Speaking Events
Offering expertise on parenting, child behavior and mental health, and pathways to a healthier family life.
A LITTLE ABOUT ME
My mission is helping families bring balance, common-sense, and joy back to parenting.
I’m passionate about integrating science and common-sense in parenting guidance to support healthier and more sustainable lives for parents. I’m an award-winning author of the book, Autonomy-Supportive Parenting: Reduce Parental Burnout and Raise Competent Confident Children, and an international speaker. I wrote a regular parenting advice column for Parents.com and serve on their medical review board. I co-host the popular Psychologists Off the Clock podcast and my writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Scary Mommy, Good Housekeeping, Motherly, Psychology Today, and more. I have been featured as an expert on NPR and NBC News Daily and regularly guest on podcasts to speak about parenting and raising healthy children in our modern world. I challenge today’s unhealthy and unscientific parenting trends in my speaking and writing, including for my Substack. My book earned a Foreword Reviews’ 2023 Indies Book of the Year Award.
My Speaking topics
Areas of Expertise
The Science and Practice of Autonomy-Supportive Parenting
New Ways to Parent Around Technology and Social Media
How to Boost Your Child’s Motivation for School
Raising Emotionally Healthy and Resilient Children
PLACES I’VE SPOKEN BEFORE
I have spoken for audiences of parents at schools, advocacy organizations, academic medical centers, and more.
I participated in the Institute of the Arts and Ideas panel, The Great Rewiring of Childhood, as a panelist debating The Anxious Generation author, Jonathan Haidt. I have spoken to professional organizations and foundations about the importance of supporting autonomy in children and adolescents to promote health and wellbeing.