How She Names Her Children
Naming a baby is one of the first big decisions we make as parents—and it’s a huge one! Talk about pressure! This is the name they’re going to be known by their whole lives. It sounds so stressful--so why is it so darn fun? In this episode we’re going to talk about some of the common—and uncommon--ways parents come up with names, and how they actually come to an agreement on those names. We’ll also take a fun intermission with a little quiz we’ll call Spot the Urban Legend.
How Leisle Strategizes
Leisle and her husband Vinh dedicate a weekend each year to plan out their life and family goals. By sticking to their vision, they have created a value-driven, generous family culture.
How She Does Bedtime
n this episode I’ll share what bedtime looks like for several different moms, some with just young kids and some with older kids and teenagers, including some really sweet ideas about how to connect with your kids at bedtime. Then I’ll share some of the advice and research that’s helped me improve our bedtime routine this year.
How Beth Does Christmas
Beth Millward is the mom version of Buddy the Elf. In this episode she shares her many Christmas traditions, from Santa's Workshop to the twelve days of Christmas. I dare you to listen without getting excited to celebrate!
How She Plays With Her Kids (And How She Doesn’t)
In this episode we’ll talk about 10 tactics to bring a little more play into parenting. Along the way, we’ll dig into the guilt a little bit and examine that pressure we feel to entertain our kids, we’ll talk to moms about specific ways they play with their kids—including march-madness style taste tests, airborne pancakes, and competitive toilet wiping—and we’ll even learn some techniques for making those pretend-play sessions something you can actually enjoy once in a while.
How Brooke Romney Learns from Other Moms
Brooke Romney is one of my favorite writers on the topic of being a mother and being a good person in general. Her first book, I Love Me Anyway, released this fall, and it’s as beautiful and inspiring as I expected. Here, I talk with Brooke about some of the different stages she’s experienced in motherhood, and what she’s learned along the way, especially from other moms.
How she Takes Care of Herself Part 2
In the last episode, we talked about why self-care is important and some great ideas of how to make it happen. Today, we’re going to talk to three moms who have figured out how to take care of themselves while taking care of their kids, in three very different ways and in three different situations.
How She Takes Care of Herself, Part 1
Ok moms, you’ve trained for this. You’ve clocked hours and hours washing, feeding, clothing, and comforting a human being. Maybe several human beings. You’ve researched how much sleep they need, analyzed their sleep data, reorganized [...]
How She Finds Time Alone
This episode is all about how to find islands of our own—islands of time and islands of space where moms can be alone and recharge. This is the first of two episodes about self care. The next one will include lots of different ways to care for ourselves, but I wanted to start with this episode because I feel like this desperate need for alone time is pretty unique to motherhood, and especially to motherhood right now, in a time of homeschooling, remote schooling, and working from home.
How Whitney Experiments—Fall 2020
I had a proud moment last week. As I was writing this post about the experiments I’m trying in my house this Fall, my oldest son came up with an experiment of his own. He’s in [...]
How Emily Teaches Her Kids to Clean
As a mom to eleven kids, Emily’s life can be chaotic, to say the least. But that doesn’t mean her house has to be.
How She Covid Schools
I have this working hypothesis that Covid is going to end mommy wars. I’m working on a whole episode about this, but basically, my theory is that when moms from all socioeconomic levels and different [...]