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Scratch That: Parenting & ReParenting Off Script

Rebekah Taussig & Caitlin Metz

Scratch That is a weekly podcast with queer illustrator Caitlin Metz and disabled storyteller Rebekah Taussig, two friends trying to figure out how to be parents and people at the same time. Caitlin and Rebekah delve into heartfelt, honest conversations with caregivers who are going off script, starting from scratch, and building alternate paths. Join our community on Patreon!

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63:52

🎙️Trading the Status Quo for the Risk of a Dream with...

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2025/06/16

A year ago, Kate Wieners quit her corporate job to open a cozy, plant-filled bookstore, Monstera's Books. And while it sounds like the pitch for a movie we'd all love, today Kate talks with us about the real-life, fleshed-out story. What stars had to align for her to leave the "good enough" setup she already had for the risk of a dream? What has it been like to be a partner and a parent as she makes this great leap? What is it like to create a third-space community around books and

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48:34

🌪️ From Preschool to Higher Ed – What We've Learned...

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2025/06/09

What does living alongside a toddler reveal to us about our high school and college students? How does time in the classroom inform the way we approach learning with our pre-schoolers? On today's episode, we reflect on our experiences teaching and learning and cobble together a list of guiding principles.Tune in to hear us talk about:✨ Curiosity as sacred.⏱ The cost of separating places and times of learning.🌱 Shame vs safety in a learning environment.❓ The power of asking "silly"

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44:53

⚡️Pregnancy, Gender, and News!

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2025/06/02

As we kick off Pride month, we turn over what it means to bring a new person into a scary world, especially as a queer parent, and the ways pregnancy has helped Caitlin understand and live out their gender.Tune in to hear us talk about:🫢 A super big announcement!❓ Asking questions to understand the ways we experience pregnancy and parenthood differently.⚖️ Caitlin processing the need they felt to choose between being visibly queer and keeping their kids safe in public.🏳️‍🌈 Why being pregnant with

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63:08

🎙️ The Hilarious & Heartbreaking with Shane & Hannah...

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2025/05/26

Today on Scratch That we chat with one of the most beloved couples on the internet – Squirmy and Grubs! (Also known as Shane and Hannah Burcaw🤗) They talk with us about what it's like to share their personal lives with an enormous following, how they cope with internet hate and real life ignorance about disability/relationships, why they wrote their new book Interabled: True Stories of Love and Disability, the perspective they've gained through their experience with IVF, and loads more

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32:08

⚡️Letters from Love a la Elizabeth Gilbert

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2025/05/19

If love incarnate was sitting beside you today, what would they say to you? Today we offer you a little practice that we learned from the one-and-only Elizabeth Gilbert – Letters from Love. We share a tiny how-to and then dive into reading some of our own letters, Caitlin as a seasoned veteran and Rebekah as a fresh newbie. You're invited to write your own letter, too, but even if you don't, we hope this especially tender episode brings you some kind of love today.Mentioned In Today's

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61:17

🎙️Good Bad Things with Danny Kurtzman & Steve Way

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2025/05/12

Today on Scratch That we bring you the disabled bromance of your dreams – Danny Kurtzman and Steve Way. You might know Steve from his role on the Hulu series Ramy, and maybe you recognize Danny from his modeling days, but most recently, these two have been in creative collaboration as the leading man (Danny) and executive producer (Steve) of the recent (gorgeous) film Good Bad Things. These two live out the themes of this podcast, literally rewriting the scripts of disability storytelling as actors,

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32:14

⚡️Start Where You Are (Caitlin Tells Us About Their...

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2025/05/05

Do you ever feel frozen by the chaos, the mess, the to-do list? There's a big project you really want to dive into, but every time you try to start, you end up scrolling on your phone instead? Or you look out at the suffering in the great wide world and don't know what steps you could possibly take to help? This week, Caitlin introduces us to a sturdy framework their brilliant little brain created to help them in just such moments. And if you dig it, you're in luck, because they're

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37:09

🌪️ Born Bad? Good Inside? Some Mysterious 3rd Option?

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2025/04/28

On today's episode, it's Dr Becky versus Original Sin! What happens when Good Inside takes on the fall of man? Are our jobs as parents to get out of the way and nurture our kids' inherent goodness? Or are we here to guide them away from their bad instincts? In Scratch That fashion, today's tornado conversation swirls through the gray as we try to piece together a both/and philosophy that can support us through the unwieldy work of learning/teaching how to be a human.Tune in to hear

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70:02

🎙️ Creativity as a Way of Life with Elsie Larson

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2025/04/21

Do you ever long to explore a totally new creative outlet or try something brand new? Like, I don't know, write a novel? Open a cute little boutique? Or try your hand at jumpstarting an art career? Our guest today has the trickster energy to try it all, throwing off scripts about being too inexperienced or too old to explore, try, and play. Elsie Larson is a mother of two and co-founder of A Beautiful Mess empire she's built with her sister Emma. The two are creative makers to their core,

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44:54

⚡Little Antidotes to Anxiety & Big Solidarity

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2025/04/14

Anyone else feeling a little extra anxious these days? SAME. On today's episode, we share some of the strategies and tools we're using to stay grounded and keep belly-crawling forward.Tune in to hear us talk about:🌥Why taking pictures of the sky calms Caitlin's nervous system.🏘 Caitlin's most annoying anxiety hack.📰 The new way Rebekah is consuming news.🧥 What Rebekah is doing instead of impulsively buying that cardigan from Target.✨ Caitlin rushing toward JOY with the same kind

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53:17

🎙️ Reimagining Domesticity, Keeping House, & Care...

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2025/04/07

In today's episode, Laura Danger (aka @thatdarnchat) dives into a candid conversation with us about care work, domestic labor, and the powerful/often invisible scripts that shape our life choices, relationship dynamics, and home lives. Offering a unique perspective as a parent with ADHD and bipolar 2, Laura invites us to go off script, tune out default societal expectations, and set the terms for our homes, relationships, and stories.Tune in to hear us talk about:🧑‍🎨 Being an artsy emo punk

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41:28

🌪️Honest Parenting Moments: The Pivots, Revisions,...

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2025/03/31

What do we do when our parenting strategies aren't working out the way we expected? Or we stumble into a hard parenting fail? On today's episode, we share parenting stories we recorded several months ago on the CosmoParenting podcast. Then we reflect on those stories, honestly naming the ways our strategies are evolving (or not) with time. This is an episode all about the messy, unresolved, ever-shifting work of parenting and peopling.Tune in to hear us talk about:📜 Disrupting old

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66:48

🎙️ Flipping the Script on Disability with Lucy &...

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2025/03/24

Will these charming Brits be able to withstand Rebekah's gushing?? If you don't yet know who Lucy and James Catchpole are, tune into our episode from last week, "Catchpoles + Andy J Pizza Love Fest." Two disabled parents who run a children's literary agency and write picture books, Lucy and James talk to us about their early experiences with disability, the ways disability shapes their parenting, and how their creative work reframes disability as ordinary, in sharp contrast to

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32:17

🎙️ Catchpoles + Andy J Pizza Love Fest

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2025/03/17

On today's Show-and-Tell episode, we gush about some of our favorite creators: Lucy and James Catchpole (disabled parents and children's book authors, with "more children than working legs") and Andy J Pizza (New York Times bestselling author / illustrator / podcaster). And we want to hear from you, too! Who are the creators lighting up your world these days?Tune in to hear us talk about:🛝 Being a disabled kid on the playground.📝 Subversive representation that flips the script of

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69:28

🎙️ Do We Really Need Social Media? With Amelia Hruby

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2025/03/10

On today's episode, we talk with the one-and-only, our beloved editor, Amelia Hruby! You've heard her name at the end of every episode and today we bring you her voice. Founder of the feminist podcast studio, Softer Sounds, and host of her own podcast, Off the Grid, Amelia is a prominent and grounding voice in the increasingly anxious world of social media (especially for those of us with our careers tied to that space).In today's episode, we also share about the hard decision to pause

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54:02

🎙️Redefining Screen Time with Esther Huybreghts &...

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2025/03/03

On today's episode, we get to chat with the creative powerhouses, Esther Huybreghts and Melissa Cash. Driven by the need for good alternatives to overwhelming, addictive children's apps saturating the market, they set out to create an experience that parents could feel good about handing to their kids. They made the thing they needed, and Pok Pok was born — the Apple Design Award-winning preschool app. We are obsessed.If you are also obsessed after listening to Esther and Melissa talk about

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🌪️How Do We Raise Scrappy/Resilient Kids Sans Trauma?

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2025/02/24

This week on SCRATCH THAT, we grapple with some of our inner Boomer-parenting instincts. What if our kids don't "have it as hard as we did"? How do we make sure we raise them to have scrappy, resilient, creative, trickster energy for the inevitable struggles ahead?Tune in to hear us:⛈️ Name our particular parenting triggers.🧳 Unpack the actual legacy of some of our early childhood struggles.💪 Uncover the deep, troubling belief that struggling makes you real and valid.🧶 Describe the

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54:49

🎙️ Getting off the conveyor belt of production with...

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2025/02/17

We cannot wait for you to hear our conversation with Maria Bowler. Maria's life has followed a delightfully winding path from magazine editor to an MA in religious studies, from years studying with nuns to creative coach. She is also who Caitlin wants to be when they grow up and, most recently, an author of the recently released book, Making Time: A New Vision for Crafting a Life Beyond Productivity. At the heart of it, Maria generously offers us tools for getting off the conveyor belt of

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22:40

⚡️ Wanna Make a Mix Tape Together?

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2025/02/10

A growing goal for SCRATCH THAT is to find ways for this community to know and connect with each other, so this week, we have a special invitation for our listeners. What is a song that has held you — as a parent and/or a person? A song that has brought you back to the ground/yourself/your values. A song that gave you the thing you needed when you needed it? Would you drop it in the comments below? We'll turn all our songs into a group playlist — a way to feel each other's presence as we go

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🎙️What paradigms are we building? (Part 2) with Abbie...

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2025/02/03

Last week, we swirled around the impossible questions of paradigms – What stories did we inherit? What stories are we passing on (intentionally & unintentionally)? Enter – Abbie VanMeter. Abbie is the executive director of the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution, the host of the Stories Lived. Stories Told. podcast, the host of the CosmoParenting Podcast, and an incredibly insightful and curious communicator. On this episode, Abbie meets us in the chaotic center of our swirls and

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