Listener Questions (Vol. 30): Episode 303

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

A mom of two littles is overwhelmed and yelling more than she wants to be; young adults at a family gathering forget that little ears are listening. Helping kids become more independent in the kitchen doesn’t always go smoothly; a preschool perfectionist is a head-scratcher for mom; and a mom of all boys wonders if they’ll all grow up and live far from home one day. Today’s episode takes on these questions from our listener community, and Meagan and Sarah offer a mix of validation, encouragement, and advice. Join us!

LINKS MENTIONED:

We mentioned this NYTimes article on parenting perfectionist kids
Sarah also loves Meghan Leahy’s parenting advice, and found this post on perfectionist “quitters” and another article from The Washington Post
Check out our other Listener Questions episodes
You can access all of our episodes in our archives
Email us or send a voicemail with a question for future Listener Questions episodes.

Transcript

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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
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 303 of The
0:26.2	Mom Hour. I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah
0:31.3	how are you? I'm really good. We are taking listener questions today. One of our
0:36.2	favorite things to do so I'm excited about this. Yes we love doing these
0:40.6	episodes and we usually do two one after the other and people send us questions
0:46.1	about like all kinds of things and I'm really excited about this one because
0:50.0	we got some really different questions and we're always happy to answer you
0:54.2	know. We know there's certain questions that plague moms. From the beginning of
0:59.7	time and will to the end of time and we're always happy to revisit those but I
1:02.9	felt like we got an interesting mix this time around of some that we really
1:07.7	haven't heard before. I agree it was a nice smattering and if you check the
1:13.8	show notes we will link to our entire archive of listener questions. We also have
1:17.6	a Spotify playlist of all of our listener questions episodes. If you're a
1:21.5	brand new listener it's a fun way to get to know us in our conversation style
1:26.3	and some of like the quirks of our own parenting experience because by you all
1:31.0	bringing your questions to us we end up talking about a lot of topics within a
1:34.7	relatively shorter period of time. So yeah you're right Megan we're gonna do
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