Your Parenting is Showing

Your Parenting Is Showing: a podcast about what happens when your nice smooth professional front is upended by your parenting backstage, in pandemic-time. Where two so-called “experts” bring their friends on to talk about their own pandemic parenting wins and blunders.

Hosted by Rev. Molly Baskette and psychologist Dr. Ellen O’Donnell, co-authors of Bless This Mess: A Modern Guide to Faith and Parenting in a Chaotic World (Convergent, 2019)

In this episode we talk with social worker Brittany Walker Pettigrew. Brittany is a Black mom raising three Black children, two by birth and one by adoption, in Oakland, CA. Brittany had so much wisdom to share that this is a long one. You’re going to want to listen to the whole thing more than once so take it in snack size bites.

In part one, we discuss why the value and weight of education is different for BIPOC kids than for White kids and what this means as we emerge into an almost-post-pandemic new normal. Brittany asks, “Will my children’s time be evaluated with the same compassion?” She shares her thoughts on what it means to be resilient and who gets to define the metric of resilience.

In the second half hour, Brittany shares what she learned from the experience, post 2016 election, of being part of a program that attempted to bridge the political divide between liberal West Coast women and conservative women from Alabama. She shares the value of getting curious about someone’s lived experience and names curiosity as a spiritual practice. She encourages us all to work to create new viscera.