How are changes in your family relationships changing you? - Publication Date |
- Oct 08, 2020
- Episode Duration |
- 00:50:58
Family dynamics can change in sudden and unexpected ways.
Meet people addressing those shifts head-on, even if it leads to some awkward conversations.
Tori Allen has been a stay-at-home mom and "lead parent" for the last five years. But now that she's started a new job - as an associate producer right here on Now or Never - she needs to hand over some household tasks to her newly stay-at-home husband, Jeff Woodrow. The solution? A list of the million-and-one tasks buzzing around her brain to officially say, over to you. Now she just needs to show it to him.
At 67, Don Avery found himself doing something he never thought he'd be doing at his age… raising a five-year-old.
When Ariana Quesada's dad died earlier this year from COVID-19, the 16-year-old went from making TikTok videos to becoming head of the household - as the family translator, advocate, and second mom to her three younger siblings. She'll tell us how she's coping, and what she does to still feel like a teenager.
Ian Bawa lays it all out there when he talks with his dad, Jack Bawa, about the struggles he's facing as his dad's primary caregiver.
And Ify calls up her younger sister Chisom Chiwetelu to find out how she really feels about being the only sibling living in the same city as their parents - and all the responsibilities that come with that.