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Episode: Parent Compass: An Interview with Author Catherine Newman of How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn Before You're Grown Up
Description: Whether your kids are in preschool or high school (and beyond!) they have something to learn from How to Be a Person. Hilariously written and superbly illustrated, this book teaches us all how to be more self-reliant while also reminding us to help others along the way.About our guest: Catherine Newman is also the author of the memoir Waiting For Birdy. She is the etiquette columnist for Real Simple magazine, a regular contributor to the New York Times Motherlode blog, and editor-in-chief of the James Beard Award-winning kids cooking magazine ChopChop. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts...