Motherhood and More - The Podcast

SHOWNOTES: Annie’s Essays: This is 18 and I Didn’t Expect the Emotions: https://grownandflown.com/18-legal-adult/ Paula’s Essays: 5 Tips to Prepare for Parenting Teens NOW: https://www.scarymommy.com/prepare-for-parenting-teens Parenting the Teen Who Didn’t Go Off to College: https://grownandflown.com/parenting-teen-didnt-go-college/ Essays We Reference: There Is No Road Map for the Longest Phase of Parenthood: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/09/parenting-advice-adult-child...

SHOWNOTES: We recorded this prior to the most recent mass shootings. While there is no one thing that can soothe our children’s hurting souls as they continue to navigate an environment that feels perennially scary and anxiety-producing to them, we hope conversations like this can offer a starting point for parents. CONTENT WARNING: We reference trauma and suicidal ideation. For immediate help in the US, call 911 or the National Suicide Prevention Hotline (800-273-8255). Otherwise...

Annie and Paula discuss friendships for mothers—what friendship is, how we make friends, how we nurture friendships, and some obstacles that might make friendships challenging for mothers. We are together in person for this one and our peri-menopausal/menopausal memories (or lack thereof) plus lack of a producer present are on full display. In this podcast, we reference the following: Daniel Pink on Armchair Expert: https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/da... Annie’s essay on travel hacking: ht...

In this two-part episode, we explore the hot topic of homeschooling. As moms who’ve each homeschooled our kids throughout their childhoods, we’ll explain why we decided to homeschool, our approach to education, what we loved and hated about it, what’s changed since we started our homeschooling journeys, and what we’d do differently if we could go back and do it again. We reference information from the following sources: A Brief History of Homeschooling from the Coalition for Responsible...

In this two-part episode, we explore the hot topic of homeschooling. As moms who’ve each homeschooled our kids throughout their childhoods, we’ll explain why we decided to homeschool, our approach to education, what we loved and hated about it, what’s changed since we started our homeschooling journeys, and what we’d do differently if we could go back and do it again. We reference information from the following sources: A Brief History of Homeschooling from the Coalition for Responsible...

Note that we briefly mention a statistic involving suicide in this episode. In this episode, we explore our own journeys of mental health as moms. Paula shares what it’s like to parent while living with PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and Annie shares how parenting has affected her mental health despite not living with mental illnesses. We get into what has helped us through and what we wish we had done earlier. We also share a bit about our activities, including Paula’s fiber obsession and ...