Raising New Yorkers

Sarah Tintle, a volunteer with International Justice Mission (IJM) sits down with us to discuss human trafficking and modern day slavery. As a Freedom Partner Coordinator for IJM, Sarah goes into what IJM does in NYC, internationally, and how they are working to end modern day slavery in our lifetime. She also shares how to discuss these topics with our children and how to get involved as a family to be a part of the solution to end modern day slavery in our world. She's a proud New Yorker for the last 10 years and is a mom of 3.

Sarah's email: [email protected]

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Sign up to be a Freedom Partner: www.ijm.org/sign-up

Heather Morris aka Stori James shares with us what it was like as a young single mom pursuing her singing career in New York City. We get an inside look of what it takes to pursue a career in the arts while being a mom. She also speaks a lot about raising kids in the city, but not at the pace of the city, knowing your kids and their individual personalities, and battling depression as a mom.

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This week we have two special guests with us discussing the dilemma around opting in or out of standardized testing this school year.

Katy & Genisha are moms of 4th grade students who happen to be at the same NYC public school. They share their perspective on the implications around testing students during a pandemic, history around the test, and personal outlook on education in NYC.

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We chat about how we handle birthday parties for our kids. Deidre spent some time working at children's (sometimes extravagant) birthday parties which bring up a lot of questions like: is there a right or wrong way to celebrate your child's birthday?

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Sheri Adams tells us the story of losing her 4th child to a terminal brain illness at the tender age of 15 months. She shares how she found joy in the midst of pain and suffering and encourages us to find beauty in the every day and live intentionally every day we wake up with breath in our bodies.

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We discuss the priorities we each need in an apartment, the realities of small space living and what has helped us as well as how we deal with neighbors.

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Deidre and Gyna discuss how they find babysitters, how they handle paying (and not paying) for babysitting, as well as what they look for in babysitters.

Things we mention:

"TKC Babysitters" group on Facebook - which is a group of students who go to Kings college.

Today Gyna and Deidre talk about community - how to find it, how to build it and how to keep it.

Today we sit down with Elizabeth Passarella to discuss her recent book "Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York". Elizabeth is a contributing editor for Southern Living and a former editor at Real Simple and Vogue. She grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and has lived in NYC for over 20 years.

We discuss how she wrote the book, a little bit about politics and her struggle with yelling. Elizabeth lives in New York City with her husband and three children.

Elizabeth's Book: Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

Follow Elizabeth on IG @espassarella