Allison Tate

Allison Slater Tate is a freelance writer and a mom to four. She is a graduate of Princeton University and uses her degree in English to try to talk her kids into cooperating on a daily basis. Her 2012 HuffPost essay "The Mom Stays in the Picture" led to multiple media appearances and was selected as a BlogHer Voices of the Year selection in 2013. You can find her on Facebook and on Twitter as well as her personal blog . Her writing has also appeared in Brain, Child Magazine and in two anthologies, The HerStories Project and This Is Childhood .