Crazy Cool Family

Crazy Cool Family

Hosted by: Don and Suzanne Manning

Want home to be your favorite place in the world? Want to see siblings get along like best friends? Want to send your kid off to college with hope instead of fear? At Crazy Cool Family, we can help you answer all of...

Episodes

#299: Using Guilt as a Signal

Season #7

Struggle with guilt when parenting? This Episode is for you...(and me!)  In this heartfelt episode, each daughter shared how “mom guilt” has uniquely shown up in their motherhood journey.  Macy opened up about her...
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#298: What is the Playbook?

Season #7

Guess what.... we've got something new for you! Next month, our seventh child, Cade, graduates — and with that, we officially wrap up over three decades of parenting. As we step into this next season of becoming...
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#297: Crazy Cool Family This: Let's Get Real!

Season #7

"What is your favorite season of parenting?" In today’s episode, we’re talking about what we’ve learned through the years raising littles, middles, and bigs — and how to parent each age with purpose and grace. We're...
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#296: Crazy Cool Parent This: Steps to Improve Connection

Season #7

Crazy Cool Family This - Connection! We are excited to talk about this because we feel like we prioritized connections within our family and we believe it is the most important thing you can invest in - connections...
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#295: We've Never Talked about Easter....

Season #7

Let's talk Easter, cause we never have! Easter is one of the MOST important holidays within our faith and we have NEVER done a podcast on it. We’ve almost made 300 episodes and looking through them, this is the first...
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#294 In Charge Vs. In Control (Feat. Mollie Torres)

Season #7

Mollie joins the podcast to talk about an insight God has been giving her about control vs. being in charge.  Mollie, a mother of two boys, and the oldest Manning kid - reflects on a thought-provoking question she...
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#293: Do you know how to disciple AND be a disciple (Feat. Marcus Warner)

Season #7

In this episode of the Crazy Cool Family podcast, Don welcomes Marcus Warner, the president of Deeper Walk International and a renowned expert on family dynamics and discipleship. The conversation dives deep into...
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#292: Crazy Cool Parent This: Q&A with Don and Suz

Season #7

In Season 7 of our podcast, we are taking time to give practical parenting tips in our episodes. We are using the term, "Crazy Cool Parent This" because choosing to parent God's way is often crazy AND turns out...
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#291: Crazy Cool Parent This: Emotional Intelligence

Season #7

Emotions are a God given gift inside of each of us to help navigate life. But what do we do with them? Especially in our kids...? In this podcast Suzanne, Macy, and Mckenzie explore the topic of Emotional Intelligence...
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#290: Crazy Cool Parent This: Connect During Spring Break!

Season #7

Spring break is coming up and we want to start the conversation about how to invest in your kids over their break. In today's episode, we discuss how parents can make the most of the time with their kids and how to...
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#289: Interrupt Your Marriage (Feat. Julie Plagens)

Season #7

Do you want to stay in love with your spouse? Even through conflict? Julie Plagens, a wife, mother, and author joins our podcast to talk about her new book, Marriage Interrupted. If you are wanting to invest in your...
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#288: Crazy Cool Parent This - Building Confident Kids

Season #7

As parents, we are called to deposit confidence in our kids - but how do you create a confident kid? The world wants to tear your child down and create insecurity inside of them. Family is the place where we wash off...
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