Lauren Magers | Are We Doing Too Much for Our Kids?

Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe · Sep 17, 2026 · 1h 10m

#981. How much of parenting your kids is actually about parenting yourself first?

Lauren Magers became a mom in a way she never could have planned — adopting two young boys at 22 and raising four children by 25 — and it completely changed the way she thought about family, discipline, and the kind of humans she wanted to send into the world.

Lauren joins Kaitlyn for a conversation that will make you question some of the parenting advice we’ve all been fed. They talk about breaking cycles without overcorrecting, why your own childhood can quietly show up in the way you parent, and whether…