The Fertility Podcast: The Fertility Podcast features fertility experts and professionals who discuss subjects such as miscarriage, male infertility, and mental health. From how to optimise your fertility to get pregnant naturally, navigating IVF, understanding donor conception or surrogacy to how to prepare for a life without children, the podcast is meant for people whose journey to parenthood hasn’t been straightforward.
Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting: Journalist Reena Ninan talks with psychologist Lisa Damour – The New York Times Adolescence columnist and author of the bestsellers Untangled and Under Pressure (both available as audiobooks and eBooks through TPL) – to help give parents informed and practical answers to real-life questions and struggles. Damour answers listeners’ timely questions, with a key focus on how families of all ages can get through the pandemic psychologically intact.
Dads with Daughters: Is raising your daughter a beautiful adventure that sometimes leaves you scratching your head? The Dads with Daughters Podcast is your supportive crew, offering guidance and humour along the way. Hosted by Dr. Christopher Lewis, this podcast features interviews with dads from all walks of life, exploring the unique joys and challenges of fathering daughters. Whether you're looking for tips on communication, building confidence in your daughter, or simply want to feel like you're not alone in this journey, The Dads with Daughters Podcast is a must-listen for any dad committed to raising a strong, independent young woman. Dive into heartfelt conversations, practical advice, and inspiring stories.
Creating a Family: Talk About Adoption & Foster Care: Creating a Family is a podcast for individuals who are thinking about adopting or fostering a child, are confused about all the options and wondering where to begin, or who are adoptive or foster parents trying to be the best parent possible. Every week, the hosts from www.CreatingaFamily.org interview adoption experts, physicians, and professionals who address subjects such as infertility, parenting skills, and raising children with special needs.
Life Kit: Parenting: From NPR, the Life Kit podcasts combine science and advice from experts to get parents with children of any age through the toughest parenting moments. Episode topics include how to manage screen time, understanding anxiety in kids, and discussing post-secondary options.
The Motherly Podcast: The Motherly Podcast brings honest conversations with some of the world’s most interesting mothers — entrepreneurs, actresses, politicians and authors — straight to listeners so they can feel inspired, energized, understood and seen like never before. Their podcast guests are redefining motherhood, courageously sharing their diverse experiences and using their voices to uplift and inspire women.
Parenting Beyond Discipline: Erin Royer, MA Psy. is the go-to expert on all things parenting and child development for today’s common challenges. Her parenting podcast covers way more than just discipline. She dives into topics such as self-esteem, development and health, modern parenting issues and even education. Erin is not just knowledgeable but also relatable, warm, and sometimes even funny.
Pedsdoctalk Podcast: Hosted by U.S. based Pediatrician and mother Dr. Mona Amin, the podcast aims to educate and empower parents in their journey through parenthood. Episodes will include education regarding hot topics in Pediatrics, interviews with experts in the field, conversations with fellow parents, and insight into her experience as a mother and Pediatrician. Content is both evidence-based and experienced-based to give you tips to keep your child healthy and mindful.
Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled: Lansbury is a parenting advisor, author, and consultant whose work informs, inspires, and supports caregivers of infants and toddlers across the globe, helping to create relationships of respect, trust, and love. Each episode addresses a reader's parenting issue through the lens of Janet's respectful parenting philosophy. The Washington Post says "Lansbury’s approach focuses on respect for the child and acceptance of her emotions and development, but allows for firm parental limits as needed... Unruffled offers extremely practical and specific advice for common parenting situations."
Balanced Working Moms: Rina Meushaw (M.B.A, C.P.C.) is a working-mom to two girls and is a certified professional coach. Through her website, she offers her own podcast series, blog posts, and resource library. (A free sign-up is required to access her resource library) The podcast touches on practical tips for working-moms regarding no-procrastination, multi-tasking, quick food preparation, bedtime & sleep, and more. She also offers personal Zoom-conversation appointments which is currently only available to US citizens.
Work-Life Equation: Brought to audience by Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a Massachusetts-based provider of child-care and employer-sponsored child-care, this podcast features guests including real parents and professionals in the relevant fields who tell their stories and offer tips for balancing work and parenting. Topics include returning to work, long-distance parenting, holiday advices, parental leave, fatherhood, parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.
Cool Moms: Since 2018, host Elise Peterson has been interviewing mothers balancing creative careers and motherhood. The conversations provide inspiration and insights into how these women manage their dual roles, offering relatable content for modern moms.
The Longest Shortest Time: Called "the parenting show for everyone," The Longest Shortest Time presents stories about the surprises and absurdities of raising other humans — and being raised by them. The show was named one of the 50 Best Podcasts by The Atlantic in 2015 and 2019 and by TIME in 2017, and while the show stopped running in 2019 after 9 years, they have over 200 back episodes.
Motherhood in Black & White: Launched in July 2020, Motherhood in Black & White is a space where “motherhood, race and culture intersect.” Mixing humour into meaningful conversations on the realities of motherhood and the goal of building a more racially just society for children, hosts Kaanji Irby and Tara Campbell discuss themes that range from the mental load of motherhood to the top TV moms.
1 in 5 Podcast: The series title 1 in 5 emphasizes that more than 1 in 5 college students are also parents on these days. By featuring student-parents, family-care professionals and supporters from Ascend Postsecondary Success for Parents (PSP), Parent Advisors and Ascend National Network Partners, and advocates from relevant fields, this podcast touches on barriers and coping methods of student-parents, including challenges during the current pandemic. The podcast invites parents from diverse demographic groups, including single parents and BIPOC parents, and also offers scripts. (e.g., text transcription)
Not By Accident: Not By Accident is a documentary podcast series about choosing to become a single mother and coping with being one. For 5 years, Sophie Harper used her audio recorder like a camera or sketchbook and compiled more than a hundred hours of recordings: her first visit to the insemination clinic, her journey to the hospital once labour was underway, her daughter’s first birthday, and hundreds of conversations with family and friends detailing the ups and downs along the way. The recordings, told across 34 episodes, are the foundation of their story.
Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast: Hosted by Certified Caregiving Consultant, Elizabeth Miller, shares stories and interviews on personal journeys caring for others while balancing work, personal health and happiness.
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