Middle Years with Bridget KerMorris
The middle school years look like the years your kid pulls away from you. What nobody says out loud is that parents quietly start pulling away too. This is not because parents (or kids) stop caring. For parents, it's because the stakes feel higher, the rejection hits deeper, and so we start editing ourselves. We stop saying the true thing. We manage, we worry, and we hold onto what we want to say, waiting for a better moment that never comes.
This is the podcast where we stop waiting.
Each week, Bridget KerMorris answers a real question from a real middle school parent, submitted anonymously from her coaching community, using Steady + Connected Parenting™, the only parenting framework built specifically for the middle school years.
This is real moments with real families and at the end of every episode, one simple invitation: say what is true for you. Say it to the person who needs to hear it most . . . while the window is still open in these middle years because it will not stay wide open forever.
Bridget is a Stanford-trained lawyer with thousands of hours of education and experience as a marriage and family therapist specializing in family systems, neurodivergence, and relational trauma. She is also a mom of seven currently parenting her fourth middle schooler. She has an Instagram page, @bridget.parentcoach, with over 100k parents where she posts daily helping middle school parents "say what's true for you."
Episodes
4 episodes
Episode 3: I Hate Tech (when parenting in the digital world feels impossible)
Technology might be one of the hardest parts of parenting middle schoolers because technology asks us to lead through uncertainty.In this episode, Bridget answers two questions from parents who are struggling with phones, screen time, po...
Episode 2: My Son Says He's Too Young to Date (but little sister thinks he has a girlfriend)
A mom discovers that her 12-year-old son may have his first crush, but he insists he's "too young to date."So what do you do when you know something about your middle schooler that they haven't chosen to share with you?In this epi...
Episode 1: My Daughter Was Furious With Me
In the very first episode of Middle Years, Bridget answers a question from a mom whose sixth-grade daughter was furious with her after a difficult parenting decision.When her daughter skipped volleyball practice and asked her mom to send...