episodes

What are your house rules- the ones that keep your home life tolerable, the ones kids know so well they self-police? Whether it’s…

Each week Amy or Margaret answers a listener's most pressing parenting question. Today Margaret tackles the question "What should…

How do we find a mom tribe? How can we get closer with the ones we already have? Do online tribes count? In an age when our famil…

We're taking your questions! Every week Amy or Margaret will answer one listener's most pressing parenting question. Submit yours…

How can we allow ourselves to allow our kids to experience the exhilaration of feeling just a little unsafe? How does risky play …

We're taking your questions! Every week Amy or Margaret will answer one listener's most pressing parenting questions. Submit your…

The familiarity of long-term relationships is the best thing about them- and the hardest. How do we make our marriages work for t…

Whether you’re a hard core cry-it-outer or a co-sleeper, here are the best sleep hacks (from both sleep experts and our listeners…

Have you ever considered homeschooling the kids and traveling for a year? Has your job ever forced a cross-country move? We talk …

Parenting really is more demanding than it used to be. We spend three times as many hours playing with our kids as our mothers di…

Happy Mother’s Day Week! We are passing out some Mom Awards to our listeners to counteract the lukewarm eggs benedict, hastily-pu…

Bullying doesn’t always look like a playground lunch-money grab. Half of today’s kids experience “relational aggression” monthly.…

Screen-Free Week starts 4/29. If the very notion sends ice through your veins, you’re not alone! But we loved it, and we think y…

We know what’s wrong with how our kids speak to us: the sarcasm and eye-rolling are two things we could live without. But does h…

Amy and Margaret celebrate 100 episodes by trying to stump each other with crazy stories that are either “True or False.” Was Amy…

Is there any middle ground between the 9-year-old with a pitching coach and the kid who quits after the second game? Maybe. Even …

Some of the things we imagined about motherhood turned out to be pretty accurate. Some of it was WAY off base. We talk what lived…

Sooner or later every kid gets assigned a school project that is, without question, a PARENTS' project. Here’s how to discern the…

Why do all mothers feel like failures sometimes? Is it the 24/7 job description? The high stakes of nurturing small humans? A cul…

Here's the best relationship advice we’ve ever gotten: how to prioritize our partners, how to fight better, how to keep things go…

Anxious kids often can’t explain how they’re feeling, so they’ll act out instead. We talk how to help anxious kids settle their “…

Most of us assume middle kids get the short end of the parenting stick. But some experts believe their place in the birth order m…

Here is (no lie) the best advice ever when it comes to making choices, doing what matters, ignoring the haters, and liking oursel…

What makes a punishment effective? Is the primary goal payback or providing insight? Can our discipline help kids make better cho…