Barbara Mullen is a force of nature. At 90 years old she still mentors and supervises a gaggle of Hawai'i-based mental health professionals, sees clients in her private practice, follows her favorite NFL teams religiously, and knows everything about every current socio-political trend.

In this episode of A Really Good Enough Parent, Barbara shares details about her life growing up as the only child of a martini-drinking single mom; her classic VW bus trip as a single mom across the country with four children to her new life as a full time hippy in Humbolt County, CA; and her reasons for becoming a therapist.

Barbara's perspectives on raising children are straight forward, rooted in personal experience, academic awareness, and good old trial and error.

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Medium is the Massage

By: Marshall Macluhan, Quentin Fiore

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25955

https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/marshall-mcluhan/203190/

Birth Without Violence

by Frédérick Leboyer

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1132105

Songs: I Did it My Way - Frank Sinatra

ARGEP standard plug:

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