I am the author of Relax, It’s Just God, co-author of ParentShift, and the founder of Brown Paper Press, an independent book publishing company. I write about parenting, primarily for the PBS NewsHour and the ParentShift Blog, and have a newish, monthlyish newsletter called The Bowling Alley. In my past life I was a journalist, and, in 2015, appeared on Dateline NBC to talk about one of my city’s strangest murder cases. (That episode re-runs a lot and may be what brought you here.) I also appeared in a super-controversial Facebook video arguing against timeouts in 2017. That one got more than 6.5 million views and won me a whole lot of hate. (That also may be what brought you here.)

On a more positive note, I had a dream come true when I was interviewed by Jeffrey Brown for a six-minute segment on the NewsHour’s BookShelf, and my articles and books have won a whole bunch of writing awards over the last two decades. My crowning achievement to date, though, has to be the time Fox News bashed a book I wrote for middle-schoolers and then an Amazon reviewer called me a “notorious atheist who infiltrated the Girl Scouts.” I will never, ever not love that.

I’m around, so come find me if you like.