Parents are tired and looking for a cure for exhaustion. It’s ironic because we thought we were done being tired once our children weren’t babies. The truth is that the teen and college years can challenge us just as much as the newborn days did. More, the exhaustion we feel now goes beyond a physical tired, reaching deeper inside. Rest expert, Karen Brody, has an eye-opening discussion with [...]
As parents, we draw on our own experiences and upbringing to make decisions about parenting our teens and twentysomethings. But teens and dating have changed and we need to understand what’s happening now and how we can best prepare and support our kids as they learn to navigate the turbulent waters of dating, relationships, and sex. Relationship, intimacy and sex expert, Mary Jo Rapini, joins [...]
We all want our kids to be financially stable and avoid money failures. We also want to avoid our own retirement fail, but as we spend more and more to support our kids and finance opportunities for them we risk our own financial stability in our golden years. The result? Retirement Fail. So where’s the line? When should we help our kids and where do we draw the lines? What do we need to teach [...]
Self-love can sound like a pie-in-the-sky idea but it turns out this simple concept affects our entire life. A poor relationship with ourselves affects our mental, emotional, and physical state. So where does it start? How do we nurture self-love in our teens? And what about us? How does our own relationship with ourselves affect our lives, our family, and our parenting? Expert Paula Galli shares [...]
We all want to be the best parent we can and it’s easier when we know some of the common parenting pitfalls to avoid. When our kids are small, we have plenty of opportunities to chat with other parents and share our experiences and lessons learned. Unfortunately, as our children become teens and twenty-somethings those opportunities dwindle. Judy Davis and Sandy Fowler chat with Sheryl Gould [...]
The Christmas Secret: How To Stop The Holidays From Messing Up Your Life | Sandy Fowler | Episode 42
Whether we like it or not, Christmas is coming and with it comes holiday stress. Many parents struggle and wonder how to keep the holidays from messing up your life. Our own Sandy Fowler has the Christmas secret that not only involves Christmas stress relief, but also shows us how to start creating our dream holiday. Listen in as Mighty Parenting podcast host Judy Davis finds out what’s so hard [...]
Present or absent, fathers impact our children and create what John Finch calls The Father Effect. Male role models have long been acknowledged as important but that male role model is critical to our child’s well-being. Whether the relationship is relaxed or challenging, dads make a difference. Judy Davis and Sandy Fowler pick John’s brain about his work and his documentary, The Father [...]
When it comes to healthy living for your family, it can be tough to get ahead of modern living. Mighty Parenting podcast’s guest, Megan Whitaker, understands those challenges and helps families tackle them every day. She has simple and doable strategies for helping your family live healthy by going a little crunchy. In this interview, hosts Judy Davis and Sandy Fowler pull out all the stops to [...]
Parents have heard the term FOMO, fear of missing out, and may wonder exactly what is FOMO and why is it such a big deal? After all, we missed out on things growing up and it wasn’t a thing. When we compare our own experience with our children’s, it can be tempting to tell them to forget about it, get over it, or stop being melodramatic. But therapist and author Robin Sabag says FOMO is real [...]
Money matters can be a big challenge for any family. Whether you struggle with money management yourself or your teen doesn’t yet know how to deal with their finances, there is hope. Patti Handy is a money expert who helps with family and money matters; from the conversations parents need to have with their kids to the logistics to the mindset, she has us covered. On the Mighty Parenting [...]