Do you have children under the age of 18 in your home?  Do you also have parents over the age of 65?  If you answered yes to both questions, you are part of the ever-growing Sandwich Generation.  Welcome to the club.

In this episode of the podcast, Beth and her guest Dr. MaryRuth Hackett break down the whole concept of the Sandwich Generation and flip the script on what it can and does mean in our lives.

Topics covered in today's episode include:

• the difference between our chronological generation and our experiential generation (GenX versus Sandwich Generation)
• how our relationships with our children can relate to those with our parents, but also how different they are by necessity
• steps we can take to diffuse the stressful conversations we have with our aging parents

Who is Dr. MaryRuth Hackett?
Dr. Hackett is a podcaster, blogger, aspiring writer, wife, and mother of four kids ages 9-17 living in Arizona.  She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and has a passion for helping others understand human development.  Her podcast, Parenting Smarts, is a production of the Diocese of Phoenix.  Both her podcast and her writings weave together practical family life, research on child development, and Catholic teaching with the goal of helping moms and dads embrace their vocations at home and excel at parenting.

Quick Links for this Episode:
Pew Research Center study on the Sandwich Generation
Follow MaryRuth on Instagram
Listen to Parenting Smarts podcast
Read MaryRuth's blog, Parenting with Peer Review

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit http://awelcomegrace.com or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com).