesn’t end where our reach does. What stays with them when they move beyond us?IN THE CONVERSATION• The difference between giving o...
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The Invisible Backpack: What Your Child Brings Home | Ep. 224
Our children have whole parts of their lives we’ll never witness. We can’t follow them into those moments—but we can become the place they want to return with them.In the ConversationThe “invisible backpack” our children ca...
Encore: School Choice — What Matters More Than the Method | Ep. 223
Public school, private school, homeschool—we can put a lot of weight on getting that choice right. But what if some of the things shaping our kids most have very little to do with where they go to school? As a new school year begins, we’re brin...
Don’t Drift Into Your Evenings | Ep. 222
Most of us spend more time getting ready for school than getting ready for the season we’re about to live together. Sometimes one small, intentional change in an ordinary evening can quietly change the culture of a family.
It’s Just Tuesday: The Decisions That Don’t Feel Like Decisions | Ep. 221
Most parenting decisions don’t feel life-changing. They feel ordinary. But what if some of the smallest choices we make every day are quietly shaping who our children are becoming? Sometimes the difference isn’t finding the right answer—it’s as...
What Are We Really Reaching Back For? | Ep. 220
Why has the idea of a “‘90s summer” struck such a chord with parents? Maybe we’re not trying to bring back another decade. Maybe we’re trying to hold onto something we don’t want our children to miss.
Tell me more | Ep. 219
Sometimes our first response as parents isn’t wrong—it just comes too soon. We often speak or act before our children feel fully heard. What changes when our children no longer feel the need to edit themselves before they come to us?
When Other People’s Opinions Follow You Home | Ep. 218
Other people’s opinions will always be there. The harder question is how much influence they’ll have on your parenting. This conversation unpacks why those voices can feel so powerful and what helps us stand with greater confidence and clarity....
Parenting for an Audience | Ep. 217
Most parents know the feeling. A look across the room. A raised eyebrow. A comment that li gers longer than it should. This conversation explores the pressure of parenting under the weight of other people’s opinions.
Maybe It Doesn’t All Have to Be Fixed | Ep. 216
The desire to get parenting right can be a gift. It can also become a weight we were never meant to carry. Somewhere along the way, caring deeply can begin to feel a lot like carrying everything.
The Parents We Thought We’d Be | Ep. 215
We all want to grow as parents. The question is whether we’re being shaped by wisdom—or by the pressure to become someone we think we’re supposed to be.
When Love and Agreement Part Ways | Ep. 214
You spend years pouring your values into your children. Then one day they begin sorting through them for themselves. How do you hold onto what matters without letting go of each other?
Somewhere Between Drive-Thrus and Good Intentions | Ep. 213
Somewhere between good intentions and real life, a lot of parents end up feeling behind in this part of family life. This conversation pulls health back out of pressure and perfection and into something steadier, more realistic, and actually li...
Fitness, Identity, and the Pressure to Perform | Ep. 212
Health and fitness can easily become tangled up with pressure, appearance, and performance — for parents and kids alike. This conversation pulls it back to something steadier: intentionality, sustainability, and the quiet ways families learn ho...
The Hard Moments Aren’t the Whole Story | Ep. 211
Family life is full of moments that don’t go the way we hoped they would — and so much of love is built in what happens next. This conversation starts with young moms raising little kids, but it reaches into something every parent recognizes: t...
What the Little-Kid Years Actually Feel Like | Ep. 210
Why can the smallest parenting decisions start feeling so big in the little-kid years? This honest conversation gets into the real-life pressure, questions, and tensions parents quietly carry every day.
How to Feed a Family in Real Life | Ep. 209
Knowing what’s healthy is one thing—living it out is another. This conversation makes that shift feel doable.
Everyone Has an Opinion About Food—Now What? | Ep. 208
Everyone has an opinion about food—but what do you actually do with all of it? This conversation starts to bring it back to something simpler, steadier, and real.
When You Roll Your Eyes, They Stop Opening Up (Culture and Connection) | Ep. 207
The things your kids care about may not make sense to you—but how you respond matters. This episode looks at how stepping into their world builds lasting connection.
Who’s Talking to Your Kids | Ep. 206
The world is talking to your kids—are you in that conversation too? We’re starting something new to help you stay close right in the middle of it.
More Than Memories: The Quiet Power of Family Traditions | Ep. 205
It’s easy to think traditions are about holidays or special moments, but they’re often doing something deeper. This conversation looks at how the things we repeat as a family begin to form identity, connection, and that quiet sense of “us” over...
It Isn’t About Your Kids | Ep. 204
I can walk into a moment with my kids already holding a picture of how it’s supposed to go—and without even realizing it, I start pressing that onto them… and it quietly distorts what’s actually happening between us.
When Expectations Get Louder Than People | Ep. 203
When a moment doesn’t go the way you pictured, it can quietly pull you away from the people right in front of you. This conversation names that shift—and what it looks like to come back to what actually matters.
When You’re in the Wrong Lane With Your Kids | Ep. 202
Sometimes the tension with our kids isn’t about love or effort—it’s about being in the wrong lane. In this episode, we explore a simple way of thinking about relationships that might change how you show up with your child tonight.