The Parenting Podcast

Summary They did something wrong. You know it has to be addressed. But in that moment, how do you correct without losing the connection you’ll need to walk through what comes next? This is one of those stories that stays with you. Talking Points When a child makes a choice that is clearly wrong Correcting without making shame the whole story What empathy can change in a hard parenting moment Why honesty from a parent can open the door to honesty from a child Separating a bad choice from a chi...

Some parenting questions have clear answers. These were not those questions. We put a few of them on the table—and discovered how different they look from the other side of raising children. Talk Notes The parenting rules we swore we’d never break What never came naturally to us Battles we eventually decided weren’t worth fighting What we think we actually did well The parenting jobs we’re happy to leave behind Where Mom and Dad handled things differently What we wish we’d been more consisten...

As our kids grow up, who pays for what gets surprisingly complicated. Generosity is good. So is responsibility. Figuring out when the bill belongs to us—and when it belongs to them—is where things get interesting. Talk notes: The changing financial relationship as kids move toward adulthood Generosity, responsibility, and knowing when each is appropriate Looking at patterns: Is this a genuine need or ongoing irresponsibility? What is our financial help producing? Giving young adults real expe...

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 isn’t necessarily harm Building capacity instead of removing every difficulty Scaffolding: support that’s meant to change Knowing when to step in and when to step back Giving our children room to grow in confidence and independence Why the answer looks different for every child...

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 conversation was newly edited from an earlier episode of The Parenting Podcast. IN THE CONVERSATION Why the struggle for enough time isn’t limited to working parentsThinking of time as a limited resource—and choosing how we want to use what we haveWhy consistency can matter more ...