The New Family Podcast
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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 grea...
Recent Episodes
256 episodes250: Comedian Charlie Demers on Modern-Day Fatherhood
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 poli...
249: How to Keep Math Trauma from Holding You or Your Kids Back
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...
248: Examining your own issues so you can parent your best
For this episode we speak to child psychologist Dr. Vanessa LaPointe. Vanessa is the author of two books, including her latest Parenting Right From th...
247: Connecting youth mental health to incarceration
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 Fit...
246: Parenting When Dad’s in Prison
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 fam...
245: The Many Faces of Solo Moms
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 n...
244: A Conversation with Non-binary Activist Jeffrey Marsh
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...
243: Growing Up with Two Moms
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. Em...
242: Mission Critical - Cultivating Community
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 comm...
241: Preventing Parenting Burnout
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...
240: Making Parenthood More Sustainable
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 ov...
239: Raising a Baby Born Too Soon
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. Alon...
238: Olympian Silken Laumann on Raising Kids to Embrace Vulnerability
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 remar...
237: Preparing for your teen to leave the nest
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...
236: How This Young Man Recovered from Video Game Addiction
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...
235: Stephanie Land on Motherhood and Poverty
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 unfl...
234: The Beautiful Thing About Gathering Community
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 abo...
233: Cooking for a More Allergic World
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-threaten...
232: Helping Kids Navigate Friendships
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 wh...
231: The New (Digital) Childhood
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 m...
230: Money Matters - Realistic Budgeting and Financial Literacy for Families
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...
229: Money Matters - How Financial Anxiety Affects Families
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 cel...
228: Laughing and Crying
Long before we learn to speak, we communicate through laughter and tears. That’s because these non-verbal expressions come factory-installed. They’re...
227: Why Confidence Tanks for Girls and Women
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...
226: A Healthy Relationship with Food Begins at the Beginning
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...
225: Your Kids Are Capable of Doing So Much More
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 s...
224: Parental Alienation & Reunification Therapy
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 ju...
223: How to Have Body Positive Conversations About Healthy Eating
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,...
222: Raising Boys With Positive Ideas About Masculinity
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 posit...
221: Happy Parents, Happy Kids
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...
220: Raising Children with Justice, Mercy and Kindness
My guest on today’s show has an interesting personal story to tell about differentiating her own parenting experience from the fundamentalist religion...
219: What Sparked the Entrepreneurial Fire in this 15-year-old Founder
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...
218: What it takes to be — and raise — a mentally strong woman
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...
217: A Chat with Working Moms Creator Catherine Reitman
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...
216. Why We Need Classrooms Where Kids Get Up and Move
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 Movin...
215: We Need to Do A Better Job of Caring for New Moms
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...
214: How to Make More Time for Family in 2019
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...
213: Best Parenting Advice of 2018
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...
212: Listeners Share Holiday Traditions Old and New!
For this special holiday episode of The New Family Podcast, I asked listeners to send me voice messages about their favourite holiday traditions, old...
211: Sharing the Emotional Labour of Parenthood
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...