Nancy McDermott

Nancy McDermott is a writer and editor based in New York. She is best known for her role within Park Slope Parents, the nation’s most influential parenting community where her compassionate, cool-headed counters to hyper-parenting culture have earned her the moniker of “the voice of reason”. 

She is a regular contributor to spiked and a founding member of the New York Salon. Her blog is The Parenting Mystique.

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Saturday 1 November 2008, 10.30am Seminar Space
Professionalising parenting



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