We are Wendy-less this week, so thank goodness for our awesome guest host, Corinne!  We deep dive into the challenges and many, many opportunities for failure for liberal parents during a Trump presidency.  Corinne recommends signing up for https://dailyaction.org for anyone who wants a bite-sized opportunity for daily advocacy!

Have a thought or opinion to share?  Tweet us @dontshakepod, or email us at [email protected].  We'd love to hear from you!

Our last episode before Wendy heads off for a month and we welcome some guest hosts!  We read 15 'Harmless' Comments People Heard Growing Up That Affect Their Body Image Now (nice succinct title, link below), and talk about how attitudes towards food, body image, and appearance work themselvess out in families.  Plus, a healthy dose of us hating on childrens' sports fanatics!

Have something to share?  Tweet us @dontshakepod or email us at [email protected].

https://themighty.com/2018/04/how-parents-comments-affect-child-body-image/

This week started out about screentime and got political *really* fast.  Meli & Wendy discussed The Dangers of Distracted Parenting by Emily Christakis (link below), which proved to be too fluffy to prevent a deep dive into current events.  Take the ride with us, won't you?

Have a thought or opinion?  Reach out to us on email at [email protected] or on twitter @dontshakepod.  We'd love to hear what you think!

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/the-dangers-of-distracted-parenting/561752/

Are you ready to get resilient?  Meli & Wendy read 'To Raise Resilient Kids, Be a Resilient Parent' this week (link below), which ended up being a lot more about emotional regulation than resilience.  We also manage to dive deep into Spock's summer struggles, Rex's upskirt adventures, and whether Meli has read Hillbilly Elegy yet, as promised.  (Spoiler: No.)  Join us for the ride1!

We also forgot to plug our social media this week, but please reach out to @dontshakepod on twitter, or email us at [email protected] with your reactions, stories, corrections, or general commentary.  We'd love to hear from you!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/well/family/to-raise-resilient-kids-be-a-resilient-parent.html

Clouds be damned, we recorded Episode 5!  Please join Meli & Wendy as we dive deep into Tara Westover's memoir, Educated. (Amazon link below.)  If you're a fan of head injuries, gaslighting, and essential oils, this might be the story for you.  It definitely is an exploration of a toxic family, which makes it a story for us!

Do you have a story to share, a book to suggest, or an article you think we should discuss?  Tell us!  Email us at [email protected] or on twitter @dontshakepod.  We'd love to hear from you!

https://www.amazon.com/Educated-Memoir-Tara-Westover/dp/0399590501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528766395&sr=8-1&keywords=educated+a+memoir

Welcome back for Episode 4, where Meli & Wendy are challenged with recording a podcast while distracted by Kirk & Spock & kittens.  In this episode we belatedly discuss a Mother's Day letter about toxic moms.  We also dive deep into the Hidden Brain episode on the Gardener and the Carpenter (link below), and how often parenting seems to be a choice between different definitions of success.  

Please get in touch!  Write in with stories, reactions, ideas to [email protected], or tweet us @dontshakepod.

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/614054515/the-carpenter-vs-the-gardener-two-models-of-modern-parenting

Welcome back for Episode 3!  This week we dive deep into the struggle to make choices that will impact our kids long term.  We also talk about the article Making Motherhood Work for Me (link below), which addresses myths about motherhood as drudgery, as well as the way that white motherhood has been presented as a state of fragility in popular media while black motherhood is absent.  To lighten the mood, we also get into the terrible movies Wendy's mom showed her as a kid, and how Spock's new school has a million dollar mountain view! Join us, won't you?

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/opinion/making-motherhood-work-for-me.html

Hello again, fellow parenting failures!  On this week's episode Meli & Wendy discuss the article Secrets of a Maya Supermom (link below), and how the history of parenting 'science' mostly reflects the values of the age rather than actual evidenced-based research.  We also discuss Meli's failure at policing Kirk's oral hygiene, Wendy's sailing adventure, and the problems raised by parenting a kid with food allergies. Enjoy!

Do you have your own parenting failure stories to share? Email them to us at [email protected], or tweet us @dontshakepod.  We'd love to hear from you!

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/11/603315432/the-best-mothers-day-gift-get-mom-out-of-the-box

In this episode Meli & Wendy talk about the three major categories of parenting failure: True failures, perceived failures, and existential failures.  We also talk about happy cows, YMCA towels, and Meli's boobs.  Lots of ground to cover, so join us on the journey!