How COVID Complicates Parenting, Stage By Stage (Part 1: Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers): Episode 282
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Separation anxiety. Potty training. Speech and language development. Socialization. These cornerstones of child development and the parenting experience can bring up questions or create bumps in the road in normal times–but we are not living in normal times, friends. We’re living in COVID times. In Episode 282 of The Mom Hour, Meagan and Sarah look at the really specific (and sometimes heartbreaking) ways that the last eight months have complicated the motherhood experience for parents of infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Join us!
Note: Part 2 in this series continues the conversation with big kids, tweens and teens, and young adults. Listen to Episode 283 here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to |
| 0:05.7 | grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that |
| 0:10.5 | motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement. |
| 0:14.0 | And remind you that it's really all going to be okay. |
| 0:16.4 | We're not experts. We're parents who've been there. |
| 0:18.6 | We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to the mom hour. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi everyone and welcome to episode two. Welcome to the Mom Hour. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to episode 2 82 of the Mom Hour. I am Megan Francis here as always with Sarah Powers. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey Sarah. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, Megan. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm loving the fact that we're finally going to tackle this topic and that is |
| 0:35.5 | COVID am I right it's not like we haven't talked about it we have kind of a lot but |
| 0:40.5 | what we haven't really dug into just yet is like how COVID is specifically affecting parenting and child development and I think I think probably the reason at the beginning we didn't do that because we, oh, this is going to be all over in like three months. |
| 0:54.3 | And then that didn't happen. |
| 0:55.7 | And also, we just didn't know. |
| 0:57.2 | Like, we didn't know how it was going to affect us all over the long term |
| 1:01.3 | and the short term. |
| 1:02.3 | And now we're starting to see and I think I don't know the |
| 1:05.3 | reason this topic came to our minds is that we were noticing in our Facebook group |
| 1:08.8 | and the emails we were getting from listeners, just some common themes. |
| 1:13.2 | People talking about their preschoolers, |
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