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Parents Making Time with Anthony & Jennifer Craiker | Intentional Parenting for Busy Parents
Parents! Feel like you’re missing out on your kids’ lives while also never having enough time for yourself? Want to embrace intentional parenting but don't quite know how? Career pressures, shuttling kids around, volunteer commitments, and the endless tasks of caring for your home all place enormous demands on your time and energy, leading to mom guilt, dad guilt, stress, and ultimately regret. And while you’re trying to tend to your own self-care while also being a present parent who prioritizes family connection, your kids are growing up way too fast.
Sound familiar? If so—help is here! Unlike other parenting podcasts that just give you techniques for raising children or tips on childhood development, Parents Making Time focuses on helping YOU, the parent, prioritize YOUR life so that your parenting aligns with your values. Motherhood, fatherhood, marriage, and family are what we are all about. In 15-minutes or less, this weekly podcast helps busy parents like you learn to prioritize their relationships, be more present and intentional with family time, and build a lasting legacy of love—without neglecting their own well-being or feeling regret later in life. It's not just about learning to prioritize tasks or mastering time management, it's about becoming the parent you want to be so that you can stop feeling overwhelmed, learn how to have more time, and create lasting family memories.
Leveraging their 20+ years of parenting experience raising three thriving kids and leading and mentoring hundreds of children, youth, and families in volunteer church positions, hosts Anthony and Jennifer Craiker teach parents on a tight schedule how to balance work and family, create unbreakable family bonds, prevent parent burnout, and find JOY in parenting. In other words, we help you stop being busy and start actually applying the concept of intentional living.
If you’re ready to prioritize family time each day without feeling overwhelmed, you can count on this show to teach you how to be fully present with your kids, build lasting memories, prioritize your spouse, make dinner time count, connect with your kids after work, stop missing precious moments, savor family time, discover intentional parenting ideas, and so much more—all while learning how to implement quick self-care tips, create an intentional family legacy, and parent with no regret. So, hit PLAY, and let’s get started!
Popular Topics Include:
Intentional parenting
Present parenting
Self-care for parents
How to have meaningful connections with your kids
Work life balance
Mom guilt and Dad guilt
Building family bonds
Parenting anxiety
Time management
Motherhood
Fatherhood
Family life and routines
Tips for busy parents
Parenting in a digital world
Leaving a legacy
Parents Making Time with Anthony & Jennifer Craiker | Intentional Parenting for Busy Parents
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Trailer for Parents Making Time with Anthony & Jennifer Craiker. In 15 minutes or less, our weekly podcast helps busy parents prioritize their relationships, be present and intentional with family time, and build a lasting legacy of love—without neglecting their own well-being or reaching the end of their lives wishing they’d spent more time with the people who matter most.
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Anthony:
As a parent, you’re busier than ever. From the moment you wake up until your head hits the pillow, your day is crammed with tasks—getting kids up and out the door, racing to work, shuttling between practices, games, dance, and music lessons, tackling chores, helping with last-minute homework projects, and answering late-night work messages. On top of that, there’s the never-ending list of home projects, extended family commitments, and PTA meetings. Just thinking about it feels exhausting—and there’s never enough time.
All that busyness makes it harder to be fully present with your family. Instead of meaningful connection with your spouse and kids, you end up stretched thin, burned out, and with no quality time for yourself.
Jennifer:
That’s why we created the Parents Making Time podcast. We’re Anthony and Jennifer Craiker. We’ve been where you are. We’ve raised three thriving kids and spent over 20 years mentoring hundreds of children, youth, and families in volunteer church positions. Now, we help busy parents like you balance work and family, build stronger bonds, prevent burnout, and rediscover joy in parenting.
Anthony:
Unlike other parenting shows that just offer child-development tips, this podcast is about helping you, the parent, align your life with your values. In 15 minutes or less each week, we’ll show you how to prioritize relationships, be intentional with family time, and build a legacy of love—so you don’t look back with regret. We’ll highlight common parenting mistakes (and how to fix them) and bring in guests who share practical wisdom you won’t hear anywhere else—equipping you with tools and confidence to make time for what matters most: your family.
Jennifer:
So if you’re ready to take control of your schedule, strengthen your family connections, and still carve out time for yourself, hit follow now—you won’t want to miss an episode.