Latest Amy oztan Podcast Episodes

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Episode 129: Should You 'Wait Until 8th' For A Cell Phone?

Parenting Bytes - August 24, 2017 16:32 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Should You 'Wait Until 8th' For A Cell Phone?

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Ep 128: Free Tutoring and SAT Prep with Khan Academy

Parenting Bytes - August 17, 2017 16:18 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Rebecca and Andrea interview Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, an enormous and FREE not-for-profit online education.

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Ep 127: Are Smartphones Really Destroying A Generation?

Parenting Bytes - August 10, 2017 13:43 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Rebecca, Andrea, and Amy discuss a shocking new article in The Atlantic by Jean M. Twenge claiming that smartphones are responsible for destroying an entire generation of kids.

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Ep 126: When Helicopter Parents Send Their Kids To Camp

Parenting Bytes - August 03, 2017 04:01 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Sleepaway camp is a great opportunity for kids to get some experience making decisions and learning to be independent. But some helicopter parents can't let go, even when their kids are at camp!

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Ep 125: The Tech Your School Actually Needs

Parenting Bytes - July 27, 2017 16:23 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Rebecca sits down with Anthony Salcito

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Ep 124: The Importance of Supporting Moms of Older Kids

Parenting Bytes - July 20, 2017 16:35 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
When you're a mom of a baby or a toddler, the world seems to cater to you.

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Ep 123: Travel Tech

Parenting Bytes - July 13, 2017 14:11 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Rebecca, Amy, and Andrea have a plethora of gadgets

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Encore Episode: When They Leave For College

Parenting Bytes - July 06, 2017 13:42 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Welcome to Parenting Bytes!

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Ep 122: How To Host A Fabulous Party Or Summer BBQ, with Amy Shey Jacobs

Parenting Bytes - June 29, 2017 16:27 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Rebecca Levey, Andrea Smith, and Amy Oztan are thrilled to be joined by event planner extraordinaire Amy Shey Jacobs of Chandelier Events, a premier event planning company in New York City

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Encore Episode: Got Grit?

Parenting Bytes - June 22, 2017 07:16 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Hello and welcome to our 70th episode!!

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Ep 121: Teens and Facebook: Secret Isn't Really Secret

Parenting Bytes - June 15, 2017 14:43 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Harvard has rescinded its acceptances for a small group of students who participated in a secret Facebook group full of racist, sexist, homophobic, and downright disgusting memes.

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Ep 120: Father's Day Gifts for Gamer Dads

Parenting Bytes - June 08, 2017 16:58 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Andrea Smith and Amy Oztan talk with journalist Chris Morris

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Ep 119: Great Books For Your Teens And Tweens

Parenting Bytes - June 01, 2017 14:06 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Rebecca and Amy were so excited to talk once again with Sandie Angulo Chen of Common Sense Media, who always has such great book recommendations.

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Ep 118: Why Are Clothes For Tween Girls So Trashy?

Parenting Bytes - May 25, 2017 16:42 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Rebecca Levey and Andrea Smith are talking today with Kelly Wallace from CNN about the problem of girls' clothing

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Ep 117: Mommy Poppins' Meal Kit Smackdown!

Parenting Bytes - May 18, 2017 06:55 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Amy and Rebecca are joined in the studio this week by Anna Fader

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Ep 116: Public Proclamations of Mother's Day

Parenting Bytes - May 11, 2017 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
If Mother's Day didn't happen on Facebook did it really happen?

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Ep 115: Families Who Vlog: The Dark Side of You Tube

Parenting Bytes - May 04, 2017 15:51 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Rachel Dunphy joins us in the studio to talk about two articles she wrote for New York Magazine about families who have gone into the business of vlogging

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Ep 114: How To Stop Those Annoying Robocalls

Parenting Bytes - April 27, 2017 14:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Hi, this is Heather from account services

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Ep 113: Everything New at Disney World and Disneyland This Summer!

Parenting Bytes - April 20, 2017 14:22 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
There is so much new in store for both Disney parks this summer it's crazy!

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Ep 112: Does Your Kid Have An X-Plan For Emergencies?

Parenting Bytes - April 13, 2017 16:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
This week we talk about a genius plan for giving your kids an "out" when they're in a bad situation

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EP 111: Why Steve Jobs Didn't Let His Kids Use An iPad

Parenting Bytes - April 06, 2017 15:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
What do tech inventors and CEOs and other Silicon Valley types know that the rest of us don't?

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EP 110: Randi Zuckerberg's Mission for Girls and Tech

Parenting Bytes - March 30, 2017 14:28 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
This is a fun episode with an important discussion

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Ep. 109: So, like, do your kids, like, talk like this?

Parenting Bytes - March 23, 2017 14:02 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Audrey Mann Cronin is on a mission

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Episode 108: When Working From Home Goes Hilariously Wrong

Parenting Bytes - March 16, 2017 14:58 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Working from home has lots of hazards.

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Episode 107: How To Stop Nagging Your Teens And Tweens About Chores

Parenting Bytes - March 09, 2017 14:51 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Rebecca Levey, Andrea Smith, and Amy Oztan tackle an annoying problem

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Episode 106: So How About Those Oscars?

Parenting Bytes - March 02, 2017 17:54 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Andrea Smith and Amy Oztan are joined by celebrity editor Abby West to talk about the Oscars

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Encore Episode: A Mother Responds

Parenting Bytes - February 23, 2017 08:25 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
We're reposting our Mother Responds episode from 2015.

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Episode 105: Sleepover Strategies

Parenting Bytes - February 16, 2017 18:50 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Sleepovers are a serious girl thing.

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Episode 104: An Interview with 'The Big Letdown' Author Kimberly Seals Allers

Parenting Bytes - February 09, 2017 15:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
We need to demand better of the structures that are around us when it comes to breastfeeding.

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Episode 103: Kids in the Kitchen with Jennifer Perillo

Parenting Bytes - February 02, 2017 18:21 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Jennifer Perillo is a food blogger and cookbook author who has some great tips for getting kids interested in cooking!

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