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Childproof
Being a parent is really freakin’ hard. Of course, it can also be incredibly rewarding and delightful. Either way, it consumes us. Childproof is a show about us, the parents, and how we can raise kids without losing track of ourselves in the process. Each episode host Yasmeen Khan, a journalist and...
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16 episodi
15: Growing Together in Grief
Melissa Gould lost her husband Joel nearly nine years ago when their daughter, Sophie, was 13 years old. The mother and daughter processed the loss in...
14: 'Auntie' Is A Verb
In this episode we celebrate the caregivers and chosen family members who bring so much into our lives. Yasmeen talks to sisters adrienne maree brown...
13: Hobbies and Hiding in the Bathroom: How Parents Spend Their Free Time
When the kids are away, how do parents play? Sure, we all have interests we can tick off and activities we like doing as grown-ups. But when that rare...
12: A Listener Asks: I’ve Changed As a Parent. What Do I Do About the Past?
Erin is a mother of three teenagers. As her oldest prepares to leave home, she wonders how she can go about strengthening their strained relationship....
11: More Than A Feeling
Being a parent means dealing with a wild range of emotions all the time, both our own and those of our children. Sometimes we may feel rage, sometimes...
10: The Family Secret That Keeps Me Honest With My Children
Tom Sheppard didn’t grow up with his parents, but he spent his life trying to learn more about them. When Tom was just 3 years old, his father killed...
9: Will I Ever Sleep Again?
We know interrupted sleep comes with the job of raising kids, especially at the beginning. Night and day bleed into each other and, before long, we’re...
8: Learning How To Be A Working Parent – And Not Just A Parent, Who Also Works
Having a job and having a child isn’t just a balancing act of two different roles. It’s a whole new identity to figure out — you are a working parent....
7: ‘Welcome To Eighth Grade, People’
When you think back to your own middle school experience: do you cringe? In her latest creative project, author and podcaster Hillary Frank goes deep...
6: A Lesson In Not Overthinking It
Aubrey, a mother of three children with cognitive differences, has a habit of lying in bed at night and ruminating over the mistakes she feels that sh...
5: The Case For Parenting In Community
When was the last time you asked for help, or accepted it when offered? As parents it's easy to feel like we're all furiously rowing in our own boats,...
4: I'm Giving My Kids The Childhood I Wanted. But I Struggle To Relate To It
"I look at them and they're in a different world. I don't know how to describe it other than, 'I don't know what this is, and I don't know what comes...
3: Are You Okay?
Parents are holding things together at the seams. In our second pandemic winter, parents and caregivers are working in overdrive to deal with positive...
2: Yasmeen's Bedtime Problem
Exhausted? Snippy? Yelling? Yasmeen’s in the same boat. Today, she gets personal on when and how she loses her cool with her daughters and the way she...
1: Parenting Changes Us, Whether We Like It or Not
We're diving into one enormous question: how have you changed since becoming a parent? Maybe you've changed in ways you're not comfortable with, or ma...
Welcome to Childproof
Being a parent is really freakin’ hard. Of course, it can also be incredibly rewarding and delightful. Either way, it consumes us. Childproof is a sho...