Emily Edlynn, PhD has worked with children and families since graduating from Smith College in 1998, and as a clinical psychologist since 2008. She earned her doctorate from Loyola University of Chicago’s clinical psychology program, specializing in children and adolescents. Emily completed her psychology internship at Stanford University School of Medicine, and her postdoctoral fellowship in psycho-oncology at Children’s Hospital Orange County. Emily has worked at two large children’s hospitals in leadership roles as a pediatric health psychologist, and served as an assistant professor at University of Colorado Denver. Since moving to the Chicago area in 2016 with her husband and three children, Emily left academic medicine to work in private practice, write about parenting, and increase her number of daily child-wrangling hours. She penned a regular advice column for Parents.com, and writes about parenting across national outlets and for her Substack, Parent Smarter, Not Harder. When she can steal pockets of free time, Emily enjoys reading fiction and nonfiction—often working through a large stack on her nightstand, watching documentaries about cults and true crime, and date nights ranging from wandering city museums to eating cheap nachos.