Straight Up Parenting

Our conversation with our life coach Mahtab Moradi addresses various parenting challenges we face today, especially raising our tweens and teens. Ranging from balancing ultra high parental expectations to having the essential conversations on puberty! What do we do when our children are exposed to highly traumatic events like school shootings or suicides? It's a conversation you don't want to miss.. have a listen!

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In this weeks Off The Cuff Episode we talk about high parental expectations. Academic expectations, social expectations, extra curricular expectations...do we burden our kids with our aspirations? Are we somewhere secretly hoping that our kids excel in things that we never did as kids? Does the level of parental expectations vary by ethnic groups? Or should we have parental expectations so that we are able to motivate our kids to do better. Do high parental expectations raise the bar for...

FOMO-Fear of Missing out- surely affects our children but probably affects the adults..their parents... more! We are the generation of digital natives who have to learn how to navigate this experience successfully, not only for ourselves but also for our children! The solution to this challenge is in a well worded acronym JOMO- Joy of missing out ! That we learnt from our returning guest Preity Bhagia. It was such an A-ha moment for all of us! Do have a listen as we discuss the various...

This was such an engaging topic to explore...with so many angles to cover and discuss.. As parents... are we always on the same page? Be it their academics, food choices, after school activities etc When we aren’t...how do we resolve it? If any my take away from this super engaging episode was …..we all disagree with our partners about one thing or the other when it comes to parenting..and it is totally ok … we are all learning.. as we raise our children…and there is no perfect way! Every...

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It is odorless (or may smell like a scented candle), colorless and the device may look like a USB drive! Naturally it goes undetected when our middle schoolers use it in the school hallways! We are talking about Vaping here aka using electronic cigarettes. Yes, our middle schoolers are using it in our own county! We listened in disbelief when Lauren told us how easily available and how dangerous Vaping can be! Have a listen about a topic we know very little about!

We are the first generation of parents who face a unique parenting challenge of monitoring and mentoring our children’s social media space. While we breed a generation of digital natives .. we find ourselves falling short, not only in keeping up with the latest available in the social media space but also grappling with how to, best educate and mentor our children. Have a listen as four moms discuss and learn from each other about parenting the social media space. Our amazing mom guests...

A very sensitive topic for most of us. It was interesting and disheartening to discover how each one of us on the show has experienced it. Sometimes as a child, sometimes in their youth and how that has shaped us as parents! Even though body shaming is synonymous with fat shaming there are so many other physical attributes like skin color, height, hair texture... that are judged by society at large! Is there a positive way to deal with body image? What other influences exist outside home-...

Welcome to the Straight Up parenting podcast “From the experts desk” episode. Our topic today is relevant to most of us parents. Are you a helicopter parent? How do you draw the line between being an involved parent versus being a helicopter parent. Today, we are getting the perspective of our experts. We meet, discuss and understand from those that work with our kids closely. Our school counselors, who give us their professional take on helicopter parenting and why it is so detrimental...

Join us on our first "Off The Cuff" episode for a fun and a casual chat … where 3 moms find out on which side of the parenting spectrum they fall on? Whether requesting for a particular teacher… or tying your 8 yr old’s shoelace make you a helicopter parent.. Find out this and more as we talk with our guest, Preity Bhagia. Preity was born and raised in Delhi, worked in Dubai and has now made a home in Houston, where she lives with her husband and two children. She earned a degree in...

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