 Paula Spencer is a veteran journalist who has written or co-written 11 books and hundreds of magazine articles about health and parenting. She’s a columnist for Woman’s Day magazine and contributing editor of Parenting and Babytalk, as well as a senior editor of the new reverse-parenting website Caring.com . Her award-winning bylines have appeared in these and other national media, including Newsweek, Health, USA Weekend, The New York Post, Parents, Glamour, Alternative Medicine, BabyCenter.com and elsewhere.
She specializes in book collaborations, having worked with doctors at UCLA (bestseller The Happiest Toddler on the Block, Bantam Books), Harvard (The V Book, Bantam), Arizona State (Bright From the Start, Gotham Books), and Duke (Consciously Female; Body Soul and Baby, Bantam). She’s also the author of Momfidence!: An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting (Crown) and runs momfidence.com.
Her editorial and family-life expertise involve her in related consulting work and public speaking, and she’s appeared on numerous radio and TV programs, including “The CBS Early Show” and “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
Spencer joined the Advisory Board for the UNC Medical Journalism Program in 2007. A former magazine health editor, she switched sides to freelancing 13 years ago. She lives with her husband and their four children in Chapel Hill, N.C.
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