Your Mom Is A Podcast · A Comedy Parenting Podcast

Maturing Relationships with Greer Kirshenbaum, Ph.D and her Mom

September 16, 2024·46 min·5 clips

Sundeep Parikh and Milana Vayntraub host a conversation with a guest and her mom that starts in family life and opens out from there. The pace stays brisk, but the episode still gives the emotional parts room to land. It spends real time on parenting. The discussion asks what changes when a parent decides not to lean on incentive-based discipline and instead tries to lead with curiosity, care, and trust. That idea gets more complicated once achievement enters the picture. The hosts and guests talk about wanting big things for children while still letting those children define what success should mean. They keep checking the line between high expectations and pressure. Rather than flattening the issue, the conversation treats that line as something parents have to redraw again and again. A lot of the strength comes from how ordinary the examples are. Grades, habits, annoyance, responsibility, and the small irritations of family life all become openings into bigger questions about identity and repair. The show is comfortable with that kind of drift. Sundeep and Milana interrupt, correct, and build on one another, which gives the exchange a lived-in feel. That looseness lets the humor breathe. A serious point is often followed by a quick sideways joke or a ridiculous little pivot, so the conversation never gets stiff. The episode also keeps its eye on what children inherit. The guests and hosts return to the idea that parents can pass down their own fears even when they are trying to do better. That makes the discussion feel less like advice and more like self-examination. By the end, the most revealing question is not about technique. It is about how much truth families can handle when they are finally willing to ask the awkward things out loud. The result is warm, a little messy, and very recognizably human.

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A candid, funny parenting conversation about expectations, curiosity, and what gets passed down.

The episode begins as a parenting conversation, then widens into how adults balance high expectations, curiosity, responsibility, and the habits carried over from childhood.

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For when you want parenting talk that stays funny while getting honestly into pressure, expectations, curiosity, and the question of why a kid finds a parent annoying.

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