A quick year-end round up
Want to hear one of the podcasts I appeared on this year- you're in luck.
Amazingly, I have not done a wrap-up of all things related to my book this year, so I wanted to get it all in one place!
I am so grateful to everyone who ordered my book or requested/checked it out from your library. If you haven’t done so already and you’d like to know more about how to find a sustainable balance for screen time for your family, you can buy the book here or get it from your library!
But without the efforts and time of so many people who gave me their generosity, platforms, and airtime, the effort to get my book into the world would have been much harder, if not impossible. Thank you to all those who had me on their podcasts, mentioned me in roundups, comments, or tags, or had me for an interview, thank you so much.
There were a LOT of podcast appearances that I made this year, so if you missed them, here they are for your listening pleasure!
With Alyssa Blask-Campbell, creator of Seed and Sew and author of this year’s “Big Kids, Bigger Feelings” I discussed screen time, emotional regulation, and how they can coexist with each other on the “Voices of our Village” podcast.
Virginia Sole-Smith- author of “Fat Talk” and creator of “Burnt Toast”- had me on the Burnt Toast podcast to ponder the question: is screen time a diet?
One of my more surreal podcast appearances was on the Good Inside podcast with Dr. Becky when Dr. Becky shared that one of my reframes about screen time was a major game changer…for her! Talk about a pinch me moment.
Sometimes an interview hits in just the right way and I feel like I’m just having a wonderful conversation with someone I really gel with, and that’s how I felt in this episode of the Culture Study podcast with Anne Helen Petersen. If you don’t have kids or you’d like to hear about screen time perspectives as they apply to adults as well as kids, this is the one to listen to!
Speaking of an interview feeling like a chat with a friend, I got to chat with my actual friend Elizabeth on the Slate Care and Feeding podcast, perfectly titled “Managing Screen Time without Losing Your Mind” (perhaps this should have been my book title?). Similarly, this episode with Julie Bogart on the Brave Writer podcast felt like revisiting an old friend. Julie was the very first person to have me on a podcast way back in 2021, and she saw in me something I didn’t see in myself. I owe so much to her and it was so wonderful to talk with her again.
Things of course get a bit hectic around book launch, and mine was no exception (publishing around the start of the school year didn’t help to calm things down). I got to speak with so many wonderful podcast hosts who brought their own unique nuance and perspectives to the conversation. Speaking with Andrew Hogan on his Parent Tech podcast was one of those unique conversations since Andrew has a background in technology. I also got to speak with hosts who work in psychology and know much more than I do, which was such a treat. If that interests you, check out the Securely Attached podcast with Dr. Sarah Bren or my episode of Psychologists off the Clock podcast where we dig into one of my favorite things- why video games are motivating not necessarily addicting.
That same afternoon I got to speak with the wonderful hosts of the Mama’s Gonna Make it podcast, co-hosted by neurodivergent Moms who also have experience working in the education system.
If your family has aspects of neurodivergence, or you are navigating homeschooling or non-traditional schooling, you may be interested in this episode of the These Reveries podcast that I was on as well.
If all of these sound interesting but just too darn long then check out the Tidy Tidbits podcast episode I did right after book launch, clocking in at 5 minutes long.
Finally, I ended the year with a wonderful chat with Elise Hu on the Raising Us podcast; the podcast begins with an interview with Catherine Price, a co-author of Jonathan Haidt, and then proceeds into my interview, and I loved hearing the similarities and differences in our perspectives.
Other podcast appearances I couldn’t find a way to elegantly include above:
Single Parenting with Connection podcast. I’m so glad this podcast speaks to this particular type of parenting and I’m glad we could talk about how screens fit into single parenting lives).
The Yoga, Birth, Babies podcast with Deb Flashenberg
Mindful Mama podcast with Hunter Clarke-Fields
Minimalist Moms podcast with Diane Boden
If you prefer to read interviews instead of listen to them, you may be interested in: This interview with Sarah Pfäffli, available in English and also in German or this two-part substack interview (part 1) with Ryan Rose Weaver on the “In tending” substack (part 2).