35. Season 2 Finale: Unpacking The Education Series
Raising New Yorkers
For our season 2 finale, we thought it'd be beneficial to unpack the episodes from the Education Series with you all. For this series we invited 5 very different moms who either work at a school in NYC, has a child that currently attends a NYC school, or home schooled their children here for multiple years. <p> Each episode was completely different in terms of knowledge base, perspective, and experience. We're extremely thankful that we were able to get such a diverse group of moms to discuss the complexities of NYC schools. Listen to this finale episode to get a high...
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34. Education Series: Charter Schools, A Viable Alternative
Raising New Yorkers
Education in New York City will forever be a hot topic. This season we're exploring various school options offered to New York City kids by sitting down with adults who have first hand experiences with them. Our guests will range from parents, teachers, and administrators. <p> 🏠 As we wrap up this Education series, we thought we'd end it with mom of two, Priscilla Pan-Walton, who's currently a Charter School Principal in Queens and a native New Yorker. Priscilla shares a bit of her experience of going to NYC public schools throughout her childhood and why she...
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33. Education Series: Freedoms of NYC Homeschooling
Raising New Yorkers
Education in New York City will forever be a hot topic. This season we're exploring various school options offered to New York City kids by sitting down with adults who have first hand experiences with them. Our guests will range from parents, teachers, and administrators. <p> 🏠 Today's episode covers mom of 3, Margaret Kramer who just so happen to homeschool her boys for accumulative of 13 years in a small apartment here in the city. Margaret shares the pros, cons, and the types of freedom homeschooling provides. She also shares that she did all this with no prior...
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32. Education Series: Journey To Private School
Raising New Yorkers
Education in New York City will forever be a hot topic. This season we're exploring various school options offered to New York City kids by sitting down with adults who have first hand experiences with them. Our guests will range from parents, teachers, and administrators. <p> 🏫 In this episode, we had the privilege of talking with Devyn Humphrey about NYC Independent Schools; otherwise known as Private Schools in other cities. Devyn has lived in New York City for well over a decade and is a proud mom to two elementary aged kids who currently attend an independent...
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31. Education Series: Demystifying NYC Public School
Raising New Yorkers
Education in New York City will forever be a hot topic. This season we're exploring various school options offered to New York City kids by sitting down with adults who have first hand experiences with them. Our guests will range from parents, teachers, and administrators. <p> 📚 In this episode, we chat with Hope Kidd, a mom with 5 of her children currently in a NYC Public School. Hope shares her experiences candidly and touches on how it's been for her and her family of 7 since they've moved here 6 years ago. NYC Public School district is the largest school district in the...
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30. Education Series: It All Starts With Pre-K
Raising New Yorkers
Education in New York City will forever be a hot topic. This season we're exploring various school options offered to New York City kids by sitting down with adults who have first hand experiences with them. Our guests will range from parents, teachers, and administrators <p> For the first episode, we sat down with Katie Rader, founder of Endear Education, an early childhood consultancy focusing on helping parents parent their small children well. She has her masters in education from a top tier program, has been a pre-k teacher for a number of years, and has a deep passion for...
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29. Adoption in a Predominantly Black Neighborhood
Raising New Yorkers
In this episode, we chat with Sam Hawley about her journey to adoption, the process of adoption, transracial adoption, and everything in between! Sam gets real about what it's like raising children of color in a predominantly black neighborhood, her & her spouses intentions, and the work she knows she has to continue doing. <p> The road to and through adoption can be extremely different for everyone. We appreciate this opportunity to hear Sam's story and believe you'll find this episode to be enlightening, encouraging, and interesting to hear the realities of transracial...
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28. Books We Think You'd Enjoy!
Raising New Yorkers
In today's episode, Deidre & Gyna highlight some of their favorite reads in the past couple of years. From practical parenting books, to self-help books, and a few funny audio books, they believe you'll find these books to be helpful in your walk as a believer, a parent, and your overall growth as a person. <p> List of books discussed on today's episode: <p> Are My Kids on Track: The 12 Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Milestones Your Child Needs to Reach - https://www.amazon.com/Are-Kids-Track-Emotional-Milestones/dp/076421912X ...
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27. The Realities of Mommying in NYC
Raising New Yorkers
We've concluded that raising kids in NYC is just different... but also being a mom here is just as nuanced. In this episode, Deidre and Gyna discuss what it's like being a mom in the Big Apple. They explore topics around identifying as a SAHM, working mom, young mom, older mom, and living in areas where you're the minority and the situations that follow. <p> By no means are we experts on this topic or cover every moms experience in NYC! But we thought it's was an important topic to discuss. <p> 👋 If you're mommying here, please email us a NY minute about...
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26. Loving Your Neighbor As A Business Owner w/ Petrushka Bazin Larsen
Raising New Yorkers
This week we sit down with Petrushka Bazin Larsen, the Co-Owner of the coveted Sugar Hill Creamery to explore what it looks like to truly love and serve your neighbor as a business owner. <p> This Jane of many trades does a phenomenal job explaining her why and how she's honored people who's lived in NYC before her. She's lived in NYC for many years before opening Sugar Hill Creamery with her husband, Nick. <p> Check out Sugar Hill Creamery here: https://www.sugarhillcreamery.com/ <p> Follow Petrushka on IG @askpetrushka <p> Sign up for Petrushka's...
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