Your Parenting is Showing: Episode 3 - Dr. Liz Pinsky

Dr. Elizabeth Pinsky is a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, climate activist and mom of two. She is also Ellen’s colleague and friend and has an acerbic wit that almost makes you miss how wicked smaht she is. In August, Liz wrote a piece for the The Atlantic - We Flattened the Curve. Our Kids Belong in School in which she made the compelling case that getting kids back in school is a social justice issue that should transcend political schisms. In this episode, she shares her thoughts (and the science) on the priority of finding safe ways to get kids back in the classroom. We talk about what the real meaning of “family values” should be and about what the pandemic has revealed about the (scary low) priority children and families are to our culture and society. If you’ve been struggling to find the words to express your worry and fears for the impact of pandemic times on your kids and want the language to advocate for all our children, Liz is your role model. So much so that we’ll forgive her for having forgotten about our date to record this episode…maybe.