About Our Guest: Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a practicing board-certified pediatrician, author, speaker, and full-time working mom. Dr. Whitney is a Stanford University-trained private practice physician whose expertise spans the public health, direct patient care, and media worlds. She holds a Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from The University of California, Berkeley, and a Journalism degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is also CEO and Founder of Modern Mommy Doc. Dr. Whitney advocates for the success of career-driven careg ..read more

Have you ever bought a planner thinking it was going to fix all your problems? Or made a chore chart for your kids, just sure that this would be the thing that would motivate them to do their jobs with happy hearts? Two weeks in, the planner has never made it out of your purse and your kids are already complaining about which jobs they have to do that week. Been there. That’s the problem when we’re trying to solve things in our lives by looking microscopically. There’s a reason that planner isn’t going to turn you into a whole new person. We’re trying to bandage the symptoms rather than di ..read more

About Our Guest: Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a practicing board-certified pediatrician, author, speaker, and full-time working mom. Dr. Whitney is a Stanford University-trained private practice physician whose expertise spans the public health, direct patient care, and media worlds. She holds a Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from The University of California, Berkeley, and a Journalism degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is also CEO and Founder of Modern Mommy Doc. Dr. Whitney advocates for the success of career-driven careg ..read more

Picture with me this very common dinner time family scene: Chicken, cheesy potatoes, and steamed broccoli on everyone’s plates. Adults happily eating. One child trying everything on her plate because she’s a first born and “a pleasure to have in class.”  The other child has finished all of their chicken and potatoes and refuses to eat even a bite of their vegetables.  If you’ve been there before, you’ve probably seen the pattern that comes next: sweetly asking your little one to eat their dinner turns to “just 3 bites.” Which eventually leads to, “If you just lick the freaking bro ..read more

About Our Guest: Erin Junker is the founder of The Happy Sleep Company and is a professional infant and toddler sleep consultant. She writes: I am passionate about children’s sleep. I firmly believe that a well-rested family is a happier, healthier family. I am committed to working with tired parents to help them help their little ones get the healthy rest they need – that means getting amazing, uninterrupted nighttime sleep, and taking proper, restful naps, all within a supportive and guided two-week program! The tools and knowledge gained through a Master’s Degree in health communications ..read more

“Mom, you can film any other part of this concert you want to,” my 10-year-old daughter told me, jumping up and down as Taylor Swift prepared to take the stage in Tokyo, “But just be here with me in this special moment right now.” She was right. Three days earlier, we’d boarded a plane in Portland, Oregon, taken a twelve-hour journey, navigated a complicated train system, and were now waiting for her favorite artist to take the stage. As I pulled out my phone to record Taylor’s entry at the beginning of the show, my daughter gently pulled my ear close to her to remind me about the reason for ..read more

About Our Guest: Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a practicing board-certified pediatrician, author, speaker, and full-time working mom. Dr. Whitney is a Stanford University-trained private practice physician whose expertise spans the public health, direct patient care, and media worlds. She holds a Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from The University of California, Berkeley, and a Journalism degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is also CEO and Founder of Modern Mommy Doc. Dr. Whitney advocates for the success of career-driven careg ..read more

Dear Summer Camp Scheduling Season, I hate you. I’ll get to why, but let me first start by saying how much I want to love you. For one, my Gen X, working-mom heart is enthralled by the possibility all your camps promise: freedom to work continuously during the summer months while my children frolic along nature trails at outdoor camp, compose masterpieces at music camp, and make the best of friends at sleepaway camp. The offerings you describe in your sign-up newsletters sound magical and adventurous all at once—a far cry from the mundane YMCA Day Camp I attended for weeks on end as a subu ..read more

About Our Guest: Lauren Chaitoff is the founder and chief visionary of Yogi Beans , a yoga and wellness technology company for children. Already steeped in the modern fitness world as a Pilates instructor, Lauren's perspective shifted when she was taught about yoga’s mind-body-heart connection, catalyzing her pursuit of higher yoga education.  After moving back to New York City, Lauren completed her 200–hour yoga certification through YogaWorks and became a registered E–RYT Yoga Instructor and member of the Yoga Alliance. Lauren is also certified to teach Postnatal Yoga through Yoga Mo ..read more

We’re seasoned experts in setting boundaries for other people, aren’t we? Especially our kids. We make sure they don't run into the street, we control their screen time, we establish a schedule that keeps them rested and (mostly) sane.  But there's one boundary that we often forget about, because it’s WAY easier to set this one aside. Because it causes a lot less confrontation and requires less intentionality from us when we forget about it. This is the boundary that defines our relationship with ourselves.  I wanna dig into setting self-boundaries and why they're crucial for our ..read more