Stories for a Parent's Heart with Christine Scott
By Christine Scott
Categories: Kids & Family, Parenting
One heartwarming parenting story a day — the wonder years, the beautiful chaos, the hard years, the full table, and the quiet after. Stories for every season of raising a family, from Christine Scott, editor of Christmas Stories for a Parent's Heart — get the book wherever books are sold.
12 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- The Handprint Turkeys
Episode 11: The Handprint Turkeys. There is a drawer in Christine's kitchen that has not closed all the way in about twenty years. Tucked in the back, underneath batteries and birthday candles, is a stack of construction-paper handprint turkeys her oldest daughter Sarah made every November from…
- The Empty Chair
Episode 10: The Empty Chair. For three Thanksgivings, nobody in Christine's house was allowed to sit in her late mother Margaret's chair by the window — not a guest, not a child, not even by accident. This year, with fourteen people squeezed onto borrowed chairs, a knock comes during dessert…
- The Cards She Never Sent
Episode 9: The Cards She Never Sent. In the back of a hall closet, Christine finds a red gift box she brought home from her late mother's house: fourteen Christmas cards from her mother's last December, every one sealed, addressed in her mother's careful handwriting, and stamped — and not one of…
- The Other End of the Strand
Episode 8: The Other End of the Strand. For thirty years, Daniel has put up the family's Christmas lights alone — same green bin, same ladder, same Saturday in November, and no help wanted. This year his son Eli, sixteen and six feet tall, follows him out to the driveway and says the sentence his…
- The Pie She Made by Mistake
Episode 7: The Pie She Made by Mistake. The smoke alarm goes off at nine o'clock on Thanksgiving morning, and Christine's pumpkin pie — her mother's filling, her grandmother's rolling pin — comes out of the oven burnt past defending. Then comes a knock on the door: her neighbor Ruth…
- Talk to the Gravy
Episode 6: Talk to the Gravy. For two Thanksgivings in a row, Christine's gravy has been almost right — first too thin, then thick enough to slice — made from her late mother's recipe card, written in slanted blue handwriting with no real amounts: drippings, flour (a handful), stock to cover, salt…
- The Porch Light
Episode 5: The Porch Light. Seventeen-year-old Tess starts her first job, closing up at the public library, and announces that the porch light does not need to be left on for her — she has a key, and a phone with a flashlight on it. Her mother says nothing, and leaves it on anyway. Then comes a…
- The Last Item on the List
Episode 4: The Last Item on the List. Every Saturday, a grandfather writes his grocery list in pencil on the back of an envelope — eggs, bread, soup, tea. Since his wife died, the list has quietly gotten shorter. Then his six-year-old grandson Milo asks for the pencil, and adds one very important…
- The Mitten in the Coat Pocket
Episode 3: The Mitten in the Coat Pocket. On the first cold morning of the year, five-year-old Hazel checks the pockets of last year's purple coat and finds the single red mitten whose partner was lost on a sledding hill last February. It no longer fits — and she insists on saving it for next…
- The Night She Took the Candy Bowl
Episode 1: The Night She Took the Candy Bowl. On Halloween night, fifteen-year-old June quietly trades her trick-or-treat route for the candy bowl at her own front door — and her mother discovers that children do not leave the rituals they love. They move through them, and hand them on. An…
- The Brochures on the Kitchen Table
Episode 2: The Brochures on the Kitchen Table. Seventeen-year-old Nora leaves a stack of college tour brochures in the middle of the kitchen table, and for three days nobody mentions them — until a rainy Friday night, toast, and tea finally make room for the conversation nobody schedules on…
- Welcome to Stories for a Parent's Heart
Welcome to Stories for a Parent's Heart with Christine Scott — one heartwarming parenting story a day, for every season of raising a family.
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