Big-Kid Parenting

Parenting older kids can be tough. You’ve got this.

Writing new stories in midlife, with novelist Kristen Mei Chase

Big-Kid Parenting, Career Pivots + Second Acts, Divorce + Relationships, The Mother of Reinvention Show / By

Strained mother-daughter relationships. Second-chance romances. Overcoming childhood trauma. And, finding your true self in midlife. What do these things have in common? They’re all themes in Kristen Mei Chase’s debut novel, A Thousand Miles to Graceland, as well as in her actual life. Listen in as Kristen and I discuss midlife mom-daughter relationships, parenting teenagers, …

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When the holidays are disappointing – Sunday Morning Tea

Big-Kid Parenting, Home + Living, Morning Tea / By

From illness to weather to trying to please no-longer-magic-hungry teens, sometimes the holidays just don’t turn out like we hope. This week’s Sunday Morning Tea – coming to you from my bed around 9 AM on December 25 – was an honest take on how I’ve been feeling this Christmas, with a hopeful message that …

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Advent calendars & gifts for tea lovers, plus holidays with older kids – Sunday Morning Tea

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In this Sunday Morning Tea, I chat honestly about how hard it can be to let holiday traditions evolve as kids get older, especially as a divorced mom. Yes, you may disappoint someone – and that’s OK. Tune in for a fun conversation about “spreading the joy” throughout the holiday instead of making the entire …

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The Joy Of Sending Your Kid To College With Karen Walrond

Big-Kid Parenting, Career Pivots + Second Acts, The Mother of Reinvention Show / By

Is sending your only child far away to college supposed to be devastating? Not for Karen Walrond, whose daughter Alex just graduated and, this fall, will be heading from the family’s home in Texas to art school in Chicago. As the parents of an only child, Karen and her husband Marcus are facing down an …

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pandemic pancakes & the power of fallow periods

Adventure + Creativity, Big-Kid Parenting, Money + Work / By

What I didn’t do much of in those early weeks of COVID-19? “Seize the day.” At least, not in the way I’d thought I might. I didn’t dream up any brand-new, pandemic-inspired businesses, nor proactively re-shape my current business to capitalize on the coming “new normal.” As the world seemed to grind to a halt around me, I surprised myself by how much I slowed down with it.

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