On today’s episode we talk about the upcoming birthday of our oldest child, an discuss having to have the sex talk with our 11 year old and 8 year old daughters, and how it went. We talk about getting advice from friends through social media, and subscribing to parenting podcasts.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• Parents of a 15 year old who is getting a learners permit. (0:45)
• Why we needed to have a sex talk with some of our kids. (5:10)
• Getting advice from people on Instagram. (6:50)
• Ivy was nervous about having this talk, Echo was not at all. (7:50)
• Echo has ADD and couldn’t keep on topic, but understood it all. (8:30)
• Being honest and opening the door for future conversations with our kids. (10:30)
• Rochelle felt really good about previous sex talks with Dexter. (11:35)
• Neither Scott or Rochelle had the sex talk with our own parents. (12:30)
• Echo’s brain moves faster than everybody else. (17:00)
• The sex talk will never be easy. (19:15)
• Things we’re thankful for: weekends, having a nice teenager. (20:00)
• Thanks for all the help from those who gave their advice and ideas! (23:45)

Today we discuss getting along with the in-laws and how despite a rough start, we get along with all in-laws pretty well. We tell a few stories, and share a few feelings, and hopefully that will help other people who may not be in the best situation when it comes to their own in-laws.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• Better off the cuff. (0:45)
• Having a better week. (1:00)
• Ivy’s Stranger Things birthday. (2:00)
• Better weather for putting up Christmas lights. (4:30)
• Dealing with the in-laws. (5:30)
• Scott’s parents did not like Rochelle when we were dating. (6:30)
• Getting engaged and parents not being enthusiastic. (8:40)
• How can I introduce you to my friends? (9:45)
• Being a good mother wins over the mother-in-law. (11:30)
• Figuring out how to get along. (12:45)
• Scott getting along with Rochelle’s parents. (13:30)
• Things are going well now for the most part. (15:30)
• Things we’re thankful for so far in the month of November. (18:45)

On this episode we discuss why October was a rough month due to pneumonia and Ivy’s blood condition, and how we are trying to be grateful and enjoy the little things now that it’s November, the month of gratefulness.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• Having a rough month. (0:45)
• Dexter has pneumonia. (1:30)
• Allergic reaction to Amoxicillin and a miserable Halloween. (3:30)
• Still not getting better after a long time. (5:30)
• Parenting blows! (7:30)
• Texas Roadhouse for birthday dinner. (8:15)
• The last time Scott will ever make a Halloween costume. (10:00) 
• Can’t catch a break. (16:30)
• Finding things to be thankful for. (19:00)
• Getting our pet bunny neutered. (21:45)
• Celebrity couple of the week. (25:30)

On this episode we discuss both the health and relationship benefits of an active sex life. Such benefits include the more you have sex, the more you’ll want it, how sex counts as exercise, why having sex helps you bond with your partner and so much more. Don’t forget to subscribe so you’ll know about all our future episodes, and for all things Get A Room, visit our website at getaroompodcast.com.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• Having sex on the table? (0:50)
• Benefits of sex. (2:15)
• Listing the health benefits of sex. (2:45)
• Why having more sex makes you want even more sex. (3:30)
• How sex (not masturbation) lowers systolic blood pressure. (5:40)
• Sex counts as exercise. (6:45)
• 21 ejaculations per month reduces the risk of prostate cancer. (8:30)
• Have more sex, be healthier. (10:10)
• Sex conversations are awkward, but you need to have them anyway. (10:45)
• Relationship benefits of sex. (13:45)
• Celebrating 20 years together. (16:00)
• Sex is an important part of marriage. (17:15)
• Celebrity Couple of the Week. (19:20)
• Check out our website, getaroompodcast.com or send us an email at [email protected] (23:40)

On today’s episode we go over Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, a condition that our 10 year old daughter was diagnosed with before birth. We discuss how we have managed to get through the tough situation of having a child with severe medical needs, and continued to have a happy, healthy marriage.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• Scott’s work trip. (0:30)
• Our daughter Ivy’s newest diagnosis. (1:45)
• Ivy’s medical issues amping up in the last year. (4:45)
• Why having a child with a medical condition is stressful on a marriage. (5:20)
• Ivy’s story of how she was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). (6:30)
• How we dealt with the news of her heart condition. (8:15)
• Ivy’s birth and immediately afterwards including her first open heart surgery. (9:30)
• Emergency heart surgery. (11:45)
• Slow progress of recovery, and other diagnoses. (13:10)
• Recovery at home after 2 heart surgeries and one intestinal surgery. (15:15)
• More heart surgeries and continuing to have children. (17:15)
• Ivy’s amazingness and why she is the best. (17:55)
• Fear of needles with Ivy and Scott. (20:30)
• Never having to raise our voice with this perfect child. (22:30)
• "Fun" facts of HLHS. How rare it is, why it occurs, treatment, continued risks, etc. (23:40)
• Rochelle being featured on another podcast (Heart 2 Heart with Anna, Episode - Congenital heart awareness at Podcast Movement 2019) to give a short synopsis of Ivy’s story. (28:00)
• More on how we got through and continue to get through everything. (30:30)

On this episode we discuss getting family pictures earlier in the week and how it differed from getting them earlier in our marriage, as well as our childhoods. We also discussed taking childhood trauma and turning it into something positive as we parent our own kids, and how we can take the parts of our childhood we enjoyed and bring them into our kids lives, without bringing in the negative aspects.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• Family pictures week. (0:50)
• Our experience with Kiddie Kandids. (1:50)
• Everybody has cameras now. (3:50)
• Desert Sky Photography awesomeness. (4:50)
• How our family pictures went when we were kids. (6:50)
• Dexter’s huge bruise in every picture. (8:55)
• Dinner without the kids. First high school band concert. (9:40)
• How childhood effects parenthood. (11:30)
• Feeling forgotten in childhood. (12:10)
• Raising our kids to make sure they know that they are important to me. (14:10)
• Throwing out the bad, and keeping the good from our childhoods. (15:00)
• Forcing the kids to have a good childhood. (16:35)
• Trying not to stifle the uniqueness of each child, or force them to be something they’re not. (17:30)
• Scott wishing his childhood was harder so he could write better music. (19:48) 
• Similarities and differences in our childhoods. (20:25)
• Annoying our own parents with decisions that are different than what they would have decided. (22:00)
• Everyone is different and needs to be allowed to be themselves. We need to embrace our differences. (23:54)
• Do better than the previous generation. (25:50)
• Celebrity couple of the week. (28:15)

On today’s episode we are talking about body positivity and how Scott supports Rochelle in her journey to love herself despite her weight, and what Rochelle does to feel better about herself in a society that shames fat people.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• Recap of our week including a trip to Rita’s Italian Ice. (0:40)
• Body positivity within marriage. (2:25)
• Getting past society’s view of fat people. (3:20)
• Medical professionals not taking fat people seriously. (4:40)
• Teaching our children to love themselves no matter what, and not speaking negatively about ourselves or others in front of them. (5:30)
• Fake it until you make it, and having confidence despite size. (8:25)
• Finding the positive. Stop looking for the parts of yourself you don’t like, and instead find things you like about yourself. (9:45)
• Getting tattoos in an area that I disliked to bring confidence. (11:40)
• Celebrity couple of the week. (13:30)

After listening to other marriage podcasts we discovered that there aren’t many out there that aren’t based on faith. In this episode we establish ourselves as a non-faith based podcast because of the simple fact that we have had a successful marriage, even though we were originally members of the LDS (Mormon) church but decided to leave as a family 5 years ago.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• Halloween decorating. (0:53)
• Scary movies. (2:15)
• Parent Teacher conferences (2:55)
• Other marriage podcasts with faith based elements. (3:55)
• Our upbringing in the Mormon church, and not having a faith based marriage. (4:45)
• Leaving the Mormon church, but being able to maintain a stable marriage when other people don’t. (6:45)
• Why our podcast like our marriage is not faith based. (7:55)
• Celebrity couple of the week. (10:42
• Our daughter discovering that baby actors exist.(12:30)
• Our family’s favorite episode of the Office. (14:00)

Hobbies are pretty much what make life worth living. But do you and your spouse have to have the same hobbies all the time? We don’t think so. As long as you are supportive of each other it doesn’t matter what your hobbies, they should never cause a rift within your marriage.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• (0:25) New artwork and website.
• (0:58) Wasting time while our kid plays trombone at a football game.
• (1:55) New pet bunnies taking over our lives.
• (4:27) Our baby’s 7th birthday.
• (8:30) Talking about hobbies and being supportive even when interests are not the same.
• (11:10) Celebrity couple of the week.

On this episode we discuss going to a concert and leaving the kids at home without a babysitter for the first time. We also discuss what it's like to attend crowded events while having social anxiety.