Mom Flies Solo celebrates pet adoption with a new adoption story - and this one has a twist! Featuring Lindsey Goodman, Chris Carmean, Jack the Bichon and Beau the Bichon. For more information on Bespoke Adoption Stories visit https://momfliessolo.com/adoption-stories

This is an episode not to miss! For the first time ever, Michele interviews the adoptive moms of her son's two birth siblings. You heard it here first: we have resolved the nature vs. nurture debate!

Eileen Joy, Money Coach for Moms, empowers us so that we can empower our kids. And Michele makes an Unexpected announcement. With music by Canadian composer Beverly Lewis and DJ Scott La Sun.

Links discussed in today's episode:

https://momswhomoney.com

https://momswhomoney.com/kids

https://momfliessolo.com/webinar/

This episode is about all things summer: the secret to easy, healthy, delicious homemade lemonade, packing and laundry hacks, beach music, poetry and a story about flying into the ocean.

Adoption stories have been kept in darkness for many generations. Let's bring ours to light! Join Michele for her adoption story, for a meditation on compassion and music from "The Light Wraps You" (get it? 😉). Do you have an adoption story to share? Write [email protected]

Michele reads her story People Behaving Beautifully and talks about her new Ease Journal at momfliessolo.com/ease This episode is dedicated to anyone who needs more ease, mindfulness and gratitude in their lives.

In this episode, MFS reads her story on "Fitness for Parent," an adventure in which her imagined time with her son differs from reality. We meditate on compassion for ourselves and others. And writer Sarah Dickinson of The Nerdy Quill https://thenerdyquill.ca/ joins us to talk about how parental roles shift as our kids grow.

Episode 5, aka The Sensory Episode. I interview Angela Fulkerson Folczyk, OTR/L, NBCOT, about regulation, sensory needs and all things Occupational Therapy. 

If you would like to read more about how I have set up my home to support my son's needs and about the title "Lord of the Flies-y," please see "Where the Wild Kids Are" 

Here are the resources that Angela discusses in the podcast:

https://sensoryhealth.org/basic/about-spd

https://sensoryhealth.org/basic/identification-of-spd

Dr. Lucy Miller: Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with sensory processing disorder. (Mom Flies Solo's Aff Link: https://amzn.to/3JlbXMf)

Carol Stock Kranowitz: Out of Sync Child and The Out of Sync Child has Fun (MFS Aff Link: https://amzn.to/3ZONoP0)

In this episode, Mom Flies Solo reads part three of her series on online dating: The Call of Nature....and yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.

Emmy Hernandez, International Love and Relationship Coach, makes an appearance to talk to Michele about ways we can attract the right person into our lives. You will be surprised at what she has to say about dating as a parent!

In this episode, Michele interviews Candice Harper, Love Coach, who offers some dating gems for single parents.

Michele also reads her popular blog post, Adventures of a Single Parent: Online Dating Part 2. She finds that "switching teams may not be as easy as it seems on Grey’s Anatomy."