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If someone were to drop your name as the perfect person for a job, what would that job be? Remembering dates for random events? Sensible homesteading? Running efficient meetings?

How do we avoid being dragged into the Negative Nancy talk in parent chat groups? Margaret answers a question from a listener who is getting stressed out by her nursery school's group chat.

At least 20% of today's kids are “differently wired” with anxiety, ADHD, autism, giftedness, processing disorders, learning disabilities, and more. Guest Debbie Reber explains the parenting “tilts” that work best to support non-neurotypical kids.

How little parenting can we get away with? Is doing less better—or at least good enough? We talk backing off on what our kids wear, what they eat, and what they do all day with James Breakwell, author of the hilarious new book Bare Minimum Parenting.

How old should our kids be before they have social media accounts, given all that we know about their dangers? It's a complicated decision, but here are the factors to consider.

How do we protect our kids from the toxic achievement pressure that surrounds them? Jennifer Wallace, author of the new book NEVER ENOUGH, explains how to walk this line.

Parenting advice is often deemed to be universal. When it's not, we tend to question ourselves—but what we should be questioning is why parenting was ever thought to be one-size-fits-all.

How do we get our kid to eat what's on their plate when they'd rather launch it across the room? It's time to start thinking of our kid's nourishment in larger units (like weeks).

Once we become mothers, does everything else about us go out the window? How do we get back in touch with our values? Bea Kim, executive and life coach, provides concrete advice for maintaining a healthy sense of identity post-parenthood.

We all have people in our lives who are crazymakers— always late, always stirring the pot, always causing chaos. Here's what a crazymaker really is - and how to deal with the ones in your life effectively.

What do we do when our kids start using colorful language around the house? Especially when we are sometimes guilty of doing the same thing? Here's how to lay down some ground rules around cursing if you can't outlaw it completely.

How do we accept the huge changes that motherhood brings while maintaining strong relationships with our partners? Jamilla Svansson-Brown, co-creator of the Jamilla and Que YouTube channel, discusses how she and her wife have navigated these changes.

Whether we’re stressed perfectionists or hot messes, our homes and relationships get happier when we clarify what goes in what pile FOR US. Guest Kendra Adachi, author of THE LAZY GENIUS WAY, talks about making systems that work for us and only us.

How do we help our child when their friends have cast them out without making things worse or helicopter parenting? Margaret gives some tactics for helping kids through inevitable friendship drama.

What does it take to come back from absolute rock bottom? Lara Love Hardin, author of the new memoir "The Many Lives of Mama Love" discusses her journey from perfect soccer mom to incarcerated felon to reinvented woman.

Margaret recently took care of a 6- and 2-year-old for awhile, and Amy recently attended a family reunion with little ones running around. The results are in - constantly attending to the needs of little kids is way more exhausting than we remember!

How do we relieve ourselves of the pressure to make every summer day Pinterest-worthy for our children, especially when all we do is break up fights and tell them no? Amy helps a listener combat her end-of-summer scaries.

Most of us think our kids should have less screen time. At least that’s the guilt trip we’ve been sold. But what if we can take a more “value neutral” approach? Ash Brandin, @TheGamerEducator, tells us how families can make screens work for everyone.

In a world where we walk around most days without cash or even credit cards, paying for things with our phones and watches, how can we teach our kids how money works—and that it doesn't grow on trees? Here are some ways to teach financial literacy.

House guests are fun. They're also overwhelming, even when they're the same people who raised you. Here's how to set ground rules that work for everyone.

Why are mothers expected to say pregnancy is an unending forty weeks of bliss, even when their reality may very much differ? Erin Pepler author of the new book “Send Me Into the Woods Alone” talks about breaking the silence around the less-than-pretty parts of pregnancy and new motherhood.

Whistling inside? No baseball caps at dinner? No showers during a lightning storm? What odd rules of life did Amy and Margaret once cling to?

When siblings share a room, is there an age when it becomes better for them to have separate spaces? It depends on the kids, but here are the factors you might keep in mind.

What if we thought of mom guilt and the gender pay gap as "scams" that were being run on mothers? Raena Boston, founder of the Working Momtras, explains why parenting is inherently political.