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 | Dec 9, 2024 | Family Topics, Toddlers, Uncategorized
Well, it’s that time of year again. A common topic of conversation that likely keeps popping up again and again amongst parents is How does your family celebrate Christmas? Bonnie and I were BLESSED enough to miss the Elf on the shelf craze. That sounds...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Dec 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare writes in the play Romeo & Juliet. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” Translation: the naming of things is irrelevant. Juliet won’t love Romeo any better if he had a...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Nov 11, 2024 | Family Topics, Uncategorized
Have you ever heard this word before? I hadn’t, but then suddenly, I’ve heard it in a couple of contexts within a short span of time and thought it might be a worthy conversation topic. The term kind of exploded earlier this year after a TikTok video by Molly...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Sep 9, 2024 | Family Topics, Teenagers, Uncategorized
We’ve been seeing a lot of posts about parents dropping their kids off for another year at college. It IS that time of year—back to school. If you’ve got older kids in college or grad school or some a bit younger, still in high school, who are THINKING about...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jun 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
It’s said that Aboriginal men have a strict policy when it comes to their mothers-in-law: They don’t look directly at them or address them in any way. It’s a tradition that has roots in the culture’s earliest days and probably has done more to ease...
