by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast, Books for Adults
This week on Spawned, I have the honor of welcoming back the wonderful Anya Kamenetz, NPR Education reporter and author, to talk about her new book, The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Kids’ Lives…and Where We Go Now. I will tell you this: From the title...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast, Books for Adults
I will never think of yoga, supplements, activated charcoal or bath salts the same again. Today Show producer turned health/wellness journalist, Rina Raphael, joined me to talk about her absolutely fascinating, fairly funny, and very smart new book The Gospel of...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast, Books for Adults
According to Dr. Seema Yasmin, we’re living through a misinformationdemic. I’ve always thought that media literacy should be a mandatory subject for kids, but it’s never been more evident than today — so I’m incredibly grateful for...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips + Tricks
As Puerto Rico is still feeling the results of last week’s Hurricane Fiona (and can still use our aid and support) we’re now turning our concern to friends in the path of Hurricane Ian right now. And we know a lot of you are looking for tips to help get...
by Christina Refford | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Tips + Tricks
Like so many other desperate — and exhausted — parents, we turned to melatonin supplements to help my son sleep when he was younger. I spoke to our pediatrician first of course, and did enough research about melatonin on my own to know that melatonin...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast, Tips + Tricks
Was the college search always this overwhelming or does it just feel that way? Do my kids really need to take the SATs? Does test-optional really mean optional? How did covid impact admissions? When should I be signing up my kid for college tours? Or wait…should...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast, Tips + Tricks
This week’s Spawned podcast guest, Roo Powell, is the perfect person to help us with tips and advice for keeping kids safe online. She’s the co-founder of SOSA (Safe from Online Sexual Abuse) and has put her child advocacy skills to use by…disguising...
by Christina Refford | Doing Good
While we’ve shared so many resources for Pride Month over the years, we wanted to write today about ways to be a good LGBTQ ally, whether you’re a parent, friend or family member of someone who is LGBTQ, or whether you just want to step up and be a more...
by Christina Refford | Books for Kids, Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Tips + Tricks
The fact that a book called A Kids Book About School Shootings even exists should tell you exactly how big a problem this has become in the years since the horrific Columbine school shooting over 20 years ago. As we shared in today’s post How to talk to your...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips + Tricks, Doing Good
Another day, another mass shooting. And I’m not being flip. This week it’s the unfathomably awful shooting at Robb Roy Elementary in Uvalde Texas. Just last week it was a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. This just adds to the already unconscionable list...
