Growing Pains

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Growing Pains is a podcast from HoneyKids Asia for the conversations parents want to have after the kids go to bed. In each episode, we speak to experts, parents, and people with lived experience about the realities of raising kids today — from relationships, identity, mental health and screen time to school pressure, family dynamics, and everything in between. These are honest, thoughtful conversations that say the things many parents are thinking, but rarely say out loud. No judgement, no perfect parenting, just real stories, practical insights, and a reminder that none of us are figuring it out alone.

  1. 1 day ago

    How to Become a Mother Without Losing Yourself

    She had four children, two marriages, and once lived in the same building as her ex-husband while married to her current one. Christine Amour-Levar built a life most people would call impossible: mother of four, social entrepreneur, climate investor, and leader of thirty all-female expeditions to some of the most extreme places on earth. But ask her which comes first, being a woman or being a mother, and her answer might surprise you. This week, Christine sits down with Steph to talk about the guilt she carried when she chose ambition over staying home, the sea turtle story she used to help her children understand divorce, and the annual ritual she has kept for twenty five years that keeps her whole life on track. She also opens up about a decision so unconventional that even her own mother struggled to understand it. What happens when you refuse to choose between the woman you are and the mother you became? And what does it actually cost to have it all? Hit play. IN THIS EPISODE: 00:00 | Why Motherhood Shouldn’t Erase Who You Are 00:31 | Meet Christine Amour-Levar: Mother, Investor and Explorer 02:44 | From Nike Executive to a Life of Purpose and Impact 05:26 | “I’m a Woman First”: Redefining Motherhood and Identity 08:33 | The Mum Guilt Behind a Successful Career 15:20 | How to Divorce Without Breaking the Family 22:44 | Why Self-Love Is the Key to Letting Go of Guilt 27:17 | You Can Have It All — Just Not All at Once 31:28 | Inside Christine’s 180-Page Life-Planning System 36:58 | How to Build a Career Around Everything You Love 41:45 | What Extreme Expeditions Teach You About Leadership 44:10 | Why Your Children Shouldn’t Always Come First 47:40 | The Three Biggest Lessons on Motherhood and Identity About the Christine Amour-Levar Christine Amour-Levar is a French-Swiss-Filipina social entrepreneur, climate investor, and bestselling author who has led thirty all-female expeditions to places like Antarctica, the Arctic, and the Danakil Depression, raising over $3 million for women and climate causes. She co-founded Her Planet Earth and Investors for Climate, is Founder of Women Beyond Limits, and is a mother of four. Connect with Christine: https://www.christineamourlevar.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/christineamourlevar/ https://www.instagram.com/christineamourlevar/ What You'll Take Away Why Christine calls herself "a woman first, and a mother second"The sea turtle story she used to explain divorce to a four and six year oldWhat happened when she and her ex-husband lived in the same building, married to other peopleThe annual ritual she's kept for 25 years, and why it runs 180 pagesWhy she thinks "always put your child first" is bad parenting adviceWhat went wrong during a 50 degree desert expeditionThe one thing she says is the true opposite of love (it isn't hate) Connect with Growing PainsGrowing Pains is HoneyKids Asia's podcast for the conversations you want to have after the kids go to bed. YouTube: @growingpains.honeykids Instagram: @honeykidsasia Website: honeykidsasia.com Hit subscribe so you don't miss an episode. If this one resonated, share it with a parent who needs it. Growing Pains is produced in partnership with Poddster, Singapore's podcast studio. #GrowingPains #HoneyKidsAsia #ChristineAmourLevar #WorkingMothers #MumGuilt #WomenFirst #CoParenting #WomenInLeadership #PortfolioCareer #FemaleEntrepreneur #ConsciousParenting #WomenBeyondLimits #Podster

    How to Become a Mother Without Losing Yourself

  2. 10 Aug

    Is Motherhood Quietly Erasing the Real You?

    She built one of Singapore's most awarded agencies. She dressed the biggest names in fashion. She raised two boys. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, she stopped recognising the person in the mirror. Tjin Lee, founder of Mercury and co-founder of Crib Society talks about what actually happens when motherhood and career quietly swallow your sense of self, and what it takes to hold on to it. This is not a story about burnout. It is about the slower, sneakier thing that happens when you spend two decades being everything to everyone else. There is a label she says every working mother should stop using on herself. There is a red dress that changed the way an entire industry saw her. There is a caterpillar story she tells her sons that has nothing to do with insects and everything to do with why she refuses to make their lives easier. If you have ever felt like you disappeared somewhere inside your own life, this conversation is for you. Hit play. IN THIS EPISODE: 00:00 | Losing Yourself to Motherhood 00:38 | Welcome to Growing Pains with Tjin Lee 01:56 | The Unexpected Journey to Motherhood at 40 03:57 | Facing the "Auntie" in the Mirror 06:37 | Why 50 is the Adolescence of Old Age 12:19 | Don't Let "Mom" Override Your Identity 15:23 | Why "Mompreneur" is a Label That Keeps Women Small 23:42 | Coloring Books to Minecraft: The Screen Time Dilemma 28:13 | Shielding Sons From the Toxic Manosphere 30:12 | The Red Dress Moment: Stepping Out of the Shadows 35:51 | Earning Your Battle Armor & Dropping the People Pleaser 41:07 | Stop Taking It Personally: Lessons for the Next Gen 43:00 | The Heartbreak of "Soulmate Parenting" 46:35 | Quick-Fire: Refusing the Tiger Mom Trap 52:24 | Episode Takeaways About Tjin Lee Tjin Lee is the founder of Mercury, a Singapore marketing agency she built over 23 years and sold at 49, working with brands including Burberry, Gucci and Cartier along the way. She also launched the Audi Fashion Festival, chaired Singapore Fashion Week, and co-founded Crib Society to support women entrepreneurs. She has over 120,000 followers on Instagram, where she is known for being outspoken about motherhood, identity and midlife reinvention. Connect with Tjin Lee: Instagram: @Tjinlee Linkedin: Tjin Lee Find out more about Crib Society What You'll Take AwayThe moment she stopped recognising herself, and what she did about itWhy she says the word "mompreneur" quietly shrinks the woman using itThe caterpillar story she tells her sons, and why she won't rescue them from the struggleWhat it actually took to separate "who I am" from "who my kids need me to be"The red dress story behind why she stopped hiding backstage at her own eventsWhy she thinks women are taught to be uncomfortable with being seenWhat she wishes she had understood about herself twenty years earlier Connect with Growing PainsGrowing Pains is HoneyKids Asia's podcast for the conversations you want to have after the kids go to bed. YouTube: @growingpains.honeykids Instagram: @honeykidsasia Website: honeykidsasia.com Hit subscribe so you don't miss an episode. If this one resonated, share it with a parent who needs it. Growing Pains is produced in partnership with Poddster, Singapore's podcast studio. #TjinLee #GrowingPains #HoneyKidsAsia #MotherhoodJourney #WomenInBusiness #ImposterSyndrome #SingaporeEntrepreneurs #MomGuilt #SelfLoveJourney #ModernParenting #EmpoweredWomen #ThrivingInYour50s

    Is Motherhood Quietly Erasing the Real You?

  3. 3 Aug

    Can Women Really Have It All? We’re Asking the Wrong Question

    Sharon Wong walked away from a high-flying corporate career with zero retail experience and built one of Asia's leading mother and baby brands across four countries. Twenty-eight years, one pandemic after another, and an expansion into China that started with doors slamming in her face. She calls it insanity. She might be right. Now, at 60, she's not slowing down. She's scaling faster than ever, and she's rewriting what everyone assumes about age, ambition and rest. In this episode, Sharon talks with Stephanie about the real cost of chasing having it all, the mindset shift that let her treat every crisis as just another season, and the parenting philosophy that shaped three kids who still call her their best friend. There's a secret recipe behind her success, a rapid fire round that gets brutally honest about the worst parenting advice she's ever received, and one theory about luck that has nothing to do with money. Can women really have it all? Or are we asking the wrong question? Sharon has an answer. You might not expect it. Click play. What You'll Take Away Why the founder of one of Asia's biggest baby brands says she's never actually been stressedThe real formula behind her success, and why one letter in it changed completelyWhat it took to get a single Chinese mall to finally say yes after every other door slammed shutThe parenting rule she and her husband set before they even had kidsWhy she thinks "having it all" is the wrong question entirelyThe rapid fire answer that flips conventional parenting advice on its headWhat her ten year old son did with his Christmas presents that turned into a decade-long family tradition IN THIS EPISODE: 00:00 | Can Women Really Have It All? 01:05 | Welcome to Growing Pains 01:22 | Meet Sharon Wong: Building Motherswork From a Personal Mission 02:20 | Why Every Entrepreneurial “Down” Is Really Change 06:55 | Entering China With Courage, Naivety and No Funding 09:07 | How to Keep Moving When Life Feels Overwhelming 15:08 | Raising Children With Kindness, Courage and Clear Values 19:29 | Sharon’s Formula for Success: Passion, Product, People and Luck 27:03 | Stop Asking Whether Women Can Have It All 32:48 | Why Sharon Believes in Seasons, Not Mum Guilt 36:23 | Scaling at 60: Reinventing Yourself at Any Age 41:30 | Writing Whoa, Mom and Choosing Vulnerability 44:00 | The Giving Tree: Teaching Children to Lead With Kindness 48:00 | Legacy, Motherhood and the Advice Sharon Lives By 50:00 | Stephanie’s Top Three Episode Takeaways About the Guest Sharon Wong is the Founder and CEO of Motherswork, one of Asia's leading premium mother, baby and kids' retail brands, with stores across Singapore, China, Vietnam and Thailand. She left a career as a Regional Tax and Treasury Director to build the company from scratch with zero retail experience, and 28 years later her team calls her "the CEO who bakes." She's the author of Wo(Mum): Living My Life as a Warrior, Woman and Mum, Chairwoman of MITAS (Maternal and Infant Trade Association of Singapore), and a mother of three. Connect with Sharon and Motherswork: https://www.motherswork.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-wong-motherswork/ https://www.instagram.com/motherswork/ Connect with Growing Pains Growing Pains is HoneyKids Asia's podcast for the conversations you want to have after the kids go to bed. YouTube: @growingpains.honeykids Instagram: honeykidsasia Website: https://honeykidsasia.com/ Hit subscribe so you don't miss an episode. If this one hits home, send it to a parent who needs it. Growing Pains is produced in partnership with Poddster, Singapore's podcast studio. #GrowingPains #HoneyKidsAsia #SharonWong #Motherswork #WomenInBusiness #WorkingMothers #MumGuilt #FemaleEntrepreneur #MotherhoodAndCareer #ScalingAt60 #Parenting #Entrepreneurship #Podster

    Can Women Really Have It All? We’re Asking the Wrong Question

  4. 27 Jul

    How to Raise Indistractable Kids

    Your brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second. You consciously process about 50. The rest gets filled in by beliefs, and those same beliefs, the ones you don't even know you have, are quietly shaping your children right now. Nir Eyal is a former Stanford lecturer, New York Times bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable, and the kind of person who will tell you that your to-do list is making you worse at life. His latest book, Beyond Belief, started with a simple question: why do people not do the things they know they should? The answer had nothing to do with willpower, screens, or discipline. It had to do with the invisible stories we carry about ourselves, and pass on. This one will make you think differently about your own brain. Press play. IN THIS EPISODE: 00:00 | The Limiting Beliefs Quietly Running Our Lives 00:54 | Why Our Beliefs Shape How We Parent 02:30 | How Emotional Eating Shaped Nir’s Life 03:47 | Why Distraction Starts Inside Your Head 09:44 | The Hidden Problem With To-Do Lists 09:52 | How Time Boxing Rebuilds Focus and Control 15:13 | Turning Your Values Into Protected Time 18:40 | Why Knowing Better Does Not Create Change 22:59 | When Beliefs Start Feeling Like Facts 26:11 | A Four-Step Method to Change Limiting Beliefs 33:30 | Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Added 37:10 | How to Raise Self-Regulating, Resilient Kids 42:41 | When Manifestation Helps — and When It Backfires 48:35 | How Labels Quietly Become Personal Limitations 54:54 | The Best and Worst Parenting Advice About Nir Nir Eyal is a globally recognised authority on behaviour change and human potential. A former lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, he's the New York Times bestselling author of three books that between them have sold over one million copies in more than 30 languages. Beyond Belief: geni.us/beyondbeliefIndistractable: geni.us/IndistractableHooked: geni.us/hookedFree belief change guide: nirandfar.com/beyond-belief-live30-Day Belief Transformation Journal: nirandfar.com/beyond-beliefWebsite: nirandfar.comInstagram: @nireyalLinkedIn: Nir Eyal What You'll Take AwayWhy your to-do list is secretly working against youFour questions that can dissolve a belief you've held for years (Nir uses his mum as the test case)Why "I am" are the most dangerous words in EnglishThe labels you put on your kids become the ceilings they live underWhat the science actually says about manifestationHow to raise “indistractable” kids (it has nothing to do with screen time limits) Connect with Nir: https://www.nirandfar.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nireyal/ https://www.instagram.com/nireyal Connect with Growing PainsGrowing Pains is HoneyKids Asia's podcast for the conversations you want to have after the kids go to bed. YouTube: @growingpains.honeykidsInstagram: @honeykidsasiaWebsite: honeykidsasia.com Hit subscribe so you don't miss an episode. If this one hits home, send it to a parent who needs it. Growing Pains is produced in partnership with Poddster, Singapore's podcast studio. #GrowingPains #HoneyKidsAsia #MillennialParenting #SandwichGeneration #MaternalMentalHealth #DigitalParenting #IdentityCrisis #HighFunctioningDepression #Podster

    How to Raise Indistractable Kids

  5. 20 Jul

    The Love Patterns Your Kids Are Copying From You (Whether You Know It or Not)

    Every self-help book tells you to love yourself first before you can be loved by anyone else. Yana Fry, founder of the Academy of Love, says that advice is a trap, and she has watched it keep high-achieving women stuck in the same loop for years. Her own work traces back to a single moment at age 8: her parents' divorce, a dog-eared relationship book, and a promise she made herself in a notebook. In this episode, she unpacks the archetype framework built from that promise, nine patterns that explain why some of us repeat the same relationship over and over, and why kids pick up on all of it long before they have the words for it. Yana gets unusually honest too: a panic attack in the middle of the Namibian desert that decided something for her before she'd consciously decided it herself, a confession about what her own date nights actually look like lately, and a story from her late 20s she doesn't tell often, the moment she says was quietly driving everything before she understood why. Your kids are watching how you love. This episode is about what they're actually learning. What You'll Take AwayWhy "love yourself first" might be the worst advice a high achiever can followWhat decided itself in her body during a panic attack in the middle of the desert, before her mind caught upWhat her own date nights actually look like these days, and why she's not hiding itThe moment in her late 20s she rarely talks about, and the wound it revealedThe nine patterns that explain why you keep ending up in the same relationship, romantic or otherwiseWhat her toddler is already absorbing about love, without a single word being saidThe one thing she hopes her daughter never has to unlearn About Yana FryYana Fry is an internationally recognized speaker, transformational coach, and founder of the Academy of Love. She built a nine-archetype framework for identifying love patterns after her own upheaval: a marriage at 22, a cancer diagnosis three months later, a divorce, and a full rebuild of her life from there. She now lives in Singapore, is 17 years into an intercultural marriage, and works primarily with high-achieving women untangling how they love, parent, and lead. Find out which love pattern your kids are learning from you. Sign up for Yana's masterclass here. Chapters00:00 — Meet Yana Fry 01:15 — How her definition of love has shifted over the years 04:55 — Healing old patterns, choosing motherhood 12:40 — Parenting without projection 22:00 — Why self-love is hard for high-achieving women 24:35 — The nine love archetypes 27:20 — Building self-care and connection into real life 38:15 — Teaching the next generation what healthy love looks like 48:40 — Quick-fire advice 51:55 — Host takeaways Connect with Growing PainsGrowing Pains is HoneyKids Asia's podcast for the conversations you want to have after the kids go to bed. YouTube: @growingpains.honeykids Instagram: @honeykidsasia Website: honeykidsasia.com Hit subscribe so you don't miss an episode. If this one resonated, share it with a parent who needs it. Growing Pains is produced in partnership with Poddster, Singapore's podcast studio. #YanaFry #GrowingPains #HoneyKidsAsia #ConsciousLove #SelfLove #LoveArchetypes #ParentingAndLove #HighAchievingWomen #RelationshipAdvice #FatherWound #AcademyOfLove #ConsciousParenting #SingaporeMoms #PersonalDevelopment #HealthyRelationships

    The Love Patterns Your Kids Are Copying From You (Whether You Know It or Not)

  6. 13 Jul

    Why People-Pleasing is a Health Risk

    Krystal Clavier-Choo is an applied psychologist and two-time TEDx speaker who once built a tech company, then one day, things changed. A brain cyst erased her Type A identity overnight, on top of eight years of clinical depression that began in childhood. What she found on the other side became a framework she now uses with CEOs, mothers, and teenagers who look fine on the outside and are quietly falling apart. In this episode, Krystal tells us about a pattern that's been studied since 1992, one that quadruples a person's risk of dying young, and it isn't a habit most people would think to change. She walks us through the three domains that decide whether you burn out or hold steady, why "happy wife, happy life" is a trap, and the millimeter by millimeter method she uses to help people stop silencing themselves before it costs them their health. If you've never said no when you meant it, press play. About Krystal Clavier-Choo Krystal Clavier-Choo spent years building tech platforms before an unexplained illness stripped away her ability to work, walk steadily, or trust her own mind. She holds a Master of Science in Psychology and Neuroscience from King's College London and has since built the Dimensional System, a framework she uses to coach C-suite leaders and parents through burnout, identity collapse, and the mental load nobody names. Website: dimensionalsystem.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/krystalchooInstagram: @metakrystal What You’ll Takeaway The medical risk tied to the good girl complex, and why it isn't just a mindset problemThe three domains that quietly decide whether you burn out, and why most high achievers are missing two of themWhy "happy wife, happy life" might be doing more damage to a marriage than either partner realizesA boundary-setting method that works one millimeter at a timeThe real opposite of play (it isn't work)Why building a joy shelf might be the fastest way back to yourselfWhy the way you praise your kids could be setting them up for the same patterns you're trying to break Chapters00:00 | Three Questions That Frame Everything 01:27 | Brain Cyst, Identity Collapse, and Surviving on Cheese Fries 06:34 | What Eight Years of Childhood Depression Taught Her 11:02 | The Safety–Challenge–Play Domains 15:19 | Why High Achievers Don't Know How to Play 21:23 | High-Functioning Burnout and the Cost to Your Kids 24:25 | Gender Patterns Are Cultural, Not Biological 26:55 | Mental Illness and Mental Health Are Two Different Continuums 29:15 | Reframing the Inner Critic and the Family Dynamic 32:21 | "Happy Wife, Happy Life" Is a Trap for Everyone 36:12 | The Good Girl Complex Is a Medical Problem 41:47 | "You Are Already Good" — Raising Non-Compliant Daughters 44:47 | Best Parenting Advice and Closing Thoughts #GrowingPains #KrystalClavierChoo #StephanieDickson #GoodGirlComplex #BurnoutRecovery #MentalHealth #HighAchievers #WomensWellness #PlayTherapy #DimensionalSystem #PodcastForMoms #ParentingAdvice #SelfSilencing #WomensHealth #PsychologyPodcast

    Why People-Pleasing is a Health Risk

  7. 6 Jul

    Why Telling Someone to Be Grateful Can Make Things Worse

    The Happiness Scientist Who Stopped Pretending to Be Happy Sha-En Yeo spent her teenage years being bullied in a girls' school, quietly asking herself "is this it?" A teacher left a note on her desk that changed something. Twenty years later, she's Singapore's first happiness scientist, trained under Martin Seligman at UPenn, and the author of an upcoming Penguin book called I Miss Feeling Like Me.But here's what she'll tell you that most happiness experts won't: no strategy creates joy. Gratitude journaling can actually make things worse. And the pressure on parents to stay positive is one of the most harmful things we do to each other.This conversation covers what toxic positivity actually does to the nervous system, why self-compassion has to come before any strategy will land, and the CALM framework she uses with her own kids when emotions run hot.It also goes somewhere more personal: her father's illness, the night she stood on a stage in a red dress at a Chinese New Year dinner on one of the hardest days of her life, and what she learned about authenticity when performing happiness was simply not an option.The conclusion Sha-En arrived at after 15 years in the field: joy is not something you chase. It lives in knowing who you actually are.Press play.About Sha-EnSha-En Yeo is Singapore's first happiness scientist, a two-time TEDx speaker, and author of the upcoming Penguin book I Miss Feeling Like Me. She holds a master's in positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied under Martin Seligman, Angela Duckworth, and Adam Grant, and has reached over 25,000 people across APAC. Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaenyeomapp/ https://www.instagram.com/shaenyeo/Website: https://happinessscientists.com/Book: I Miss Feeling Like Me (Penguin, forthcoming) What You'll Take AwayWhy "tomorrow will be a better day" is one of the worst things you can say to a struggling parentThe difference between happiness and joy, and why only one of them actually lastsThe CALM framework: a four-step tool for responding to a child's big emotions without toxic positivityWhy gratitude journaling can backfire, and what has to come first before any strategy will workWhat standing on a stage in a red dress on one of the hardest days of her life taught her about authenticityWhy self-compassion, not gratitude, is the bridge when you're too miserable for strategies to landThe five-step path back to yourself when you've lost track of who that actually is Chapters00:00 — Cold open01:10 — Bullied, pessimistic, and asking "is this it?"03:30 — The teacher who changed everything with a note06:00 — Fear of becoming a parent, and why she almost didn't09:00 — How she ended up at UPenn with a 10-month-old12:00 — Happiness versus joy: why the distinction matters14:00 — What toxic positivity actually does to people16:30 — The CALM framework for parents who snap20:00 — Emotions are data: how to regulate before you react23:00 — Pain is inevitable. Suffering is what we add.25:00 — Her father's illness and the labels we carry from childhood29:00 — Self-compassion as the bridge32:00 — The stage, the red dress, and the Chinese New Year dinner36:00 — The five-step path back to yourself40:00 — The hedonic treadmill and the $2,000 prom dress test43:30 — When the system does not fit your child (PSLE, and being honest about it)47:00 — Quick fire Connect with Growing PainsGrowing Pains is HoneyKids Asia's podcast for the conversations you want to have after the kids go to bed. YouTube: @growingpains.honeykidsInstagram: @honeykidsasiaWebsite: honeykidsasia.com Hit subscribe so you don't miss an episode. If this one resonated, share it with a parent who needs to hear it. Growing Pains is produced in partnership with Poddster, Singapore's podcast studio. #ShaEnYeo #GrowingPains #HoneyKidsAsia #PositivePsychology #Joy #Happiness #Parenting #ToxicPositivity #SelfCompassion #CALM #ParentingAdvice #MentalHealth #Singapore #Wellbeing

    Why Telling Someone to Be Grateful Can Make Things Worse

  8. 29 Jun

    Why This Content Creator Won't Let Her Daughters Use Social Media

    Maggie Dumra films her family for content and after over 78,000 followers later, she still won't let her own daughters near social media. The contradiction sits at the centre of this episode. She spent twenty years in marketing, watched K-pop idols starve themselves to be on camera, and knows exactly what the algorithm does to a girl's body image before it happens to her own kids. Ange and Maggie go inside Sephora Kids trend, the one that put ten-year-olds on a retinol routine and racked up 331 million views on one hashtag. Maggie opens up about what happens at the dinner table when the comments turn nasty, shares the strange Sunday-night ritual that keeps her girls from ever needing a credit card, and the one brain-development analogy that finally got her tween to back off the begging. If you're raising a daughter anywhere near a smartphone, you need to hear what Maggie does differently. About the GuestMaggie Dumra is the founder of Jaedals, a Singapore footwear brand that works with underprivileged women to make comfort-driven sandals. Before that she spent twenty years in marketing and advertising, and now in between business and family, she creates family content online with over 78,000 followers. She is a mum of two daughters, 8 and 13, neither of whom has her own social media account. Keep up with Maggie and Jaedals on: TikTok: @mrsdumraInstagram: @shopjaedals What You'll Take AwayWhy Maggie's daughters aren't allowed on TikTok even though she’s a content creator with over 78,000 followers herselfWhat actually happens when a someone recognises her daughter in publicThe Sephora Kids trend explained, and the uncomfortable question it raises about who's footing the billThe Sunday-night ritual that keeps her girls from ever touching a credit cardThe brain analogy Maggie uses to explain "you're not ready yet" without a single lectureHow Maggie gets her point across without turning into a naggy mum, and why it works better than any rule she's setWhat her 13-year-old would say to parents who post their kids online IN THIS EPISODE 00:00 | Your Child Watched How Many TikToks? 01:11 | Why This Creator Bans Social Media 02:22 | Raising Kids Inside The Algorithm 04:41 | The Duality of Working Mom And Content Creator 05:17 | The Surprising Rule In Her House 07:04 | Before Posting Kids Online, Hear This 09:27 | The Internet's Dark Side Up Close 12:16 | What TikTok Is Doing To Girls 15:12 | The Skill Every Child Needs Online 18:00 | The Influence Parents Can't Control 20:20 | When Every Other Kid Has TikTok 22:06 | Is Your Child's Brain Ready Yet? 23:04 | Why 13 Is Still Too Young 24:54 | What Most Parents Don't Realize 25:57 | The Truth About Sephora Kids 28:45 | Why Her Kids Can't Buy Whatever They Want 29:57 | The Unexpected Good Side Of Screens 32:46 | The Real Problem Isn't TikTok Connect with Growing PainsGrowing Pains is HoneyKids Asia's podcast for the conversations you want to have after the kids go to bed. YouTube: @growingpains.honeykidsInstagram: @honeykidsasiaWebsite: honeykidsasia.com Hit subscribe so you don't miss an episode. If this one hits a nerve, send it to a parent who needs to hear it. Growing Pains is produced in partnership with Poddster, Singapore's podcast studio. #Parenting #SocialMediaKids #ScreenTime #DigitalParenting #RaisingDaughters #TikTokKids #SephoraKids #ParentingTips #OnlineSafety #FamilyPodcast #Motherhood #ParentingAdvice #KidsAndTechnology #DigitalWellbeing #GrowingPainsPodcast

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Growing Pains is a podcast from HoneyKids Asia for the conversations parents want to have after the kids go to bed. In each episode, we speak to experts, parents, and people with lived experience about the realities of raising kids today — from relationships, identity, mental health and screen time to school pressure, family dynamics, and everything in between. These are honest, thoughtful conversations that say the things many parents are thinking, but rarely say out loud. No judgement, no perfect parenting, just real stories, practical insights, and a reminder that none of us are figuring it out alone.

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  • Creator
    HoneyKids Asia
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    70
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    Explicit
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    © 2025 HoneyKids Asia
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