Blog | Jillian Thomadsen

Shenandoah National Park

So Beautiful, My Teenagers Abandoned Their Screens (Temporarily) Recreation.Gov Share Your Story Contest February 2022 Runner Up...

Travel With Kids: Mentioned on NBC's Today Show Nov 2015

https://community.today.com/parentingteam/post/want-to-raise-kind-kids-travel-with-them Many parents have made suggestions for raising...

Dear Interviewer: Published in ScaryMommy Dec 2015

I know how the interview will go. You’ll sit across from me in the interview room and examine my resume. With pen in hand, you’ll ask...

Game of Votes, Published in TheHill April 2021

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/548732-game-of-votes-why-budget-reconciliation-isnt-the-answer-democrats-need Democracy took a big...

Promotion in the Midst of a Pandemic

If you had told me a few months ago that the entire world would change, I would never have believed it. We enjoyed a month of travel in...

Bridging the Musical Divide: When I want The Beastie Boys and the kids want Justin Bieber

My children have started battling it out with me over the radio. I’m not sure when this started. It seems that not too long ago, they...

Ryan's Story, Published in ADDitude January 2018

Here’s a story that may sound familiar to many parents. I was sitting on the couch one evening in 2013 with my six-year old son Ryan. ...

A Former New Yorker's 9/11 Story

Tuesday, September 11, 2001 I saw the first signs of something amiss when the Goldman Sachs trading floor came to a standstill. People...