Separation Without (Quite So Much) Anxiety: Episode 382
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Separation anxiety – but make it for moms! Today we’re talking about the feelings and experiences that come up when we’re separated from our children, whether it’s for a couple of hours or many days. Meagan and Sarah look back on what separation felt like as new moms, how the tears at preschool drop-off years are sort of the worst, and why we both can go into “out of sight, out of mind” compartmentalization pretty easily when we’re not with our kids. We also discuss how much information we like to have about what our kids are up to when they’re away from us, and whether it helps or hurts to get a peek into their lives away from us. Whether you’re getting ready for your first caregiver handoff or sending an adult off to college, this episode is for you!
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- Meagan mentioned the recent episode of Lessons In Motherhood From Chickens & Kittens: Episode 379–If you didn’t listen yet, it’s a very entertaining one!
- New on the blog–Our contributor Stacy Bronec shares how to decide what to keep or to toss when all the papers start coming home from school.
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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 382 of the mom |
| 0:26.7 | hour. I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis. Hey, Megan. Hey, Sarah. |
| 0:31.9 | So today we're talking about separation anxiety, which is very timely if |
| 0:37.7 | you're listening to this when it comes out in the fall. I feel like we've |
| 0:41.2 | been seeing the chatter in our listener community of dropping kids off at |
| 0:45.8 | preschool and kindergarten and I don't know, fourth grade and having all the |
| 0:50.2 | feelings that the new school year brings up. But we are gonna take a little bit |
| 0:54.9 | of a different angle. I guess as we like to do when we look at a topic and I |
| 0:59.2 | think we're going to mostly focus around the motherhood experience of being |
| 1:03.6 | separated from our kids today all the way from little babies up through you, |
| 1:08.2 | Megan, who said goodbye to one of your launched adults like a week ago. So I |
| 1:14.5 | think that's a running through line of this show is coming back to that motherhood |
| 1:18.8 | experience. Not that it's not that we can't offer some takeaways about helping |
| 1:23.5 | the kids cope, but like what about us, you know? Right. It's like separation |
| 1:27.8 | anxiety for moms. And it's, it's just as real, but sometimes what I think is |
| 1:33.1 | interesting is that when we feel it hardest, it's not when they're feeling |
| 1:36.4 | at the hardest and when they're feeling at the hardest, we're just like super |
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