

Today's Guest(s)
Herrscher founded TodaysMama.com in 2004 as a resource to help moms create and maintain balance in life. Today’s Mama offers insight on parenting, cooking, fitness, arts and crafts, and boasts a social media following of over 700,000. Herschel is a noted Rocky Mountain region entrepreneur and TEDx Salt Lake City speaker. She has been named one of Utah Business Magazine’s 30 Women to Watch.
Known as a “Money Saving Mom”, Cassi Reece provides content regarding intentional finance, family, and business for mothers everywhere. Reece is a regular contributor on popular parenting blog and resource “Today’s Mama” and podcast host of “The Crystal Paine Show”.
EPISODE NOTES
Disciplining your children is one of the most controversial topics when it comes to parenting. It’s also one of the most difficult because it requires parents to be continually consistent in how rules are enforced and consequences are carried out. In this episode, Dr. Meeker has invited Rachael Herrscher and Cassi Reece to talk about the successes in discipline, and what we’ll call “learning opportunities” that they both are in the middle of with their children.
Rachael is the founder and CEO of TodaysMama.com, whose motto is “Changing diapers, minds and habits, sometimes all in one day”. Also in this episode, Dr. Meg gives you her points to ponder to begin using right away, and she asks listeners to send in questions for a future all-social episode of the podcast. Do you have a question for Dr. Meg? If so, email them to askmeg@megmeekermd.com and she could answer your question in an upcoming episode!
0:00 – AD – MARCH OF DIMES
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0:58 – WELCOME
Dr. Meg introduces the topic “Disciplining Children”. She also teases her conversation with Rachael Herrscher and Cassi Reece and her points to ponder.
2:30 – POINTS TO PONDER
Dr. Meg gives you three points to ponder as you learn more about disciplining your children!
8:18 – PARENTING RESOURCES
Along with answering yoru questions, Dr. Meg is also reminding parents about her webinar on discipline available at MegMeekerMD.com! Dr. Meeker’s latest course, Discipline With Courage & Kindness, is designed to help guide you on your journey to being the parent you’ve always wanted to be — the parent your kids need. Just visit her homepage and click on the parenting course for more information!
8:54 – A CONVERSATION WITH RACHAEL HERRSCHER AND CASSI REECE (PART 1)
Dr. Meg sits down with Rachael Herrscher and Cassi Reece to talk about disciplining children. Rachael is the founder and CEO of TodaysMama.com and Cassi is a regular contributer on the blog. They both share their greatest acomplishments and “learning opportunities” that they have encountered while disciplining their own children.
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41:23 – AD – OMAX3
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42:48 – A CONVERSATION WITH RACHAEL HERRSCHER AND CASSI REECE (PART 2)
Dr. Meg sits down with Rachael Herrscher and Cassi Reece to talk about disciplining children. Rachael is the founder and CEO of TodaysMama.com and Cassi is a regular contributer on the blog. They both share their greatest acomplishments and “learning opportunities” that they have encountered while disciplining their own children.
58:56 – LET’S GET SOCIAL
Email Dr. Meg at askmeg@megmeekermd.com or tweet your question to her @MegMeekerMD. This episode, Dr. Meg had an extended conversation with her guests and asks you to send in your questions in the coming days. Soon she’ll have a social question only episode to answer all your parenting questions!
59:40 – PARENT PEP RALLY
60:43 – FROM THE PRODUCER
Thanks for listening to Episode 52, Disciplining Children and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than FIVE MILLION downloads!
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