Melissa Gould lost her husband Joel nearly nine years ago when their daughter, Sophie, was 13 years old. The mother and daughter processed the loss in their very own, very distinct ways: Sophie grieved mostly in silence as a young teen, not wan

'Auntie' Is A Verb

Jun 16th, 2022 29m 23s

In this episode we celebrate the caregivers and chosen family members who bring so much into our lives. Yasmeen talks to sisters adrienne maree brown and autumn brown, hosts of the podcast How To Survive The End of the World. As writers, facil

Hobbies and Hiding in the Bathroom: How Parents Spend Their Free Time

Jun 2nd, 2022 32m 5s

When the kids are away, how do parents play? Sure, we all have interests we can tick off and activities we like doing as grown-ups. But when that rare chunk of free time comes along, what’s going to serve you well in that moment? In this episod

A Listener Asks: I’ve Changed As a Parent. What Do I Do About the Past?

May 19th, 2022 25m 58s

Erin is a mother of three teenagers. As her oldest prepares to leave home, she wonders how she can go about strengthening their strained relationship. She wrote to Childproof for advice and we enlisted the help of veteran meditation teacher Jam

More Than A Feeling

May 5th, 2022 1h 39m

Being a parent means dealing with a wild range of emotions all the time, both our own and those of our children. Sometimes we may feel rage, sometimes total elation. How are we supposed to make sense of that? Today we’re sharing the first two e

The Family Secret That Keeps Me Honest With My Children

Apr 21st, 2022 37m 38s

Tom Sheppard didn’t grow up with his parents, but he spent his life trying to learn more about them. When Tom was just 3 years old, his father killed his mother. That part he knew. But he never got the full story on why and how it all happened.

Will I Ever Sleep Again?

Apr 7th, 2022 33m 6s

We know interrupted sleep comes with the job of raising kids, especially at the beginning. Night and day bleed into each other and, before long, we’re in a nonstop loop of pacing, rocking, changing, feeding and wondering: will I ever sleep agai

Learning How To Be A Working Parent – And Not Just A Parent, Who Also Works

Mar 24th, 2022 20m 7s

Having a job and having a child isn’t just a balancing act of two different roles. It’s a whole new identity to figure out — you are a working parent. But if you spend your efforts being devoted to work, and then devoted to kids, where does tha

‘Welcome To Eighth Grade, People’

Mar 10th, 2022 27m 33s

When you think back to your own middle school experience: do you cringe? In her latest creative project, author and podcaster Hillary Frank goes deep into the discomforts of middle school. Her audio drama, Here Lies Me, centers on an eighth gra

A Lesson In Not Overthinking It

Feb 24th, 2022 34m 53s

Aubrey, a mother of three children with cognitive differences, has a habit of lying in bed at night and ruminating over the mistakes she feels that she’d made throughout the day. “Especially when you become a parent, your flaws take center stag

The Case For Parenting In Community

Feb 10th, 2022 30m 59s

When was the last time you asked for help, or accepted it when offered? As parents it's easy to feel like we're all furiously rowing in our own boats, doesn’t it? That we're required to be independent. That having people see us when we’re strug

I'm Giving My Kids The Childhood I Wanted. But I Struggle To Relate To It

Jan 27th, 2022 38m 9s

"I look at them and they're in a different world. I don't know how to describe it other than, 'I don't know what this is, and I don't know what comes next.'" Esau McCaulley always knew he wanted to be a father. But he's now working through some

Are You Okay?

Jan 13th, 2022 36m 31s

Parents are holding things together at the seams. In our second pandemic winter, parents and caregivers are working in overdrive to deal with positive covid cases at home or around them, school closures, covid testing lines, and making sure our

Yasmeen's Bedtime Problem

1 Dec 30th, 2021 33m 50s

Exhausted? Snippy? Yelling? Yasmeen’s in the same boat. Today, she gets personal on when and how she loses her cool with her daughters and the way she’s trying to manage it. We hear from a licensed clinical social worker who has specialized in

Parenting Changes Us, Whether We Like It or Not

Dec 16th, 2021 35m 39s

We're diving into one enormous question: how have you changed since becoming a parent? Maybe you've changed in ways you're not comfortable with, or maybe you'd actually like things to be different. Perhaps you've never even considered the quest

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Welcome to Childproof

Dec 8th, 2021 4m 30s

Being a parent is really freakin’ hard. Of course, it can also be incredibly rewarding and delightful. Either way, it consumes us. Childproof is a show about us, the parents, and how we can raise kids without losing track of ourselves in the pr