Stephanie Malia Krauss

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    • May 14
    • 1 min

    Mental Health Red Flags & Letting Big Kids Have Timeouts

    My last two pieces for Scary Mommy focus on our kids' mental health -- when to worry and a way to empower big kids to take care of themselve
    • Mar 5
    • 1 min

    Teachers Are Not OK. Be Patient and Kind.

    This Scary Mommy piece (~5 min read) is my first ever to go viral. Within hours of it being online, people shared the article hundreds of...
    • Dec 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Culture Wars Keep Kids From Being Able to Learn & Heal

    This past year, schools have been ground zero for America's culture wars. My latest piece in EdSurge (~5 min. read) talks about what that...
    • Nov 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    It's Time to Create an Emergency Mental Health Plan for Your Kids

    Today we face a different type of storm. This is not one that downs trees and buildings, but it is one that can takedown kids and families.
    • Oct 29, 2021
    • 1 min

    From the 4Cs of Keeping Schools Open to the 4Cs of Student Success

    This ~5 min piece for Getting Smart illuminates the tension between what it takes to keep schools open in Covid times and what it takes...
    • Sep 16, 2021
    • 1 min

    How Are Our Tweens and Teens?

    The other day, I connected with more than a hundred fellow Brown School of Social Work alum to talk about how middle and high schoolers...
    • Jun 25, 2021
    • 1 min

    Caring for Kids and Families is Good for the US Economy

    Last week, I sat down with Veronica Goodman, Director of Social Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), to talk about Making It...
    • Jun 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    Parents, It's Time We Treat Ourselves Like Babies

    In this ScaryMommy piece, I talk about how self-care can (and should) look like parenting our little ones. The past year+ and the pandemic t
    • Mar 13, 2021
    • 3 min

    Happy Pandemiversary! Five Ways Your Family Can Celebrate Getting Through a Year of Pandemic Living

    (This post originally appeared on Medium, but given how short it is, I thought I'd include the whole thing here. ~3 min. read) My son...
    • Mar 5, 2021
    • 1 min

    Pandemic Play and COVID Childhoods

    This USA Today article by Alia Wong features my kids and their epic LEGO universe, which came to life the same day schools shutdown, last...
    • Jan 20, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Top 10 Ways to Help Kids Beat Stress in 2021

    I always planned to start a new opinion series before the release of Making It, but I didn't know where to start. And then January 6...
    • Oct 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    Five Things Kids Need in Order to Learn and Thrive this Pandemic Year

    Hello, friends! This is my first post for Medium, which seems a bit like the new Huffington Post. This quick, four-minute read describes...
    • May 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    The Impossible Heroism of Young Single Parents Who Are Raising Kids and Working in a COVID World

    One of the best parts of my job is getting to mentor young people. One of the most humbling is getting to tell their stories. I wrote...
    • May 14, 2020
    • 1 min

    12-Step Program Slogans Can Heal a COVID-19 World

    For the first few months of the pandemic, I was--like many--a hot mess. I was super stressed, scared, and constantly on edge. After a...

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