Fulfilling Work, Meaningful Life

About Fulfilling Work, Meaningful Life

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! Popular Topics Include: Intentional parenting Present parenting Self-care for parents How to have meaningful connections with your kids Work life balance Mom guilt and Dad guilt Building family bonds Parenting anxiety Time management Motherhood Fatherhood Family life and routines Tips for busy parents Parenting in a digital world Leaving a legacy

Publisher

Anthony & Jennifer Craiker | Parents Making Time

Category

education · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jan 2025

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

20 of 76 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Fatherhood | An Interview with Anthony Craiker

   Jennifer Craiker interviews Anthony Craiker about fatherhood, revealing that presence matters more than perfection for busy parents.

2. 

   5 Jun 2026

   Facing Mental Health Issues Together as a Family

   What happens when one child's struggles affect the entire family? Mental health challenges among children and teens are more common than many parents realize. Yet many parents feel overwhelmed when a child is dealing with mental health challenges. It's easy to become so focused on helping the child who is struggling that siblings feel forgotten, communication breaks down, and parents end up carrying the burden alone. In this deeply personal episode, Anthony and Jennifer share their fami...

3. 

   8 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Motherhood | An Interview with Jennifer Craiker

   Have you ever wondered how motherhood changes you over time? Not just through the sleepless nights, busy schedules, teenage struggles, and constant responsibilities, but deep down, in the person you become along the way? In this deeply personal episode Anthony sits down with Jennifer for an honest conversation about more than 22 years of motherhood, parenting teenagers, building strong family relationships, and preparing for the empty nest season. Together, they talk about the emotional highs...

Inside a recent episode

Fatherhood | An Interview with Anthony Craiker

Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] How can we best approach this? What, what, what do you think? What do I think? And, you know, ultimately what do we think together is the best approach. And then you go and execute that. And, you know, hope that it's the best way to approach it, but it's that, that communication being on the same page and not letting those conversations spill out in front of the kids, especially if there's tension in those conversations. And thankfully we, we just didn't have a lot of that, which I'm really, really grateful for. But to the extent that we did disagree at times on how to parent, I think, that communication was absolutely essential in helping us get through whatever the challenge was at the moment. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

247

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

44 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

68

Social presence

90

YouTube

66

Engagement

32

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