Cindy Wang Brandt

How do we talk about politics with our kids? How can we manage family members who have polarizing political opinions? How do we keep up with the relentless news cycle and have a sane family life? We dig deep, which is my favorite way of engaging in conversation.

Show Description Honored to have Hillary McBride join Parenting Forward today to talk about raising daughters with healthy body image, cultivating critical thinking and media literacy, embodied spirituality, and how fathers can contribute to developing healthy body image for your girls. Hillary is whip smart, kind, and articulate in her area of expertise, you don’t…

Show Description I talk with Karenna Gore, Director of the Center for Earth Ethics from Union Theological Seminary about climate justice, spirituality, and how to parent our children through climate anxiety. She talks beautifully about how the climate justice moment is clarifying our interconnectedness and how to find authentic community in the social movement for…

Show Description Traci Loux is a mother of 7 children, one of whom died just before he turned 4 years old. She shares the story of this traumatic and tragic loss, how it impacted her family, as well as her faith. Our conversations about grief and parenting are never easy, but yet are honestly some…

Show Description Worship and liturgy should be accessible to children and I’m so thankful Rebecca Stevens Walter is doing the work of creating intergenerational liturgies and educating churches to lead the world in child liberation. In this episode, you’ll hear an example of what intergenerational worship looks like. For parents, you’ll find out what Rebecca…

Show Description Today on the show I answer a question by one of you, a member of the Parenting Forward community. I get questions from you all on social media, or in my inbox, and some of them are such good questions that I want to share my response with a broader audience. Today, Doubting…

Show Description I feel like releasing this episode for free is cheapening the value that’s packed in here. One of my favorite episodes that helps PARENT FORWARD. Therapist Brian Peck explains what the difference is between abuse and trauma, how we can trauma proof our children, how to give our children language to help them…

Show Description Zack Hunt is the author of Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets It Wrong, and in this episode we talk about growing up as evangelical teens in that subculture where rapture theology took the form of books like Left Behind and all the shenanigans that came from bubble. Of course, we also talk…

Show Description This show is admittedly less about parenting and more about creating community. I am wanting to expand on some of our conversations because I find that many of you struggle with finding authentic community which impacts your parenting and family life. I invited Colby, who started a progressive church in San Diego, to…