How She Deals with Mom Guilt
Ten tips to help you deal with mom guilt and shame--from ten different moms.
Ten tips to help you deal with mom guilt and shame--from ten different moms.
What is Mom Guilt, and why do we feel it?
This episode gives you permission to celebrate birthdays in whatever way fits your personality and family. But--it also includes a piñata full of great ideas about how different moms do birthday parties, gifts, food, and relationship-building traditions.
Dr. Anna Lisa Jones talks about recovering from pregnancy both physically and mentally, which are really all wrapped up together. She tells her story about how she learned to prioritize her own health after having four children, and also about how she helps her patients recover—including me!
My home is my laboratory. I talk about our current experiments including our current bedtime and morning routines; physical fitness; teen driving; chores; and my recent, life-changing surgery. I also do a little Christmas post-mortem to talk about what worked and what didn’t this holiday season. After I tackle tech, I’ll also share some experiments for How She Moms itself.
Kelley Durrant tells about the unexpected paths she has traveled as a mother, including infertility, the loss of a daughter and a son with special needs, but also lots of learning, giving, and adventure, including a surprise, record-breaking physical talent, a year living abroad, and a cow named Tina.
In this second half of the workshop, we dive into the work that goes into running a family. We’ve already talked about what goes into caring for ourselves and individual people within the family, which constitutes a large part of family work. But there’s also those communal responsibilities of feeding a family, taking care of the home itself, and all the things that go into running the organization of a family, including fun things like culture, traditions, recreation, etc.
A strategic-level workshop to help you identify all the work (both visible and invisible) that goes into running your household, and to help you make deliberate choices about distributing that work among family members—both parents and kids.
Ten ways to help your kids connect with their ancestors.
Fifteen different ways to write about your family, from short and simple to prolific.