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Can I Drop the Good Mom Myth? With Alli Worthington [Episode 288]

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GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Remaining You While Raising Them by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

Raising kids who are spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy is what every parent wants, right? But when everyone else seems to be doing it better than we are, it leaves us full of doubt and worry: “Am I doing it right?” “Is what I’ve done enough?” “Is it my fault they’re struggling?”

In comes the mom guilt, mom shame, and mom burnout, which can show up whether you’re surrounded by toddlers or teens, or are many years into sitting on an empty nest.

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Can I Navigate the Path of Parenting Adult Kids? with Mary DeMuth [Episode 230]

Navigate Path Parenting Adult Kids Wayward Child Mary DeMuth

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Love, Pray, Listen by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

As a parent, our role changes after our kids grow up. But, we’re not always ready for this change. Especially if our kids choose different—even seemingly wrong—paths.

So today, mom and author Mary DeMuth helps us navigate the rocky terrain of parenting adult kids.

And if you’re one of many parents in a painful season of trying to reach your wayward child, Mary shares how you can navigate your heartache, develop new rhythms to reconnect with your adult kid, and place your trust in the Lord for your child’s future.

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Can I Live a Full Life With an Empty Nest? With Jill Savage [Episode 168]

Live Full Life Empty Nest Jill Savage

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Empty Nest, Full Life by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

There’s just something about an empty nest. Sometimes you can’t decide whether you feel grief or delight. You’re caught between wanting to hold on to the past and letting go to grab your new freedom.

Empty nesting can be a disorienting time, but it can also become the very best season of your life … if you’ll let it.

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Can I Stop Being a Control Freak Mom? With Crystal Paine [Episode 150]

Stop Being a Control Freak Mom

GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Love-Centered Parenting by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!

Let’s face it, there’s so much we can’t control when it comes to parenting, right? And yet, lots of us try to control so much of our kids’ lives—what they do, who they become, and the choices they make. But when the challenges of parenting become too difficult, we’re clueless of what to do because there’s no manual to follow.

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Three Questions Every Mom Needs to Ask Herself

Motherhood comes with lots of stuff — joy, laughter and stress! And, motherhood comes with one thing every mom gets and no mom wants… guilt!

One thing it does not come with is a rewind button! We can’t rewind and redo what we regret. But, that’s okay, sister.

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We can do something to prevent some of the regret.

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Hope for the Not So Strong-Willed Mom

I answered the phone one Friday in May, just six days before school was out, and heard my tenth grade son’s history teacher say,

“Mrs.  Rothschild.” (It’s never a good sign when a phone call begins with Mrs.) “Your son, Clayton, has a 69 in my class. He’s so bright and I know he can do better… I thought you could encourage him.”

Oh, yes. I was ready to “encourage” him!

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I was upset, panicked, and feeling guilty that I hadn’t been more alert. I was a mixed up mess of emotions.