Episode 4 | Responding to life

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Christy Macias is a biologist turned owner of a boutique home-based day care center. She is married and the mother of two daughters. She talks with me about the dramatic changes that she made in response to the needs of her family. She also shares about the demands of parenting two very different children, the loneliness of being a new parent, and her desire to remain open and flexible in the face of life’s unforeseen challenges.

Episode 3 | Rethinking Femininity

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Brooke Denni is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Orange County, California. She and her husband, Paul, are expecting their first child this summer. You can follow Brooke on twitter: @findtruebeauty.

In her Parenting Reimagined interview, Brooke talks about her hopes, expectations, and fears as she anticipates entering into motherhood. She also shares candidly about the ways in which pregnancy is causing her to reflect on her complicated relationship with her own body, her mother, and her limited control.

Episode 2 | Grace, redemption…. and snot

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Tyler Watson is the adoptive father of 10-month old Elijah, and the husband of Dr. Carey Watson. He is a  writer, speaker, theologian, and served as an associate pastor of a large church in the San Francisco Bay Area before decided to stay home with his son. Tyler blogs at www.spacebetweenmyears.com

Tyler talks with me about their adoption, his new life as a stay-at-home-dad, and the ways that fatherhood is reshaping his view of God. We wrestle with the theological significance of grace and redemption and he graciously shared his strategy for removing snot from the face of an unreasonable 10-month-old.

 

Episode 1 | Starting at the beginning…

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My journey as a parent began in the typical way. It began with my mother.

The first episode of Parenting Reimagined is an interview with my own mother, Marcia Muterspaugh. In our conversation, she reflects on 35 years of motherhood and 35 years of living with Multiple Sclerosis. She bravely shares about the struggles of illness, the pain of an empty nest, and the joy of watching, really watching, children play, learn and grow.

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