Big ups to our episode sponsor, Charles River Aquatics. Charles River Aquatics is New England’s premier place for swim lessons, offering lessons for infants, children, teens, and adults, as well as a USA Swimming affiliated club team & Masters … [Read more]
Before you can improve yourself, you must know and accept yourself. But how? According to Gretchen Rubin (author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before, and co-host of the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin) the key lies in knowing … [Read more]
The last few weeks in our country have been remarkably painful. Hurricanes, floods, fires, shootings, untimely deaths, warmongering, political chaos…it’s enough to make us want to hide in the closet and never come out. And yet, there’s still work to … [Read more]
We upgrade tools and gadgets to improve or simplify our lives. But in an eye-opening New York Times piece, editor Pamela Paul pointed out that constant novelty and “feature clutter” can actually increase overwhelm. She went on to talk about how her … [Read more]
The challenge of parenting siblings takes many of us by surprise. There’s no such thing as “normal” when it comes to how siblings relate to each other, or how the family system changes when more personalities come into the mix. And then there’s the … [Read more]
This episode is sponsored by Circle Round, WBUR iLab’s new storytelling podcast for kids and the grown-ups they love. Hop on over and subscribe and download. Ours is the first generation of parents to raise “digitally native” kids who’ve grown up … [Read more]
Intellectually, we know that kids learn from challenges, and they grow stronger and have more self-confidence when they learn to navigate those challenges. But when you’re actually going through it it’s hard, as a parent, to watch your kid struggle. … [Read more]
The news has been relentlessly rough. And when things get stressful, diving into media and entertainment can serve as a form of self-care and also remind us that there are good, productive, kind, interesting people pumping creative work into the … [Read more]
The violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA, followed by the troubling equivocal response from the White House, has trained a spotlight on hate groups and racism in America, both past- and present-day. In Episode 91, Christine and Asha … [Read more]
Can you feel it? That feeling that summer’s ending and it’s almost time to return to back-to-school efficiency? Some families embrace the return to the Fall routine and some resist it, but either way it takes work and there are simple ways to make it … [Read more]