Through snow and carpooling and book finishing
and bad parenting karma we struggled to bring you this group chat.
Here's our road-map of what we discussed, for your fast-forwarding
convenience:
0:44 Intros and What's New With You — Nicole is
chewing her toast during our podcast, not chewing her
toes. An important distinction.
2:19 Keeping Caregivers Informed — When we
heard about Little
Peanut on the Go, an app that facilitates sharing of
information with babysitters and other caregivers (including
grandparents, if they're app-friendly), it got us thinking about
how we communicated with our kids' sitters back in the dark ages
when you had to rely on whiteboards and didn't have to worry about
wifi.
14:44 Keeping Schools Informed — Speaking of
the free flow of information, how come schools still send you home
100 pieces of paper at the start of the school year? Shouldn't we
be able to fill out forms online? And get texts and e-mails instead
of handouts? And act like our kids are going to school in the 21st
century? Is there an app for that?
26:55 Interview of the Week — From caregivers
and schools, we move on to communicating with doctors in a chat
with author
and blogger
Robert Rummel-Hudson about the relationships parents of kids with
special needs form with our kids' doctors and specialists.
(Warning: that all goes away when they become adults, alas.)
39:15 Shameless Self-Promotion — Terri
mentioned a blog post about Parenting
Karma; Amanda shared a colleague's infographic on the

Anatomy of an Effective Email to Your Child’s Teacher;
Catherine introduced the transition of her About.com site to
Verywell; and
... have you heard Nicole is writing a book? It's got her kind of
preoccupied. We also thanked those who've been shamelessly
promoting us with iTunes stars and reviews, especially Maos and
SusieMein. Keep those kudos coming, please!
Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for
our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without
hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full
recap experience.