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Perked Up Parenting
by Aischa Alexander & Emily Clary
Join two homeschool moms weekly for a cup of coffee and a quick chat on all the best, worst and in between of motherhood.
Episodes
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What is the mental load
Grab your coffee and join us as we take a fresh look at mental load, marriage, and the pressures each partner may carry, often in different ways. We get real and talk about how empathy and trust can move couples beyond keeping score.
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Bonus chit chat take 1
We decided to record our pre recording banter. You never know what you'll get, but its guaranteed to be interesting and completely unfiltered. Enjoy 🫠
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What is Mother's Education: A Chat With Beth
Join us for a life giving conversation with Beth from The Charlotte Mason Home. Hear her story and the importance of self education even in the throws of motherhood. Grab your coffee and get ready for some wonderful tips to help you grow!
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Meal Planning
Grab your coffee for a chat on meal planning. How are we fitting in homemade food with large families and full schedules?
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What is the village?
Grab your coffee for a chat on the "elusive" village. How to we create it? What are realistic expectations? And of course some other rabbit trails thrown in there as usual.
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A Chat About Screen Time
Grab your coffee and get ready for a chat on screen time! Do we get off topic? Debatable, we have a talent for spidering webbing many topics into one.
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Homeschool Prep!
Grab your coffee for a chat on the upcoming year. How we are preparing, our plan for our own education, and tips we wish we had when starting!!
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How Is 2026 Going: A Check In With Aischa And Emily
Summer is busy, and we want to continue showing up. Join us for a late mid year check in. Grab your coffee for a casual chat....and some minor tangents at the end. Feel free to find us on social media or email us, we would love to hear about your year so far!
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Part 2: 100 miles, goodbyes and the finish line
We are back for part 2 of Meghan's 100 mile race. This episode follows the final trials, twists and turns. Grab your coffee and hold your breath for the ending of this amazing mom's story.
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Part 1: How A Mom Trained For And Started A 100 Mile Race
Grab your coffee and join us for a chat with Meghan, an ordinary mom doing something extraordinary. She is here to tell us how she trained for a 100 mile race as a mom of 3 young daughters. This part includes training, prep and a challenging beginning. You wont want to miss this!!
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Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding can be a hot topic full of shame on both sides. Grab your coffee and lets chat breastfeeding, after 10 babies between us we have plenty of thoughts to share.
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Moms VS Chat GPT: Parenting Hot Takes
Mini Episode turned extended episode. Grab your coffee and join us and we take on Chat GPTS top parenting hot takes and see how well we know each other.
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Can You Have It All: A Discussion On Contentment
Grab your coffee and lets talk contentment. What does it even mean to have it all? How can we focus on contentment in our own lives?
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Honoring Miscarriage
Grab your coffee and maybe some tissue for a chat on miscarriage. This is Aischa's story of grief, anger, hope and joy in the midst of loss. We hope this episode brings you comfort, understanding and helps any mother who has experienced loss feel seen. Please reach out if you need a safe place to...
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Traveling with large familes
Is the idea you can't travel with a lage family holding people back from having kids? We all agree traveling is important but it doesn't have to be extravagant. Grab your coffee and come chat about how we make travling accessible and affordable with lots of kids!
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The importance of rest
Grab your coffee and kick back for a chat on the importance of rest and how we implement it as mothers of 5!
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Learning From Our Homeschooling Mistakes
Grab a cup of coffee and listen to all the ways we have messed up in our journey so you don't have too. Homeschooling is a joy, but it also requires a bit of trial and error.
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Exploring identity in motherhood
Is motherhood something we get lost in? Or is it where we grow and find who we were meant to be? Grab your coffee and lets chat about our identity in motherhood.
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Happy Mother's Day!!
Join us with your favorite coffee for a quick chat on Mother's Day and the importance of celebrating and honoring all the mother's in our life.
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A postpartum Journey
Join us for a chat on postpartum. We will get a peak into Aischa's last 6 weeks with her newest baby as well as sharing some memories and knowledge from our combined 10 postpartum experiences. Grab your coffee and lets get to it!
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Habit Training
Grab your coffee and come chat habit training with us! What it is, why its important and how to start! The Body Teaches The Soul by Justin Whitmel Earley Laying Down The Rails by Lanaya Gore
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Large Families
What is a large family? Why is it so controversial to have one today? Grab your coffee and chat with us about our life as "big" familes.
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Aischa's Birth Story!
A first look at our lovely co-hosts 5th homebirth story. Grab your coffee and listen in. You wont want to miss this incredible story!
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Homeschool Scheduling
Grab your coffee and lets chat scheduling, rhythms and the things we have learned as homeschooling moms along the way!!
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How We Speak Matters
Its so easy to get caught up in complaining with a friend about your kids. Its relatable and feels good in the moment. But, have you ever stopped to think about how the things you say to, and even about, your kids effects them? Grab your coffee and lets chat about this hot topic.
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Family Culture
Every family has a culture, whether you build it on purpose or not. The way your home feels, how you handle hard days, it all matters more than we realize. Grab your coffee and your laundry and lets chat about what shapes our homes.
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Birth Prep!
Go beyond packing bags and hospital registries as we discuss birth prep. From mindset to practical skills, we will discuss how we have confidently approached each of our 5 births. This episode is especially great as we walk along side Aischa in her prep for baby 5! Home birth, hospital or…
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Is Homemaking A Skill?
Just a mom? Not here. Grab your coffee and lets chat about how that is a lie. We believe motherhood and all it entails is a developed, intentional skill set, not a fall back plan. If you have ever felt the need to say "I am just a mom" this one's for you. https://youtu.be/l0tLkaVhdfM
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How many episodes does Perked Up Parenting have?
Perked Up Parenting currently has 28 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Perked Up Parenting about?
Join two homeschool moms weekly for a cup of coffee and a quick chat on all the best, worst and in between of motherhood.
How often does Perked Up Parenting release new episodes?
Perked Up Parenting has 28 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Who hosts Perked Up Parenting?
Perked Up Parenting is created and hosted by Aischa Alexander & Emily Clary.
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