Mom Enough: A Parenting Podcast

Julie Sjordal of St. David's joins Erin and Marti Erickson to reflect on a decades long partnership rooted in research, relationships, and a shared commitment to helping children and families thrive. Together they explore attachment, reflective parenting, cultural humility, systems change, and why being a trusted “partner on the path” can make a lasting difference for parents and children.

The mother-daughter relationship is uniquely powerful, and sometimes complicated. Why do conversations so often circle back to hair, clothes, and weight? In this episode, bestselling author and Georgetown professor Deborah Tannen joins three generations of Mom Enough to explore communication, conflict, and connection. Discover practical insights for strengthening this important relationship and building greater understanding across generations.

Families don't live in silos, so why do our systems operate that way? In this episode, Way to Grow CEO Coco Du explains how home visiting programs strengthen families, why parents are essential partners in child development, and what communities can do to create more connected support systems. It's a powerful conversation about helping every child build a strong foundation.

How can parents raise children who care about their communities and want to make a positive difference? Dr. Anne Klaeysen shares practical strategies for helping kids develop strong values, civic responsibility and ethical leadership. Learn how children can become engaged citizens, contribute to a more humane society and build the skills needed to create meaningful change throughout their lives.

Mom Enough® celebrates 20 years in this special live episode, as Dr. Marti Erickson and Dr. Erin Erickson are interviewed by Way to Grow CEO Coco Du. Together, they reflect on decades of research and parenting insights. They explore how strong family support helps parents be “good enough,” creating the consistent, connected relationships children need to grow and thrive.

From winning championships to studying parental behavior in youth sports, psychology professor Dr. John Tauer sees youth sports from both the court and the field of social psychology. In this conversation, he challenges overparenting in athletics and explains how dialing it back can better build character, resilience, teamwork, and lifelong skills.

Consent isn’t just a “teen talk,” it starts in the everyday moments we barely notice. Should kids have to hug relatives? Is “just playing” still okay when someone gets pushed too far? In this episode of Mom Enough, Marti and Erin are joined by Christy Keating (former prosecutor turned parenting coach) for a practical, eye opening conversation on boundaries, digital risks, and raising kids who can confidently say – and respect -- “no.”

As much as we’d love to make life easy for our children, they inevitably will experience stress. And, as research demonstrates, some stress is positive, allowing children to build coping skills and resilience. But toxic stress can undermine our children’s long-term health and wellbeing. So what protects children, and what makes stress more damaging? Join Marti and Erin of Mom Enough® for an essential conversation with Dr. Megan Gunnar about what the science of stress and resilience means for children.

Feeding babies and toddlers doesn’t have to feel stressful or filled with guilt. In this episode, pediatric feeding specialist and speech-language pathologist Jordyn Koveleski Gorman shares what truly matters when starting solids, navigating picky eating and food refusal, and building a healthy relationship with food from the very beginning.