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

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...

A few months ago, educators started telling me about the parent pushback they were getting on their social emotional learning lessons and...

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...

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.

I am such a fangirl of Debbie Reber and the Tilt Parenting podcast. My husband and I have listened to the show ever since we discovered...

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

Get a sneak peek at what happened in May on my virtual (basement) book tour. Pro tips at the end on how to launch a book in a pandemic.

(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...

This podcast was special! In this Parenting Our Future podcast conversation, parenting coach Robbin McManne and I dig into the worries...

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...

After two years of laboring, Making It: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World was born yesterday. I sat down with Josh Reppun, host...

A few days ago, I connected with Michael Horn to talk about Making It and what the many accelerated and disruptive changes around us mean...

I wrote this article for Scary Mommy to explain why kids struggle with self-control, especially when on tech. Spoiler: most of the time,...

This week, the first feature story on Making It came out! The best part? My 10-year old took the photo they used for the article. The...

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...

In this Medium post, I celebrate two decades of being sober. It is wild to think that my husband and kids have only known me as someone...

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

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...