Growing Up 8: Recent Episodes
David Youngblood
Welcome to Growing Up 8, a podcast specifically set up for my family, but which you are free to enjoy listening to. This podcast centers around a series of stories about growing up in a large family in the 1960s-1980s. From the day to day struggles of growing up with seven siblings, to taking long road-trip vacations, filled with Stuckey's Stops, souvenir treasures, and driving adventures. If you are a little nostalgic for the wonderful years spanning that time period, these stories are for you.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 Podcast we look at the fundamental questions of parenting.
In today's episode of Growing Up 8, I pay tribute to a woman who managed and still manages to be a trusted and necessary presence in the lives of those who love her.
Welcome to another episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast. Today's episode iis a poem poem that pays gratitude to the two people who managed to calm our fears and to keep us electric in our hopes and imaginings as well as our dreams. Thank you Mom and Dad.
In this episode of growing Up 8, we look at a poem that celebrates the wary watchfulness of family.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at what happens when we rescue a small child who has lost her way.
In this episode of Growing Up Eight, we take a look at our dad's cousin Billy, and how his life and love left a legacy.
In this episode of Growing Up Eight, we take a look at the necessary role souvenirs play in our lives.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at how significant a role furniture can place in memory.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at the wisdom and platitudes offered by our mother.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at the story of our father's ancestors, Joseph and Mary. We also learn of their lasting legacy.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at what happens as the eldest moves on to college, a change which will affect all of us.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast, we learn how to clear a clover field of dangerous bees and the fundamental art of spitting.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast, we take a look at arriving early to a Midnight Mass and how it reflects a story told to us by our grandfather.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 Podcast, we take a look at the number eight and what that might mean to the onlooker and the member.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast, we take a look at our parents and their daily ritual of taking walks.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at Mom's love of gardening and our summer life in Illinois.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast, we take a look at our Great-Grandparents' farm and the importance of sharing a ritual.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast, we learn that gratitude is a learned behavior and can be realized through the simple act of giving.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at accident forgiveness and how through the simple gift of grace relationships can be healed and strengthened.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at faith formation and how a single, solitary person can leave a deep impact.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at the shared and rare joy of enjoying being a part of a state championship team.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast, we turn to poetry to describe my father's vision and creation of a drop leaf table where all ten of us could share meals and stories and life.
In today's episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast, we continue to explore the wonder that was the Sears and Roebuck catalog. This time we look at the miracle of the wrist radio.
In today's episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at shopping on a budget and how Sears helped a large family out.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast, we take a look at our mother's systematic method of preparing meals and how a visiting guest managed to add a new wrinkle to our Sunday meals.
In today's episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at how to successfully break a habit.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at making a rite of passage, an event often made easier if you have someone trusted nearby to be a witness and a support.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at the roots of the collective sense of humor we seem to all possess.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at the quirkiness of a gifted car and it’s bonding powers.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at how memory can be triggered by a familiar scent.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look and a young boy struggling with thoughts of the afterlife.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at siblings sharing the common space of a treetop.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we look at the idea of fidelity and what it means to have a guardian angel.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a loving look at our grandmother and the miracle that was her love of beauty.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at how the creative process of making art can serve as a gift of love, especially from Mom.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at the most competitive member of our family.
In this episode of the Growing Up 8 podcast we take a look at consequences for actions and a unique method for determining whether or not to proceed with a choice.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at the unspoken agreement that exists between siblings with regard to being hurt while playing.
In this episode of Growing Up Eight, we take a look at the ingenious system our parents used to keep us from too much harm when we were out of their sight.
In this episode of Growing Up Eight, we take a look at living in Baton Rouge under the vigilant watch of neighborhood moms.
In this episode of Growing Up Eight, we take a look at the influence football had on our childhood experience. I also learn something about my dad.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, I tell the story of my father watching one of the many games we were involved in. This time, an unexpected rain storm creates a unique moment in family lore.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, We take a look at our great-grandfather Old Papa and his special relationship with our mom as well as the 1964 VW Beetle we inherited.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, God never takes a holiday and neither did we as attending church service while on vacation was a given for the tribesmen.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we look at the inevitable call of nature that takes place on the open highway.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we hear the story of my little brother's amazing power as well as listen in on "the station wagon medley."
In this episode of Growing Up 8, we take a look at traveling on vacation and what it was like to experience a road trip in a station wagon.
In this episode of Growing Up 8, you'll hear a story about transformation as the family prepares to take one of the annual rituals we enjoyed in the summer: the road trip.
Growing Up 8 is a podcast filled with stories about what it was like to grow up in a family with eight kids in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. This is David Youngblood, and I'll be your host as we explore the often comic dynamics of childhood and growing up in a large family. Each episode in this series will focus on a different aspect of what it meant to grow up surrounded by five brothers and two sisters.