This is Ask Lisa, a parenting podcast to help people understand the psychology of parenting.

Now, in the midst of a pandemic, psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore, author of two New York Times

best-selling parenting books, takes your questions. And I'm co-host, Rina Ninan, a journalist and mom of two.

Some of what we talk about comes from raising children ourselves. Most of the time, I'll be getting

answers to your parenting questions. So send your questions to ask Lisa at Dr.Lisademore.com.

In this episode, we're covering parenting in a pandemic.

Rina, how are you?

I am picking up strands of sparkling glitter

and all sorts of weird byproducts from my eight-year-old's birthday party.

She had this Zoom birthday party. I thought I'd really figured this one out and then I realized

it was a disaster. I had these girls, four girls, come by and pick up these beautifully wrapped

little gifts. They were these unicorn, eggs girls, come by and pick up these beautifully wrapped little gifts.

They were these unicorn, eggshell things that you fill with soil, and they're supposed to

sprout.

At first, I thought it was marijuana, but it is it.

Okay, good.

Not cool.

I mean, cool in other ways, but not for an eight-year-old's birthday party.

Not for an eight-year-old birthday party.

But it's supposed to be a little garden.

I thought they'd zoom, they'd be far away from each other, but still able to kind of socially interact and make

this, and that could be her birthday party. So they came over to pick this stuff up and then they went

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