If your child struggles with anxiety, you know the balancing act between helping them feel safe and helping them become more resilient. Dr. Mary Wilde is here to help. In this episode she explains what anxiety is and teaches us how to focus on building our kids' (and our own) resources rather than putting our energy into minimizing risk. 

Dr. Mary Wilde is a licensced integrative pediatrician and the mother of 8 boys! You can find more of her resources at drmarywilde.com

Sign up for her free masterclass here: Empowering Anxious Kids. 

Listen to her Ted Talk Here: Compassion Parenting:Transceding the Myth of Perfect Conditions

If you enjoyed this episode, check out: 

How Chantel Allen Manages Anxiety

How She Takes Care of Herself Part 1

How She Takes Care of Herself Part 2

Do your kids have good manners? What does that even mean? Today we talk to Brooke Romney, author of 52 Modern Manners for Today’s Teens, Volumes 1 and 2, and 52 Modern Manners for Kids. We discuss this idea of manners and how we can teach our kids social skills that will help them connect with other people and become more confident.

You can find more resources from Brooke Romney at brookeromney.com and follow her on Instagram @brookeromneywrites.

Brooke was also featured on another episode of the How She Moms podcast: 

How Brooke Learns from Other Moms

And she contributed to several other episodes, including:

What She Calls Herself and How She Discovers Kids' Talents

Find all past episodes and other resources at Howshemoms.com

Whitney interviews moms from the village that helped raise her. They talk about friendship, the work that goes into building it, and some of their kids' shenanigans. 

This summer I fell 30 feet in a rock climbing accident. Here's my story.

Screentime is a struggle--setting boundaries, resetting those boundaries, keeping kids safe, teaching them how to be intentional about tech. In this episode Whitney shares some of the ups and downs of screentime experiments in her own family. 

For more episodes about managing screentime, check out the rest of the series: 

68: How Andrea Davis Manages Screentime

107: How Catherine Teaches Kids to Manage Technology

115: How She Creates a Heathly Tech Culture

116: How Hillary Creates Healthy Screen Habits

Jessica Jackson’s framework for transitioning from surviving to thriving might just transform your whole way of looking at motherhood and life (because survival mode isn’t exclusive to motherhood). Best of all, Jessica has given me words to describe the transition from survival mode to re-entry to normalizing to exploring to thriving and even soaring. Don’t worry. She’ll explain the whole thing.

Find Jessica at thrivinginmotherhoodpodcast.com

Hillary Wilkinson, one of the founders of Healthy Screen Habits tells the story about how she helped start this organization, shares research about kids and screens, walks us through some safeguards we can put in place, shares some great ways we can connect with our kids through tech,  and teaches us some healthy screen habits.

Seven ways to create a healthy digital culture and connect with your kids. Featuring advice from seven different tech-savvy moms: 

Andrea Davis, betterscreentime.com

Hillary Wilkinson,  healthyscreenhabits.com

Catherine Pearlman, thefamilycoach.com

Jen Brimhall, raisethegood.com

Alex Fales, mindfulwithmedia.com

Kailan Carr, quietbookqueen.com

Chanelle Neilson, chanelleneilson.com

In which we talk about all the expectations in the winter season, plus parenting expectations in general. I also talk about some of the experiments going on here in the Archibald home from family discussions to chores to Christmas gifts, plus a new podcasting adventure for me. 

Christina Acosta shares practical tips for building friendships, from analyzing and repairing past friendships to going deep and getting beyond surface relationships. Christina is the founder of Growing Up Gorgeous, a community for black women of faith. 

Ideas for making time to connect with friends and organizing gatherings, from one-on-one activities to small groups, to parties and even traveling with friends.