KJ Dell'Antonia, Author, HOW TO BE A HAPPIER PARENT: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute

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🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Listen to KJ Dell'Antonia tell it like it is in HOW TO BE A HAPPIER PARENT: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute. This first-person-narrative-meets-advice-book provides practical, actionable tips that all parents can appreciate. The former editor of the Motherlode blog of the New York Times, KJ combines research, anecdotes and personal experience to create this modern-day parenting bible.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, the podcast that features conversations with writers of all types.
0:17.2	Today's episode of Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books has been sponsored by the Craft Studio,
0:21.7	Craft Studio, NYC.com, Let Loose, and Craft, with locations on the Upper East Side in Tribeca,
0:28.1	the craft studio is the perfect place to bring your kids, paint pottery, and kill a bunch of time.
0:33.5	It's amazing.
0:35.2	I am super excited to be interviewing KJ. Del Antonio today.
0:39.6	KJ is the former editor of Anna Wrighter for the New York Times Motherload blog.
0:44.6	She was also a contributing editor to the Well Family section.
0:48.1	Prior to that, she was a blogger and contributor to Slate.
0:50.9	She currently lives in Lyme, New Hampshire Hampshire with her husband, four children, and many
0:54.5	farm animals. Hi, how are you? Great. How are you? I'm good. Thank you so much for coming on the show.
1:00.9	No problem. I also want to thank you so, so much for writing your book. As a mom of four also,
1:08.6	I am, like, beyond grateful to have now a manual, like by topic so I can like refer back to it as a Bible.
1:15.5	So thank you.
1:16.6	Oh, thank you.
1:17.5	I hope it's helpful.
1:18.7	And actually doing it helped me.
1:20.4	Oh, no, it's absolutely helpful.
1:22.7	I feel like you normalized so many of the things that I felt.
1:26.5	And oh my gosh, there was just anyway thank you it was
1:29.4	amazing um in your introduction which I want to laminate basically called this could be fun
1:36.6	you open up your book with the following you said I'd been a parent for close to 12 years by the time
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