Have you ever felt like you aren't doing much in your mom life? Jamie Ivey, author, host of "The Happy Hour With Jamie Ivey, wife and mom is here to dispel that notion. Jamie is vibrant and real and puts a new spin on some incredibly important life mom facts.
Are you struggling to know how to best help your kids to enjoy rather than just suffer through school? Aimee Buckley has some terrific strategies to help parents whose kids are just struggling to make it through the dreaded nightly homework and other demands of school. With a wealth of personal and professional experience she offers some doable tips to help parents everywhere!
The host of the Fancy Free podcast, a podcast about sharing our embarrassing stories and laughing at ourselves together, is with us today! Joanne Jarrett is fun encompassed and came on our show this week to talk about how to find your people through laughter. Have a listen and a laugh while folding laundry, driving kids, or running!
Join us this week as we think back on our own wedding day successes and disasters. We landed on this topic as we discussed how one of our own kids are actually tying the knot! It is a fun- filled look back at our own wedding days as well as a contemplative discussion of what we hope to better handle for our own kids than we did for ourselves. Enjoy!
Any parent who has a child struggling with bedwetting knows how helpless and frustrating it can be. Dr Steve Hodges has discovered what he believes is the cause behind bedwetting (and you will never guess what it is)! In his practice he has cured many bedwetters and met with us this week to discuss his findings. This is a fascinating episode you won't want to miss!
On this episode of the family looking up podcast, we talk with Bill Brady. Bill was a founder of the Gabb wireless cell phone and has just started a new family friendly phone called Troomi. Bill talks with us about how parents can embrace technology while helping their kids stay safe. This was a fantastic interview you won't want to miss!
Mom Squad, this is a must listen! We had such a fantastic time talking with the fabulous, down to earth, hilarious Jammie Baker. She was incredibly uplifting and informative. This listen will inspire you to be the best you!
Join us this week as we talk with Sophie Brickman about her new book looking at the latest findings on which technical advances help and which hurt our journey as parents as well as our kids journeys through this life.
Join us this week as we celebrate our 200th episode! It's just the three of us answering our Fab Four Questions among so many other things!
Our fantastic guest this week, Dr. L. Carol Scott, spoke to us about the deep connection our early childhood development has on our present relationships. She was incredibly knowledgeable, referred to fascinating studies, cited her own personal childhood, and was incredibly hopeful. We loved our discussion with her and count her as one of our most fascinating interviews to date. We hope you enjoy!
Most married couples have struggled - at one time or another - to keep date night alive and, well, fun. Often times date night ends up as the trip to the grocery store, or some other wholly UN-fun task that really just needs to get done. Brandon Porter is joining us this week to share tips and tricks that he and his wife have employed to overcome the most common obstacles that couples face. Listen in this week for some good laughs, creative ideas, and helpful information that can help resuscitat...
We choose our favorites during the year to re- release for summer. This one was top notch! Lynn Jimenez walks us through the tough decision of when parents should intervene and when they should let things play out. Enjoy!
Mom's around the world feel the burnout that comes from summertime cooking exhaustion. Our guest this week is full of fresh and easy ideas to give new life to our summer kitchens again!
This week's episode is one that we are thrilled to release for you! Linda McGurk is the author of "There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids". This book was not only eye opening, but exciting and astounding! We hope you love this interview with this Swedish mom of two and acclaimed author.
At the core, every parent aims to raise a child that can self-motivate and can fly once they are old enough to leave home. No parent wants to raise a child that is either so full of anxiety that they can't bear to leave home or a child that is so apathetic to life in general that their biggest concern is their status in Fort Night. Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson are with us this week discussing their book "The Self Driven Child" and the research behind it. It is a fascinating and compelling...
We're so excited to have this weeks guest, @christidaviscoaching on the podcast talking all about how we can build better relationships with our teenagers. We can't wait for you to listen to this one. We love teens, and we love the tips Christi shared with us! We also threw in a bunch of great book recommendations and a bunch of laughs, so make sure to tune in! Happy listening!
Join us this week as we talk with professor Tammy Hill about how mom's can find their passion in this life by finding their why.
No mom in the history of forever went into summer with the goal of loosing her sanity. Explain why then, so many come out the other end without any sanity left and both eyes twitching? We have 15 kids between the three of us and have usually all lost our sanity by the end as well. BUT! That doesn't stop us from earnestly believing that MAYBE this will be our year!😂 In this episode, we talk about what has helped in the past and what game plan we are each praying will work this summer! Enjoy!...
In this week's episode, the three of us talk about the biggest parenting struggle we are each experiencing. We were all SHOCKED that each of us chose the exact same thing! Tune in to find out what our biggest struggle is to date and some ideas that we have for helping it.
Has COVID upped the gaming time spent in your home? If so, you are in good company! Most parents in the world are fretting now that summer is beginning about how to wean kids off of screens and out the door. Jason and Lisa Frost, the creators of "Wired Humans" joined us this week to discuss 3 Tips To Conquer Gaming Addictions. It's an episode we loved and hope you will love as well!
Who's ready to travel?!? If you're like us, you're always trying to balance travel with kids. Most of the time, parents decide that traveling long distances from home and bringing children along are two things that DON'T belong together. Kaitlyn Jain is with us this week to show that kids and travel not only can belong together, but that they can be deeply enjoyable. Kaitlyn and her husband started traveling with their kids when their first was only a few months old and they haven't stopped sinc...
Summer is coming faster than we can believe, and with it comes more adventure and more risk of injury. We are all about having adventures with our kids and we believe that knowledge is power. The better we understand the risk, the better we can prevent serious injuries. Shannon Tripp talked with us in this episode about how to prevent the top 5 injuries that lead to kids ending up in the E.R. Shannon is full of enthusiasm for educating moms and giving them the power to know what to do in a scary...
Happy Mothers Day Mom Squad! As mom's, we decided that the best gift we could possibly give to moms around the world is laughter. This is a guilt free zone where all moms can relate and laugh at the hilarity that is, so often, motherhood! Grab a snack and enjoy a good laugh! You deserve it!
Mom rage is something that many, if not most, moms deal with (to some degree) in their motherhood journey. One thing that I have found through interviewing so many parents is that everyone - without exception - has one emotion or another that they wish they could contain better. That emotion may be frustration, sadness, anxiety, rage, or any number of feelings. Natalie Hixson, a mom who knows what its like to deal with mom rage, is with us this week teaching us how to properly deal with negative...
One of the topics we are asked to talk about the most is what to do when parents disagree with each other on how to parent. Kimball Lewis, CEO of Empowering Parents is with us this week talking about how parents (married or divorced) can find common ground when there seems to be none. He teaches some incredible lessons on how to find your way forward and co-parent kids -- even when those kids are going through tough times.
Trey and Lea Morgan have been married for 33 years. They run the Instagram site @Stronger_Marriages and travel the country strengthening families one couple at a time. Today they are talking with us about 6 underrated tips for strengthening and sustaining a happy marriage. Listen in for fantastic ideas that are doable, down to earth, and proven to strengthen relationships!
