July 15, 2013

What’s the Best Way to Teach Kids About Money? A Q&A with Finance Columnist Ron Lieber

Denise Schipani / 2 Comments / family finances, guest posts/authors, spoiled kids / Ron Lieber, The New York Times, The Opposite of Spoiled /

Earlier this summer, I got an email from a New York Times personal-finance reporter named Ron Lieber. He’s working on an upcoming book called The Opposite of Spoiled, and he had question for me regarding this piece I’d written for Daily Worth. The post he referred to was about my allowance-ambivalence; in it, I describe […]

June 18, 2013

What Foreign Parents Get Right: A Q&A With the Author of “Parenting Without Borders”

Denise Schipani / 3 Comments / family life, guest posts/authors, parenting research / Christine Gross-Loh, Parenting Without Borders /

I am so thrilled to share this Q&A with you. Author and mother of four Christine Gross-Loh is a longtime writer friend/colleague of mine, and I’ve been watching from the sidelines as she worked on this amazing book, a sensible, smart, deeply researched book about how other cultures around the world do parenting differently. Did […]

April 22, 2013

We All Need a Little Help

Denise Schipani / 8 Comments / childbirth, guest posts/authors / c-sections, Call the Midwife, Jennifer Margulis, PBS, The Business of Baby /

I’ve been watching Call the Midwife, a British series about a group of young nurse/midwives in London’s East End in the 1950s, and I’m hooked. I tell my husband (who leaves the room when it’s on) that it’s not like those silly childbirth “stories” I used to watch on TLC when I was pregnant. What […]