Hello, my name is Gracie Robenstein. My short bright blonde hair is now almost white from the years of experience as a woman, wife, and mother. I am a busy woman in my fifties, but not tired yet. I am a university researcher and a radio personality on an A.M. talk show which I host between 8 until 10 on weeknights. Under the pen name, Dr. Mom, I offer parenting advice and discuss issues about children and families that are raised through my research, emails, and phone calls I receive on my show. I am an expert on child psychology, beginning from the time I was 16 and assisted my mom who was a pediatric nurse in a local children’s hospital. Since then, my interest in children bloomed, and I first walked in my mother’s footsteps as a nurse, and eventually went back to school to earn a doctorate in Child Psychology.

My education and experience is the backbone of my strength as an advisor, but my age is a different issue. It is hard keeping up with the times since technology is changing fast, and this has a profound impact on human behavior and culture. Even though I have been working as a child psychologist for 15 years, in the radio job for over 10 years, and addressed thousands of issues, I still enjoy it. I try my best to connect to my audience on a personal and empathetic as well as professional level without revealing too much about my personal identity. The issues discussed on my talk show are sensitive, and though I try my best to be unbiased, sometimes I receive negative mail and discouraging phone calls for my liberal ideas about parenting and familial relationships.