This week Bethany and Kara are joined by Nicki Neily, the President of Defending Education. They discuss how the madness usually associated with higher ed has now filtered down in the world of K through 12 and what you can do about it.

Neily is the President & Founder of Defending Education and Speech First, a national campus free speech organization, and has worked at the Independent Women’s Forum and the Cato Institute. She is the mother of two school age children. Follow her on X at @nickineily.

Abby Roth, aka, Classically Abby, joins Bethany and Kara to talk about being a “First-Generation SAHM” (Stay At Home Mom)

Check out Abby’s new Substack at thefirstgensahm.substack.com

Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD

According to the CDC, almost 10% of American women of child bearing age are on SSRIs – Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors – a class of antidepressants that include such medications as Lexapro, Prozac and Zoloft. But are they safe to take during pregnancy?

Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD and Senior Advisor for Clinical Sciences in the Office of the FDA Commissioner, joins the show to talk about what the science says and what it doesn’t say.

Madeline Fry Schultz, the Contributors Editor at the Washington Examiner talks about the myth of “family planning” and the realities of secondary infertility.

In this episode we discuss

• Whether families should pay extra for airplane seats together
• Britain’s push to ban all ed tech in classrooms
• How having babies codes right wing

Also: Bethany’s love letter to her menstrual cup (so male listener discretion is advised,)

Evan Pokroy joins from Israel to discuss with Kara and Bethany the blessings of his large family, raising his kids after his wife passed away last year, and Bethany shares how Evan’s family inspired her own.

Mom Wars welcomes our first guest, Ali Carine D.O. who practices pediatric medicine in Columbus (OH). We talk about “high anxiety” parents, nightmare patients, vaccine schedules, measles and, more importantly, how the medical profession needs to regain the trust they lost in the Covid pandemic.

This week Bethany recounts taking the family to a water park which stirs up some unfortunate memories. Plus:

• Daphne teeths
• The difference between boys and girls
• Teaching the kids to cook
• The momentous decision to have more kids

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We’re happy to welcome former Ricochet editor Bethany Mandel back into the fold and she brings journalist Kara Kennedy with her!

In their premiere episode Bethany and Kara take on the online “Tradwife” accounts and wonder if they’re serious, parody or something else; plus conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair says she’s Elon Musk’s baby mommy.

For more dispatches from the front lines of the Mom Wars visit Bethany and Kara at their Substack!