Parents Making Time with Anthony & Jennifer Craiker | Intentional parenting ideas & time management tips to reduce parenting anxiety and help you stop feeling overwhelmed.
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!
Episodes
Avoid Parent Burnout with this Easy Intentional Parenting Idea
How to Manage the Unnecessary Anxiety of Parenting
Do Tiny Traditions Really Boost Family Connection?
Quick Announcement for Listeners
How We Deepened Our Bond with Our Son in One Evening
Stop the Parenting Comparison Trap and Get Your Joy Back
3 Simple Ways to Get Kids Talking at Dinner Tonight
Why You and Your Spouse Disagree About Parenting
5 Ways to Connect with Your Kids in 30 Seconds or Less
How to Be a More Present Parent in a Distracted World | Ruby Ryba
The 1 Parenting Tool You Can’t Live Without
Parent Burnout: The Secret Weapon to Beat it
Not Connecting with Your Teen? Listen to This
Parents, the Surprising Reason You Don’t Have Time for You
Want to Gain 10 Hours a Week with Your Kids? Here’s How
3 Big Reasons Parents Can’t Clock Out of Work
How We Put Family First Using this 1 Guiding Principle
Parents Making Time Trailer
How to Raise Kids Who Think for Themselves | Barbara Mojica
The Surprising Way Crisis Deepens Faith and Family Bonds | Dr. Matt Kutz
What Everyone Ought to Know About Stewardship | Larry O'Nan
What Your Mirror is Telling You | Tobi Ojekunle
How to Build Focus in a Distracted World | Grace Najean
Is Your Workplace Quietly Draining You? | Kristen Chimack
Why Disconnection Is Hurting Us All | Morag Barrett