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 | Jul 19, 2021 | Family Topics, Health, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
When you’re a first-time mom, you have nothing to compare your child to. Unless you’ve had lots of exposure to other kids, you imagine what your child does or how she behaves is how most children behave. True, most children fall under the large swoop of...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jul 5, 2021 | Family Topics, Health, Marriage, Toddlers
1 in 7 babies born in the US spends time in the NICU for issues as varied as prematurity, infection, birth defects, and gestational diabetes, to name a few. On this episode, we spoke with a friend who’s all too familiar with hospitals, NICUs, and procedures—and not...
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 | Jun 14, 2021 | Family Topics, Health, Wellbeing
Addressing the Epidemic of Anxiety in Kids & Their Parents We’ve seen the shift in the ways American parents are raising their children. Since the mid-70’s, parents have been sold a bill of goods, one that convinced them of lurking danger in the world...
by justaskyourmompodcast | May 17, 2021 | Health, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
The Role of Play & Nature in a Child’s Life Summer’s on its way. Here in middle TN, that last school bell is about to ring for the year. Back in the childhoods of the 70’s & 80’s, that meant long lazy days spent outside, dreaming up games, building...
