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The New Family Podcast

The New Family Podcast is the show that explores what families really look like today and the issues that matter to us most. Twice a week we interview some of the most compelling people whose stories represent the many forms can family can take today. And we chat with top parenting experts with great insights on the challenges of raising kids in these interesting times. This podcast comes from the creators of the popular website, thenewfamily.com, which explores and celebrates modern family life. Our series, the 1,000 Families Project, tells the first-person stories of people with families of every shape and size. In this show we interview some of the most interesting people who contribute to the #1000families series, as well as authors, family therapists, parent educators and other experts with practical advice to share that's relevant to families of every kind.

Further podcasts by Respected parenting editor Brandie Weikle of thenewfamily.com and the 1,000 Families Project talks to compelling people whose stories represent the changing face of family.

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The New Family Podcast
250: Comedian Charlie Demers on Modern-Day Fatherhood from 2019-12-02T15:08:01

For this 250th episode of the podcast we’re taking a look at the state of modern fatherhood. First we’re talking to stand-up comedian, writer and political activist Charlie Demers. He’s one of d...

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249: How to Keep Math Trauma from Holding You or Your Kids Back from 2019-11-25T11:00

Today we welcome Vanessa Vakharia back to the show. Vanessa is the founder of a unique tutoring facility called The Math Guru here in Toronto. She’s a teacher with a Bachelor of Commerce, a Mast...

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248: Examining your own issues so you can parent your best from 2019-11-18T11:00

For this episode we speak to child psychologist Dr. Vanessa LaPointe. Vanessa is the author of two books, including her latest Parenting Right From the Start: Laying a Healthy Foundation in the ...

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247: Connecting youth mental health to incarceration from 2019-11-11T11:00

With this episode we’re continuing our exploration into the lives of families affected by incarceration. I’m joined by Andrea Page, the founder of FitMom, one of the first providers of pre- and ...

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246: Parenting When Dad’s in Prison from 2019-11-04T11:00

This week begins our foray into the lives of families affected by incarceration. It’s not an easy subject, but it’s one that affects many Canadian families and an even more in the United States,...

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245: The Many Faces of Solo Moms from 2019-10-28T10:00

We’re joined this week by Dr. Marika Lindholm, a sociologist and advocate for the diverse group of women raising kids solo. She’s the co-editor of a new anthology about solo moms. It’s called Listen

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244: A Conversation with Non-binary Activist Jeffrey Marsh from 2019-10-21T10:00

This week we welcome Jeffrey Marsh to the show. Jeffrey is one of the world's foremost commentators on non-binary identity and activism. They rose to prominence with inspirational viral videos, ...

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243: Growing Up with Two Moms from 2019-10-14T10:00

We’re back to exploring family in its many with this episode, where we’re joined by Emily McGranachan, who tells us about growing up with two moms. Emily’s professional life has also been shaped...

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242: Mission Critical - Cultivating Community from 2019-10-07T10:00

We’re continuing our exploration of what it’ll take to make parenting more sustainable, this week with a focus on how critical it is to cultivate community and share our stories. I’m delighted t...

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241: Preventing Parenting Burnout from 2019-09-30T10:30

Start asking around groups of parents, perhaps especially moms, and increasingly it seems we’re hanging on by a thread. With competing demands of work and family, we’re often hovering on the edg...

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240: Making Parenthood More Sustainable from 2019-09-23T10:30

We kick off the fall with one of several episodes coming up that explores what it will take to make modern-day parenthood more sustainable and less overwhelming. We’ll be looking at the social a...

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239: Raising a Baby Born Too Soon from 2019-06-24T10:00

I’m joined for this episode by Tammy Sharrow, a long-time neonatal nurse and associate professor of nursing at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Along with her co-author Karen Lasby, she’s writ...

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238: Olympian Silken Laumann on Raising Kids to Embrace Vulnerability from 2019-06-17T10:00

It’s an absolute thrill for me to welcome celebrated, four-time Canadian Olympian Silken Laumann to the show. Many of you will remember Silken’s remarkable story as one of Canada’s most beloved ...

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237: Preparing for your teen to leave the nest from 2019-06-10T10:00

The departure for college or university represents a huge shift in our relationship with our nearly adult children. But, wow, can seem that they still have a lot of independence to achieve befor...

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236: How This Young Man Recovered from Video Game Addiction from 2019-06-03T10:00

I’m joined for this episode by a mother and her adult son. Elaine and Jake Uskoski are here to share their experience with Jake’s video game addiction. They’ve started to share their story to he...

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235: Stephanie Land on Motherhood and Poverty from 2019-05-27T10:00

It’s my delight to be able to bring you a remarkable and important story today. I’m joined by author Stephanie Land, who has become known for her unflinching writing on poverty and motherhood. S...

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234: The Beautiful Thing About Gathering Community from 2019-05-20T10:00

For this episode, we welcome Leisse Wilcox back on the show. Leisse is a writer, coach, speaker and mom of three. She writes a very inspiring blog about personal growth, self-love and more at le...

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233: Cooking for a More Allergic World from 2019-05-14T11:30

Cooking for a group, sending lunch to school, is a different business these days. Something like 40 per cent of children are affected by life-threatening food allergens, and as my guest for toda...

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232: Helping Kids Navigate Friendships from 2019-05-06T10:00

There are times when the dynamics between our kids and their friends are sort of baffling. When things are going smoothly, everything is great. But when there’s friendship drama and hurt feeling...

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231: The New (Digital) Childhood from 2019-04-29T10:00

Parents do a lot of hand wringing about the amount of time our kids spend on devices. And there are some good reasons for that. Naturally we want to make sure our kids aren’t leading sedentary l...

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230: Money Matters - Realistic Budgeting and Financial Literacy for Families from 2019-04-22T10:00

This is the second of a two-part series Money Matters, which takes a look at some of the financial implications of raising kids today. In this episode I’ve again got two very insightful guests. ...

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229: Money Matters - How Financial Anxiety Affects Families from 2019-04-15T10:11:55

This is the first of a two-part series that explores how money matters affect families. I’ve got two amazing guests for this episode. The first is celebrated parenting author Ann Douglas. She ha...

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228: Laughing and Crying from 2019-04-08T10:00

Long before we learn to speak, we communicate through laughter and tears. That’s because these non-verbal expressions come factory-installed. They’re instinctive, social and key to bonding us wi...

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227: Why Confidence Tanks for Girls and Women from 2019-04-01T10:00

At least here at home, we see girls picking up academic awards on assembly days at schools and we know that for years, women have been out-graduating men from university. Yet, conversely, there’...

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226: A Healthy Relationship with Food Begins at the Beginning from 2019-03-25T10:00

This episode we’re joined by esteemed parenting writer Teresa Pitman. Teresa has been writing about raising kids for more than 30 years, and she’s the co-author of several books, including D...

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225: Your Kids Are Capable of Doing So Much More from 2019-03-18T10:00

Most of us know that our kids could be more self-sufficient and helpful around the house than they are today. We look back on our own childhoods and see that we developed life skills much earlie...

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224: Parental Alienation&Reunification Therapy from 2019-03-11T10:00

I’ve talked a lot on this show about positive co-parenting, but sadly, there are still a lot of acrimonious divorces where positive co-parenting is just not possible. My guest for thi...

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223: How to Have Body Positive Conversations About Healthy Eating from 2019-03-04T11:00

You’ve heard this before — obesity rates among children and youth have nearly tripled over the past three decades. We know kids today are, on average, more sedentary then we were, and there are ...

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222: Raising Boys With Positive Ideas About Masculinity from 2019-02-25T11:00

We’ve heard a lot about toxic masculinity in the last year or so. But are we doing enough to provide men and boys with newer, more evolved, more positive and accepting ideas about what it means ...

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221: Happy Parents, Happy Kids from 2019-02-18T11:00

Today I am so delighted to have friend and colleague Ann Douglas back on the show. Ann is Canada’s most trusted and prolific parenting writer, though her work is known in many other countries as...

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220: Raising Children with Justice, Mercy and Kindness from 2019-02-11T11:00

My guest on today’s show has an interesting personal story to tell about differentiating her own parenting experience from the fundamentalist religion she was schooled in growing up. ...

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219: What Sparked the Entrepreneurial Fire in this 15-year-old Founder from 2019-02-04T11:00

At just 15 years old, Campbell Baron has run a successful social media video production company and rubbed shoulders with A-list entrepreneurs for his new podcast and video series, Th...

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218: What it takes to be — and raise — a mentally strong woman from 2019-01-28T09:00

For this episode it’s my pleasure to have a very wise woman back on the show. Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, social worker, therapeutic foster parent and the world’s leading voice on the topic ...

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217: A Chat with Working Moms Creator Catherine Reitman from 2019-01-21T11:00

For this episode I had the enormous pleasure of chatting with Catherine Reitman, creator and star of the hit CBC show Working Moms, now underway with its third season. Working Moms manages to be...

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216. Why We Need Classrooms Where Kids Get Up and Move from 2019-01-14T11:00

As you know, it’s so critical that we address the fact that kids are far too sedentary these days. Today I’m joined by Amy Tepperman, founder of Moving EDGEucation. Moving EDGEucation works with...

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215: We Need to Do A Better Job of Caring for New Moms from 2019-01-07T11:00

We try our best to prepare for parenthood while we await the arrival of our first-born babies, but there’s really only so much we can know until we’re in the trenches with our wee one...

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214: How to Make More Time for Family in 2019 from 2018-12-31T09:00

I don’t think I’ve met a parent who doesn’t feel — at least some of the time — that the 24 hours in a day are insufficient. With the year coming to a close the day this episode goes l...

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213: Best Parenting Advice of 2018 from 2018-12-17T11:00

For this special episode, we look back on some of the best parenting advice shared on the show in 2018. It is definitely hard to choose from among all the wisdom shared here over the ...

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212: Listeners Share Holiday Traditions Old and New! from 2018-12-10T11:00

For this special holiday episode of The New Family Podcast, I asked listeners to send me voice messages about their favourite holiday traditions, old and new. Tune in for a fun and in...

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211: Sharing the Emotional Labour of Parenthood from 2018-12-03T11:00

Women talk a lot about emotional labour — carrying the mental load of things that need to be arranged for their families and the weight of worry about how everyone’s needs are being m...

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210: Breaking the Cycle of a Bullying Ex from 2018-11-26T11:00

Those of you who are regular listeners will know that I’m a big advocate for positive co-parenting. It’s becoming less and less unusual to see coparents working happily together to ra...

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209: Life in a Mixed-Orientation Marriage from 2018-11-19T11:00

For years my guest for this episode and his former wife lived in a mixed-orientation marriage. Matt Nightingale had shared with his wife, Luanne, that he was gay, but — for various re...

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208: How to Keep Your Issues From Ruining Your Relationship from 2018-11-12T11:00

A big part of being able to take care of a family is also looking after your relationship with your partner. My guest for this episode, New York City psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr...

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207: A Better Question to Ask Than ‘What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?’ from 2018-11-05T11:00

Everyone asks kids, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” But what if that’s the wrong question? My guest for this episode, Dr. Rumeet Billan — an award-winning entrepreneur, lea...

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206: A Blended-Family Positive Movie from 2018-10-29T10:00

Part of my reason for starting the website, and later, this podcast, was because I didn’t see families like my own — an usually amicable post-divorce family with co-parents living nex...

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205: Where We Went Wrong with Kids and Math from 2018-10-22T10:00

At dining room tables and homework desks all over the place, math can be the source of a lot of drama and frustration. Approaches to math curriculum have shifted since we were in scho...

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204: How Your Family Can Embrace Slower Living from 2018-10-15T10:00

There are few among us who are aren’t plagued by a feeling — at least some of the time — that the pace of life is a little out of hand. You probably experience this to some degree whether you’re...

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203: My Crazy Chinese Family from 2018-10-08T10:00

It’s said that something like one in five people will be affected by some level of mental illness at at least one point in their lifetime. There have been times when I’ve wondered if that figure...

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202: Great Students Aren’t Smarter — They Just Know How to Work from 2018-10-01T10:00

For a lot of us, there are some tricky dynamics around schoolwork, with parents often in an unfortunate role of homework police. Many of us can relate to frustration that our kids are capable of...

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201: These New Parents Bought a House with Their 2 Best Friends from 2018-09-24T10:00

As you know, I love telling you the stories of people who are defining family in interesting ways. My guest for this episode has found a wonderful way to meet one of the challenges that’s reshap...

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200: Special Episode — A Week in Our House from 2018-09-17T10:00

For this very special milestone episode of the podcast, we’re getting a little personal. For the first time, the whole family joins in as we share the first week of school in our house. Join hos...

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199: Unconventional Fairytales for Unconventional Families from 2018-09-10T10:00

As you know, this show and the website are on a mission to explore family in all its many, many shapes and forms, as well as the issues shaping family life and society in 2018 and beyond. So whe...

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198: Why More Moms Are Struggling With Alcoholism from 2018-09-03T10:00

This episode explores an uncomfortable truth, and that’s that alcoholism is on the rise among moms. One study found that problem drinking — the kind that adversely affects other areas of your li...

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197: How to Fix Your Family’s Sleep from 2018-08-27T10:00

This episode tackles something many of us would like to have in more abundance: sleep. Most of us know we’re likely not getting enough, and we may feel guilty when our kids’ sleep falls short of...

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196: A More Sustainable Back to School from 2018-08-20T10:00

If you’re listening to this around the time the episode goes live on August 20th, it won’t have escaped you that it’s back-to-school shopping season. So while the wisdom here applies any time of...

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195: How to Be a Happier Parent from 2018-08-13T10:30

Too often the everyday experience of being a parent feels like a race against a clock you didn’t set. We frantically hurl ourselves through morning routine, drop-off, work, pick-ups, kids’ activ...

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194: One Mom’s Quest for Menstrual Equity from 2018-08-06T10:00

For this episode we’re joined by Jana Girdauskas. Jana is a mother of two, a special education teacher and the founder of an amazing charity called The Period Purse, which provides menstrual hyg...

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193: Surrogacy - An Altruistic and Happiness Boosting Act from 2018-07-16T10:00

Surrogacy is a topic we’ve explored in a few ways on The New Family, and it continues to be more and more important as a method for forming families. My guest for this episode, Stephanie Plante,...

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192: Summer Camp for Kids from LGBTQ+ Communities from 2018-07-09T10:00

I’m delighted to welcome my guest for this episode, Olivia Fogel, programs manager and camp director at The Ten Oaks Project. Ten Oaks is a charitable, volunteer-driven organization that engages...

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191: These Moms Build Houses Out of Mud! from 2018-07-02T10:00

My guests for this episode, Molly Murphy and Clare Kenny, are members of an organization called The Mudgirls Natural Building Collective based in British Columbia on Canada’s west coast. This al...

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190: The Rebel Mamas Get Real on New Motherhood from 2018-06-25T10:00

I’m really excited to welcome my guests for this episode, Nikita Stanley and Aleksandra Jassem. Aleks and Nikita are the women behind the popular blog The Rebel Mama, which has been described as...

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189: Single Gay-At-Home Dad from 2018-06-18T10:00

Given this episode is coming out right around Father’s Day, it’s fitting that I’ve got an awesome dad on the podcast with me today. Frank Lowe is the funny guy behind the wildly popular Twitter ...

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188: Updating Models of Masculinity - A Chat With a Dad Who Came Out Later in Life from 2018-06-11T10:00

I’m delighted to introduce my guest for this episode, father of two Matthew Rippeyoung. Matthew wrote a very compelling 1,000 Families post for The New Family recently. In that post, and in this...

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187: Growing Up Same-Sex Parents and the ’Poster Child Syndrome’ from 2018-06-02T14:09:17

In this episode we welcome back guests Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook. We first heard a little from these two a year ago in a Pride-month episode called Growing Up with Same-Sex Parents<...

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186: 40 Things I Wish I’d Told My Kids from 2018-05-28T10:00

I’m joined on this episode by John Allcock. He’s the founder of a prep school called Sea Change Academy and the author of a great little book called Forty Things I Wish I’d Told My Kids...

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185: Gender Creative Kids from 2018-05-21T10:00

In a world of entrenched positions and prescribed roles, expanding our definitions of gender requires the courage to dive deep into understanding and acceptance. On this episode, we meet the sub...

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184: Talking to Kids About Death from 2018-05-14T10:00

In our culture, we don't like talking about death. Most of us will do almost anything to avoid broaching the subject, and when we do we use a lot of euphemisms to avoid words like dead or dying,...

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183: Depression the Comedy with Jessica Holmes from 2018-05-07T08:00

You know my guest, acclaimed comedian and actor Jessica Holmes, from her work on The Royal Canadian Air Farce or CTV’s The Holmes Show. She’s even opened for Jerry Seinfeld and...

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182: How Parents Can Move the Needle on Sexual Abuse and Harassment from 2018-04-30T08:00

There’s a reckoning underway that’s calling attention to ages old pattern of systemic sexual abuse and harassment. The #MeToo movement is simply bringing it to light. While a lot of the conversa...

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181: Could You Give Away 70% of Your Stuff? from 2018-04-23T08:00

Could you go a year buying only consumables? You know, just the food, medicine and toiletries your family needed, replacing items like, say, outgrown snow pants, but otherwise opting out of thos...

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180: Baby’s First Hashtag - Having Fun with Hipster Parents from 2018-04-16T08:00

Today’s episode is fun one because I get to speak with a dynamic husband-and-wife team who are not only award-winning journalists but smart and funny people. Sue Allen is a journalist, yoga teac...

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179: Co-Parenting from the Inside Out from 2018-04-09T08:00

My guest for this episode shares my mission to promote positive co-parenting. Karen Kristjanson is the author of a new book called Co-Parenting From the Inside Out: Voices of Moms and Dads Listen

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178: What Companies Can Do to Keep Moms from 2018-04-02T08:00

While we know that we are living in a time with more opportunity for women than ever before, we can’t pretend that the playing field has entirely leveled. Women still earn an average of about 80...

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177: No More Mean Girls from 2018-03-26T08:00

For this episode we welcome child and adolescent psychotherapist, Katie Hurley, back to the show. We first heard from Katie way back on episode 31 when we discussed her insightful book, The ...

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176: Teen Book Club Talks About Mental Illness And Suicide Prevention from 2018-03-19T08:00

Today’s episode is a unique one, recorded on site at Lillian H. Smith public library in Toronto where a book club called A Room of Your Own has gathered to talk with bestselling young adult fict...

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175: Coping With Small-Town Suffocation from 2018-03-12T08:00

It takes a lot of bravery to defy the expectations of the people around us in our families and places of origin. My guest for this episode has a beautiful story to tell about grappling with her ...

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174: Healing Your Family from the Hard Stuff from 2018-03-05T09:00

Life is an unpredictable ride and sometimes we find ourselves — and our families — in really difficult times. You might be dealing with a death in the family, a job loss, a divorce, a natural di...

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173: The Families Forced Out When Condos Move In from 2018-02-26T09:00

All around us there are signs of a city bursting at the seams. Migration to major urban centres sees this playing out in metropolitan areas all over. Cranes dot the sky line, and everywhere you ...

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172: Should We Decriminalize Paid Surrogacy? from 2018-02-19T09:00

This podcast and The New Family website are all about the many forms that families take, which includes the way those families are created. We’ve discussed the surrogacy on a number of occasions...

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171: Is There Sex After Kids Part 2 from 2018-02-12T09:00

My guest for this episode is one of the most popular we’ve ever hosted on the show. Sexuality expert Amy Lang helps parents talk to their kids about sex, love and relationships. She first joined...

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170: Why We Need to be Better to Our Boys from 2018-02-05T09:00

Like many parents of boys, I’m sure, I’ve noticed that — while globally there’s a long way to go to level the playing field for girls — here at home boys are more likely to be medicated for atte...

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169: Changing the Step-parenting Narrative from 2018-01-29T09:00

My guest on this episode shares my passion for expanding narratives around what a happy family can look like, especially in co-parenting and blended-family situations. Colleen LeMaire is a write...

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168: What NOT to Say When Someone Comes Out from 2018-01-22T09:00

I’m so delighted to have my friend and colleague Rick Clemons back on the show this episode. He was first with us way back on Episode 91 for an episode about his process of coming out later in l...

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167: These Best Friends Were Once Married to Each Other's Husbands from 2018-01-15T09:00

For this episode I speak to a couple of women with a remarkable personal story to tell. You see, Lindsey Phillips and Jesse Enander are best friends who many people would assume couldn’t be frie...

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166: 13 Habits of Mentally Strong Parents from 2018-01-08T09:00

I’m really delighted to open the year a discussion that's insightful in setting intentions for what we want to accomplish during the year as parents. And I’m not talking about tidy mudrooms or p...

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165: The Best Parenting Advice of 2017 from 2017-12-18T09:00

If you listen to the show regularly, you’ll know that almost every episode ends with the question, “What is the best piece of parenting advice you’ve ever received.” As you can imagine, over the...

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164: Are Schools Failing Our Kids? This Mom Whose Daughter Dropped Out Thinks So from 2017-12-11T17:00

I’m joined today by a woman who has a very personal story to share about her daughter’s journey with the school system. Leslie Gavel’s daughter began to disengage from the school system when she...

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163: A Simpler and More Meaningful Holiday Season from 2017-12-04T09:00

This is a special episode exploring some concrete ideas for simplifying the holiday season. I asked a bunch of different people to tell me what they’ve done to adapt their holidays to be less st...

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162: The Modern Family's Guide to Feminism Part 2 — Raising a Feminist Little Princess from 2017-11-27T09:00

This is the second in a two-part series that’s taking a look at what feminism means for families in 2017. We’re taking a look at where feminism stands today and what it means for raising great k...

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161: The Modern Family's Guide to Feminism Part 1 - Raising our boys to be feminists from 2017-11-20T09:00

For this week and next, we’re taking a look at what feminism means for families in 2017 in a two part series called the Modern Family’s Guide to Feminism. We look at where feminism stands today ...

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160: Divorce as a Springboard for Personal Growth from 2017-11-13T09:00

This episode talks about taking a difficult life event that affects many families and using it as a catalyst for positive change. I’m joined by mom of three and bl...

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159: Why Doesn’t Children’s Literature Include Kids of Colour? from 2017-11-06T09:00

Ever noticed that the characters in kids’ books aren’t the most ethnically diverse lot? My guest for this episode certainly has, both growing up in Quebec as the daughter of immigrant parents, a...

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158: The “4Cs” Kids Need to Thrive in the Future from 2017-10-30T08:00

In a rapidly changing world, our kids will need different skills to thrive than the ones that we learned in school, and our education systems are going to have to adapt. My guest on this episode...

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157: The Kick Ass Single Mom Manifesto from 2017-10-23T08:00

For this episode I’m joined by my colleague and friend, Emma Johnson, who is the author of a brand new book called The Kickass Single Mom: Be Financially Independent, Discover Your Sexiest Y...

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156: Gretchen Rubin on Understanding Your Child’s Tendency from 2017-10-16T08:00

For this very special episode, we’re delighted to be joined by author Gretchen Rubin, whose book The Happiness Project was a runaway hit and number one New York Times Bestseller. She’s also the ...

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155: Raising Strong Girls from 2017-10-09T08:00

Today school-age kids use social media likes and followers to gauge their self worth. This isn’t easy on anyone but it seems that girls face the most online scrutiny of all. For this episode of ...

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154: Why You Should Ignore Your Kids More from 2017-10-02T08:00

This episode addresses the question of whether we’re paying too much attention to our kids! I’m joined by Dr. Catherine Pearlman, a family coach and assistant professor of social work at Brandma...

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153: Changing the Way We Talk to Girls About Their Changing Bodies from 2017-09-25T08:00

On this episode we hear why it’s so vitally important that we give sober second thought to the way we have explained body changes and menstruation to girls. My guest, psychologist Dr. Robyn Stei...

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152: School Yard Cliques — The Parent Version from 2017-09-18T08:00

Almost every kid who heads back to school time of year — into a new classroom, or perhaps even to a whole new school — does so with some mix of anxiety and optimism about fitting in. Will any of...

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151: Cooking Through the School Year from 2017-09-11T08:00

For this episode, we’re joined by my friend, Ceri Marsh, part of the dynamic duo behind the popular food blog The Sweet Potato Chronicles. She and her foodie partner in crime Laura Keogh are the...

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