Your Hardest Parenting Questions, Answered
After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings
Dear Media and Big Little Feelings
4.5 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Why does your toddler laugh when you’re disciplining them? What do you do when potty training completely falls apart? And how do you parent the kid who feels EVERYTHING bigger, louder, harder, and more intensely than everyone else? In this Q&A episode, we’re answering the parenting questions we hear constantly — the ones that leave even loving, thoughtful parents feeling overwhelmed, confused, triggered, and exhausted.
We cover:
- Potty training setbacks and resets
- Toddlers laughing during discipline
- Power struggles and boundary-setting
- “Big Feeler” highly sensitive kids and emotional intensity
- Sensory sensitivities and nervous system overwhelm
- Why some kids melt down over seemingly “small” things
- How to respond without escalating behavior
- The parenting sweet spot between permissive and punitive
Plus:
Kristin accidentally becomes an 8-year-old softball all-star coach, Deena gets emotionally taken out by standing in the wind for an hour, and both of us realize we may be the most millennial people alive. Basically: chaos, neuroscience, nervous systems, and parenting truths that will make you feel way less alone, and answer all of your parenting questions you need help with NOW.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome back to After Bedtime and tonight we are covering your questions that you sent in. |
| 0:12.4 | Parenting experiences and tough-ass situations that we all find ourselves in that will either make you feel deeply, deeply seen or personally attacked. |
| 0:21.8 | Maybe a little bit of both. |
| 0:27.2 | We're going to cover potty training. We are going to cover boundaries and discipline and toddlers laughing in your face when you say no to them. And then we're going to cover really, really tough kids, |
| 0:32.2 | those highly sensitive, dramatic, explosive kids that some of us have. Plus some hilarious |
| 0:36.6 | personal questions that you sent in that honestly have us have. Plus some hilarious personal questions that you |
| 0:37.9 | sent in that honestly have us feeling personally attacked in the best way. So yeah, if you've ever |
| 0:44.1 | questioned your whole life as a parent before 9 a.m., you're in the right place, friends. Let's |
| 0:48.7 | get into it. Welcome to after bedtime, where the house is finally quiet, but the real noise begins. |
| 0:56.3 | The thoughts, the questions, the wondering if you're doing any of this right. |
| 1:00.4 | We're Kristen and Dina, child behavior experts, moms, and co-founders of big little feelings. |
| 1:06.2 | And we're not here to give you more pressure or perfect parenting energy. |
| 1:09.8 | Nope. |
| 1:10.3 | We're here to tell the truth, |
| 1:12.1 | the unfiltered, beautiful, brutal truth about what it means to raise kids and re-raise ourselves |
| 1:18.1 | in the process. Because parenting isn't just about sleep schedules and snack hacks. It's about |
| 1:23.0 | healing. It's about breaking cycles. It's about becoming the kind of adult you want your kids to grow up to be. |
| 1:29.3 | This is the place where we say the quiet parts out loud, and we're so glad that you're here. |
| 1:35.1 | Dina, hello. Hi. Hi. Hey. Oh, did you drop something? I just dropped my phone. Sorry. Oh, grab it. |
| 1:42.8 | That's okay. The recorder's also balancing on my knee. I should move, grab it. Grab it. That's okay. The recorder's also |
| 1:44.9 | balancing on my knee. I should move that as well. That's about to drop next. I, the thing is, |
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