HeyJaredParents & Professors Podcast
Co-parents, colleagues, and collaborators, Dr. Marjorie Dorimé- Williams and Dr. Michael Steven Williams share perspectives on (co-)parenting, higher education research and praxis, and anything else of interest that comes up.
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Back-to-School Spending, the Tuskegee Dress Code, and What We Expect of Our Kids Before They Leave Our House (opens the original)
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Tuskegee dress code. Black back-to-school spending. Respectability politics . Two PhD professors finally weigh in — and they don't agree. A new poll found Black parents expect to spend $447 per child on clothes and shoes this back-to-school season — nearly double what white parents spend. Dr. Marjorie opens with a simple question: what's happening there? This is the annual back-to-school episode. The Triple Cs trace that number to its roots: the church suit there was always money for, the first-
What Type of Co-Parents Are We? 9 Years In and We Still Can't Agree | Episode 83 (opens the original)
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Co-Parenting After Divorce: What Type Are You? 9 Years In and We Still Can't Agree | Episode 83 Co-parenting after divorce. Nine years. Two households. Two kids almost in college: one remarriage, one new baby, one long-distance relationship, a business, and a podcast. And one question they still cannot answer: are they perfect pals or cooperative colleagues? In Episode 83, Dr. Marjorie and Michael pull back the curtain on a conversation that is happening right now. Not a resolved lesson. A live
Is It More Dangerous to Be a Black Child in 2026 Than It Was in the 90s? (opens the original)
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Black child safety. Black children in white spaces. Raising Black kids in America in 2026. This is the conversation the Nolan Wells case forced every Black parent to have. Dr. Marjorie and Michael are not speculating about the case. They are having the conversation underneath it. You did everything right. The degrees. The job. The house in the good school district. And then you look up at the open house & your kid is the only one. This episode is about the choices Black families make about where
The Grade App Is Your Instagram: What a Viral TED Talk on Overparenting Gets Right and Whose Childhood It Forgets (opens the original)
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What starts as parenting advice becomes a much bigger conversation about race, education, self worth, and the pressure parents carry. In Episode 80, Dr. Marjorie and Michael react to Julie Lythcott-Haims' viral TED Talk on overparenting. They agree with its core message: let kids build independence through real responsibility, stop measuring love by achievement, and stop turning childhood into a checklist. But they also ask the question the TED Talk never does: Whose kids actually get to be free
Am I a Bad Mom? Dr. Gina Garcia on the Truth About Parenting Guilt and the Failure Myth. (opens the original)
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What starts as a simple question— is parenting an identity, a responsibility, or both? —turns into one of the most honest conversations we've ever had. Dr. Marjorie Dorimé-Williams shares how divorce reshaped her fear of being seen as "a stereotypical single Black mom." Dr. Michael Steven Williams unpacks stereotype threat for Black fathers and explains why he would never take a six-week break from parenting his children. And our first-ever guest, Dr. Gina Ann Garcia , opens up about raising two
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