Listener Questions (Vol. 28): Episode 288
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
When friendships are strained by politics and the pandemic, how can a lonely mom re-envision her social life? What ideas do we have for family bonding as kids get older? Can Meagan distill her best parenting advice into five minutes or less? And finally, the sibling bickering is non-stop–what’s a mom to do? Join us for Episode 288 of The Mom Hour where we take YOUR listener questions and offer our best solicited advice. Enjoy!
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- If you want to hear more on the topic of friendships, listen to Female Friendships & Women We Admire(Episode 227 from September 2019), The Myth of the Mom Tribe (Episode 144 from February 2018), and Keeping Friendships Alive (Episode 78 from November 2016).
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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 | Hey everyone and welcome to episode 288 of the Mom Hour. |
| 0:27.0 | I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey Megan. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey Sarah, how you doing? |
| 0:32.0 | I'm great. We are taking your listener questions today everyone. It's |
| 0:36.9 | something we love to do. I just checked and this is now our 28th listener questions episode. |
| 0:43.7 | Wow. |
| 0:44.7 | Wow. Yeah. |
| 0:46.7 | Imagine that we've had enough actual advice to do all out to do 28 of these. |
| 0:50.9 | And probably we've covered almost everything. We do these every few months and we usually do them back to back. So this time you will get a listener questions episode today, which by the way is Thanksgiving week. So so curious what |
| 1:05.3 | everyone's doing today and this week. We usually would say something like, oh, we hope you're |
| 1:09.4 | listening while making pies or on a road trip over the river and through the woods and I just I don't know what |
| 1:14.8 | everybody's doing this week but I hope everybody has found a way to celebrate. |
| 1:19.6 | Well you know it's funny on our Facebook community there was a little discussion about holiday |
| 1:27.1 | content and you know someone was saying they hoped that we would do a lot of holiday content |
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