Regular Cool Mom

Hiyeee! We are finally back to recording (at a social distance) and we are here to talk about all our feelings on Covid-19, aka Coronavirus.

Join us as we discuss how this virus has completely changed our lives as we know it. The ways this virus snuck into our lives and managed to completely shut it down is astounding! From school closures and e-learning to toilet paper hoarding, business closures to everyone working from home, social distancing and quarantines to maintaining our sanity, we are covering it all.

As always, we would love to hear from you! Tell us EVERYTHING. How have the past few months been for you? What are things like in your state? What are your hopes for the future? Leave us a comment and let us know. We would love to hear from you!

Thanks for listening!

This week we are talking about how much we love celebrating our friends (and soon, ourselves) when they turn forty!

We have had fun seeing family and friends turn forty over the years, and more recently we have been a part of some really great fortieth birthday celebrations, so we thought we would share some of these experiences and genius ideas...as well as talk (and dream) about all the fun things we are visualizing for our own fortieth birthday celebrations.

Join us as we talk about fun ways to celebrate these milestone birthdays and, of course, we want to hear all of the amazing ways you have seen forty be celebrated. Leave us a comment and tell us everything. Thanks for listening!

It's that time again! Today we are discussing a truly puzzling case that leaves us with way more questions than answers. Lissi is taking the lead and filling us in on all of the crazy details of the Burger Chef murders in Indianapolis.

Join us as Lissi lays out the timeline of events from the night that four teens vanished from their shift at the Burger Chef, and why the evidence from that night has never amounted to enough to bring anyone to justice.

Our hearts go out to each and every one of these kids' families. We can't imagine the pain from the years of heartache they have endured- not only from losing their children, but from watching many persons of interests come and go and ultimately never seeing justice in this case.

This case has haunted everyone who has investigated it. It's a local unsolved mystery that our city wishes could be put to rest. Do you have a local unsolved case that everyone wishes they could know the answers to? Tell us everything! Join us on instagram and leave us a comment.

Thanks for listening!

This week Lissi and Joy are discussing the phrase, "We can do hard things." and all of our feelings relating to that phrase.

We talk about when it is useful and fair to use this phrase to motivate ourselves or our kids to put in extra effort to a task that we find daunting or hard.

We also dive into how this phrase can be misused with groups of kids of varying abilities and capabilities, and why that can be problematic.

Join us in this discussion and let us know, how do you feel about this phrase? Do you love it, hate it, neutral on it? Do you use it to motivate yourself or your kids?

We would love to hear all of your thoughts. Please leave us a comment and tell us everything! Thanks for listening!

Do you remember what it was like to be thirteen? Us, too. This week we are discussing an excerpt from the book "Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered" where Karen talks about sitting in a conference and listening to a women who gave a speech defending thirteen year old girls. The speech left Karen in ugly-cry tears, and reading her synopsis of it had us in tears, too.

Join us as we hash out the nuances of being a thirteen year old girl and how we are helping our daughters (and ourselves) navigate being in that thirteen year old world right now. There are so many ways that we can help them through, give them confidence, and show them we care. We are responsible for lifting up not only our own kids but all the kids around us. Do you light up when a kid walks in the room?

Thanks for listening!

This week we are discussing habits! Habits are extremely smart little suckers! It can be tricky to form a new good habit and even trickier to break an established bad habit....but we can do it together!

Join us as we discuss strategies for how to add habits to our life that we want, as well as get rid of the ones that don't serve us.

We love hearing from you, so find us on Instagram and leave us a comment. Share a habit that you are trying to form or break, and what your strategy is for doing so. We are here to support you!

This week we are discussing a thought that has changed the way we see emotional burdens...whether they be from our own experiences, or the experiences of our kids, friends or even perfect strangers.

Join us as we discuss ways that we can lighten our load and keep ourselves from filling our backpacks to the top. We would love to hear any of your thoughts, or ways that you keep from taking on too much emotional weight.

Leave us a comment on Instagram and tell us everything! We love hearing from you. Thanks for listening.

Today Joy is telling you (and Lissi) the details of the very strange disappearance of 'Little Bobby Dunbar'. Bobby went missing in 1912 while on a vacation with a family and just when his family had given up on ever finding him, he was discovered with a strange man traveling around in a wagon....or was he?

Join us as we discuss all the very strange twists and turns in this case from so long ago. Do you think you would be able to identify your four-year-old after being away from him/her for eight months? We would love to hear your thoughts and theories about who 'Bobby' was and what the real story is surrounding his disappearance.

Leave us a comment on Instagram and let us know all of your thoughts on this case. We love hearing from you. Thanks for listening!

This week we (Lissi and Joy) are sharing about our experience of adding a child therapist to our lives. Join us as we discuss how we decided it was time to seek out therapists for our kids, how we found the person who worked well with our children, and what our experience has been like working with a therapist. Listen up for some of the best advice we have been given from our kids' therapist and how it has changed the way we parent.

As always, we love hearing from you! If you have learned any awesome tools or tips from having a child in therapy, please share. We have learned some valuable lessons from therapists and we want to learn from your experience, too.

Find us on instagram and leave us a comment. Thanks for listening!

Today we are tackling a bit of a heavy but necessary topic: how to help others through times of grief. Lissi recently lost her last grandparent, and so this subject feels timely for us to discuss.

Join us as we talk about what we have observed during our own times of grief, and things that others have done for us in order to lighten our loads. We also discuss being on an 'outer tier' of the grieving process, but supporting those around us who are a step closer to person who has passed away, and how that can sometimes add to our own grief.

We may have shed a lot of tears while recording this episode, and we are always here to listen and support you if you are dealing with grief. It's a messy and painful process that deserves to be heard and supported.

We would love to hear any ideas on how to help someone who is grieving, or any amazing ways that you were served during a time of grief. Leave us a comment on Instagram and join the conversation. Thanks for listening!