by justaskyourmompodcast | Aug 16, 2021 | Family Topics, Health, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
Sleep-deprived moms is a common trope we can probably all relate to. On this episode, we speak with Dr. Tiffany Rogers, a PhD in behavioral neuroscience. She walks us through what the brain does while we’re asleep (hint: it’s not just shut off!) and why...
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 12, 2021 | Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
Photo by Blake Meyer on Unsplash We’re smack in the middle of summer and all that time still stretches ahead….. what do you DO with it?? A word about boredom… When we were kids… we stayed at home and ran around the neighborhood looking for stuff to do. We...
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...
by justaskyourmompodcast | May 24, 2021 | Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
Helping Kids Overcome Shame If we look at the most profound and basic of human questions (why are we here?) scripture tells us it is to act justly, love mercy, walk humbly, to love our neighbor as ourselves, and to love God with our heart, soul, and strength. All of...
