Failing Motherhood
If you're riddled with mom guilt, your temper scares you, you're terrified you're screwing up your kids and are afraid to admit any of those things out loud....this podcast is for you. Hosted by Danielle Bettmann, parenting coach for families with 1-7-year-old strong-willed kids, each episode is a storytelling interview about one mom's raw and honest experience of growth that leads to new perspectives and practical strategies. Each week we will normalize the struggle, share vulnerably about our insecurities, and rally around small wins and truths. We hope to convince you you're not alone and YOU are the mom your kids need. Interviews with experts that have brilliant insight to share will be sprinkled among interviews with moms just like you. We hope you see yourself, hear your story, and find hope and healing. Welcome to Failing Motherhood. You belong here!
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Hard, frustrating, exhausting - is an understatement. Your lived experience as a parent of a strong-willed child is one many can"t understand, including yourself sometimes! There are very real dynamics, fears, and perceptions that make showing up moment to moment extremely difficult, and it"s impossible to solve for th
Today"s guest, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, is an author, TV personality, and cohost of the popular podcast For Crying Out Loud. She co-created and hosted the late-night comedy parenting show Parental Discretion with Stefanie Wilder-Taylor for NickMom on Nickelodeon. She’s the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay; Na
Tis the season for under-stimulated kids, over-stimulated parents, an influx of gifts and stuff everywhere! If you have the urge to throw everything away right now, you’re not alone! If you’d love to have LESS at your house but feel guilty for getting rid of perfectly good (educational even!) toys, this episode is fo
[REPLAY] Special Needs Parenting, Guilt for Siblings, and Mama Bear Love with Paulette Pinero
Originally Aired: September 8th, 2020 If nothing prepares you for parenting... how can you possibly be prepared to parent a child with special needs? After trying everything & realizing her son wasn"t able to get the help he needed, Paulette risked everything to leave her home country of Puerto Rico. After devoting her
Originally Aired: October 6th, 2020 Keeping a brand new human alive when you"ve never done it before is... A LOT. When Grace Henke"s daughter could not stop screaming, she took her right back to the hospital their first night home! Supplementing, lip/tongue ties, constipation, gas, panicking about milestones is all ove
Originally aired: October 13, 2020 (Ep. 26) "You want your parents to be involved in your child"s life, but at what cost?" Both of Jamie"s parents are alcoholics and are still in a gut-wrenching divorce that"s been going on for years. She has been working daily to break the chain of trauma, and what once crippled her