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After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings

Dear Media and Big Little Feelings

109 episodes

Real talk? Modern parenting is a doozy. There’s never been more pressure to be perfect with social media readily at our fingertips - mixed with total isolation and no help. Where the f*ck is that village everyone talks about? Consider After Bedtime your village. Led by Kristin and Deena - founders of the largest online parenting community, Big Little Feelings - After Bedtime is the place you can go at the end of a long hard day to find your “enough”-ness. We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, we’ll maybe pee our pants a little as we unpack things we’re ALL experiencing but too ashamed to talk about: imperfect marriages, miscarriages, managing toddler mania, apologizing to our kids and everything in between. You’ll leave with actionable, realistic tips to make this whole parenting thing smoother - small changes, big impact. In an age where parents need more *real* connection than ever, let’s talk honestly about the hard - and remind ourselves we are not alone, we are not failing. In fact, we’re f*cking crushing it.

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  1. Raising Boys in a World That Needs Better Men: 10 Things to Start Today

    · 42 min

    A listener favorite, back by popular demand! This conversation feels more relevant than ever. We're revisiting one of our most important episodes about raising boys and the small, science-backed things we can do today…

  2. The ADHD & Autism Conversation That Could Change How You See Yourself (and Your Kids)

    · 1 h 02 min

    Have you ever spent your entire life feeling like you're too much, too sensitive, too scattered, too difficult, or just somehow failing at things that seem SO easy for everyone else? Or maybe you're raising a child who…

  3. LET CRAIG SEW: Craig Conover on Heartbreak, ADHD, & Becoming Himself

    · 1 h 19 min

    Everyone’s Bravo husband is in the house: CRAIG CONOVER. We can’t believe AND we get into ALL. OF. IT. Southern Charm. Austen. Shep. The breakup. Growing up on reality TV. Because we’ve basically watched Craig grow up…

  4. Rewire Your Relationships: The Attachment Patterns, Blind Spots, and Protective Moves Shaping How You Love

    · 58 min

    You can be wildly self-aware, deeply loving, in therapy, reading all the books, trying your absolute hardest - and still turn into a completely different person the second your relationship gets hard. Maybe you start…

  5. Your Brain Is Begging for These 5 Things (And it could help you prevent Alzheimer’s disease)

    · 52 min

    You walk into a room and have absolutely no idea why you’re there. You can’t find the word you were JUST about to say. You’re exhausted, foggy, forgetful - and everyone tells you: welcome to motherhood. But… what if…

  6. Would You Let Your Kid Do This? Our Most Unfiltered Parenting Takes

    · 53 min

    Would you let your kid wear pajamas to school? Forget their homework and face the consequences? Tell Grandma they don’t want a hug? Quit a sport halfway through the season? Eat candy for breakfast? You probably have an…

  7. Amanda Kloots Thought She’d “Conquer” Grief. Six Years Later, She Knows Better.

    · 1 h 12 min

    If you watched Amanda Kloots during the early days of COVID, you probably remember her story. Her husband, Nick Cordero, spent 95 days in the hospital before dying from complications of COVID-19. Their son, Elvis, had…

  8. Your Hardest Parenting Questions, Answered: Part 2

    · 55 min

    Our last Q&A became our MOST-LISTENED-TO episode, so Besties: WE’RE BACK. You sent us your hardest parenting questions, and once again, we’re answering them all. Your kid was doing GREAT, and then school started and…

  9. Your Kid Lied to Your Face. Now What?

    · 48 min

    If your kid has ever looked you directly in the eyes and lied, even when you KNOW they know that you know the truth…you probably know the immediate panic spiral: Why are they lying to me? Is this normal? Can I trust…

  10. Billy Eichner: How His Parents Gave Him the Audacity to Be Himself

    · 1 h 21 min

    If you've ever worried that loving your kid too much, supporting them too much, or NOT giving them enough "tough love" is going to leave them completely unprepared for the real world, you need to hear this episode.…

  11. Is Everything Toxic Now?! Here’s What Parents Actually Need to Know

    · 33 min

    File this under: things we genuinely did not realize we needed to know as parents. 🙃 Our kids spend SO MUCH of their lives sleeping, but… have you ever actually thought about what their mattress is made of? Yeah.…

  12. If We Could Only Teach Our Kids 5 Things, It Would Be This

    · 1 h 03 min

    What if the most important thing you ever teach your child isn't a parenting strategy... it's a belief they'll carry for the rest of their life? Someday our children are going to get their heart broken, they'll fail,…

  13. Stassi Schroeder Tells All: House of Stassi, Her Marriage to Beau & the Vanderpump Rules Years

    · 49 min

    BESTIES. STASSI SCHROEDER IS HERE. The woman. The icon. The mother of reality television. The person many of us have watched, quoted, defended, occasionally screamed at through our televisions, and essentially grown…

  14. Amanda Frances on RHOBH: What You Didn't See on TV

    · 1 h 17 min

    If you've been watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, this is the conversation you've been waiting for. Amanda Frances joins us fresh off her first season on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to pull back…

  15. Solo Parenting? Here's How to Make It Feel Less Impossible

    · 42 min

    Some seasons of parenting just ask more of you. Maybe your partner travels or works nights. Maybe you’re simply carrying more than your fair share right now and navigating a period where you're parenting solo. Whatever…

  16. Your Hardest Parenting Questions, Answered ⭐

    · 44 min

    Why does your child completely shut down anytime you bring up feelings? Should you actually ignore tantrums... or is that some of the worst parenting advice we've been given? And if your child is potty trained during…

  17. Forget the Perfect Summer: Here's What We're Doing Instead

    · 53 min

    If you're feeling like summer has somehow become another thing you have to nail” or do perfectly"... this episode is your reminder that you don't have to. Our feeds are full of magical summer moments, bucket lists,…

  18. Why You Always Fight With Your Partner on Vacation (And How to Stop)

    · 56 min

    If every family vacation somehow ends with you and your partner bickering... snapping at each other... feeling guilty because your kids are watching... and wondering why you spent thousands of dollars to argue…

  19. You’re Making This Sibling Mistake Every Day (And It’s Making the Fighting Worse)

    · 48 min

    If your house sounds like a WWE match in a bounce house all summer long... this episode is for you. The arguing. The tattling. The screaming from the other room. The constant feeling that you've spent the last three…

  20. Dateline’s Andrea Canning Knows Why Women Are Obsessed With True Crime — And Her Answer Gave Me Chills

    · 1 h 03 min

    If you’re a true crime girlie, stop what you’re doing and press play. Because this conversation with Dateline’s Andrea Canning is one of those episodes you’ll be thinking about long after it’s over. Andrea has spent…

  21. The Anxiety Playbook Every Parent Needs: What Anxiety Really Is, Why Reassurance Backfires, and How Brave Kids Are Built.

    · 41 min

    Your kid won't sleep alone, melts down before soccer, refuses to order their own food, panics over mistakes, clings to you at drop-off and explodes when things feel uncertain. And every instinct in your body says,…

  22. 3 Things Your Strong-Willed Kid Needs to Hear

    · 36 min

    If you’re raising a strong-willed kid, this episode could change the trajectory of their entire life. In this revisit of one of our favorite episodes, Kristin pulls back the curtain on what it was like to be that…

  23. The Real Reason You’re Exhausted All the Time

    · 1 h 00 min

    If you feel like you’re drowning, failing, and behind on everything in life right now, this episode is going to change everything for you. Women are carrying an impossible amount right now. The schedules. The school…

  24. Stop Escalating Your Kid’s Meltdowns (And What To Do Instead)

    · 39 min

    If your child’s meltdowns feel constant. If you find yourself yelling, threatening, negotiating, or completely losing your mind over the smallest things. If you’ve ever thought, “WHY are they freaking out over THIS?”…

  25. Your Hardest Parenting Questions, Answered

    · 48 min

    Why does your toddler laugh when you’re disciplining them? What do you do when potty training completely falls apart? And how do you parent the kid who feels EVERYTHING bigger, louder, harder, and more intensely than…

  26. The Mental Load Solution: The New Tool That *Actually* Sets You Free

    · 44 min

    You are not overwhelmed because you’re bad at balance. You’re overwhelmed because you’re carrying an entire operating system in your head for running a home and caring for kids, and no one ever taught you how to turn…

  27. From Trauma to Peace: Deena's Third Birth Story

    · 41 min

    The episode you've been asking for is finally here : Deena's birth story for her third baby. And you're not going to want to miss this one. If you’ve been here for a while, you know her first didn’t go the way she…

  28. Celebrating 10 Years of Marriage - Not the Anniversary Trip We Expected

    · 55 min

    Deep breath, friends. This is one of THOSE episodes; the kind that starts off light and then shifts into something a little heavier, a little scarier, but ultimately really important. This episode was supposed to be…

  29. 6 Thinking Traps to Catch, Change and Feel Instantly Better

    · 35 min

    What if the thing running your day… is your non-conscious thought patterns that are happening on repeat?? The same ones showing up every single day, silently shaping how you feel, how you react, and how you show up as…

  30. Forget "Stranger Danger” - Teach Your Kids These Sexual Abuse Safety Tools

    · 31 min

    Trigger Warning: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse. We share this with care, but please listen at your own pace and take care of yourself. Deep breath, friends. This is one of THOSE episodes - the kind…

  31. How to Be the Parent You Never Had (And Why It’s the Hardest—and Most Important—Work You’ll Ever Do)

    · 39 min

    If you’ve ever asked yourself “Why am I so triggered by my child’s emotions?” “Why does this feel harder for me than it does for everyone else?” Or “How do I raise emotionally healthy kids… when no one taught me how?”…

  32. We’re Parenting Too Much, And It’s Backfiring. What We’re Bringing Back from 90’s Parenting

    · 58 min

    We need to say something that might make you uncomfortable: we are over-parenting our kids. We are over-helping. Over-entertaining. Over-scheduling. Over-involving ourselves in every single moment of their lives. And…

  33. Stop Raising Obedient Kids

    · 39 min

    What if the goal of parenting isn’t raising kids who always listen…but raising kids who feel safe being fully themselves? In this episode, Kristin shares a realization that stopped her in her tracks: so much of her…

  34. I Have Postpartum Depression, and I’m Still Struggling to Find My Way Out

    · 49 min

    This is one of the most vulnerable conversations we’ve ever had on the podcast. In this episode, Deena shares something deeply personal: her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her third baby. What…

  35. I Had Big Questions About Kids & Social Media. So I Went Straight to Meta.

    · 48 min

    I’ll be honest: I have a hard time with the idea of kids on social media. And still… the reality is: Teens (and preteens) are being pulled into this world, and parents are left trying to make sense of it. So, we sat…

  36. We’re Not Just Raising Boys - We’re Shaping Men: 10 Actions to Start Today

    · 40 min

    If you’re raising a boy, this episode will light a fire in you - in the best, most empowering way. Because here’s the truth: The kind of men our boys become is not random - it’s not just personality, or fate. It’s…

  37. Women Aren’t Small Men. 6 Daily-Life Health Shifts to Start Making Today

    · 43 min

    If you’re a woman - or you love one! - this episode will change how you understand women’s bodies. Because here’s the sad truth: Women’s health has been built on research that largely ignored women. We’ve been handed…

  38. PBS KIDS Isn’t “Just TV.” It’s a Lifeline, and It’s Being Defunded.

    · 58 min

    PBS KIDS is one of the only places in kids’ media that still feels like it’s made by people who actually like children. It’s the show your kid watches and then… somehow… can still turn the iPad off without acting like…

  39. Divorce Doesn't Ruin Kids, Conflict Does

    · 39 min

    Divorce is one of the most painful decisions a parent can make, and there's one thing that's always top of mind when facing a possible separation or divorce: will my kids be okay? Today's episode will give you a big,…

  40. He Cheated. She Stayed. Scheana Shay on Motherhood, Betrayal, and the Choice to Stay.

    · 53 min

    For more than a decade, Scheana Shay has lived her life in the public eye, on Vanderpump Rules, in headlines, and under constant scrutiny. But while the world watched one version of her story, a much harder one was…

  41. The World Is Hard, That’s Why Home Shouldn’t Be (feat. Jon Fogel)

    · 54 min

    Most parents are doing everything they can to raise good kids, and still feeling exhausted, reactive, and unsure if they’re actually helping in the long run. So much parenting advice is obsessed with today’s behavior:…

  42. 2026 Trends: What's In, What's Out, and What Needs to be Gently Retired

    · 37 min

    We’re back with one of our favorite episodes of the year: the trends of the year episode where we scour the internet for the hottest trends forecasted for 2026. Your resident besties, Kristin and Deena officially give…

  43. Deena Is Back: The Postpartum Truth No One Tells You

    · 42 min

    The world tells us the newborn stage is supposed to be magical. Soft lighting. Sweet snuggles. “Soak it all in.” But for so many parents? It’s a blur of no sleep, hormonal whiplash, identity loss, and quietly asking…

  44. Smart Phones, AI, and Social Media - Will the Kids Be Ok?

    · 53 min

    Parenting has never been easy , but parenting in the age of AI, social media, and private digital spaces is something no generation has navigated before. And truthfully? It’s terrifying, for so many of us with kids…

  45. Traveling With Kids: The Survival Guide Every Parent Needs

    · 30 min

    Before kids, travel was a vibe. After kids? It’s CrossFit, hostage negotiation, and a team sport you didn’t train for. If you’re traveling with kids this holiday season — flying, driving, or doing both — this episode…

  46. Holiday Confessions: The Chaotic Holiday Episode Parents Actually Need

    · 51 min

    The holidays are supposed to be magical. They’re also loud, overstimulating, emotionally charged, and somehow happening every single day for a month straight. So this episode? This one’s for the parents who are hanging…

  47. Sex After Kids: What the Hell Happened? And What To Do About It.

    · 1 h 03 min

    You’re touched out. Your brain is fried. And sex feels like one more thing on the list. In this episode, Kristin and Deena sit down with sex therapist Vanessa Marin and her husband Xander Marin to talk honestly about…

  48. The Most Honest Take on Motherhood You’ll Hear This Year — from Two Female Comedians

    · 59 min

    This might be the funniest, most NSFW episode we’ve ever recorded—and it’s also one of the realest conversations we’ve ever had about women, comedy, and motherhood. Kristin and Tyler sit down with two women who have…

  49. The Mother–Daughter Tangle: Why This Relationship Is So Hard… and So Worth Healing

    · 54 min

    In this episode, Kristin and therapist/author Eli Harwood unpack why mother–daughter relationships are uniquely tender, triggering, and complicated. Eli explains how daughters reflect parts of ourselves we haven’t…

  50. Dad Mode 2.0: What Modern Dads Are Really Carrying Into the Holidays

    · 57 min

    The holidays are here… and so is the pressure. In this episode, Kristin and Tyler pull the curtain all the way back on what moms and dads are really carrying into Thanksgiving week: the invisible loads, the silent…

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