What do we do when our parenting strategies aren't working out the way we expected? Or we stumble into a hard parenting fail? On today's episode, we share parenting stories we recorded several months ago on the CosmoParenting podcast. Then we reflect on those stories, honestly naming the ways our strategies are evolving (or not) with time. This is an episode all about the messy, unresolved, ever-shifting work of parenting and peopling.

Tune in to hear us talk about:

📜 Disrupting old narratives through adaptation.

⚖️ The tricky balance of acknowledging pain and also pushing past discomfort.

👥 Modeling behavior versus exercising power.

⛓️‍💥 Understanding our past to break patterns.

☀️ Bring our parenting fails into the sunlight to move forward and evolve.

Mentioned In Today's Episode:

If you're looking for a parenting podcast full of bite size practical tools, the CosmoParenting podcast is for you!

And if you missed our earlier episode interviewing the host of CosmoParenting, Abbie VanMeter, you can listen to it here - "What paradigms are we building? (Part 2) with Abbie VanMeter"

As Always:

Check out Caitlin and Rebekah's Book Shop! Here you can find every book mentioned in our episodes, as well as a few additional faves.

Use this link to get a 25% discount on a PokPok subcription! And if you haven't listened yet, check out our interview with PokPok creators, Esther and Melissa.

We would love to hear from you! What parenting scripts are you revising in real time? What moments are you coming back to again and again as parents and people?

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