Planes, trains and automobiles! Megan is going all over the place this summer and talks through the mental gymnastics of preparing to travel with a baby. What do you take? Will they sleep? It’s gonna be an adventure. And we announce a break! Hey Mama I have questions is going Read more…
It’s hard to have hard conversations. In this episode, we talk about how it’s still hard to navigate relationships with your children’s grandparents even when they’re wonderful! How do we set boundaries and strike a balance? How do we stand up for ourselves and our child without pushing away the Read more…
We talk about how toxic masculinity is more than a buzz word today – it’s emotional. We wade through the small and pervasive pieces of socialization that create a value filter through which we see even tiny adorable babies, and how we try as parents and just generally to work Read more…
We needed a minute to process last week’s conversation on emotion coaching this week (if you haven’t listened – do it! It’s an awesome conversation with an ECE veteran!) We talk about how we use it with children and with adults – even ourselves, and talk about respecting our own Read more…
Beth Frook joins us this week! She is an early childhood educator, teacher trainer, and parent coach. (And by an amazing stroke of luck, also Megan’s mom!) She shares beautiful insights into emotion coaching and drops some serious knowledge and resources for parenting in all of our ears. We get Read more…
Megan and Hanna talk “reduce, reuse, recycle” around babies and how we attempt to navigate the mental load of parenting sustainably, and feeling like we’re not doing enough. It can be such an overwhelming topic, but it’s one we both find important, and sometimes even fun! You can listen to Read more…
Hanna and Megan are back together! They talk navigating the beautiful world of balancing work and babies, and sharing the mental load of raising a child with a partner. They explore the gendered expectations around the emotional labor of parenting and how we sometimes just have to let go and Read more…
There is just so much ground to cover before you add a human to your household! Hanna and Megan react to Melissa Medjuck’s list of conversations to have before having a baby. They talk about expressing your needs around shared responsibilities, finances, sex, (so you know, nothing too serious.. woof) Read more…