by justaskyourmompodcast | Sep 7, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Teenagers
This topic is from a listener suggestion. Because of where we are in life, we know a lot of moms who are close to being empty nesters. They’ve raised one or two older kids and now they’ve got their last one (the youngest) left at home. The home stretch! ...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Aug 31, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Wellbeing
Mothers mold us — often physically in the womb and always emotionally through their interactions with us. There are many types of mother-child relationships, including adoptive ones and mentoring ones. In a Christian worldview, the church is the family of God. The...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Aug 9, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Health, Wellbeing
What happens to us as kids shapes who we are as adults. That’s not a newsflash, but more and more, we’re hearing about the health effects of our childhoods. From epigenetic influences to the trauma we carry in our bodies and minds, what happens to us...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jul 26, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Health, Wellbeing
As moms, we take our children regularly to the pediatrician. The doctor checks height, weight, head circumference and all the developmental milestones. At some point, those visits become less and less frequent and eventually stop. Our children grow up and leave all...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jun 21, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Health, Marriage, Teenagers, Toddlers
“Caught in the middle” caring for children and elderly parents. Support both ends financially, emotionally, or physically. This term was coined by Dorothy Miller in 1981 to describe adult children of the elderly who are “sandwiched” between caring for their own...
by justaskyourmompodcast | May 31, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
Lavy Little is an OT and mother of three active, grown sons (ages 18, 20, and 21). She and her husband Conrad had been married only 3 years when, because of kidney disease related to the diabetes he’d lived with since the age of 4, she donated one of her kidneys...
