The Parenting Podcast

We love our kids. We want to help. And sometimes we actually can fix what’s hard. But should we? TALK NOTES When helping gets complicated Doing for our children what they need to learn to do for themselves Why struggle...

SUMMARY There never seems to be quite enough of us to go around—and as parents, we feel that most with our children. When the hours are already spoken for, how do we make the time that’s still ours really count? This...

Summary: We can spend a surprising amount of life looking ahead to what’s next—or back at what was. How do we keep both from taking too much of the life we’re living now? Talk Notes: Destination addiction—living for the...

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...

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 Conversation The “invisible backpack” our...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

<p>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?</p>

<p>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...