Exploring Gender Roles & Labels: A Guide for Navigating Family Dynamics (Episode 289)
How do you navigate gender roles in marriage? How do you explore this with your children, on how they view themselves in this life, beyond the label they may choose for who they are or what they do? How do you view yourself? Do you know your sweet spot of contribution in your home? In the […]
Continue readingInviting Boredom on Purpose? (Episode 288)
Boredom – that horrid mindset that enters into all our homes uninvited. What do you do when your child is bored? If you listened to our True Parent Struggles: Screentime episode, you know that boredom is a sure follower of cutting out screens in your home! So what can you do? We tackle it in today’s episode.
Continue readingPopular, I Wanna Be Popular! (Episode 287)
Remember the song in the musical Wicked, “Popular?” Popularity seems to be the desire of so many tweens and teens as they try to figure out their independence – and their place – in the world. But what does it really mean to be popular? Is it sitting with a certain group at a lunch table, […]
Continue readingThe Danish Way of Parenting (Episode 286)
Have you heard of the Danish way of parenting? While I knew Denmark has ranked first or second for the happiest country in the world for the past 50 years, I hadn’t really researched their way of parenting. So when I read a random article last year that referenced a book on this, I immediately […]
Continue readingDesire-Driven Direction (Episode 285)
We’re about halfway through January, and of course the biggie on people’s minds are all those goals and resolutions…and the obligation, dread and pressure that often roll with that. Goal-setting can be overwhelming, horrible, or…what fuels you forward. In the episode below, Nathan and I share about how we approach goals in a very different way […]
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