Latest Parentingforward Podcast Episodes
119: Raising Kids for a Just World w/ Lydia Wylie-Kellermann
Parenting Forward - April 12, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI’ve often joked that Parenting Forward is a social justice parenting manual. However, I wish The Sandbox Revolution had existed before I wrote it. That book is even more like a social justice parenting manual. This week I am talking with its author, Lydia Wylie-Kellermann. She was raised in ...
118: Free Mom Hugs for LGBTQ+ Kids w/ Sara Cunningham
Parenting Forward - March 29, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI imagine many of my listeners are regulars at pride parades. If that’s you, you’ve probably seen the moms who offer free hugs to LGBTQ kids who may not have a supportive or loving family. There is something so simple and yet so profound about that act of kindness. It communicates a love that is...
117: Civics at Home w/ Ashley Berner
Parenting Forward - March 15, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsWhat are schools really teaching our kids? Are they educating them on information that is actually relevant to our world right now? Most of our schools just aren’t teaching our kids things like how to vote and make wise decisions about policies. Those topics usually aren’t even brought up. That’...
116: Cultivating Civic Imagination w/ Sangita Shresthova
Parenting Forward - March 01, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsStorytelling is a key element of the human spirit. As human beings, we respond to stories with both our emotions and our minds. Specifically, when we hear the stories of those who are different from us, we are forever changed. In our effort to raise conscious citizens, this should be one of o...
115: To Raise a Conscious Citizen w/ Lauren Duca
Parenting Forward - February 22, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsChildren in America have been largely boxed out from politics. They have missed out on that sense of political agency that our culture affords to adults. It’s not that they don’t care; they aren’t in a state of apathy but are experiencing disconnect. How can we empower our kids to shift from ...
114: My Children’s Book! w/ Lynnor Bontigao
Parenting Forward - February 15, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsIf the pandemic and the Trump-era taught me anything, it’s that we need to be conscious citizens. In fact, we can’t afford to be unconscious. Democracy and the assurance of justice require us to remain woke, vigilant, and engaged in the way our society runs itself. Because of this, parenting inc...
113: Parenting Forward with a Rebel Girl w/ Francesca Cavallo
Parenting Forward - February 08, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsSo many of us who grew up in evangelicalism just wanted to be good. We lived in fear of not being good and therefore losing God’s love. This was even more prominent for those of us who are natural storytellers. Not only do we experience religious trauma but we let it embed deeply into the sto...
112: Raising Resilient Children w/ Amelia Richardson Dress
Parenting Forward - February 01, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsEach of us must understand that they will go through hard things in life. However, we must also never fall into despair or overwhelming anxiety. That is where resilience comes in. Being resilient is the ability to believe that we can go through hard things and, though we may be changed by them, ...
111: Parenting After Purity Culture
Parenting Forward - January 25, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsOver the summer, I posted a Twitter thread about recovering from purity culture. I wasn’t specifically addressing the parenting audience, but it easily applies and is very important to the parenting conversation. Just like how the sex talk should not be a one-time conversation with our kids, rec...
110: Six Minute Sex Ed w/ Kim Cavill
Parenting Forward - January 18, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsTalking openly about sex is very new to me. I openly share about religion and parenting but have little experience sharing about my sex life. It feels very private so it’s hard to be vulnerable in that way. A lot of parents experience this same issue in trying to raise their own kids with health...
109: God is Grey w/ Brenda Marie Davies
Parenting Forward - January 11, 2021 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsAll month in January, we’re talking about purity culture. I want to hold various discussions on sex to ramp up the Parenting After Purity Culture conference happening in February. Today, I’m so excited to be talking to Brena Marie Davies about the topic. Brenda is the founder of the popular Y...
108: Breaking Free from Purity Culture w/ Linda Kay Klein
Parenting Forward - January 04, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsAll throughout the month of January, we’re going to be revisiting the topic of purity culture in preparation for our upcoming Parenting After Purity Culture conference. We’ll talk about what purity culture is and how it relates to parenting. We’re also going to bring back some archived ep...
107: You Can’t Say You Don’t Like Kids w/ Anna Skates
Parenting Forward - December 28, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsMany adults believe that kids don’t have much to contribute to society. It’s very common to brush them aside as “not quite people yet.” This is one of the biggest reasons I started this podcast. I want to push against this belief and advocate for the rights of children. In this episode, I’m ta...
106: Parenting Decolonized w/ Yolanda Williams
Parenting Forward - December 21, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsMy guest today is Yolanda Williams from Parenting Decolonized. Her mission is to help black parents raise emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually liberated kids. She does this by addressing parenting from a racial perspective, considering the trauma black parents hold within their DNA. She ...
105: Holidays with Religious Trauma w/ Brian Peck & Laura Anderson
Parenting Forward - December 14, 2020 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsWe’re back with another special holiday episode of Parenting Forward! However, instead of doing something festive, we’re going to be talking about religious trauma again. I know that holidays are the worst when we have family issues to deal with. It’s only worse when we have religious family iss...
104: Bloom Homie, Detoxing Masculinity w/ Eric Eztli
Parenting Forward - December 07, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsMany of us, particularly those of us who grew up in conservative religious spaces, were taught unhealthy stories about what it meant to be a man. Some of them were generally toxic while some had added religious flavors. While many of us have rejected these teachings in our heads, we still strugg...
103: How to Teach Kids a Responsible Reading of the Bible w/ Pete Enns
Parenting Forward - November 30, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsYou can tell a lot about people by their reaction to the Bible. That is what makes it so interesting as a sociological phenomenon. There are secular people who are largely ignorant of the Bible. Then there is the large spectrum of ways Christians engage with the Bible, from the literal inerrant ...
102: Unpacking the Privileges of Gentle Parenting w/ Michael Singletary
Parenting Forward - November 23, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsVoices of hate and bigotry have been amplified in our country. This proves that they exist to be amplified. They won’t be going away anytime soon. That’s why we need the voices of love and gentleness, voices that are beautiful and nurturing, to get louder. That is what I aim to do with this p...
101: How to Be Assertive During Thanksgiving
Parenting Forward - November 16, 2020 09:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsToday's episode will be a rapid-fire Q & A. My goal has always been and always will be to make sure I’m doing my very best here on the podcast to serve you and meet your needs. So, in order to do this, I run a poll every once in a while and ask all of you what you want me to address. I did this ...
100: How to Raise Justice Seeking Kids
Parenting Forward - November 09, 2020 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI don’t just believe our kids are going to change the world. I believe they have already changed the world. They don’t have to wait to grow up to change the world. They don’t have to achieve anything grandiose to change the world. They have changed the world just by being who they are and having...
099: Cultivating Sacred Moments with Kids w/ Traci Smith
Parenting Forward - November 02, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsThe way I think is very big picture. I am an abstract thinker who’s great with ideas, but not so much with concrete practices. Because of this, I try to bring guests onto the show who will compensate for this weakness of mine. While I give you big frameworks and better narratives within which to...
098: Elections and Political Engagement with Kids w/ John Shallman
Parenting Forward - October 26, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsThose of you who listen to this podcast are people who are very active and engaged in the political process. I tend to be a political junkie myself. However, the 2016 election devastated me and I wasn’t interested in dragging my mental health through that ordeal again. So I haven’t been as engag...
097: Don’t Simplify Theology for Kids w/ Katey Hage
Parenting Forward - October 19, 2020 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsResistance is spiritual. However, what’s spiritual is spiritual too. That’s why I brought on someone whose career vocation it is to invest in the spirituality of children. Katey Hage is the children’s pastor of Quest Church, a diverse church in Seattle founded by my friend Eugene Cho. Katey a...
096: Activist, You! with Lindz Amer
Parenting Forward - October 12, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsIt’s never too early to talk to kids about equality. From an early age, we should give them the tools and language to see themselves and interact with the actual realities of the people they will encounter in their lives. This is incredibly important work and something that Lindz Amer does so we...
095: Keeping Families Together w/ Heather Askew
Parenting Forward - October 05, 2020 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsA few episodes ago, I hosted a show with Cam Lee, a transracial adoptee and mental health professional. We talked about issues surrounding transracial adoption, white saviorism, and the movement to adopt from orphanages internationally. Heather Askew, one of my listeners, reached out to me and s...
094: Children Making Theological Meaning w/ David Csinos
Parenting Forward - September 28, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsIt’s a great moment when we find kindred spirits whose views align closely with our own. It’s just an amazing feeling to know we’re not alone in pushing an idea forward and so wonderful to collaborate with like-minded individuals. When I was writing my book, Parenting Forward, I did a lot of res...
093: Decolonizing Parenting w/ Jo Luehmann
Parenting Forward - September 21, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsIn past episodes, I’ve used the term faith deconstruction a lot. Some of you might be sick of hearing it, while others of you might be confused. To get us all on the same page, faith deconstruction implies that we’re tearing down some of the structures of faith we used to have. I really prefer t...
092: V is for Voting w/ Kate Farrell
Parenting Forward - September 14, 2020 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsKids are affected just as much as adults are by the government and the decisions that are being made by our leaders. However, they aren’t given a say in choosing who those leaders will be. They’re going to inherit the world that we are making, so the government needs to represent them, as well. ...
091: We Bare Bears: The Movie w/ Daniel Chong
Parenting Forward - September 04, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI am amazed at how our kids are so much more woke than we were at their age or even than we are now. They take things like demanding equality for granted. This is because of children’s media and stories that aren’t afraid to show them the world as it is. One media influencer who does this brilli...
090: Parenting After Purity Culture Tweet Thread
Parenting Forward - August 31, 2020 08:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsRecently, I posted a Twitter thread about recovering from purity culture. I wasn’t specifically addressing the parenting audience, but it easily applies and is very important to the parenting conversation. Just like how the sex talk should not be a one-time conversation with our kids, recovery r...
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