by justaskyourmompodcast | May 5, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Marriage, Uncategorized
When two people from different backgrounds and with different temperaments, opinions, histories, etc. live together, conflict is inevitable. Add children to that mix (even MORE temperaments, to-do lists, busy-ness, etc.) and conflict is guaranteed to be part of...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Apr 21, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers
Today we are welcoming back guest and author of the book What Do I Want to Be When They Grow Up?: And Other Thoughts From a 40-something Mom, Karen Johnson. When not sitting at her computer, Johnson enjoys working out, walking her dog, and listening to podcasts...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Apr 14, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Teenagers, Wellbeing
Titania Jordan is the CMO and Chief Parent Officer of internet safety company Bark Technologies. She’s just launched a new book, Parental Control: A Guide to Raising Balanced Kids in the Digital Era, and we connected with her to talk to her about it. This was a...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Apr 7, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Teenagers
Today we are asking the question: What do we, as moms, want to be when our kids grow up. Whether you have one child or a dozen, the time will eventually come when your proverbial nest is empty. Why does this “predictable event in the family life cycle”, as some family...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Mar 24, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics
Over the past few months, several articles have been on our radar that seem to be mulling over different versions of the same question: what does our culture say about children? One of these was a viral NY Magazine essay by Allison Davis...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Mar 3, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics
If you know either of us very well, you know we love to travel. I’ve mentioned before that one of our family’s goals when the kids were young was to try to get to all 50 states before they graduated from high school. A goal we met—with North Dakota...
