Modern Mixtape: Navigating Parenthood

We all have our favorite holiday traditions and memories many of those are from around the table. Walk through a few of ours as we wrap up season 1.

Sometimes you have to go outward to look in ward. In this special episode with our son Jimmy, we talk high school struggles, screen addiction, and the tough family decision that lead us to Outward Bound. Jimmy is honest about his journey. Join us for the first of two episodes.

Schools out for summer...this means summertime memories or terror as a parent because you have to figure out what the heck to do with your kids. Especially if you are a working parent. Join us as we talk summertime fun.

SOS means different things to different people, but to parents it means help, come quick or help. But to parents born in the 1970s it also brings back memories of a childhood classic- shit on a shingle. You know this dish- I will just say cream of mushroom soup to get the memory started.

On this episode of modern mixtape, join us as we revisit some of our favorite childhood meals and some of the classics that have now made it to our dinner table

You can hear the theme music in the background...it sounds like the circus is coming to town, you can't turn it off, you can't get off. It's the parenting hamster wheel. We all want to jump off,  it how do we do that, what are the right approaches to getting kids to take ownership, laughing at our selves and how to hang tough when you are still on the wheel.

At what point do you tell your children that going to the supermarket on Sundays at 1:00 PM is a terrible idea unless you want to have a mental breakdown.  Well, it's a life lesson they will learn once, and they will never go again. On this bonus epsiode of Modern Mixtape, we are joined by our oldest daughter Payton as she begins her adventures of living on her own at her summer internship and discovering the art of buying fruit on sale and the no go zone of the supermarket on Sundays.

As a parent taking time for yourself is hard, but so important.  Finding four to five hours for a round of golf can be next to impossible, but so many lessons can be taken from the golf course into life and parenting. As life long golfers- we take a little detour, to visit lessons learned from the golf course. Maybe because we are both longing to get on the course.

As a parent how many times have you wished you could reach for the parenting manual and find the answer.  But there is no manual, because there is no one way to do things. There are universal truths such as kindness, hard work, but how you get there well it looks different for every family. We are throwing the manual out and sharing some laughs and when wish we could have had the manual for parenting.

How many times have you ever said, I would never when it comes to your kids activities and next thing you know you are slinging nacho cheese or baking forty cupcakes. Being a parent is easy, being a present parent is hard because you have to show up, time and time again. But you don't have to- you want to. It's a conscious choice. Join on this episode as we dive into being a present parent.

It can be tough to change. In parenting, in marriage and in life, but those who fail to change often get left behind. But going through change can be a rocky process not only for the individual but for those around them, often watching them walk through failure. How to you support someone on a journey of change....Grace. Join us as we talk about finding grace in failure.