How Kathleen (Suddenly!) Transitioned to Motherhood
With one phone call, Kathleen became the mother of a teenager and a three-year-old.
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 Connects With Her Kids
Connecting with our kids is the big “why” of motherhood—the payoff for all the hard work and sacrifice. Sometimes it comes naturally and easy, sometimes it’s more complicated, and sometimes it’s unspeakably hard. But even then, we keep trying, because that’s what moms do. In this episode, I share ideas about how moms connect with their kids, organized into eight main ideas: 1. Plan Connection Opportunities into Your Routine 2. Make Time to Talk 3. Show Interest in their Interests 4. Play Together 5. Work Together 6. Carve Out One-on-One Time 7. Tell Them You Love Them 8. Identify Pain Points and Find a Workaround
Your Kid—A Novel Problem
The hardest—and most rewarding—thing about parenting is cultivating individual, unique relationships with individual, unique humans.
How She Serves Family and Friends
We all want to be useful, but sometimes it’s hard to know how to help. Here’s how other moms identify the needs of those around them and use their talents to serve.
I’m Turning Into My Mother (At Least I Hope So)
My mom shares some of her funniest stories, and I share what they taught me.
Raising Seabiscuit
Who knew that Seabiscuit would be one of the best parenting books I've ever read? Here are 10 things it taught me about parenting wild things.
How She Connects with Her Kids
A collection of some of the things--both little and big--that brilliant mothers are doing in their own families to help everyone get along, strengthen relationships, and just have fun together.
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