
133: Popular Questions and Season Wrap
Mary Ruth tackles common questions parents have about spiritual life as she wraps up this season.

Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 100 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
Parenting Smarts! We need them, and sometimes we feel them. Our host, Dr. MaryRuth Hackett, is a mom of four with a doctorate in educational psychology, specializing in child development. Parenting Smarts blends together the science of child development and the realities of family life.Thanks for listening! Be sure to subscribe, download, and share with the people you know who could use some Parenting Smarts!
Unknown Host hosts Parenting Smarts, a kids show with 100 episodes published.

Mary Ruth tackles common questions parents have about spiritual life as she wraps up this season.

Shannon Wendt joins Mary Ruth to share how prayer changed everything in her family life as well as encourages us to pray even when it's messy.

Nell O'Leary joins Mary Ruth for an authentic conversation about the realities of family life and offers perspective on how to navigate it.

Emily Jaminet joins Mary Ruth to share tips and experience for parenting kids of different ages.

Fr. Ignatius Mazanowski joins Mary Ruth to talk about forgiveness - how to live it, to teach it to children and to cultivate it in family life.

Rose Sweet joins Mary Ruth to help us understand the four temperaments and how they affect family dynamics.

Meagan Martinez joins Mary Ruth to share how to connect deeply with our kids at any age.

Mary Ruth reflects on the first half of the season with a recap of the episodes on connection.

Jennifer Ellis joins Mary Ruth for a conversation on the importance of belonging and how to build community.

Shalini Blubaugh joins MaryRuth to discuss the benefits of movement for spiritual, physical and mental well being.

Service pulls us outside of ourselves and helps us connect. Melissa Mazzella DeLaney shares her incredible story and the importance of service in family life.

MaryRuth sits down with Bishop Dolan to talk about his love for art. Together they explore how art connects us to God and to each other.

Abigail Poole joins MaryRuth to explore how nature helps us connect to God and to each other.

MaryRuth welcomes listeners to a new season of Parenting Smarts with a look at what's ahead.

Stephanie Burke joins MaryRuth to talk about how to help children understand the spiritual world in age-appropriate ways.

MaryRuth dives into the virtue of faith and ways to nurture it in ourselves and in our families.

MaryRuth is joined by Jennifer Ellis to reflect on patience, what they have learned and how to practice it in family life.

How can we choose our words, listen to the Lord and discern well? Fr. Will Schmid joins MaryRuth to discuss how to allow wisdom to permeate our lives and families.

Gail Davis, MaryRuth's mom, joins the program to help us learn how to cultivate courage in ourselves and our families.

Olivia Spears joins MaryRuth to explore how to cultivate kindness in our families.
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.








Parenting Smarts has a verified contact on file. Create a free PitchCentric account to access it and generate a personalised pitch in seconds. Research at least 3 recent episodes first and lead with a specific angle that serves their kids audience.
Parenting Smarts is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under kids (family) and has published 100 episodes.
Parenting Smarts has published 100 episodes.
Parenting Smarts regularly covers kids, family, religion. It sits in the kids category, with a family focus.
Parenting Smarts is accessible for guests with genuine kids expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
Parenting Smarts hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of Parenting Smarts average 42 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates Parenting Smarts's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 4 days ago.