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Talks and Appearances

Upcoming
09/15/08	Luncheon series, U.Va. psychology department, Charlottesville, Va.
10/16/08	Farmington Commission on Children, Youth and Families, Farmington Hills, MI
11/03/08	Dust or Magic: Children's New Media Design Institute, Flemington, NJ
12/03/08	ECAR Symposium on technology and education in Boca Raton, Fla.
04/01/09	Center for Early Childhood Education at Eastern Connecticut State University, Wilmantic, CT

 

Past
08/01/08	Body, Mind & Child Radio weekly feature
06/12/08	Interaction Design & Children at Northwestern University, Chicago
06/09/08	Professional Development Institute for NAEYC on tech and early childhood, New Orleans, LA
06/01/08	Q-and-A in Scholastic Parent & Child magazine
05/20/08	Parent Teacher Leadership Institute, Alexandria, Va.
05/09/08	Joan Ganz Cooney Center, moderator at inaugural symposium, New York, NY
04/20/08	Outlook piece in The Washington Post about children’s TV
04/11/08	South Arlington Moms Club, Arlington, Va.
04/09/08	The Parents’ Journal with Bobbi Conner, NPR affiliates around the country
03/04/08	Duncan Library author talk, Alexandria, Va.
02/29/08	Falls Church parents group, Falls Church, Va
02/26/08	360Kid Interview posted
02/19/08	Infant & Toddlers Program, Montgomery County, Md.
02/15/08	McLean Moms Group, McLean, Va.
02/07/08	Etz Hayim Preschool, Arlington, Va.
01/31/08	Early Years Conference, Vancouver, B.C. CANADA
01/09/08	KVBC 3 Las Vegas, “Mommy & Me” segment
01/08/08	Sandbox Summit, moderator, Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, NV
12/17/07	National Institute of Early Education Research newsletter
12/16/07	“A New Era in Play,” Reed Karaim, USA Weekend
12/13/07	Book review: Looks Who’s Watching, The Wall Street Journal
12/12/07	Positive Parenting Playgroups, Fairfax, Va.
12/07/07	Little Hoos of Northern Virginia, Alexandria, Va.
11/27/07	Sleepy Hollow Cooperative Learning Center, Annandale, Va.
11/19/07	ABC 7 Chicago, “Children and TV.”
11/16/07	Barnes & Noble, Potomac Yard Shopping Center, Alexandria, Va.
11/13/07	Divalysscious Moms, Upper East Side, NYC
11/08/07	National Association for the Education of Young Children, Chicago
11/05/07	Dust or Magic: Children's New Media Design Institute, Flemington, NJ
11/05/07	“Studies Lay Out Violent TV’s Risk to Kids,” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
11/01/07	“Should babies watch TV?” Parenting
10/24/07	Montgomery County Parents of Multiples, Rockville, Md.
10/17/07	Paley Center for the Media, briefing by the American Center for Children and Media, New York, NY
10/17/07	“Babes in Brandland,” BrandWeek
10/16/07	“Background noise can cause harm,” The Washington Post’s On Parenting blog
10/12/07	Spring Knolls Cooperative Early Learning Center, Bethesda, Md.
10/04/07	Q-and-A in Business Week’s Working Parent Blog
10/03/07	Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, New York
10/01/07	“The New TV Guide,” Parents magazine
10/01/07	Listed in Phillip Manning’s SciBooks.org
09/30/07	Review in The St. Petersburg Times
09/18/07	NYT Op-Ed printed in The International Herald-Tribune
09/16/07	Review in The New York Post
09/14/07	“Should Tots Watch TV?” Salon.com Q-and-A by Katherine Mieszkowski
09/13/07	“Into the Minds of Babes,” Parents’ Choice News
09/10/07	“… And so is the TV Debate,” Working Dad blog, by Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Paul Nyhan
09/01/07	“The Mom Moment,” Redbook
08/23/07	Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, Washington, DC
08/14/07	Op-Ed, “The Genius of Baby Einstein,” in The New York Times
08/06/07	Review in Publishers’ Weekly

I would be happy to talk to groups of parents and educators about what I’ve learned as an author of Into the Minds of Babes (Basic Books, Sept 2007), and/or as a reporter in the field of education and technology. Please contact me for more information.