Aug 5, 2016
Hey, you spend enough time listening to the radio in cars with kids, you get to drop Twenty One Pilots references. With that refrain ringing in our heads, we chat about stress monsters and generational social-media divides and traveling with kids, as well as share some cool stuff we've seen and done this week. Here's your road map:
7:01 Raging Stress-Monsters — Who's stressed among us? Who isn't? With back-to-school, insurance paperwork, book edits, joblessness, and general excessive summertime togetherness plaguing us, we're all in need of a little serenity. What works? We're still looking.
24:05 Friday Speed Round: Social Media Self-Esteem — We all know it's good to feel good about yourself, but is liking your posts on social media an acceptable thing or an embarrassing faux pas? Turns out, we're on the wrong side of the generational divide on that one.
30:12 Parenting Roundabout Roundup — On our weekly gathering of things we've seen and appreciated this week, Catherine recommends an Alpha Mom article by Mir Kamin on other kids sucking the joy out of beloved activities; Nicole plugs her webinar on inclusive education for the first of two times on this episode; and Terri likes a backpack luggage-tag checklist that our absent member, Amanda Morin, wrote about on Understood.org.
32:45 Interview of the Week — Catherine's monthly chat with pediatric OT Meghan Corridan offers some fun ideas on getting a young child through a European vacation. Speaking of stressful situations. (See the adorable photo of Meghan's daughter mentioned in this segment here.)
46:58 Shameless Self-Promotion — Catherine shares an article on how to be a good sports parent; Terri is taking parenting advice from Parks and Recreation again; and, hey, have you heard Nicole's doing a webinar?
Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.