What do you do when your child won’t make a decision—even something simple? Choosing between two snacks triggers a meltdown. Picking an outfit becomes a battleground. Asking them to choose anything leads to stress, freezing, or panic. Sound familiar? In this solo episode, Albiona unpacks this common—but often misunderstood—challenge: fear of getting it wrong. Whether it’s showing up in your child’s decision making or your own, this episode helps you reframe what’s happening, and how to move forward with more regulation, curiosity, and steadiness.

Albiona sits down with renowned entrepreneur, creative visionary, and mother Miki Agrawal, the force behind TUSHY, THINX, Wild Restaurant, and HERO Diapers—to explore what it really looks like to live, parent, and build from a place of deep alignment.

In this episode, Albiona uncovers one of the most common reframes she shares with parents of tweens and teens—and why learning to anchor yourself (instead of arguing back) is the shift that creates real change.

In this episode, Albiona sits down with Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm and host of The Calm Parenting Podcast, for an honest and practical conversation about raising strong-willed kids and staying connected in the process.

In this solo episode, Albiona explores one of the most common parenting struggles — reactivity. Whether you find yourself yelling, shutting down, or feeling guilty after the fact, this episode offers a powerful shift. Albiona walks you through her four-step PARR Process — Pause, Acknowledge, Respond, Reflect — to help you regulate your emotions, understand your triggers, and respond with more presence and connection. She also shares how journaling transformed her parenting and how the PARR Journal can help you do the same.

In this heartfelt solo episode, host Albiona Rakipi dives deep into one of the most common (and emotionally triggering) parenting challenges: separation anxiety. But this isn’t your typical advice—this is a powerful reframe. You’ll learn why children protest when you leave, why dragging out your goodbye actually makes things harder, and how your own guilt might be sending the wrong message—even when you mean well. Most importantly, this episode gives you practical, loving strategies to help your child build self-trust, navigate hard feelings, and develop resilience, while giving yourself full permission to live a full, joyful life. Whether you’re heading to work or heading to dinner with friends, this episode reminds you: your joy is not selfish—it’s vital.

In this solo episode of The Parenting Reframe, I tackle one of the most common questions I get from parents: What’s the difference between consequences and punishments? Parents often use these terms interchangeably, but they couldn’t be more different. Consequences help kids learn accountability and build resilience, while punishments often come from reactivity, shame, or fear. In this episode, I break down how to tell the difference, why boundaries matter, and how you can respond calmly and consistently when your child is upset. If you’ve ever wondered how to stop handing out “all or nothing” punishments, or how to implement natural and logical consequences that truly help your child grow, this conversation is for you.

Tembi Locke (author of From Scratch) joins Albiona to talk about beginnings and endings, the gentle practice she calls re-nesting, parenting through life transitions, and how she turned a summer of anticipatory grief into an immersive audio memoir — Someday, Now. We talk writing as a container for feeling, practical ways parents can prepare for the “next chapter,” and small, daily practices that create space and joy. (Simon & Schuster)

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Will Dobud, co-author (with Dr. Nevin Harper) of the groundbreaking new book Kids These Days: Understanding and Supporting Your Mental Health. We explore what it really means to support today’s kids and teens in a world where diagnoses, labels, and interventions are at an all-time high—yet mental health outcomes continue to decline. Dr. Dobud shares his unique lens as a researcher, social worker, and outdoor therapist to reframe how we think about children, resilience, and the role of parents. This conversation is a refreshing, hopeful reminder that kids don’t need to be “fixed”—they need connection, mastery, freedom within boundaries, and adults who notice their strengths.

I’m back for another solo episode today after a little bit of a summer break. I gathered some of your most common questions from my workshops, coaching sessions, and social media comments. In this episode I’m walking you through a few of the struggles that share a common thread and giving insight into what makes these things difficult for parents and how to work through them.

In today’s solo episode, I’m answering your questions about how to ensure we don’t raise entitled kids. This is an important question that many of you have asked me on all my platforms. Being entitled can be a very triggering thing for a lot of parents, especially those that grew up without a lot of wealth. We want to teach our kids a sense of gratitude and caring for others. What it really comes down to is teaching kids the ability to tolerate frustration and deal with an outcome they don’t want. I’m sharing three things you can do at home to help build a tolerance for frustration.

I get asked all the time about creating content and writing. In this video, I share a few tips on where to start if you don’t consider yourself creative, as well as the three books that changed the way I approach creativity, vulnerability, and fear.

In this quick solo episode, I’m talking about a newsletter I wrote on Substack about reaction types. There are many different ways parents can react when their child becomes dysregulated, pushes against a boundary they have set, or throws a tantrum. Many of these reactions are rooted in the ways we were raised by our parents or the experiences we had as we grew up. Today, I’m going to talk about the three reaction types I encounter most frequently during my coaching with parents and working with families, and I'll also provide a bonus reaction type at the end of the episode.

In the first video of my series, In Case You Were Wondering (This is a video series where I share wisdom and answer the questions I get that aren’t directly related to parenting), I’m tackling the first question most of you ask me: How do you move through fear?

Today on the podcast I’m welcoming back New York Times Bestselling Author Elise Loehnen. There are so many things we talk about in this episode from the creative process to parenting, the social context of her books to the ways women feel in their own bodies, and so much more. It’s always a pleasure to talk with Elise and get her perspective on so many different topics.

On this week’s episode, I am talking to Dr. Cindy Hovington, the founder of The Curious Neuron and the Reflective Parenting podcast. Dr. Hovington is a mom of three and has a doctorate in neuroscience. Her goal is to break down science-backed research on child development and parenting and turn it into applicable advice for parents. She is very passionate about parental well-being as she knows we have to take care of ourselves in order to be able to take care of our children. We discuss tantrums, setting boundaries, and strategies to keep yourself calm while meeting your child’s needs.

Back by popular demand, Joe Newman is here for his third visit to The Parenting Reframe Podcast. Joe Newman was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and has made it his life’s mission to help parents figure out how to “raise lions,” kids who want to do it themselves. His book, Raising Lions, is one of my favorites and a resource I recommend constantly. In this episode, we discuss the biggest issues we are seeing while working with families today. This includes longer discussion about tantrums, and why we don’t completely agree on what to do when your child is having a tantrum.

In this episode, I have the absolute pleasure of talking with Neha Ruch, the founder of Mother Untitled, the leading platform for ambitious women leaning into family life. Her new book, The Power Pause, examines how to take a career pause after having kids and is available now. We discuss how taking a pause in many stages of life has incredible benefits and the different ways it can look for moms.

Happy 2025! The past year has been really transformative for me personally and professionally and I’m excited for what this new year might bring. In this episode I'm sharing some updates to my coaching offerings as well as discussing the three pillars to connected parenting.

In today's solo minisode I’m talking all about strong-willed kids. I’ve been talking a lot about this in my emails and on my social media lately because I know it’s a topic that many parents struggle with. Strong-willed kids are the ones that I like to call fair fighters - they’re always keeping score and want to make sure everything is right in their world. But this can cause them to easily spiral out of control the second things don’t go their way. I want to share three key points that come up over and over again in one-on-one and group coaching in regards to strong willed kids.