Summary The Parent Rap is back, and our first new episode (live in your feed now!!) is with Olivia Scobie, a clinical social worker in Toronto and author of the upcoming book 'Impossible Parenting: Creating a New Culture of Mental Health for Parents'.⁠ W

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Everybody's at home with the 'Rona

Screens, media, and finding time.

Anna and Sara talk about the decision to raise only children from both personal and social perspectives. Plus: abortion and family planning access, who overwhelmingly has the most abortions, and how we think about the question of choice.

This week: overscheduling (holidays, ahhh!) and teaching kids about living together in a society.

This episode, we’re talking about potty training and bodily autonomy for our littlest kids, and how we remind ourselves that this is one of those times where, no matter how much this feels like it’s happening to us, our kids are separate from us and maybe

In this episode, we talk about art and creativity for both kids and adults, and how sometimes we discount our own creativity because it doesn’t “look right” when we do it. Somewhat unexpectedly, we explore the ways we ourselves are creative and how those

In this episode, a subject very dear to Anna’s heart: birth stories and experiences. Most people experience birth in a really intense haze of emotion and complexity and as a culture we really fail a lot of the time to handle that well. Birth is, for most

In the second half of our school-choice-two-parter, we talk about all the caveats we make for families who make alternative decisions to meet the needs of their families. Because this is a two-parter, there’s no intro, so here’s the info we usually inc