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...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Feb 24, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Health, Wellbeing
This is a new one for us! We’ve had physical therapists (PTs) as podcast guests before, in the context of children. But today, we’re talking with our guest, Jenny Archer, a PT who specializes in the pelvic floor. You were referred to us by our...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jan 27, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers
If going to church is something your family does regularly, there’s no reason to stop when you have a baby. In fact, we’d argue it’s even more important that you continue the routines you had before your baby joins the family. When it feels like it takes...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jan 20, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers
Today’s episode came from a listener suggestion. Their older family dog recently had a cancer diagnosis and they’d decided with the veterinarian to prevent suffering and hasten the end. That prompted a lot of questions from their child about the process...