Need some ideas for a great new baby gift? Amanda, Nicole, and Catherine have got your back. Terri? Well, maybe you can give some ideas to her. Share your go-to baby gifts in the comments here if they work, or on our Facebook page.

Those of us who live in a place where you spring forward did so yesterday (and if you didn't, surprise! That's why you're late for everything today). There's certainly lost sleep and dark mornings to complain about, but when asked what's good about daylight savings time, we all turned out to have the same answer (even the dog). Do you have strong feelings about DST? Comment here if you can, or on our Facebook page.

None of us is podcasting from her car this week, and it's a good thing, because judging from our conversation, that's the least of the trouble Nicole might get into. Here's a road map to our actual non-automated conversation, in which we try to stay in our lane and only honk at people we're unlikely to see in real life.

0:40: Introductions and What's New With You? — As we prepare to podcast today, we're spilling tea on ourselves, tearing ourselves away from romance novels, preparing to meet people we've only known virtually, and being amazed that it's raining in Southern California. (Break out the hot chocolate!)

5:23: What's Your Driving Personality? — Terri remembers a Disney short about driving from her high-school years (that is indeed on YouTube), and its Jeckyll and Hyde storyline isn't too far removed from what we feel when we get behind the wheel. Only a touch of the road rage, so as not to scare the children, but boy, could we go for some full-fledged lose-your-bleep catharsis.

16:25 Our Favorite (and Least Favorite) Social Media Sites — We're all about the social media, yo, but some spots are more comfy than others. Do you prefer text-based services like Twitter and Facebook, or visual patchworks like Pinterest or Instagram? Do you tumbl or SnapChat? Do you believe that there are now college courses in social media, and do you feel like you could use one? See how we come down on these important questions of the day.

26:10 Interview of the Week — Most parents would be happy for their kids to put down their social-media devices and get a job already, but for parents of kids with special needs, that's complicated. We talk with Robert Rummel Hudson, author of Schuyler's Monster and blogger at Fighting Monsters With Rubber Swords and Support for Special Needs, about that transition where our kids start wanting to work but employers (and parents) aren't quite ready to deal.

38:52: Shameless Self-Promotion — Terri shares a blog post about cameras in the classrooms that maybe she still hasn't quite written; Amanda has a blog post on the documentary 2e: Twice Exceptional; Nicole is excited about an upcoming online inclusive education course; and Catherine offers some spring activities for family fun.

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.

We all ended up as writers, but today we talk about the roads not taken, and how we did not indeed become lawyers, geologists, or medical researchers. Did you have childhood ambitions that never came to pass (thank goodness, maybe)? Leave your youthful dreams in the comments here or on our Facebook page.

Valentine's Day was not quite a month ago, and maybe we're still in the mood for love, because our thoughts today are turning to how our husbands popped the question. Our stories may not be full of romance-novel tropes, but hey, they worked for us. Listen to our tales (plus one "no comment"), and if you've got a good one of your own, leave it in the comments here or on our Facebook page.

Aw, buck up there, Downton Abbey fans! You'll always have recaps and discussion boards and blog posts and podcast episodes like this one to nourish your obsession going forward. We stayed up late on Sunday so that Catherine could discuss the end of one of her favorite shows while the loss was still fresh. Then we moved on to our four episodes of Parks and Recreation for the week — "Indianapolis," "Harvest Festival," "Camping," and "Andy and April's Fancy Party" — which like the end of Downton, also included a wedding, though one significantly less formal. Want to join in our Parks and Rec watch now that you have a whole extra hour on Sundays? Next up are the Season 3 episodes "Soulmates," "Jerry's Painting," "Eagleton," and "The Fight." Those episodes include romantic mishaps, cultural snobbery, disapproving upper-crusters, and runaway alcohol consumption, so, just like your British show then!

Watching Rattled and Married by Mom and Dad with her daughter made Terri wonder if we couldn't come up with some better ideas for reality shows than that. Listen to our proposals for reality TV about IEPs, Canadian immigrants, skate moms, and neurons gone wild, and share your own ideas in the comments here or on our Facebook page.

In the wake of recording delays caused by Amanda declaring she had a free day and immediately having that day fill up with commitments, we chat about those things we never say for fear of jinxing ourselves, the bits of wisdom we cling to, and the things we must constantly say to prevent bad things from happening. Superstitious much? Share your beliefs and habits on our Facebook page.

Oh, hello. We're interrupting Nicole's paying of bills to bring you this podcast, on which we talk about other painful topics, like exercise and life without wifi. Aw, c'mon, join us, it's okay. We promise plenty of laughter with those tears. Here's a roadmap of our conversation.

0:58: Intros and What's New With You — Nicole may be paying her bills as we podcast, but Terri and Amanda are working hard to ignore their large piles of tax-preparaton documents.

5:00: What Type of Exercise Can You Stand to Do? — Well, we like to walk ... and do yoga maybe ... but mostly walk ... does sprinting across an airport count? ... and also walking on treadmills. Walking's good! So is a review by Catherine of Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin, which may help you understand your personal exercise habits or lack thereof.

15:28: What Can Your Family Not Do Without? — Wifi, of course. That's obvious. Electricity for charging things. But also books. Distractions. Routine. Heated seats. Goofy dogs. Canadian food? Yes.

22:50: Interview of the Week — Catherine talks to pediatric occupational therapist Meghan Corridan about drawing your child into drawing, using tools like Ed Emberley's book Goody Gumdrops and the apps Dipdap and Draw Along with Stella and Sam.

34:22: Shameless Self-Promotion — Catherine shares her whole entire website, About.com Family Fitness, which is full of exercise ideas; Terri plugs our Round 2 Parks and Recreation marathon and her new tumblrs IEP-izeit, Too Old for Cool., and, hey, Parenting Roundabout; Nicole touts our new Instagram account @prpodcast (which in fact appears as all lower case on Instagram and therefore does not require you to think of us as an oddcast); and Amanda shares the three-part series PlayerFM did about us cool and wise women.

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.

Recently, Amanda got to go to Universal Studios in Orlando and experience Harry Potter World for the first time. It made us wonder, what other fictional world would you like to visit? Something from fantasy? Something romantic? Something out of Stephen King? Listen to our picks and share yours in the comments or on our Facebook page.

Inspired by last week's Speed Round question about how SFW our music collections are, we chatted today about that one particular song we can't get enough of that our families can't turn off fast enough, including a certain Record of the Year and a song that inspires dancing. What song are you alone in your appreciation of? Share in the comments here or on our Facebook page.

We started this week's entertainment podcast with a look at this year's extremely lengthy Oscar ceremony -- the speeches, the dresses, the atrocious choices in music cues, the Girl Scout cookies, the presenter who should have to go sit in show-bis time-out for a good long while, and the attendee who appears to have had the best time at the ceremony, from the red carpet on. (For more of our Oscars impressions, view our live-tweet.)

From one marathon to another, we continue with our viewing and discussing of Parks and Recreation episodes, this week taking on "Flu Season" (one of Terri's favorite eps), "Time Capsule," "Ron and Tammy: Part II," and "Media Blitz." If you're watching along (and why aren't you?), next week we'll be chatting about "Indianapolis," "Harvest Festival," "Camping," and "Andy and April's Fancy Party."

A slideshow on the Parenthood site listing "28 Reasons Children of the 70s Should All Be Dead" reminded us of the pre-safety days of our '60s and '70s youth when seatbelts and helmets and good sense weren't as much a requirement as they are today. What did you do as a kid that would horrify parents? Confess in the comments or on our Facebook page.

After Amanda expressed some disdain on Facebook for Lego's new lumberjack/hipster/stay-at-home dad minifig, we thought maybe we could help the toy manufacturer out with some better ideas. Listen to our product-development proposals, and comment here (if the comments work for you) or on your Facebook page to propose your own product extentions..

It's a week of looking forward at the responsible young adults our kids are becoming and looking back at the really bad TV they (and we) adored in the past. Here's a road map to our conversation:

0:49: What’s New With You? — We’ve got dogs, we’ve got scorpions and tarantulas, we’ve got illicit lizards, and we hope we don’t have bedbugs.

4:22: Big-Kid Milestones — While there's no equivalent of a baby book to enter them in, teens and young adults have plenty of firsts that parents rejoice over. We celebrated Terri's daughter's first solo call to AAA with remembrances of other older-child triumphs.

13:20: TV-Show Resurrections — Hey, have ya heard, there's an update to Full House hitting Netflix today! For kids who grew up loving the Tanners — like Terri's and Amanda's daughters, who have been counting down the days — Fuller House is a major TV event. But what about the family TV of our youth? When will we get our update on the Bradys, the Partridges, the Keatons, the Bradfords? (Though honestly, the less we hear about the horrifying children's TV Nicole grew up with in Canada, the better.)

25:14: Interview of the Week — Amanda talked with her husband, Jon, about IEP tag-teaming. Let's see one of those family sitcoms do that. (For more on IEPs, listen to an interview from last April with Robert Rummel-Hudson.)

36:03: Shameless Self-Promotion — Terri shared her shiny new tumblr blog, Amanda shared "10 Ways to Help Shy Children Self-Advocate," Catherine passed on her water-bottle organizing tips, and Nicole shares actual links to those Canadian TV shows she mentioned, Mr. Dress-Up and The Friendly Giant. Watch at your own risk.

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.

After talking about tardy students in yesterday's Speed Round, we thought it was a good time to assess our own personal promptness. The results may leave you surprised that this podcast usually gets delivered on time. Where do you fall on the early on time, late, or really late scale? Tell us on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

An article about a school that visited the consequences of student tardiness onto the parents by making them put in volunteer hours sparked our discussion of whether this is really a good way to either address lateness or get volunteers. Mostly, we're glad we don't live in that district. Do you think this is a good way for schools to improve student behavior? Weigh in on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

We've got TV current and past this week, as Catherine reviews FX's The People v. O. J. Simpson and Terri is pretty sure she had enough of this story the first time around; and we continue our Parks and Recreation marathon, chatting about "Telethon," "The Master Plan," "Freddy Spaghetti," and "Go Big or Go Home," and look ahead to "Flu Season" (one of Terri's all-time faves!), "Time Capsule," "Ron and Tammy Part II," and "Media Blitz." Also, Terri's dog barks quite a bit. Everybody's a critic.

Catherine has a birthday coming up, by the way, and so she's thinking about how people like to celebrate their special day. With family rituals? With passive-aggression? With Parks and Recreation clips? Listen to our traditions and then share your own on our Facebook page.

After learning that her dentist's unpackaged-seeming waiting-room music was in fact his iPod on shuffle, Terri was led to wonder whether she'd feel safe just randomly shuffling her own music collection out to the public, and whether her podcast-mates could do that either. Listen to our not-safe-for-waiting-room confessions, and go to our Facebook page to tell us what's on your iPod.

We know, we know -- your Facebook feed is full of politics, you have to block half your friend list, Twitter is becoming a minefield. We don't like talking about politics either. Our interest for today, though, is what to do if your kid is not so careful about the topic. If even that makes you nervous, use this road map through the episode to fast-forward right on past it to the topics that follow.

0:30: What's New With You? — Nicole is coming to us live from a fabulous ... soccer field full of Canadians in Las Vegas. Terri, meanwhile, is in parenting-expert limbo as her time as About.com's Parenting Special Needs expert comes to an end.

5:26: Kids and Politics — Inspired by a Boston Globe article that parodied talking to your kid about politics (or one politician in particular), we thought we'd chat about that for real. How do you get your kids to agree with your politics without pushing them there, and how do you keep them from barreling into school saying "My mom says ..."?

18:49: Job Options — Catherine's book-club discussion of what jobs they imagine doing led us into a chat about what work we'd do if we weren't doing the work we're doing now. Or maybe we could just skip right to retirement?

27:48: Interview of the Week — Catherine talks with grandparenting expert Susan Adcox about the big scary issue of money, and the conflicts that arise between parents and grandparents over financial assistance.

39:58: Shameless Self-Promotion — Terri is dustin’ off her old site, Mothers With Attitude; Amanda recommends using her book On the Go Fun for Kids: More Than 250 Activities to Keep Little Ones Busy and Happy--Anytime, Anywhere! to distract your kids from politics; Nicole hopes you're looking forward to her book, which she's working on when she's not hangin' in Vegas; and Catherine takes a stand on the issue of standing desks for kids.

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.

We spend a lot of time making podcasts, but do we listen to anything other than our own? On today's speed round, we share some favorite podcasts (Pop Culture Happy Hour,Extra Hot Great, and How Stuff Works), mourn some that have stopped making new episodes (The Inclusive Class Podcast and Firewall and Iceberg, RIP), and wonder whether just listening to one-offs from time to time counts. Do you have some podcasts you want to recommend -- besides this one, of course? Share in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat

Terri's annual habit of giving up coffee for Lent (shh, tiptoe around her, this is a dangerous time) got us thinking about sacrifices with an expiration date. What would you give up for 40 days if you knew you could have it back after that time? Share your give-ups with give-backs in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

We watched the Grammy ceremony, all three-and-a-half hours of it (well, Catherine might have fast-forwarded some) to bring you our thoughts from late Monday night. It was a good night for music Terri likes, anyway. We discuss the musical numbers, the hairstyles, the Broadway incursion, and of course, the Tweets. Then we continued our Parks and Rec marathon with four Season 2 episodes, "The Possum," "Park Safety," "Summer Catalog," and "94 Meetings," as the April/Andy/Ann triangle builds and we await the arrival of Adam Scott and Rob Lowe. Those things will all progress with the episodes we have on deck for next week: "Telethon," "The Master Plan," and "Freddy Spaghetti" from Season 2 and "Go Big or Go Home" from Season 3. Watch along with us!