There is so much pressure around summertime! Make the most, cherish every moment, have no responsibility (while it piles up around you), and take it all in because it is fleeting. Yes! Yes, it is. But, we can’t stop life, pause all responsibilities and j

How are teen girls today different than when you were a teen? How is parenting teens different today than when your parents had to parent you? What are our girls facing today and how are their brains handling the 24/7 social life of today? What can you

Have you ever thought about homeschooling? Maybe you are homeschooling now or did in the past. I just closed the doors on our school after 7 years and I want to share with you everything I learned in that experience, how it grew me, grew our relations

Has what happens after high school always seemed cut and dry to you? There is a decades-long idea that after high school comes college and that is the way of life, but what it is wasn’t for some? What if it is for others? Stephanie and Nellie have a fan

What can we do? It seems so complicated and tangled and the finger-pointing is going around and around, so the problem is revolving instead of resolving. There are 4 conversations that need to be had and the best place to start is in your living room.

This episode is so fun, as you would expect an interview with an expert on play to be. Roya and Nellie go deeper than the smiles and giggles when it comes to play and examine the bigger effects at play (pun totally intended!) How does play affect their

There are “touchy” people and “non-touchy” people, but the fact is physical contact is important in the human experience, and diving in and getting curious about how we feel about touch is important. So often the aversions are from childhood traumas and d

Have you wondered how to do ALL of the things you need to and are expected to do as a parent and still have time to put anything on the table that isn’t prepackaged fast food? Finding time for real food is a challenge and, in this episode, Kristy gives us

Life can feel like an arena. In parenting and in teen and tween life especially. Getting up and ready to face the challenges every day. In your arena you have 3 seats that are always taken up: Scarcity, Comparison and Shame. In this episode I walk thr

Toddlers get a bad rap. They are opinionated, not in control of emotions or their bodies and they always WANT things, right? Yes, but what can we do to help them, and ourselves as parents, through this process? Nellie and Jill have an in depth discussion