Watching Change: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Watching Change from the book Ghosts of Parenting, exploring how parents live alongside the quiet, continuous shifts in their children that rarely announce themselves but shape everything. The episode names watching change as a lived condition rather than a moment, revealing how parents hold past and present versions of the same child at once, and how this ongoing noticing carries tenderness, strain, and responsibility across years. It speaks to the silent work of adapting care as children grow, the private ache of transition without ceremony, and the way time becomes visible through ordinary days. There is no advice offered here, only recognition of how love reshapes itself as children move forward, and how parenting learns to stand inside that movement without trying to stop it.