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Dec 2023
41m 51s

Parenting is hard enough: Why are we mak...

DR. MONA AMIN
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In this final episode of 2023, I welcome my husband, Gaurav, to chat about how we as a generation are making parenting harder on ourselves. He has joined me for two episodes already about Marriage and Parenting and Re-Parenting ourselves as we parent our children and on this episode we discuss: How we can tap back into our intuition as parents How we ... Show More
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