Middle Years with Bridget KerMorris

About Middle Years with Bridget KerMorris

The middle school years can feel like the start of losing your child. One day they’re chatty and affectionate. The next they’re rolling their eyes, questioning everything, and leaving you wondering, “Am I doing this all wrong?” The truth is, middle school isn’t the end of your relationship. It’s the beginning of a new one. Each week, middle school therapist, coach, and creator of Steady + Connected Parenting™, Bridget KerMorris answers a real question from a real parent. Together, you’ll move beyond quick parenting tips to understand what’s really happening underneath your child’s behavior, what’s getting activated inside of you, and how to lead your family with steadiness, warmth, and confidence. Whether you’re navigating friendships, technology, ADHD, sibling conflict, identity, motivation, anxiety, or simply wondering how to stay connected to a child who suddenly seems impossible to reach, each episode offers practical tools, fresh perspective, and the kind of relational clarity™ that helps both parents and kids thrive. Bridget is a Stanford-trained lawyer with thousands of hours of education and experience as a marriage and family therapist specializing in family systems, neurodivergence, and relational trauma. She’s also a mom of seven, currently parenting her fourth middle schooler, and the creator behind @bridget.parentcoach, where more than 100,000 parents turn each day for grounded, compassionate support. Because your middle schooler isn’t asking for a perfect parent. They’re asking, “Do you like me?” “Will you come back for me?” This podcast will help you answer, “Yes.”

Publisher

Bridget KerMorris, JD, MA

Category

health & fitness · kids & family · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 May 2026

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Extinguishing the Nightly Screen-time Argument (when you're tired of having the same fight over and over)

   Why does the same screen-time argument happen every single night? You say it’s time to get off. They say, “One more minute.” You repeat yourself. They push back. And somehow everybody ends up going to bed annoyed. In this episode of Middle Years, I’m talking about the part of technology that wears so many parents down. It's not the screen itself. It's the fight about the screen. We talk about: why screen-time conflict is often a design problem, not just a discipline problemwhat gets activated...

2. 

   25 Sept 2026

   When Your Daughter Loses Her Friend Group (you can't fix it for her)

   What do you do when your middle schooler loses her friend group and there is absolutely nothing you can do to make the lunch table go back to the way it was? In this episode of Middle Years, I answer a mom whose eighth-grade daughter has been left out and is heartbroken. We talk about: why friendship loss in middle school is real griefthe difference between the social problem and the story your child may start telling herself about what it meanswhy “I got left out” can quietly become “I am le...

3. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Everyone Says My Kid Is So Resilient (here's why I bristle at that description)

   Let me tell you who so often ends up sitting across from a trauma therapist twenty years later: a strong and resilient person. They're the kid who never made a fuss. The kid nobody worried about because she never gave anyone a reason to. Somewhere along the way, we flattened "resilient" into handles hard things without needing anyone. And from the outside, you cannot tell the difference between a kid who is strong and a kid who has quietly concluded that strong is the only option they have. I...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

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