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HOLIDAY BEST OF: It's the Most Everything Time of the Year

12/16/24 • 46 min

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood | Parenting Tips From Funny Moms

We’re rerunning some of our favorite holiday episodes to keep you company while you do all the things this season. Listen to all of our holiday episodes in this Spotify playlist.

Are you juggling “dress as your favorite reindeer” day at preschool with frantic texts from your sister-in-law asking what your spouse wants for Christmas? Are you feeling like hiding under the covers instead of hitting the office holiday party?

It’s the most everything time of the year, and women report the holidays as being far more stressful than men do.

In this episode we discuss how to manage the holiday stress, how to accept the non-cozy feelings that may arise, and why it’s okay to dial back if you’re really not feeling the holiday spirit.

Here are links to some of the writing on the topic that we discuss in this episode:

Pooja Lakshmin on Instagram @womensmentalhealthdoc
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research: Holiday Stress
Harvard Medical School: A holiday advisory for your emotions
Cedars-Sinai Hospital: Depression and Anxiety Around the Holidays

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We’re rerunning some of our favorite holiday episodes to keep you company while you do all the things this season. Listen to all of our holiday episodes in this Spotify playlist.

It’s the most everything time of the year, and women report the holidays as being far more stressful than men do.

In this episode we discuss how to manage the holiday stress, how to accept the non-cozy feelings that may arise, and why it’s okay to dial back if you’re really not feeling the holiday spirit.

Here are links to some of the writing on the topic that we discuss in this episode:

Pooja Lakshmin on Instagram @womensmentalhealthdoc
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research: Holiday Stress
Harvard Medical School: A holiday advisory for your emotions
Cedars-Sinai Hospital: Depression and Anxiety Around the Holidays

We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website:

https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/

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What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson.

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Fresh Take: Emily and Jason Morrow, "Really Very Crunchy"

Does being a crunchy mom mean milling your own flour and sending your kids to school barefoot? Emily and Jason Morrow, creators of Really Very Crunchy, discuss what inspired them to both embrace and riff on the crunchy lifestyle.

Emily Morrow is a stay-at-home mom who created the social media channel "Really Very Crunchy" with her husband Jason in 2022.

Emily, Jason, and Margaret discuss:

What the crunchy lifestyle entails and why it's a spectrum
How Emily and Jason got the inspiration to start Really Very Crunchy
How to balance your own crunchiness with the lifestyles of your friends and family

Here's where you can find Emily and Jason:

www.reallyverycrunchy.com
@reallyverycrunchy on IG, FB, YouTube, and TikTok
Listen to the Really Very Crunchy Podcast
Buy Emily's book REALLY VERY CRUNCHY: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780310367529

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How To Yell Less

SHOULD we yell at our kids? No. Do we? Yes. Some of us perhaps a little too often. Kids are hardwired to push our buttons to get attention, and none of us are saints.But while verbal abuse is definitely horrible, hollering “you are about to miss the bus again” is perhaps a little more forgivable—and fixable, as it turns out. And it is definitely better to yell less, not just because you’ll have a more peaceful home, but because the more yelling your household has in it, the more it is likely to have.In this episode Amy and Margaret discuss:

Why yelling at your kids might not be as universally toxic as some headlines have claimed
Why yelling is, in the end, ineffective
Why finding workarounds for the sources of tension might be a more effective path to change than berating yourself for (once again) having raised your voice

Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode:

Our Fresh Take with Carla Naumburg
Our Fresh Take with Emily Edlynn
Lisa Belkin for NYT: Can Yelling at Your Kids Be Good?
Sue Shellenbarger for WSJ: Talking to Your Kids After You Yell
Ming-Te Wang and Sarah Kenny in the Journal of the Society for Research in Child Development: Longitudinal Links Between Fathers’ and Mothers’ Harsh Verbal Discipline and Adolescents’ Conduct Problems and Depressive Symptoms
Dr. Emily Edlynn for Psychology Today: The Truth About Parents Who Yell at Kids
Stephen Marche for NYT: Why You Should Stop Yelling at Your Kids

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mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, parental stress, kids stress, decluttering, meal prepping, time management,

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