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Parents Making Time with Anthony & Jennifer Craiker | Intentional parenting ideas & time management tips to reduce parenting anxiety and help you stop feeling overwhelmed.

Parents Making Time with Anthony & Jennifer Craiker | Intentional parenting ideas & time management tips to reduce parenting anxiety and help you stop feeling overwhelmed.

By: Anthony & Jennifer Craiker | Parents Making Time
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Parents! Feel like you’re missing out on your kids’ lives while also never having enough time for yourself? Want to embrace intentional parenting but don't quite know how? Career pressures, shuttling kids around, volunteer commitments, and the endless tasks of caring for your home all place enormous demands on your time and energy, leading to mom guilt, dad guilt, stress, and ultimately regret. And while you’re trying to tend to your own self-care while also being a present parent who prioritizes family connection, your kids are growing up way too fast.


Sound familiar? If so—help is here! Unlike other parenting podcasts that just give you techniques for raising children or tips on childhood development, Parents Making Time focuses on helping YOU, the parent, prioritize YOUR life so that your parenting aligns with your values. Motherhood, fatherhood, marriage, and family are what we are all about. In 15-minutes or less, this weekly podcast helps busy parents like you learn to prioritize their relationships, be more present and intentional with family time, and build a lasting legacy of love—without neglecting their own well-being or feeling regret later in life. It's not just about learning to prioritize tasks or mastering time management, it's about becoming the parent you want to be so that you can stop feeling overwhelmed, learn how to have more time, and create lasting family memories.


Leveraging their 20+ years of parenting experience raising three thriving kids and leading and mentoring hundreds of children, youth, and families in volunteer church positions, hosts Anthony and Jennifer Craiker teach parents on a tight schedule how to balance work and family, create unbreakable family bonds, prevent parent burnout, and find JOY in parenting. In other words, we help you stop being busy and start actually applying the concept of intentional living.


If you’re ready to prioritize family time each day without feeling overwhelmed, you can count on this show to teach you how to be fully present with your kids, build lasting memories, prioritize your spouse, make dinner time count, connect with your kids after work, stop missing precious moments, savor family time, discover intentional parenting ideas, and so much more—all while learning how to implement quick self-care tips, create an intentional family legacy, and parent with no regret. So, hit PLAY, and let’s get started!


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Episodes
  • Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas!
    Dec 23 2025

    No new episode of Parents Making Time this week. Merry Christmas to you and your family! Make time to become the parent you want to be!

    Parenting is hard. Intentional parenting can seem even harder. Motherhood, fatherhood, marriage, and all that goes with those important aspects of life can make it difficult to prioritize tasks, embrace intentional living, focus on present parenting, and build family bonds. We're here to help ease your parenting anxiety so that you can stop feeling overwhelmed, find joy in your parenting journey, and build family bonds that last for generations. Here at Parents Making Time, we are all about that parent-child connection, self-care for parents, and helping you overcome mom guilt and dad guilt. If you have a question or would like to share an experience about your own parenting, please feel free to reach out to one of us! Please note, we may use your question and/or comments as a part of a Q&A Parenting Advice segment on one of our episodes.

    Follow Anthony: Instagram | LinkedIn

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    1 min
  • Avoid Parent Burnout with this Easy Intentional Parenting Idea

    Avoid Parent Burnout with this Easy Intentional Parenting Idea
    Dec 19 2025

    What if the parenting stress you feel isn’t from parenting itself, but from being the only one holding everything together?

    So many busy parents fall into the quiet habit of carrying the entire load—the dishes, the laundry, the dog, the clutter, the schedules—while hoping their kids will “just pitch in.” But without clear expectations, kids don’t know how to help, and parents end up exhausted, frustrated, and burned out.

    In this episode, we’re sharing simple, practical strategies for teaching responsibility, building teamwork, and creating a strong family culture where everyone contributes. Not through power struggles or punishment, but through clarity, consistency, and intentional parenting practices that help your kids grow in confidence—and help you reclaim time, energy, and peace and stop feeling overwhelmed, avoiding mom guilt and dad guilt in the process. Effective parenting is more than time management; it's life management.

    WHILE LISTENING, YOU’LL LEARN:

    • How to clearly communicate household expectations so your kids take ownership without nagging or conflict
    • Practical tools like chore rotations, 30-minute cleanups, and predictable routines that boost responsibility and reduce parent burnout and parent anxiety
    • How shared chores strengthen family relationships, support healthy time management for busy parents, and create meaningful family traditions

    00:00 Introduction
    00:28 The Burden of Household Chores
    00:41 The Game-Changing Shift: Involving Kids in Chores
    01:29 The Mom Rampage
    02:17 Setting Clear Expectations
    03:17 Effective Chore Strategies
    04:46 The 30-Minute Cleanup
    06:55 Rotations and Responsibility
    09:33 The Family Dog: A Lesson in Responsibility
    13:44 Conclusion and Next Episode Sneak Peek

    When you finish listening, we’d love for you to connect with us on social media!

    Follow us on Instagram and like our page on Facebook to keep the conversation going. It’s the best way to get quick tips, encouragement, and resources to help you make time for what matters most—your family.

    Get our FREE resource, "30-Second Micro Moments of Intention with Your Kids", by going to: parentsmakingtime.com/freeresource:

    Parenting is hard. Intentional parenting can seem even harder. Motherhood, fatherhood, marriage, and all that goes with those important aspects of life can make it difficult to prioritize tasks, embrace intentional living, focus on present parenting, and build family bonds. We're here to help ease your parenting anxiety so that you can stop feeling overwhelmed, find joy in your parenting journey, and build family bonds that last for generations. Here at Parents Making Time, we are all about that parent-child connection, self-care for parents, and helping you overcome mom guilt and dad guilt. If you have a question or would like to share an experience about your own parenting, please feel free to reach out to one of us! Please note, we may use your question and/or comments as a part of a Q&A Parenting Advice segment on one of our episodes.

    Follow Anthony: Instagram | LinkedIn

    Follow Jennifer: Instagram

    Leave a rating & review: Apple | Spotify

    parentsmakingtime@gmail.com | https://www.parentsmakingtime.com/
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    15 mins
  • How to Manage the Unnecessary Anxiety of Parenting

    How to Manage the Unnecessary Anxiety of Parenting
    Dec 12 2025

    Parents, have you ever felt torn between expert parenting advice and your own motherly or fatherly instincts?

    Recommendations that once felt like hard rules can completely reverse over the years. When advice changes, parenting can feel confusing and overwhelming. Parenting anxiety can be a real challenge.

    So many parents rely solely on experts and forget the powerful intuition they already have. When advice constantly changes—from peanut butter rules to sleep positions to breastfeeding recommendations—it can create stress, anxiety, and fear that you're not doing motherhood or fatherhood "right."

    In this episode, we share how to balance expert guidance with parental intuition, reduce stress, eliminate parent anxiety, and make confident decisions for your children—without the mom guilt or dad guilt.

    BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL LEARN:

    • How to stop feeling overwhelmed (even when expert advice changes)
    • How to confidently trust your own instincts (even when it feels scary)
    • Practical ways to use expert information without letting it control you

    Intentional parenting doesn't come with a manual—but you do have intuition, wisdom, and unique knowledge of your child. When you combine that with research and expert insights, you make grounded decisions that benefit both you and your kids.

    00:00 Introduction and Free Resource Announcement

    00:28 Navigating Conflicting Parenting Advice

    02:18 Trusting Your Parental Instincts

    04:11 Balancing Expert Advice and Intuition

    07:14 Practical Examples and Personal Stories

    10:18 Conclusion and Next Episode Preview

    When you finish listening, we’d love for you to connect with us on social media!

    Follow us on Instagram and like our page on Facebook to keep the conversation going. It’s the best way to get quick tips, encouragement, and resources to help you make time for what matters most—your family.


    Get our FREE resource, "30-Second Micro Moments of Intention with Your Kids", by going to: parentsmakingtime.com/freeresource

    Parenting is hard. Intentional parenting can seem even harder. Motherhood, fatherhood, marriage, and all that goes with those important aspects of life can make it difficult to prioritize tasks, embrace intentional living, focus on present parenting, and build family bonds. We're here to help ease your parenting anxiety so that you can stop feeling overwhelmed, find joy in your parenting journey, and build family bonds that last for generations. Here at Parents Making Time, we are all about that parent-child connection, self-care for parents, and helping you overcome mom guilt and dad guilt. If you have a question or would like to share an experience about your own parenting, please feel free to reach out to one of us! Please note, we may use your question and/or comments as a part of a Q&A Parenting Advice segment on one of our episodes.

    Follow Anthony: Instagram | LinkedIn

    Follow Jennifer: Instagram

    Leave a rating & review: Apple | Spotify

    parentsmakingtime@gmail.com | https://www.parentsmakingtime.com/
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    11 mins
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