This Week on ParentData...Me?!
What. the. what.
I can’t believe I get to write this, but I am officially a contributing writer (!!!) for ParentData: A data driven guide through pregnancy, parenthood, and beyond.
I have been a follower of Emily Oster’s writing since hearing about her NYTimes bestseller Cribsheet in 2019 and reading her Substack ParentData, which she and her team have now turned into an independently run website. My writing contributions will entail answering community submitted questions about various topics related to speech and language development and neurodiversity.
So as of this weekend, my first published Q&A is officially live in the most recent Babies and Toddlers newsletter and on the ParentData website!
Everything else related to The Childhood Curator will be business as usual. If you have any questions that you would like me to answer in my newsletters, as has always been possible, please feel free to reach out using Substack’s DM feature (see button below), email me at thecuratedchildhoodnyc@gmail.com, or respond in the comments section of any post.
I could not have been given this opportunity this without all of you and your continued support of my writing and this Substack. I can’t believe I’ve been curating newsletters for almost two years! Every text, email, comment, like, and piece of feedback has been tremendously helpful. Ultimately it has allowed me to share my knowledge with a wider group of people than I am otherwise able to do on a daily basis. I look forward to sharing more with you in the future.
As I begin to write my next newsletter for you all, I will leave you with a roundup of Things I Have Done and Discovered so far this summer:
Got off the NYPL hold list for The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt:
I received this book from the NYPL earlier this summer and it is engrossing. Let’s just say, there’s finally plenty of published data to back up all of my hot takes on technology and why we need to be raising kids in a play-based childhood instead of what he has termed a “phone-based childhood.”
Read The Fairytale Promises of Montessori Parenting via The Atlantic
Added these striped Ticonderoga pencils to my beginning of the school year shopping list. Did you know that Gen Z is collecting pencils like millennials collected stickers?
Waited in line (no, I won’t tell you how long) for a Miu Miu book strap at their “Summer Reading” event and received a mystery novel, which, you now know is the best genre for all ages.
Skimmed the comments section of What Are Your Childlike Habits? via Cup of Jo.
Did a deep dive into Ballerina Farm. Oof.
Looked into the Let Grow Play Club after seeing it mentioned in one of my new favorite Substacks, Play Makes Us Human by Peter Gray.
Saw the book Rhyme Hungry at the E.A.T. gift shop on Madison Ave. It has fold out pages, I’m obsessed. And yes, it has been added to the list of My Favorite Books to Read with Kids.
Mazel tov!!!!!!