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Helping Our Kids Foster Friendships :: David Thomas and Sissy Goff [Ep 338]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
09/20/21
•62m
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I’m excited to welcome back Sissy Goff and David Thomas to the show to talk about helping our kids foster friendships. As licensed counselors, working at DayStar Counseling Center in Nashville, they provide support, encouragement & compassion to children, adolescents & families in need through counseling.
We talk about the nuances of boys vs girls in friendships, what to do if your kid is the bully, helping kids when friendships change or friends move, and how to take cues from our kids when it comes to their friendships
“It is really more important to prioritize teaching kids to be friends than to be concerned with them, having friends. And when it comes to our worries and fears about friendships, we can't have more emotion than they do over whatever's going on for them relationally. Often that will make them either feel like we're not safe to talk to, or it'll just make them dam up these feelings.”
Connect with David & Sissy:- Website: raisingboysandgirls.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/raisingboysandgirls
- Instagram: @sissygoff & @raisingboysandgirls
- Podcast: raisingboysandgirls.com/listen
Previous Podcasts with David & Sissy:
- [Ep 119] The Art of Nurturing Boys :: David Thomas
- [Ep 141] Raising Girls :: Sissy Goff
- [Ep 160] Emotional Milestones :: Sissy Goff & David Thomas
- [Ep 311] Getting Brave About Anxiety :: Sissy Goff
- [Ep 315] Understanding Boys Better :: David Thomas
Links Mentioned:
- BOOK: Are My Kids on Track?
- BOOK: The Invisible String
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Previous Episode
Long Game Parenting :: Melanie Shankle and Sophie Hudson [Ep 337]
September 13, 2021
•62m
Their real names are Melanie Shankle and Sophie Hudson, but they’ve been blogging for a long time on the internet as Big Mama and BooMama. In addition to being authors and speakers, they also host the fun podcast The Big Boo Cast where they talk about all the important stuff: faith, family, friends, football, fashion, and food. Plus, of course, their hair.
They join me for a mom friends episode where we talk about parenting teens, launching kids to college and letting go of mom guilt.
“If you were a bad mom, you wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about if you were a bad mom. So the fact that you're feeling that guilt is like, you love your child, you're showing up, you're trying to do all the right things. And you just have to trust that God's grace covers the rest of it because they're going to be things you get wrong.”
You won’t want to miss the fun and funny Melanie and Sophie. I consider them some of my mentor moms and they offer up a lot of candid advice and wisdom for playing the “long game” of parenting.
Connect with Melanie:
- Website: thebigmamablog.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/melanieshankle
- Instagram: @melanieshankle
- Website: boomama.net
- Facebook: facebook.com/SophieHudsonBooMama
- Instagram: @boomama205
Links Mentioned:
- The Big Boo Cast
- BOOK: Grace Upon Grace Journaling Devotional: Trusting God No Matter What
- [EP 12] The Antelope in the Living Room with Melanie Shankle
- [EP 58] Home is Where My People Are :: Sophie Hudson
- [Ep 273] Navigating Friendship :: Melanie Shankle
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Next Episode
Truth for When You Feel Like a Bad Mom :: Jamie Ivey [Ep 339]
September 27, 2021
•50m
Sometimes you have to preach truth to yourself when the days are long and you feel inadequate. And oftentimes we need a friend or two to point out the truth. Jamie Ivey is on the podcast today to be that friend for us. She brings us into her personal struggles as a mom and reminds us that we aren’t alone in the struggle.
“It brings me so much comfort that God is not surprised by our diagnoses. He is not surprised by our families. He's not surprised by our struggles. He's not surprised by our insecurities, but he is a God who's willing and ready to be with us in the midst of those.”
If you need a reminder that God made you to have your kids. He made your kids to be who they are with all their abilities and challenges. And he didn’t just create us and stand away distanced as we struggle in life. This episode is for you.
We talk about Jamie’s new children’s book God Made You to Be You, but dive much deeper into what that message can mean to us as moms and how we can encourage our kids as they relate to others who are different than them.
Connect with Jamie:- Website: jamieivey.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/TheJamieIvey
- Instagram: @jamieivey
Links Mentioned:
- Book: God Made You to Be You
- More at jamieivey.com/kids
- [Ep 191] A Safe Place to Share Messy Stories :: Jamie Ivey
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