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Hilary Frank is the host, creator, and executive producer of award-winning podcast, the longest-shortest time.

She's a former contributor to This American Life, the author and illustrated of three

young adult novels, The View from the Top, I Can't Tell You, and Better Than Running

at Night, her latest book is Weird Parenting Wins, Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and

other hacks from the parenting trenches. Her recent op-ed in the New York Times called the

Special Misogyny Reserve for Mothers challenged the idea that motherhood issues were a niche topic. Her article, Having Kids Doesn't mean you have to turn boring on CNN.com, gives moms tips for breaking apart from the stereotypes. Hi, Hillary. Hi, Hillary. Hi, how are you? Good, thanks. How are you? I'm good. Thanks so much for coming on Momstone. Have Time to Read books. Yeah, no problem. So weird parenting wins.

Amazing book. I got so many, like, fantastic suggestions that I'm going to be implementing

immediately with my four kids. Can you tell listeners what weird parenting wins is about?

Yes. So when I had my baby, I read a lot of books, and I felt like the advice I was getting from experts was making me

feel like a failure because a lot of this advice is written from a my way or the highway perspective

and if it works for you great and if it doesn't, then, you know, I would feel like there was something

wrong with me or something wrong with my kid. And the thing that I discovered is that the stuff

that was really working for me was stuff that I had invented myself, like out of trial and error,

out of moments of desperation, or things that friends had shared with me. And so I did a call

out on the longest, shortest time website to see if other parents had similar experiences.

And we just got the most amazing responses. And so many of them were hilarious.

It was things like, you know, a dad who pigs norts in his baby's ear to get her to stop crying.

Or parents who are charging their electric toothbrushes to conduct the baby to sleep like

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