"As a new parent, I felt constantly bombarded by conflicting parenting advice and felt like there was no way to live up to the standards being set for me. I often felt like I wasn't a good enough mom. Beth was the voice of reason during those early days of parenthood. She was great about answering specific questions I had, and also sometimes just giving me a pep talk--Settle down. You're doing fine. Keep going. I feel like most of the tools in my parenting toolbox were introduced to me by Beth--first as my childbirth educator at Swedish, then facilitating my new mom's support group there, and then as parent educator during my four years of co-op preschool with my two daughters. Beth made me a better parent."  Jean