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All of us are familiar with the fairy tales of youth where the young hero and heroine fall in love, defeat their enemies, marry, and live happily ever after. The fairy tales gathered here are about what happens next, when the Prince goes bald and the Princess has a midlife crisis. They portray middle-aged men and women facing the special issues dealing with crisis, aging and mortality, and the desire for renewal.

Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children experience displacement and rupture from their mother and that trauma can impact an individual for a lifetime. Adoption can lead to feelings of loss and grief not just for the adoptee, but for the biological and adoptive parents as well. This startling fact comes vividly to life in Janet Sherlund’s heartbreaking memoir, Abandoned at Birth.

Three parents. Three generations. One endlessly humbling journey. Welcome to Once and Future Parent, where the parenting timeline gets the roundtable it deserves. Join hosts Matthew Fox (brand new parent), Mandy Kaplan (mom to a high-schooler), and Pete Wright (father of mostly-launched grown kids) as they gather to compare notes from three different stages of family life. From the sleepless nights of preparing for a newborn, through the chaos of early adolescence, to the bittersweet art of letting go, each episode tackles the lessons, laughs, and late-night Googling that come with parenting ...

🕵️‍♂️ Once Upon a Crime — A Podcast Where YOU Crack the Case! 🔍 Think you’ve got what it takes to solve history’s sneakiest mysteries? In Once Upon a Crime, kids, classrooms, and curious families become the detectives! Each episode drops you into a real (or real-ish!) historical whodunnit — packed with clues, suspects, and suspicious twists.🎧 Listen closely. ⏸️ Pause to predict. 🗣️ Discuss the evidence. 👀 Spot the red herrings. 🕵️‍♀️ Decide who really did it.Whether you're solo with your headphones, gathered around Alexa at home, or solving clues...

Five years into fatherhood, Calvin Hennick is plagued by self-doubt and full of questions. How can he teach his son to be a man when his own father figures abandoned him? As a white man, what can he possibly teach his biracial son about how to live as a black man in America? And what does it even mean to be a man today, when society's expectations of men seem to change from moment to moment?

The bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, examines the parties and preparations of the quincea–era...

”Once Upon a Prompt” takes kids’ wildest imaginations and turns them into bedtime magic. Dad reads aloud whimsical, AI-crafted stories built from your ideas. A nightly dose of creativity, laughter, and dreams awaits!

A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss “A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone . . . a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life itself...

Welcome to the radiant embrace of the "Once Again Mom" PODCAST—a nourishing haven for moms navigating the uncharted waters of the life-altering fourth trimester and beyond into the beautiful journey of motherhood. Here, we celebrate YOU, the awe-inspiring creators and nurturers walking the path of motherhood, a path that intertwines with the sacred, the joyous, and yes, even the tumultuous phases of bringing a new soul into this world. From the holy ground of pregnancy to the glorious revelation of birth, and onto the transformational adventure known as matrescence—those tender, adolescent...

Once Upon an Upset is a podcast of stories and conversations to help make sense of difficult times, for kids and parents. (All episodes written, performed and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane, and all music made by Jerome Rossen at Freshmade Music.)

Traditional and new stories told with songs, rhymes, instrumental sounds with a young guest every month to read their specially chosen story.

As a new parent of a child with a rare genetic syndrome, I was lost. There was no guide. There was no rulebook. This was not what I had imagined. As I navigated my way through this new reality, I realized something that should have been simple, but was not. A truth that had always been there, but that I had lost sight of for a time - I am not alone. And neither are you. These are the stories of my family, and of families like ours. These are the stories of how we have persevered, cried, bonded, and grown. These are the stories of children who have been told that they cannot, and that have ...

Once Upon an Upset — The Interviews This podcast contains interviews only, about topics such as mental health and parenting, based on the content from my other podcast for kids and parents: Once Upon an Upset, stories and conversations to help make sense of difficult times. For adults only. New episodes on occasion. To listen to my other podcast, the Once Upon an Upset Podcast for kids and parents, please visit www.onceuponanupset.com.

When Mindy and her best friend, B.J. Novak, are approached on a dark street by a Charles Manson-esque character, naturally they’re unnerved. Turns out he’s a huge fan of The Office! Now Mindy’s feeling a little judgy. But the night is young, unseasonably hot, and getting weirder. Mindy and B.J.’s brief encounter with the drifter is about to take an unexpected turn in Sunset Junction.