A place where two professional mamas—one a pediatrician, one a family therapist—serve up timely, reliable parenting advice with humor and compassion.
Pediatrician Rachel Zahn and Family Therapist Ellen Schrier deliver parenting smarts sprinkled liberally with humor and a touch of attitude. Go ahead and ask us a question!
Ellen and Rachel are two old friends and “expert” mamas—one a pediatrician and one a family therapist—with fifty years of parenting experience between them.
A siren call, red flag, canary in the coal mine for questions of medical autonomy in the 21st century. Are you entitled to your health information, or not?
Each day our kids are bombarded by zillions of unrealistic images of how they should look and who they should be. We must stop the insanity. This powerful and disturbing video shows exactly what they are up against. And us, too. Take a look ...
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Becky: This may be a silly question, I know you use cooked quinoa but is it 2/3 cup of cooked quinoa, or 2/3 of a cup...
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