Heather Shumaker is a journalist whose writing has appeared in Parenting, Pregnancy, Organic Gardening, and other publications. She's a frequent speaker on parenting topics, an advocate for free, unstructured play, and has a special passion for nonprofits; before turning to writing full-time, she worked for The Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society, and many others. She holds an MS degree from the Institute for Environmental Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA from Swarthmore College.
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Parenting can be such an overwhelming job that it's easy to lose track of where you stand on some of the more controversial subjects at the playground (What if my kid likes to rough house-isn't this ok as long as no one gets hurt? And what if my kid just ... SEE MORE