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.      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...

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.     🏠  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...

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.     🏠  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...

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.     🏫 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...

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.   📚 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...

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   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...

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.   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...

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.      List of books discussed on today's episode:     Are My Kids on Track: The 12 Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Milestones Your Child Needs to Reach -...

We've concluded that raising kids in NYC is just different... but 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.   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.     👋...

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.  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 deciding opening her ice cream shop with her husband, Nick.  Check out Sugar Hill Creamery here: https://momsinprayer.org/ Sign up for...

Our first guest this season is no other than Julie Koontz from Moms In Prayer, Manhattan. With majority of kids heading back to school in person this week and the delta variant running rampant, we thought, what better way to start the school year with prayer! 🙏 This episode explores what Moms In Prayer does, how to pray for the whole school/not just your own child, and how important prayer  truly is.   Stick around to the end of this episode because we spend a bit of time praying. If you're...

Just like that, Summers over and we're happy to be back for another season exploring what it looks like to raise kids in NYC well! We have a bunch in store and excited to dive deeper with you all! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/raisingnewyorkers     We'd love to hear from you!     Email us at: [email protected]  

From beautiful moments to the jaw dropping stories, the NY Minutes in Season 1 did not disappoint.  We discuss our most memorial ones. If you have a story to share we'd love to hear it! Email us at: [email protected] Want to support the show?? Check us out on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/raisingnewyorkers We'll see you in the fall for season 2!

Rosdaly Ramirez joins us to discuss why the pandemic has been do difficult on moms and shares about her own journey with anxiety and depression as well as offers some hope and practical suggestions for us when we are struggling ourselves!

We discuss why it's important to teach our kids street smarts and how we've gone about doing it. Fill out our podcast survey here: https://forms.gle/gmntFN6sHYGo7aw18 We'd love to hear from you! Email us!!: [email protected] Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/raisingnewyorkers

We discuss the state of real estate post pandemic both with renting and buying/selling and what Gabby is noticing about the market right now!   Link's we mention:  Chart with changing rent prices: Follow Gabby @gabby_the_realtor   Fill out our podcast survey here: https://forms.gle/gmntFN6sHYGo7aw18   We'd love to hear from you! Email us!!: [email protected]   Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/raisingnewyorkers    

Sheri Adams from Episode 12, When Loss Brings Forth Joy, is back to talk all about Raising her children in NYC.  She has done, public, private and homeschooling, which we discuss at length, as well as financially how they afforded to live here and then some aspects of difficulties they ran in to with their teens!   Enjoy!

Tune in if you need tips on how to move in the city with kids.

Deidre spills it all about the time she miraculously delivered her fourth child in her car!! Thankfully, both her and her baby turned out just fine with the help of her husband and mother but this story never gets old!     You can access the full video episode on our Patreon and other bonus material.     Sign up for Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/raisingnewyorkers    

In this light and fun episode, Gyna and Deidre go into what New Yorkers do in the city during summer months with their kids. Some people leave, others stay, and many mix it up. They talk about camp, adventures, and things to do around the city.   We'd love to hear from you and what you love doing in the city during the summer!    Email us!!: [email protected] Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/raisingnewyorkers   Register for Happy Hour on June 9th: ...

Sarah Tintle, a volunteer with International Justice Mission (IJM) sits down with us to discuss how IJM is working to end modern day slavery in our lifetime. Sarah's email: [email protected] IJM Instagram: @IJM  &  https://www.instagram.com/ijm_nyc_volunteers/?hl=en IJM Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/IJMNYCVolunteers Donate:  www.ijm.org/nycgives Sign up to be a prayer partner: https://www.ijm.org/get-involved/pray Sign up to be a Freedom Partner: www.ijm.org/sign-up

Heather shares with us what it was like as a single mom pursuing her career in New York City as well motherhood once she married her now husband.  She speaks a lot about raising kids in the city, but not at the pace of the city, knowing your kids and their individual personalities as well as battling depression as a mom.

This week we have two special guests with us discussing the dilemma around opting in or out of standardized testing this school year.  Katy & Genisha are moms of 4th grade students who happen to be at the same NYC public school. They share their perspective on the implications  around testing students during a pandemic, history around the test, and personal outlooks around education in NYC. To watch segments of this episode check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/raisingnewyorkers

We chat about how we handle birthday parties for our kids. Deidre spent some time working at children's (sometimes extravagant) birthday parties which bring up a lot of questions like: is there a right or wrong way to celebrate your child's birthday? Sign up for patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/raisingnewyorkers