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From Blockbusters to Blanket Forts: Patricia Heaton on Parenting, Faith, and Comedy [Ep 521]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Parenting, Leisure, Education

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Today Emmy-winning actor Patricia Heaton joins us for a candid conversation on motherhood, career, and raising four boys. We talk about the pressure parents feel to over-schedule kids, the beauty of simplicity (just give them a cardboard box!), and how God ordered her journey through motherhood and acting. 

She and her husband, David Hunt, are in the business of producing movies and directed Unexpected, a film about the emotional ups and downs of infertility. Patricia believes that the best way into tough subjects is through comedy and this movie does just that. Stick around till the end where she shares her advice for helping four boys flourish -including her list of things to do as a family.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.3

I'm your host, Heather McFadion, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

0:13.9

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:18.6

And in this episode number 521, I'm welcoming to the show, Patricia Heaton.

0:25.9

So on Everybody Loves Raymond, the first season, I had a three-year-old, a one-year-old,

0:30.4

and I was pregnant with third, which is a crazy way to start a show.

0:34.3

Oh, my gosh.

0:35.7

And the three-year-old, during the run of the first season,

0:39.2

of course, we put them in a gymnastics class because we bought into that thing where you're

0:42.7

supposed to sign your kids up for everything from the minute they're born. So wait, wait,

0:46.6

for the mom who's in that season right now, what advice would you give her? Sign up for the thing

0:52.4

or not? No, give your kid a cardboard box to play. That's all they'd need. And also just let them do stuff

0:58.7

with you. It takes a little bit longer for them to help you. But I wish we had taught our kids

1:05.9

to do more practical stuff around how. Happy Mother's Day, y'all. I hope that you have been able to

1:13.5

clearly communicate to your people what feels like celebrating for this upcoming Mother's Day.

1:18.6

And I also have been praying specifically. I know that these holidays can be hard for some people.

1:24.7

And so I pray that God will uniquely comfort you where you need to be

1:28.6

comforted when it comes to this upcoming Mother's Day. Now, today's guest is Emmy Award

1:35.0

winning actor Patricia Heaton. Now, if you don't recognize her name, you're not one of those

1:41.2

people who knows actors' names. Maybe you know her other mom names.

1:46.5

Deborah Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond or Frankie Heck from the middle. So fantastic. So great.

1:54.2

And she and her husband, David Hunt, are also parents to four grown boys. You know that I love that

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