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Parent Hacks is the encouraging book I needed when I was an exhausted new parent.

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Edit Your Life Ep 149: Balancing School Achievement Pressure

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Edit Your Life Ep 149: Balancing School Achievement Pressure

Christine and I share our evolving experiences as parents of high school- and college students, and give parents permission to pause, breathe, and remember that education is much bigger than school.

Edit Your Life Ep. 145: Media & Entertainment Favorites, Vol. 6

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Edit Your Life Ep. 145: Media & Entertainment Favorites, Vol. 6

Today’s episode is sponsored by Audible, a leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment. For an exclusive deal from our sponsor, tune in to our episode! Winter is for curling up with a good book, movie, TV show, or podcast. (Do you curl up with your podcasts? Let’s start that trend!) We […]

Edit Your Life Ep. 140: Raising Good Citizens

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Edit Your Life Ep. 140: Raising Good Citizens

Christine interviews Rana DiOrio, co-author of the forthcoming book WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AMERICAN?

Edit Your Life Ep. 129: How To Teach Your Kids Life Skills

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Edit Your Life Ep. 129: How To Teach Your Kids Life Skills

Christine and I talk about the importance of frustration tolerance, how to nudge to reluctant kids to learn, the reality that kids sometimes learn more readily from other adults, and the welcome reminder that it’s never too late to start.

Edit Your Life Ep. 126: Managing Summer Screen Time

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Edit Your Life Ep. 126: Managing Summer Screen Time

Screen time poses a challenge for most families, but even more so during the summer when school structure falls away and many kids’ free time (good!) defaults to being filled with “zombie” electronics (bad!). Simplistic, catch-all rules ignore the reality that managing screen time is complicated. In Episode 126 of Edit Your Life, Christine and […]

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Asha Dornfest is an author, optimist, and mom of two. She started the Parent Hacks blog in 2005, and turned it into a book in 2016. More about Asha »

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