Podcast - Tantrum!

…In which we discover that parents can be divvied into two types: those who cut our kids' grapes in half…and those who go for fourths. Elizabeth Lenhard tells a story about her own unending list of parental worries and how she copes. 

Also, Alison talks about how she's coping with telling her kids why some families have one mama, while others have two or three, and Kate talks about waking up one day and suddenly embodying every single mothering cliché ever.

Toilet training this episode by Eddie Murphy and Rick James! (No, it's not "Boogie in Your Butt." Step aside.)

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At Tantrum, Elizabeth Lenhard told a story about how she learned to stop worrying, and...well, not, really.

Elizabeth Lenhard, live at Tantrum

No kidding: The recording booth for episodes one through three.

When you're recording a podcast, you want a small soundproof space, preferably colored in the bright scrawl of your children.

In this, the shortest of short bonus episodes, Kate and Alison tell how, completely by accident, they came up with a venue for recording the first three episodes of Tantrum. 

Stay tuned. We're hard at work on our next real episode. It's coming soon.

..Even smaller than it looked in the first photo, huh? 

Rebecca Kaye tells a story about how she's chosen to manage the tough dance between protecting your kids, and over-protecting them.
We also learn that your child won't die from mouthing a nasty thermometer. Maybe. Are we giving medical advice now? We're definitely not doing that. 

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Five generations of Rebecca Kaye's family in 1957...

...and in 2009.

Also discussed:
•   Obsessions with Daddy
•    Struggles with the third-person "Mommy"

Rebecca Kaye at Tantrum, live at Kavarna

Who's the real hero in a story about a stultifyingly hot summer day, a dead American writer's radiant swimming pool, and a choice made that cannot be unmade? Jamie Allen takes the plunge this episode, and shows us how ordinary moments become family legend.

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Image courtesy of Flickr User amira_a/Flickr Creative Commons

Jamie Allen at Tantrum, live at Kavarna

Also discussed:

• Commando kindergartener!
• What do you call your toddler's bottom?
• When parental lies=bravery
• And this filthy, filthy highchair....

Kate's secret shame. 

Once you were so beautiful.

...In which writer Laurel Snyder shares her hilarious/poignant story about how a toddler, a newborn, and the filthiest bathroom on the east coast changed her mindset about parenting forever.

Also, Parental Moments of Glory about (gasp) cursing!, our earth's sworn sovereign Beyonce, and the automotive miracle of hitting a priest, but injuring no one.

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Not Laurel Snyder's kids. 

Laurel Snyder, live, at Tantrum. Stories like hers are the reason we give away prizes at our shows.