The Family Skeptical The Family Skeptical

We open the episode talking about going to the American Atheists Convention. It was great. We…are not. Then we dive into important things we learned at the conference and finish up discussing the concept of “You’re doing a good job” from the One Bad Mother podcast.  
While the conference was a blast, this episode is about some serious stuff, so just take note depending on how you’re doing and who you’re listening with (i.e. kids).
***If you want to skip the discussion of abuse, go to 23:30 and there’s another minute at the end between 56:30 and 57:30 that you might want to hop over too.
Now so so many links:
Kavin Senapathy was the parenting speaker and her upcoming book is The Progressive Parent: Harnessing the Power of Science and Social Justice to Raise Awesome Kids. 
Paul Golin was the other speaker and is executive director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism. 
We can’t link to Recovering From Religion enough. Their parenting resources are here. 
Definitely check out the American Humanist Association. 
Dan Beecher does both the Thank God I’m Atheist and Data Over Dogma podcasts. 
Eli Bosnick does all the podcasts including The Scathing Atheist, God Awful Movies, and Dear Old Dads which is one of two podcasts that I listen to immediately on release no matter how many other podcasts I have in my backlog. 
This is the Misfit Amish podcast by Mary Byler. 
And this is the Plain People’s Podcast by Jasper Hoffman. 
This is the episode of The Line’s Sunday Show that we reference. The caller we discuss is Dinah. 
Definitely give One Bad Mother a listen. 
Read Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol. And finally, since Recovering From Religion is just so cool, I’ll link to them again for their secular recovery resources. 
The Family Skeptical: We’re a married atheist couple raising two wonderful, strange children. We ask big questions, dissect weird parenting moments, and examine how society ignores or misrepresents families like ours. If you’re any stripe of non-believer who’s involved in raising children, welcome! You are our people.
Our kids are Reader (10) and Go (7), and if you want to find out how we arrived at these peculiar pseudonyms, go back to Episode 1.
Please reach out to us at momsandpops@thefamilyskeptical.com and tell us everything we got wrong.
See a list of our episodes here.
Follow us on Instagram @thefamilyskeptical for more weird stories that Moms can’t figure out how to fit into episodes. 
The Family Skeptical Cover Photo is by Jesse Valvasori Photography 
Our theme music is by Jonathan Zalben and First Frame Music 
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Hi hi hi! I hope we have a few new folks joining us from the American Atheists National Convention, and in classic, I-don’t-know-how-calendars-work fashion, we are dropping an episode pretty uncharacteristic of our show. So if you choose to start here, we usually don’t go over an hour and throw in two extra mini topics just for funsies. But here we are. We start discussing Readers issues with…reading. Or really, it’s more about Moms’ issues with Reader’s reading. Then we follow up on our last episode about sex ed with a few extra thoughts. And we finish up talking about moments that we feel people have ignored or misrepresented atheists.  
Now Links:
This is the series, Reader liked. Trapped in a Video Game. 
The series that the librarian found for Go is Space Runners. 
This is the season of The Heart Podcast about consent that was so amazing. As parents, her recent season called Dad is also pretty fascinating.
If you want more discussions of purity culture from someone who knows a lot more about it than us, check out Eve was Framed’s new show Chewed Gum. 
This is the video with religious vs atheist views of marriage. 
Here’s an article on another absurd comment Oprah made about atheists. 
The Family Skeptical: We’re a married atheist couple raising two wonderful, strange children. We ask big questions, dissect weird parenting moments, and examine how society ignores or misrepresents families like ours. If you’re any stripe of non-believer who’s involved in raising children, welcome! You are our people.
Our kids are Reader (10) and Go (7), and if you want to find out how we arrived at these peculiar pseudonyms, go back to Episode 1.
Please reach out to us at momsandpops@thefamilyskeptical.com and tell us everything we got wrong.
See a list of our episodes here.
Follow us on Instagram @thefamilyskeptical for more weird stories that Moms can’t figure out how to fit into episodes. 
The Family Skeptical Cover Photo is by Jesse Valvasori Photography 
Our theme music is by Jonathan Zalben and First Frame Music 
Thanks for listening! If you want to support us, subscribe and tell a friend to check us out.
 

We’re headed to the American Atheists National Convention. Definitely look for us if you’re there. Then we talk about things we want to make sure the boys know about porn. And we finish up discussing sex ed. (And just like we mention on this episode, the best advice we’ve ever heard is that the sex talk isn’t one talk. So we’re going to be following up in the next episode with a few more thoughts, and we’ll hopefully return to the topic again, because there’s just so much to discuss.)
Now Links:
My amazing career coach at Your Career Homecoming.
Savage Love. Again. 
Lost Girls - sexy comics from the master, Alan Moore. 
Cory Silverberg. We didn’t talk about sex ed references, but you can’t go wrong starting with Cory Silverberg who has a book for every age group out there. 
The Family Skeptical: We’re a married atheist couple raising two wonderful, strange children. We ask big questions, dissect weird parenting moments, and examine how society ignores or misrepresents families like ours. If you’re any stripe of non-believer who’s involved in raising children, welcome! You are our people.
Our kids are Reader (10) and Go (7), and if you want to find out how we arrived at these peculiar pseudonyms, go back to Episode 1.
Please reach out to us at momsandpops@thefamilyskeptical.com and tell us everything we got wrong.
See a list of our episodes here.
Follow us on Instagram @thefamilyskeptical for more weird stories that Moms can’t figure out how to fit into episodes. 
The Family Skeptical Cover Photo is by Jesse Valvasori Photography 
Our theme music is by Jonathan Zalben and First Frame Music 
Thanks for listening! If you want to support us, subscribe and tell a friend to check us out.
 

We begin by discussing a few interesting moments in parenting, including Go’s take on Jesus and the problem of evil. Then, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we delve into our relationship - what has made it work, how we still don’t have it figured out, and just how exhausting polyamory sounds. We finish by talking about the concept of a “soft life” - which seems to be everywhere in religious and secular discourse alike. 
Now Links:
Under the Influence with Jo Piazza. Jo is becoming my new parasocial crush. 
The episode of On Mission about whether a soft life fits with Christian theology.
MommaStrong. Courtney and Jya are my original parasocial crushes.
Savage Love. My mom took me to hear Dan Savage speak when I was in high school? Middle school? Regardless, she really did a lot of parenting things right. 
The Family Skeptical: We’re a married atheist couple raising two wonderful, strange children. We ask big questions, dissect weird parenting moments, and examine how society ignores or misrepresents families like ours. If you’re any stripe of non-believer who’s involved in raising children, welcome! You are our people.
Our kids are Reader (10) and Go (7), and if you want to find out how we arrived at these peculiar pseudonyms, go back to Episode 1.
Please reach out to us at momsandpops@thefamilyskeptical.com and tell us everything we got wrong.
See a list of our episodes here.
Follow us on Instagram @thefamilyskeptical for more weird stories that Moms can’t figure out how to fit into episodes. 
The Family Skeptical Cover Photo is by Jesse Valvasori Photography 
Our theme music is by Jonathan Zalben and First Frame Music 
Thanks for listening! If you want to support us, subscribe and tell a friend to check us out.
 

We open the episode discussing our many, many, many, many, many Christmases. And then we get into parenting advice and how we try to think about it skeptically. Instead of introducing a true second topic, we instead introduced a subplot of Pop’s incredible work coming to grips with his neurodivergence and the criminal lack of psychological services in most places.
Links:
Under the Influence with Jo Piazza’s mini episode on parenting advice. 
Jo Piazza’s parenting advice. 
Oh Crap Potty Training. Come for the pants-less potty training, but maybe skip the heavy dose of shame and doomsaying.
All Creatures Great and Small.
The Family Skeptical: We’re a married atheist couple raising two wonderful, strange children. We ask big questions, dissect weird parenting moments, and examine how society ignores or misrepresents families like ours. If you’re any stripe of non-believer who’s involved in raising children, welcome! You are our people.
Our kids are Reader (10!) and Go (7), and if you want to find out how we arrived at these peculiar pseudonyms, go back to Episode 1.
Please reach out to us at momsandpops@thefamilyskeptical.com and tell us everything we got wrong.
See a list of our episodes here.
Follow us on Instagram @thefamilyskeptical for more weird stories that Moms can’t figure out how to fit into episodes. 
The Family Skeptical Cover Photo is by Jesse Valvasori Photography 
Our theme music is by Jonathan Zalben and First Frame Music 
Thanks for listening! If you want to support us, subscribe, leave a review, and tell a friend to check us out.
 

This isn’t a real episode - just a compilation of random things. A short check-in. The only part of the segment that the Goblin’s ate that was worth fighting for and grabbing back from their grimy fingers. A little chat with Reader and Go - including Go’s big Santa revelation. And random musings on our unprofessionality. We are so excited for 2024 and have some really fun topics coming up. 
The day I was able to get this posted is our Fifthmas (gifts from my best friend, Christmas with my mom, then my dad, then my dad’s family, and now Pops’ folks), so I wasn’t able to re-listen to everything before posting, but I think the only shout out is to the Bored AF podcast. 
The Family Skeptical: We’re a married atheist couple raising two wonderful, strange children. We ask big questions, dissect weird parenting moments, and examine how society ignores or misrepresents families like ours. If you’re any stripe of non-believer who’s involved in raising children, welcome! You are our people.
Our kids are Reader (10!) and Go (7), and if you want to find out how we arrived at these peculiar pseudonyms, go back to Episode 1.
Please reach out to us at momsandpops@thefamilyskeptical.com and tell us everything we got wrong.
See a list of our episodes here.
Follow us on Instagram @thefamilyskeptical for more weird stories that Moms can’t figure out how to fit into episodes. 
The Family Skeptical Cover Photo is by Jesse Valvasori Photography 
Our theme music is by Jonathan Zalben and First Frame Music 
Thanks for listening! If you want to support us, subscribe and tell a friend to check us out.