Our Favorite Fictional Moms: Episode 118
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
From Ma Ingalls to Claire Huxtable, Mrs. Pteranodon to Marmee March, we’re discussing our favorite moms from books, TV and movies this week on the podcast. We hope after listening you’ll be as nostalgic for classic literature as we are (and maybe that you’ll also want to binge-watch Arrested Development). Enjoy!
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Blueberries For Sal (Robert McCloskey)
- No, David! (David Shannon)
- Make Way For Ducklings (Robert McCloskey)
- Little Golden Book: Mommy Stories (Jean Cushman, Margo Lundell, Eloise Wilkin, Paul Meisel)
- Nurse Nancy (Kathryn Jackson)
- These Happy Golden Years (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
- Harry Potter series (J. K. Rowling)
- Ramona Quimby series (Bevery Clearly)
- Trixie Belden series (Julie Campbell Tatham)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
- Little Women (1994 film version)
- Little Women (book)
- Almost Famous (movie)
- A Christmas Story (movie)
- A Wrinkle In Time (Madeline L’Engle)
- Beethoven (movie)
- Ivy & Bean series (Annie Barrows)
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| 1:08.6 | Hi, I'm Megan, and I'm Sarah. |
| 1:11.8 | We're two moms with eight kids between us from preschool to teen. |
| 1:15.5 | This is the show where we help you feel better about the mom you are and share our own parenting |
| 1:19.6 | tips and personal stories. |
| 1:21.4 | We're not experts. |
| 1:22.4 | We're parents who've been there. We're not experts. We're parents who've been there. |
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