Mom To Mom Podcast

Christmas will be here before we know it and now is the perfect time to begin preparing for it, finding small ways each day to embrace the beauty of the birth of Christ and to engage our children in ways that will encourage them to keep Him as the focus.

On any given day there are nearly 438,000 children and youth in foster care. Nearly 110,000 are waiting to be adopted, waiting year after year for their forever home. Tricia Goyer, author, speaker, and homeschool mom of 10, seven of whom are adopted has joined us to talk about God's heart for adoption.

Today, we're joined by Quantrilla Ard, PhD who has come to chat with us about what it means to be a black mother raising black sons in America today and to share the disturbing truth about the disparities in both maternal and infant health within the black community.

Kristi Clover, author of M.O.M: Master Organizer of Mayhem, is here to teach us how to organize for the long haul--to makeover our spaces in a way that will work for us, not add more work for us.

How can we raise our girls to have a strong foundation of faith, to know the one who holds her heart so she can confidently face the challenges of growing up? The girl who knows she’s loved will never need to look for love in all the wrong places. Today we’re talking with Lynn Cowell about raising girls and how we can help them discover God’s perfect, unconditional love.

From working on college campuses to sharing the Gospel behind the Iron Curtain as a missionary,  traveling around the world to speak on discipleship, Sally Clarkson has tenaciously sought after God's kingdom and has used her ministry to encourage others to do the same. From her best-selling books and ministries, Sally has shared from her heart and home about the value of motherhood and the potential for home to cultivate life, love, and faith.

Almost all of us desire to leave a godly impact and a legacy, but are not always sure we are hitting the mark in our everyday love and efforts. Join us as we chat with speaker and author Chrystal Evans Hurst as she shares about the lasting impact that her mother Lois had on her life and the lives of so many others and how that has shaped the way she mothers her own children.

Loads of people are choosing to limit their families to one child. But is it biblical? We'll tackle that question in a future episode. But for today, we’re talking about the dynamics that different family sizes bring into play and how they affect our parenting styles.

As mothers of girls, we're trying to raise up strong, Godly women in an ungodly world. A large part of who our daughters will become is deeply connected with what we model for them. We’re a blueprint. They watch how we dress, how we act, how we treat others. They’ll listen as we talk to our friends, our husband, our not-so-loving neighbors. They’ll pay attention to what we do, not what we say to do. And most importantly, they’ll observe how we live out the truth of God’s Word to the world.

Today, we're passing the mic to Monica Swanson wife, mom, blogger, podcast host, and author of The Boy Mom: What Your Son Needs Most from You. Monica is passionate about encouraging moms who are raising boys in today's world and she's joined us today in a candid discussion about a mother's influence in the life of her sons.

Nothing we do is more important than prayer, and time on our knees will bear more fruit in our children’s lives than any other activity we engage in. Prayer is powerful and the sooner we learn to harness its incredible power correctly, the better. It’s the best investment we can make in anyone’s life, especially in our children's.

In today’s culture, families struggle to find the time and the urgency to be in the Word together. Today, we are joined by Ruth Chou Simons, bestselling author, artist, entrepreneur, speaker, and mother to six boys who will help us build a Biblical foundation that will shape our family for eternity.

Our theology, or lack thereof, doesn’t just affect our eternity. It also affects our today. Simple, childlike faith is the start. But as you develop a deep relationship with God, it stands to reason that you’d want to know Him better--who He is and what He does. Theology is not for the Christian elite. It is for moms like you and me. The truth is, if we’re not living with right theology, chances are, we’re not rightly reflecting our Holy God.

Some folks prefer to call it Morning Basket, Morning Meeting, others who maybe choose to slot it at other times in the day instead of the morning have been known to call it Symposium or Power Hour. No matter what you call it, if you’ve been homeschooling for any length of time, you definitely know that Morning Time is a current buzzword in homeschooling circles. It seems that everyone has caught the fever. Today we're sharing our very favorite resources for Morning Time.

Now that life has shifted and we are all schooling at home, let’s spend some time chatting about what we’re supposed to do and how we should begin. If you’ve never homeschooled and this is brand new overwhelming territory, never fear!! Thank goodness for Jamie Erickson and September McCarthy, two seasoned and experienced homeschooling moms who, between them, have homeschooled 15 children from preschool through high school.

Raising teens can be both tricky and tremendously exciting at the same time. Your teen is dealing with hormones he or she hasn’t dealt with before. They might feel insecure or maybe because of social media, they’re being pressured to be cool. They are beginning to wake up to the reality of the world around them and starting to figure out what they love to do and what they’re good at.

In this episode, we're talking about the real issues we’re all facing right now in the midst of dealing with Covid-19 and how that affects us as moms. As hectic as it may seem, with all the change and upheaval and news reports to digest every day, we can find the silver lining if we look for it.

To round out our three-part series of the working mom, we want to focus on a category of mothers who tends to get overlooked or perhaps, not considered when she is seen in the workforce or doing both working from home, working outside the home and raising a family. This is the woman who is working when that wasn’t necessary “the plan,” or the vision her family had made a choice for when considering who would work and why.

Today we’re joined by Heather MacFadyen, wife, mother of four boys, and host of the wildly popular Don’t Mom Alone Podcast. She shares some great insight into finding the balance between work and home, setting good boundaries, and learning to delegate when necessary.

In part one of a three-part series about The Working Mom, Kate and September welcome Emily Thomas, who not only works full-time as a supervising RN at an eating disorder clinic but hosts the popular Mom Struggling Well podcast.