The Bespoke Parenting Podcast

On this week's Bespoke Parenting Hour, host Julie Gunlock talks to Lisa Gable, the CEO of the Food Allergy Research and Education organization, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of life and health of individuals with food allergies and funding research for new treatments. Lisa covers a variety of topics on the podcast -- from what a food allergy actually is, the top ten allergens in f...

On this week’s Bespoke Parenting Hour, host Julie Gunlock talks to writer and education advocate Erika Sanzi, whe serves as the chief editor at Project Forever Free--an online platform for education activists. Julie and Erika (both moms of three school-aged boys) talk about what Erika calls "the boy crisis in American schools" and the very grim statistics that show boys are falling...

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Bespoke Parenting Hour host Julie Gunlock and IWF policy director Hadley Heath discuss TURKEY and all the other nagging cooking questions you might have before the big holiday. Julie and Hadley also talk about Hadley's oped "Not Your Mother’s Feminism" and what new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett means to conservative women in America. The Bespoke Parenting H...

On this week’s Bespoke Parenting Hour, host Julie Gunlock talks to writer (and coolest aunt on the planet!) Melanie Notkin, an expert on the emerging demographic of childless, often single women, which she wrote about in her memoir, Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness. Notkin and Julie discuss a wide range of issues—from David Brooks' essay on the nuclear family, the important...

American Enterprise Institute Scholar and IWF Senior Fellow Naoimi Schaeffer Riley's book "Be the Parent: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat" addresses the need for better parental control over screens and screen time. Yet, how do we do that in the age of COVID-19 when kids are getting mixed messages on screen time. How can you be an authority when school authorities are telling kids...

Cato’s Chelsea Follett recently wrote an article about her baby’s difficult delivery and how modern medicine saved her child’s life. We’ll discuss the pressure on women to have “natural” births, why misinformation about pregnancy is so harmful, the home birth trend, and what it’s like to be a new mom in 2020. The Bespoke Parenting Hour is a podcast about and for parents who are tired of being told...

Inez and Jarrett Stepman both focus on on educational trends in the United States. They will discuss how history is being taught in our nation's schools and how increasingly, teachers see themselves as activists. How has this affected history instruction in the United States and how does the 1619 Project fit into this issue? The Bespoke Parenting Hour is a podcast about and for parents who are tir...

In this fourth episode of the Bespoke Parenting Hour, Julie talks to Dr. Paul Offit, Professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine and the author of Overkill. We discuss why vaccines are important and vital to the health and safety of not just your children, but others as well. The Bespoke Parenting Hour is a podcast about and for parents...

Lenore Skenazy is the mother of the free range movement and has helped countless parents let go of the need to hover and fret. Julie talks to Lenore aobut how that has all changed now that parents are dealing with a pandemic that almost demands one hover over their children. How can parents still give their children some measure of independence while still keeping them safe from Covid-19? The Besp...

In the second episode of the Bespoke Parenting Hour, Julie talks to Nancy McDermott, author of the upcoming book "The Problem with Parenting." Nancy has a fresh take on parenting issue and why and how it has changed since the 1970s. Nancy and Julie will also discuss how the global coronavirus pandemic might change parenting and education in the next dacade and possibly decades to come. The Bespoke...

In this premier episode of the Bespoke Parenting Hour, host Julie Gunlock explains what it is the be a bespoke parent and why we should all embrace the bespoke philosophy, which encourages you to create your own parenting style that perfectly fitsyour family. Julie also spoke to IWF President Carrie Lukas and IWF legal center director Jennifer Braceras about the question on every parent’s mind: wi...