Love Your Family Again and Again and Again and Again

After many episodes of me talking with other parents, thought it was time to introduce you to my parents. Listen in as I chat with my parents about what it was like parenting me!

About the Episode  Christian is a dad of a 7 year old Daughter, Malia. They live with his girlfriend   Go To Glitter  In the house hold - watching music videos is the Go To Glitter. Go back and forth between music that is current, music form Dad's childhood, music from before dad was born. Malia gets to decide first several songs :)    Dr. Marcie's Must Make Moves  1....

About this episode Julia is part of a family of 5. Her husband, Javon, who she has known for 18 years and been married to for 4. Her older daughter Lila, who is 11 years old. Her younger daughter Zora, who is 2 years old. The fifth family member is her dog, Jezze, a poodle mix.  She is a doula and you can find her on instagram at @357HolisticServices Got To Glitter The go to glitter for Julia...

About the episode   Go To Glitter  Hard because of the widespread of ages. Simplest answer is being at home - Saturday mornings on the couch each doing their own thing in PJ. Cleaning and coffee for the adults. Meals together and try to connect - breakfast and dinner as a family of 5. Thrive on being connected   Dr. Marcie's Must Make Moves  1. Time together is important, so is...

About the episode   Martika has a 2 and 1/2 year old son who she is raising with he partner Max. They have been together for 8 years. Go To Glitter  Love going to the children's museum together. Having full as a family with the interactive elements. Watching Harry Potter, Miko loves the magic and runs around the house with his wand. The final piece is going to the park all together, time...

About this episode  Cam is a white straight cis man in a heterosexual relationship with his wife. They have 3 children together, Lucy who is 9 years old, Marlo who is 7 years old, and Teddy who is 4 years old.   Go To Glitter  We live by the ocean in Massachusetts. We are a good beach family. The activity we love as a family is going to the beach. In a more micro sense, family dinne...

About this Episode  JoAnna has an awesome family that is comprised of her husband Fan and their three wild children. Her oldest, G is 7 years old. Her middle, E is 5 years old. Her youngest, B is 21 months old. We are using initials for the podcast, they have full names in other places in their lives :)    JoAnna also shares lots of her parenting and educational perspective on her c...

About the episode  Cassy is the mom of twins 9 year olds who are headed into 3rd grade. Rae, her son, is introverted and reserved. Rose, her daughter, is energetic and outgoing. Cassy and her husband look for ways to balance their seemingly very different children. Go To Glitter  We always have a good time when we go places! That can be staying in a local hotel and visiting a water park...

About this episode  Mel is the mom in a family that is on the go. She is married to Jacob, her husband. Together they have 2 children; Mickey who just turned 10 and JJ who will turn 7 a month after this episode was recorded.   Go To Glitter  When there is time on the weekend, everyone meets on the couch and together they play MarioCart. Sometimes they play a game of Sorry or another...

Michael has 3 wonderful women in his life. His two daughters: Juniper who is 6 and Diana who is 3, and his wife Nora. As a family they make an event of Sunday swim classes, walking together to class and then out to brunch after. While the girls love their time in the pool, the family gets to have a joyful day together with swimming being in the center of it.   Lately Michael has been thinking...

Anna is the mom of 3 exciting children. Her daughter, Lucy is the middle child and in 7th grade. Anna said that she is the most self sufficient of her children and happy to off and do her own thing. This can be a great thing and a challenge, depending on the circumstances. Mom sees a lof of herself in Lucy and loves her independence and passion.  The challenge we discussed is that when there...

Mariah is the mom of two children. Joe is 9 and 1/2 and Clara recently turned 7. Over the past few years they have been on a journey with Joe of evaluations, medications, and support as they navigated his neurodiversity. It has been a long journey with many bumps. Todays conversation is not about Joe. Today Mariah wanted to talk about her daughter Clara, who experienced the rage and explosions sin...

Liz is part of a big blended family. She and her husband are both the 3rd of 4 children in big, connected, caring families. They have two children with another coming in 3 months. They are culturally diverse, dad is from Argentina and mom is from the United States and the family is bilingual. Together they travel a lot, spend time with extended family and love doing anything in/near the water. &nb...

They are a family of two, Amanda is the mom and Isaac is her 13 year old son. Amanda knew her life would not be complete without a child, so she adopted Isaac. As life unfolds, Amanda sees how different they are and how they learn so much from each other. Mom is a self proclaimed nerd who is happy curled up with a book and Isaac loves soccer and is always in motion. When asked what they enjoy doin...

Mary Ann lives with her husband Jeff and 12 year old son Carter. They love spending time together just hanging out, especially in the summer around the pool. As a full time working mom, Mary Ann found that the lockdown from COVID allowed her more time with her son, something that she is grateful for. She, like most parents, starting doing more for him in an effort to make a really hard moment in t...

Jan and Cookie have a 4 1/2 year old son Mika. Last year they move from Canada to Germany to be closer to family. Having grandparents just 5 minutes away has been a great change for their family. Mika is an active boy who loves going on bike rides with his mom and swimming with his parents when they have the chance.  The tricky moments feel like they come out of nowhere. Something happens and...

Kat Ruiz is the mother of two children. Her son Sebastian just turned 13 years old and her daughter Nina is 9 years old. Sebastian has always been an energetic child and when he was in 4th grade, he was diagnosed with ADHD. Then the pandemic hit. Kat shares her journey as she, her husband and 2 kids left New York City and ultimately relocated to their home in Montauk.   We talked about what p...

Gary has been with Courtney for over 20 years in a long and happy marriage. They have two boys together. Garrett is 5 years old (almost 6) and Cameron is 6 months old. They are an interracial family, with Gary being black and Courtney is caucasian. Having time together as a family is one of Gary's favorite activities.  Our conversation focused on one comment Garrett made to his dad recently....

Elisabeth is the mother of Angus and step-mom to Imogene. Most of our session focused on Angus or the dynamics of co-parenting. Her and her husband Joel have different parenting styles and that is typical in most families with two parents. The challenge is accepting that your partner will parent differently than you and that is ok!  The main topic in our conversation is that her son has ADHD...

Jess and her wife have two wonderful children. Both of her children have a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. As a family they use many tools to help the days go smoothly and help keep everyone on track. Jess wanted to know, how can she stop herself from yelling at her kids. She finds that when frustrating moments hit, her volume increases. Not only would she like to be a parent who does not y...

Sarah and Chris have two boys, RJ and CJ - RJ is almost 3 and CJ is almost 1. They have lots of fun as a family with outdoor adventures, which helps RJ because he has lots of energy. Though sometimes his energy leads to behaviors like running away when outside or dumping an entire box of cereal out on purpose.  We talk about how he may be looking for a big reaction when he does these things,...

Matt is a stay at home dad with two daughters. His older daughter, Emily is a tween who entered middle school this year. Matt wanted to talk about the shift that happened hitting middle school and some of the behavior hoops he has been jumping through. He shared how leading up to middle school his daughter was expressing anxiety about school, yet after just a few days she was excited about new fri...

Courtney and her husband both work full time and have two beautiful children, ages 5 and 9. While Courtney works from home, her husband does not, so more of the parenting falls on her. There are moments when her 5 year old son has a hard time with her husband, her husband gets frustrated and ultimately results to yelling. Courtney's mama bear instinct goes into action and she finds herself interje...

Jessica and Luis have two children. Their oldest, Ray, is almost 10 and their youngest, Liana is 6 years old. Having both parents in this conversation provides a different perspective than the previous episodes. We could see the difference in perspective. Parenting is not about convincing your partner to always do it your way, parenting with a partner is about finding a complimentary perspective a...

Raven has 2 daughters and her oldest, Artemis, is a girly girl who loves glitter and unicorns and pink. She has big ideas and big passions and a big personality. Mom talks about the arguing they do because she has such a big personality and how she is aware that she wants to foster her daughters voice, while creating necessarily limits. The first strategy suggested is to reframe arguments as debat...