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Parenting is both universal and deeply personal. The Gentle Year is a podcast from Turning The Tide Tutoring, created to give parents a space to share their experiences, challenges, and triumphs from all around the world.
Hosted by Knikki Hernandez, The Gentle Year explores real stories of raising children — from discipline and detachment to resilience, love, and loss. Each conversation invites honesty, curiosity, and compassion, reminding us that there is no single “right” way to parent, but there are countless ways to grow together.
Whether you’re a new parent, seasoned caregiver, or simply curious about the many shapes family life can take, this podcast offers connection, perspective, and gentle encouragement for the journey.
Ready to take your parenting journey deeper? Join The Gentle Year course from Turning The Tide Tutoring here: https://tinyurl.com/y9vhny39
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The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed on The Gentle Year podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Turning the Tide Tutoring. The content provided is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered professional advice in any form.
Listeners are encouraged to use their own judgment and seek appropriate professional guidance when necessary. By listening to this podcast, you agree that neither the host nor Turning the Tide Tutoring is responsible for any decisions made based on what you hear.
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In this parent-focused episode of The Gentle Year, Knikki sits down with Dr. Emily Levy, founder of EBL Coaching, to demystify special education, early reading struggles, and what parents truly need to know. Dr. Levy explains the early signs of dyslexia and learning differences, when to request a psychoeducational or neuropsychological evaluation, and the difference between an IEP and a 504 plan. The conversation dives into the science of reading, the power of the Orton-Gillingham method, and...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this powerful episode of The Gentle Year, Knikki Hernandez interviews Sean Dawson, host of the Raising Men podcast, for an honest and nuanced conversation about raising boys, modern masculinity, and fatherhood in today’s culture. What does healthy masculinity actually look like? How do we raise emotionally strong boys without...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. Black history is often taught as a single storyline—centered on slavery—while countless Black contributions to early American life are left out of standard textbooks. In this episode of The Gentle Year, historian and public school teacher Ted Lamb returns to share a primary-source approach to “omitted Black history” and the less...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. What does it mean to survive stillbirth — and then keep living? In this deeply moving episode of The Gentle Year, I sit down with Val Kleppen — a bereaved mother, homeschool mom, and host of The Motherhood Experience podcast — to talk about infant loss, NICU trauma, marriage after child loss, and finding purpose after grief. Val...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. What if the reason families feel so fractured right now isn’t a lack of love—but too much pressure, too much information, and too little shared responsibility? In this episode of The Gentle Year, I’m joined by Angela Caldwell, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over two decades of experience working with families. Tog...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this episode of The Gentle Year, I sit down with Roman Wyden — author of ADHD Is Over and host of the podcast and documentary by the same name — for a deep, thought-provoking conversation about childhood diagnoses, parenting, stress, and responsibility. When Roman’s son was diagnosed with ADHD at age seven, he was told what m...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. When the System Isn’t Built for Mothers: Birth, Power, and Voice with Suzzie Vehrs In this episode of The Gentle Year, Knikki sits down with doula and childbirth educator Suzzie Vehrs for a deeply human conversation about birth, relationships, and the quiet emotional weight many women carry into motherhood. Suzzie shares what a ...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this episode of The Gentle Year, I sit down with James Moffitt, a husband, father, and man of Christian faith who has buried two children. One after a long battle with childhood cancer. One after weeks in the ICU as an adult. This is not a conversation about easy answers, silver linings, or moving on. It is an honest, unguard...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this episode of The Gentle Year, Knikki sits down with Dara Wax—global health expert, founder of SAM+LEO, and mom of two teenage boys—for an unfiltered conversation about what teen mental health actually looks like. This isn’t a clinical discussion or a list of warning signs. It’s a grounded, honest exploration of what parent...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. What if the biggest problem in education today isn’t failing schools—but a system that no longer teaches kids how to think? In this episode of The Gentle Year, Knikki sits down with veteran educator, former school board member, and historian Ted Lamb for a candid conversation about truth, critical thinking, and what we’ve lost i...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. Money isn’t just about numbers—it’s about fear, identity, habits, family, and the stories we inherit. In this episode of The Gentle Year, Knikki sits down with Albert Butler, CPA, for a deeply human conversation about finances, family, and what it actually means to build stability in an uncertain world. Together, they explore wh...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. What does it really mean to provide for a family, and who gets to define that? In this episode of The Gentle Year, host Knikki Hernandez sits down with Tony Berardo, a father, entrepreneur, and creator who made the unconventional decision to prioritize presence over status. After layoffs, health scares, financial uncertainty, an...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this episode of The Gentle Year, Knikki Hernandez sits down with Terry Bean—children’s book author, life & executive coach, and caregiver to her 91-year-old mother—for a candid conversation about positivity, power, and emotional responsibility. Together, they examine a question many parents and educators wrestle with but ...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this episode of The Gentle Year, Kimberly Lechnick joins Knikki Hernandez to talk about one of the hardest lessons in parenting: letting go. From quitting baseball to giving up swimming, Kimberly shares how she learned to stop controlling her sons’ paths and start guiding them with trust, empathy, and space. This isn’t a suga...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. What happens when the person who gave you life never really wanted you? In this raw and unflinching conversation, we talk about what it means to grow up unwanted — and how that pain echoes into adulthood, parenting, and love itself. My guest opens up about the invisible scars left by her mother’s rejection, and the daily w...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this moving conversation, host Knikki Hernandez sits down with David Fowler, a teacher, father of three, and husband in a biracial marriage, to talk about the beauty and challenges of raising a child with autism. David opens up about learning to parent the kids he never expected to have, what faith looks like when life doesn’...
In this thoughtful episode of The Gentle Year, I sit down with Amber Trivedi — a parent, leader, and lifelong learner — to talk about parenting in a world where screens dominate so much of our children’s lives. Amber shares how the skills she’s honed as an employer and manager — listening deeply, allowing space to process emotions, and seeking to understand before inserting her own perspective — have shaped her approach to raising three boys. From navigating screen addiction and the emotional...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this heartfelt episode of The Gentle Year, I sit down with Shara Ruffin — an African American parent, LinkedIn consultant, and entrepreneur — for a candid conversation about parenting, healing, and the power of emotional work. Shara opens up about the cultural conditioning she experienced and how she’s intentionally breaking ...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. In this first episode of Turning The Tide Tutoring Podcast, host Knikki Hernandez sits down with Rebecca L. Norrington — parent, writer, and self-proclaimed “happiness specialist.” Together, they explore some of the most challenging and meaningful aspects of parenting and personal growth. Rebecca shares her perspective on detach...
Join the conversation beyond the episode inside The Gentle Year Facebook community — a thoughtful space for parents seeking clarity, encouragement, and real dialogue. Stop Trying to Make Them Feel Better When your child is overwhelmed, your instincts probably tell you to fix it, explain it, or shut it down. But what if those responses are actually making things worse? In this episode of The Gentle Year, clinical psychologist Dr. David S. Marcus joins Knikki Hernandez to explore why logic fail...
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