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Sarah Wheeler is author of the newsletter Momspreading and the parenting column “Good Enough Parent.” She is also a co-host of the podcast Mother of It All. She has written about parenting, culture, and neurodiversity for Romper, Salon, HuffPost, the New York Times, and more. She has a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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