Not Right Now

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It's Maycember, and we're not okay. This week, Claire and Quinn are back to commiserate about the absolute chaos of late spring parenting, from overloaded school calendars to the age-old debate between fifth and eighth grade graduation parties. Also discussed: Teacher Appreciation Week, Mother's Day logistics, being the "hang-out" house, garage sale slippers, Geometry Dash, and other trigger words. -------------- Have feedback or questions? Send a message to questions@notrightnow.show [questions@notrightnow.show] Get all of our episodes at notrightnow.show [https://notrightnow.show] Find every action recommended in Not Right Now here: whatcanido.earth [https://whatcanido.earth]. ----------- Follow us: 1. Subscribe to Quinn's newsletter at importantnotimportant.com [https://importantnotimportant.com] 2. Subscribe to Claire's newsletter at https://www.evilwitches.com/ [https://www.evilwitches.com/] 3. Try a free 30 day free trial of the Important Membership here: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade [https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade]. 4. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/] 5. Subscribe to our YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUwIVGwYxsZHEgL2fstz9Q] 6. Produced and edited by Willow Beck [https://twitter.com/willowbeck_] 7. Music by Tim Blane: timblane.com [https://timblane.com] Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors [https://importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors]

Have Your Kids Googled You Yet?

This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by AJ Daulerio, He's a dad of three, founder of the recovery community The Small Bow, host of The Small Bow Podcast, and parenting advice columnist for Slate. AJ has been sober for nearly 10 years, and he brings the same honesty and self-awareness to parenting that he brings to writing about recovery. They chat about why AJ is more scared of the internet conversation than the alcohol conversation, sports betting, travel baseball all-star tryout for eight-year-olds, and how sober parenting meetings are really just about not letting your worst self show up when your kid strikes out. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Send a message to questions@notrightnow.show [questions@notrightnow.show] Get all of our episodes at notrightnow.show [https://notrightnow.show] Find every action recommended in Not Right Now here: whatcanido.earth [https://whatcanido.earth]. ----------- Links: * Check out The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/ [https://www.thesmallbow.com/] * Read AJ's parenting column at Slate https://slate.com/advice/ask-aj [https://slate.com/advice/ask-aj] Follow us: 1. Subscribe to Quinn's newsletter at importantnotimportant.com [https://importantnotimportant.com] 2. Subscribe to Claire's newsletter at https://www.evilwitches.com/ [https://www.evilwitches.com/] 3. Try a free 30 day free trial of the Important Membership here: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade [https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade]. 4. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/] 5. Subscribe to our YouTube channel 6. Produced and edited by Willow Beck 7. Music by Tim Blane: timblane.com [https://timblane.com] Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors [https://importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors]

It's A Crossover Episode: A Calm Voice In A Loud World with Andrea Barbalich

It's a crossover episode! Quinn had the editor-in-chief of The Week Jr, Andrea Barbalich, on his other show The Most Important Question. It was such a great conversation, and so relevant for parents, we thought we should run it on the Not Right Now feed too. We hope you enjoy it! Andrea is the editorial director of The Week Jr., the only weekly news magazine reporting current affairs directly to children, ages 8 to 14. Under Andrea's leadership, it has grown to over 155,000 subscribers. Andrea's got 25-plus years in editorial leadership at places like Child Magazine. She's also the editor of a book called Feeling Safe: Talking to Children About War and Terrorism. We talk about how you explain wars and elections and climate change to an 8-year-old without either terrifying them or talking down to them, why a physical magazine is thriving in a world of 8-second attention spans, and what every parent, grandparent, teacher, coach, and more can do this week to help the kids in their lives become informed, curious, and resilient. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Send a message to questions@notrightnow.show [questions@notrightnow.show] Get all of our episodes at notrightnow.show [https://notrightnow.show] Find every action recommended in Not Right Now here: whatcanido.earth [https://whatcanido.earth]. ----------- Links: * INI Book Club: * The Golden Rock [https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9781612271347] by Theo Varlet * Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club [https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club] * Subscribe to The Week Jr [https://theweekjunior.com/] Follow us: 1. Subscribe to Quinn's newsletter at importantnotimportant.com [https://importantnotimportant.com] 2. Subscribe to Claire's newsletter at https://www.evilwitches.com/ [https://www.evilwitches.com/] 3. Try a free 30 day free trial of the Important Membership here: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade [https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade]. 4. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/] 5. Subscribe to our YouTube channel 6. Produced and edited by Willow Beck 7. Music by Tim Blane: timblane.com [https://timblane.com] * Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors [https://importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors]

Goodbye, All The Things That Kept Me Sane

This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Willa Koerner, a creative strategist, writer, gardener, flower farmer, newsletter author, artist residency co-founder, and mother of a very busy four-year-old. They get into unschooling, invasive species, gardening, skincare, aging, and late-stage capitalism. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Send a message to questions@notrightnow.show [questions@notrightnow.show] Get all of our episodes at notrightnow.show [https://notrightnow.show] Find every action recommended in Not Right Now here: whatcanido.earth [https://whatcanido.earth]. ----------- Links: * Find Willa at willakoerner.com [http://willakoerner.com], her newsletter Dark Properties [https://dark.properties/], and on Instagram @willak [https://www.instagram.com/willak/] * Read Willa's piece Skincare At The End of The World [https://dark.properties/skincare-at-the-end-of-the-world-2/] Follow us: 1. Subscribe to Quinn's newsletter at importantnotimportant.com [https://importantnotimportant.com] 2. Subscribe to Claire's newsletter at https://www.evilwitches.com/ [https://www.evilwitches.com/] 3. Try a free 30 day free trial of the Important Membership here: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade [https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade]. 4. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/] 5. Subscribe to our YouTube channel 6. Produced and edited by Willow Beck 7. Music by Tim Blane: timblane.com [https://timblane.com] * Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors [https://importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors]

Baby's First Brand Deal

This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by journalist and author Fortesa Latifi. She's pregnant, has a toddler at home, and is somehow also promoting a book. Respect. Fortesa has spent years reporting on the world of mom influencers and family vloggers, and the result is her new book, Like, Follow, Subscribe. The gang covers how she got into this beat, why she approaches her subjects with empathy instead of judgment, and what she's learned about influencer kids who are now adults making their own choices about what to put online. Also discussed: the economic reality behind "sharenting", snark subreddits, and some practical options for sharing your kids privately with family. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Send a message to questions@notrightnow.show [questions@notrightnow.show] Get all of our episodes at notrightnow.show [https://notrightnow.show] Find every action recommended in Not Right Now here: whatcanido.earth [https://www.whatcanido.earth/?utm_source=tmiq-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=2026-04-fortesa-latifi&utm_content=beehiiv]. ----------- Links: * Follow Fortesa @hifortesa [https://www.instagram.com/hifortesa/] * Get Fortesa's book Like, Follow, Subscribe [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Like-Follow-Subscribe/Fortesa-Latifi/9781668080504] Follow us: 1. Subscribe to Quinn's newsletter at importantnotimportant.com [https://importantnotimportant.com] 2. Subscribe to Claire's newsletter at https://www.evilwitches.com/ [https://www.evilwitches.com/] 3. Try a free 30 day free trial of the Important Membership here: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade [https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade]. 4. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/] 5. Subscribe to our YouTube channel 6. Produced and edited by Willow Beck 7. Music by Tim Blane: timblane.com [https://timblane.com] Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors [https://importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors]