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Dive into family-related activities and destinations in St. Louis with guest Tara Smith, author of 'Best Mom, St. Louis'. Tara, a seasoned blogger and mother of four, shares insights from her book, offering a plethora of recommendations for family outings that cater to various interests, including the best places for pizza, outdoor activities, and cultural experiences.
The discussion emphasizes the importance of spending quality time with family, exploring local attractions, and embracing the opportunity to be a tourist in one's own city. Tara also discusses her motivations behind writing the book, her background, and the effort involved in curating the list of recommended places. Additionally, the episode touches on the significance of digital detox for kids, fostering family bonds through shared experiences, and provides a brief overview of upcoming book signings where audiences can meet Tara Smith in person.
[00:00] Introduction to Family Fun in St. Louis
[00:38] Welcome to St. Louis In Tune
[00:55] Morning Banter and Show Teasers
[01:39] Promoting Civility and Family Togetherness
[03:43] Tara Smith Discusses Her Book 'Best Mom, St. Louis'
[04:55] Exploring St. Louis: A Family-Friendly City
[06:03] The Making of 'Best Mom, St. Louis'
[11:57] Tara's Personal Favorites and Family Memories
[16:31] Uncovering Hidden Gems in St. Louis
[19:21] The Importance of Family Activities and Communication
[27:51] Tara Smith: Not Just the 'Best Mom' but a Guide for All
[31:36] Exploring Hidden Gems: The Skate Park Discovery
[35:20] Affordable Family Fun: Free Activities and Budget-Friendly Options
[38:10] The Ultimate Family Adventure: Creating a Bucket List from the Book
[39:27] Book Signings and Engaging Events: Where to Meet the Author
[44:00] Encouragement for Single Parents: Balancing Work and Family Time
[47:33] Celebrating National Days and Wrapping Up with Humor
SCHEDULED EVENTS FOR BEST MOM ST. LOUIS
- Saturday, April 20, from 1 – 3 p.m. Main Street Books: 307 S Main St, St Charles, MO 63301: (636) 949-0105
- Saturday, May 4, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Happy Up Inc.: 8103 Maryland Ave, St. Louis, MO 63105: (314) 725-2455
- Saturday, June 1, from 12 – 2 p.m. The Landing Hub: 1 Landing Hub Lane, Pacific, MO 63069: (636) 393-0778
- Saturday, June 8, from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Betty's Books: 10 Summit Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119; (314) 279-1731: Presentation and Book Signing
Places mentioned:
"Frontenac Mall": "00:12:10"
"Union Station": "00:14:04"
"Booster Park": "00:15:19"
"Lone Elk Park": "00:10:38"
"World Bird Sanctuary": "00:10:38"
"Suzanne Park": "00:10:38"
"Mississippi River": "00:16:56"
"Trolley ride in St. Louis": "00:16:56"
"Magic House": "00:18:44"
"Forest Park": "00:18:45"
"St. Louis Zoo": "00:18:45"
Mentions
"Dred Scott Heritage Foundation Petition": "00:22:49"
"Saint Louis In Tune Website": "00:24:02"
"Tara Smith's Blog Site": "00:39:28"
"Book "Best Moms Saint Louis"": "00:39:28"
- Best Mom St. Louis Book
- St. Louis Lifestyle Mom Blog: Fun Family Activities, Travel, Crafts And Recipes Mixed In - Seeing Dandy Blog
This is Season 7! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com
#stlouis #stlouisfun #familyfun #parks #hiking #momblogger #kidfun
Transcripts
Have you ever wondered what to do with your kids?
Speaker:Where's the best place to get pizza? I've got age gaps with my kids.
Speaker:I don't know what to do with them. We'd love to do outdoor kinds of
Speaker:things. So where can we go? We've got a great book for you
Speaker:today to give you some answers. Called Best Mom Saint Louis and
Speaker:Tara Smith is here to talk about it on Saint Louis and Tune.
Speaker:Welcome to Saint Louis, Antoon, and thank you for joining us for
Speaker:fresh perspectives on issues and events with experts, community
Speaker:leaders and everyday people who are driving change and making an impact
Speaker:that shapes our society and world. I'm Arnold Stricker, along with Mark
Speaker:Langston and Mark. Good morning sir. Good morning or good afternoon,
Speaker:depending upon what time you're listening, I know. Good evening.
Speaker:Good evening. Yeah. No, I'm doing well.
Speaker:How about yourself? I'm just the. My headache is fading now that
Speaker:I've had probably the fourth cup of coffee. And some Zyrtec.
Speaker:Yeah, something to get that fog out. Of my head. It is that time of year.
Speaker:So can I give a tease for later on in the show? Tease away.
Speaker:Okay, so we usually do what today is the National Day International
Speaker:be kind to Lawyers Day. Oh so we're going to we'll talk about
Speaker:that I need. To look up some lawyer. Jokes now I know it. What did I know?
Speaker:What is Shakespeare saying. Kill all the lawyers.
Speaker:Know something like it was he did. Only when you need him.
Speaker:You know. Okay. All right, well, here's one thing we
Speaker:can do in our return to civility. And, folks, many times you get
Speaker:together with family or friends or other kind of colleagues,
Speaker:or maybe it's a reunion or maybe it's a wedding or something.
Speaker:Propose a toast or a round of applause for the host or organizer at
Speaker:the next party or event you attend. It's a great way to collectively
Speaker:honor someone. A toast doesn't have to be long
Speaker:or brilliant. Simple and sincere goes a long way.
Speaker:Thank you. Thank you very much. That's right.
Speaker:He does propose a toast. Not toast. Not a toast of saying something.
Speaker:Not the bread that's in the toast. Are okay, which I burn. All the time.
Speaker:Or a round of applause for the host or organizer.
Speaker:We did that the other day. Our son. He's personal story here.
Speaker:Our son is engaged and her parents came.
Speaker:They've been over here and we had a toast to the new couple and to
Speaker:the parents. And it was fun. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's.
Speaker:Yeah, it's an honoring kind of thing. The host with the most. Yes.
Speaker:So give him a nice round of applause. So some things to do.
Speaker:We try to return to civility and let you know out there that we live.
Speaker:Sometimes it seems like in an uncivilized society and we
Speaker:should be very civilized. So it's kindness goes a long way.
Speaker:We had the eclipse yesterday, and one of the interviews, I think,
Speaker:at one of the stadiums was a lady said, I feel so connected to
Speaker:everyone in the stadium because we all experience this together and
Speaker:you don't hear that very often. I don't think you know where I
Speaker:feel connected to other drivers on highway 40 or whatever.
Speaker:But yeah, it was refreshing to hear someone say that they were
Speaker:connected with their fellow humans. Yeah, it's unusual because sometimes
Speaker:activities like that are the things that really bind people together,
Speaker:right? And they're the kinds of things
Speaker:that bind families together is when you do things together.
Speaker:And Tara Smith is here in studio, she is going to talk about her book.
Speaker:That's just a tremendous resource, folks, not only if you're a
Speaker:resident of Saint Louis, but maybe you live out of the city,
Speaker:maybe in the surrounding communities, maybe you live out of state and
Speaker:you're listening to this show and you're coming to Saint Louis.
Speaker:This is a great resource for you. Or maybe you're not even thinking
Speaker:about coming to Saint Louis. Maybe you live in the far reaches
Speaker:of our country or even overseas, because people do listen overseas.
Speaker:And this might give you ideas to do with your kids.
Speaker:But Tara has been a mom blogger for over 15 years.
Speaker:I think she was probably one of the first bloggers in the Saint
Speaker:Louis area, and she's the voice behind Scene dandy.com.
Speaker:Her blog has been featured on news for a Great Day, Show Me Saint Louis,
Speaker:and in Good Housekeeping and Farmhouse style magazines.
Speaker:She hikes, she travels with her husband and four children.
Speaker:She crafts. She loves eating out at her
Speaker:favorite local restaurants, and I think probably one of the
Speaker:most important things. She's a mom. Taxi service now.
Speaker:Do you charge tips to your kids? I know they need to start paying
Speaker:up for sure. Welcome to Saint Louis and Tara.
Speaker:Thank you. Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker:Now, why is Saint Louis a great place to raise a family?
Speaker:Saint Louis is is so great. We have so many options here
Speaker:that are economical for the family because they're free.
Speaker:We have a fabulous park. Forest Park has everything that
Speaker:we could want in a park and the zoo is free.
Speaker:The art museum is free, the Missouri Historical Museum is free,
Speaker:the Missouri History Museum is free. Just and just the nature scape.
Speaker:You can explore outside, outdoors, in the park. So, it's just great.
Speaker:We also have a great science center that's free, right?
Speaker:So when I hear people talk about coming even to visit Saint Louis,
Speaker:they go to all those places, right? And they're just like,
Speaker:this is phenomenal. Saint Louis is just must be
Speaker:amazing for a family. And I'm like, it, it is.
Speaker:It's amazing. And we need to really be more
Speaker:touristy of our own city. We live here, so people come here
Speaker:to experience it and we need to be experiencing it ourselves.
Speaker:So what was the motivation behind the book?
Speaker:Was it just accumulation of things with the four kids and
Speaker:their varied ages? I know I have been blogging about
Speaker:Saint Louis and things that we do here because that's part of our life,
Speaker:honestly. The publisher reached out to me and
Speaker:asked if I would write the book, and they wanted to do a book for
Speaker:moms, and they heard about me through my blog.
Speaker:They reached out and they asked if I would write it, and I said,
Speaker:let's do it. I hadn't ever I thought about
Speaker:writing a book at different times in my life or or writing.
Speaker:I like to write, obviously, if I have a blog,
Speaker:but it wasn't really in my plans. About a year and a half ago,
Speaker:the owner of the publishing company reached out and said that he was
Speaker:looking for someone to write this book. And I did it. And we're here.
Speaker:Do you have a background in journalism or writing or English?
Speaker:So I did take some journalism classes, like at the beginning
Speaker:of college, but like most students moved things around and
Speaker:switched what I majored in. I ultimately have a degree in
Speaker:psychology, okay. And I did my emphasis, like my
Speaker:support work was in community health, okay. In that sort of thing.
Speaker:I worked just clerking, like in a children's E.R. for five years.
Speaker:So I was more into the medical side of things like before I had kids.
Speaker:And that still is a passion of mine. I still, but I think it's something
Speaker:that you can take into motherhood and working with your kids.
Speaker:Absolutely. Being a mom. So I was looking for ways to
Speaker:just stay connected at home as a stay at home mom.
Speaker:And blogging just came about like around the same time as
Speaker:when I started having kids and everybody had a blog.
Speaker:I don't know if you remember, like everybody had a blog spot. Yep.
Speaker:Yeah, we all had blogs, everyone. And it was pre Facebook like we
Speaker:didn't at that point in time. You had to be a student to have
Speaker:a Facebook account, right? And so all of my friends from
Speaker:college, we all had blogspot accounts.
Speaker:It was how we kept in touch with each other.
Speaker:We had post pictures of our kids and our of our families.
Speaker:And so basically it was we were pre-social media.
Speaker:That was our social media, I think. Was it Myspace was the first one
Speaker:or something like that? Yeah, yeah, Myspace was out.
Speaker:I think we could have Myspace. Did they still. Exist?
Speaker:I know it's. Still kind of there.
Speaker:Yeah, Myspace is gone. I don't know. You know, I look at the table of
Speaker:contents here and this is just crazy because folks,
Speaker:it's like best ropes course, best place to introduce kids to live
Speaker:theater. Best place to see Santa. Best bike trail.
Speaker:Oh, best place to learn all about Lewis and Clark.
Speaker:How did you come up with these? A lot of it.
Speaker:We did some research, my husband and I.
Speaker:This was a a labor of love together. Experiential. Yeah.
Speaker:So we just experience from from our lives like what we do with
Speaker:our own kids experiences. From what I know from my own
Speaker:childhood growing up in Saint Louis, I pulled from things that my
Speaker:grandparents took me to, things my parents took me to family also,
Speaker:just like researching. I have a brother that lives in
Speaker:Saint Charles, and so he and his wife were very influential in terms
Speaker:of what's something good in Saint Charles that because I wanted to
Speaker:include Saint Charles, because it is. While it's not Saint Louis or
Speaker:Saint Louis County, it is very much part of our community.
Speaker:I just I wanted to include Saint Charles.
Speaker:I wanted to include places on the Illinois side because whereas they
Speaker:come here to experience things in Saint Louis, I go over there to
Speaker:experience their world as well. And so I was able to pull from my
Speaker:brother to be like, hey, what's a good park that you like to go to?
Speaker:And then of course, I visited it and saw it for myself,
Speaker:and I was like, this is a great park. And so it was very much just an I
Speaker:included that in the dedication. It was very much just I had a
Speaker:lot of support from family and close friends.
Speaker:I was wondering how you narrowed this down, because each one of these
Speaker:I'm looking at folks right now, the best place for animal lovers.
Speaker:And it's Lone Elk Park, the world bird. Sanctuary and Suzanne Park.
Speaker:And then you go to the next page and it's the best place for
Speaker:something else. How do you narrow it down to
Speaker:like 3 or 4? That was hard, I bet,
Speaker:because it was very hard. So maybe I need to write another
Speaker:book of all the honorable mentions or just.
Speaker:But then I just I feel like there's so many great places, honestly.
Speaker:And this book is going, I wrote it. So it's going to be from my
Speaker:perspective. So somebody might have another
Speaker:location that they like to go see animals and they might be like,
Speaker:I think this one's better than what I picked.
Speaker:But ultimately I wrote the book, so I had the final say on on what? Right.
Speaker:And you visited all these places too. Yeah.
Speaker:And so ultimately it's, you know, it's going to be
Speaker:something that obviously, Susan Park near and dear to my heart.
Speaker:I remember going there in my own childhood.
Speaker:I love seeing the animals there that they have and taking my
Speaker:kids there now. And but it's also one of those
Speaker:locations that say somebody that lives out in Saint Charles may
Speaker:have never heard of because it's a South County kind of staple.
Speaker:I think ultimately, I just had to pull from my own experiences on
Speaker:what I find to be the best. Yeah. As I think about you describing your
Speaker:personal experiences growing up with your parents and grandparents,
Speaker:what were some of those things that that you remember specifically?
Speaker:Wow, that was a great trip. That was a great trip.
Speaker:That was a great trip. Give me your top three from you
Speaker:growing up. Local places. That would be in. The. Okay.
Speaker:So top three. I have fond memories of going to
Speaker:see Santa at the front snack mall. Okay, and is that.
Speaker:Your favorite place for Santa? I just it.
Speaker:I included it as one of the best Santas. Is that. Okay? So I was.
Speaker:Curious. He's always been very best. I think probably costume.
Speaker:And I mean, I've seen a lot of Santas with my little kids and,
Speaker:as my kids were growing up and, just the whole setup and the
Speaker:chair that he's sitting in and just the decorations, it's very much an
Speaker:immersive experience of the holidays, I think. And and so that was that.
Speaker:I included that in the book because it's a fond memory of my grandparents
Speaker:taking and getting pictures of me with that particular Santa.
Speaker:I also love Union Station, and I love how it's changed over the years.
Speaker:Fond memories of going to Union Station as a kid, and we're talking
Speaker:way back because I have a picture of they had a stand up when
Speaker:President Reagan was president, and you could take your picture
Speaker:and pretend like you were like it was in black and white.
Speaker:You could pretend like you were taking your picture with President
Speaker:Reagan at Union Station. And so I have this picture from when
Speaker:I was a child with President Reagan. Right. And I met Ronald.
Speaker:I thought, yes, he was totally flat, but the way images were back then,
Speaker:you had no, it looked like we were just together.
Speaker:And I thought I was the coolest kid in the third grade. You were.
Speaker:But I loved going down to Union Station and going and walking the
Speaker:halls and hearing the stories from my grandparents about when
Speaker:it was a thriving train station. And that was just very much part
Speaker:of my childhood. So I love how Union Station has been
Speaker:revamped today to be what it is. It's a great destination for
Speaker:families. It has a good mix of history
Speaker:versus modern day. So it's that's a place that I feel
Speaker:like needed to be included in the book, because it's very much
Speaker:part of Saint Louis, part of our, our history. Now. One more. One more.
Speaker:Yeah, I had three. From my childhood. I'm holding you to.
Speaker:Well, another one that I would be pulling from when I was a child would
Speaker:be if you go to Booter Park now, not everybody's into remote control
Speaker:airplanes, but they are cool to see. I didn't grow up flying them,
Speaker:and I wasn't really a airplane kind of child, but my grandfather used to
Speaker:take me to Booter Park to watch the. There is a club still in effect.
Speaker:They fly the remote controlled airplanes at Booter Park.
Speaker:They have a whole field dedicated for flight, and you don't have
Speaker:to be a member of the club. You can go and watch people fly
Speaker:their planes there. And because it's dedicated for
Speaker:the airspace, right. So it's they have it,
Speaker:it looks like it feels like you're on an at an airfield,
Speaker:but it's for small planes. But. Some of these planes are pretty
Speaker:good size like I don't know. Yeah. Have you seen. That? Yeah.
Speaker:Some of them are pretty big. That they build. Yeah.
Speaker:And they go up and they I. Mean as big as a table or something.
Speaker:They're big. They are big. And so it was just,
Speaker:it was a really just a fond memory of seeing something that just was. Wow.
Speaker:And even as a kid, not really when I was a girl.
Speaker:And so I not that girls can't be interested in planes,
Speaker:trains and automobiles, but that wasn't really my thing.
Speaker:And, and but I was always I was amazed.
Speaker:I just thought that it was really neat.
Speaker:And a lot of people don't know that it exists. And Booter.
Speaker:Park is it's. Like Valley Park. Okay. It's before you get to Lone Elk Park,
Speaker:okay. Tucked in there,
Speaker:there's like a roundabout now, right, to get back in there okay. All right.
Speaker:This Arnold Stricker with Mark Langston of Saint Louis.
Speaker:And we're talking to Tara Smith about her book, Best Mom, Saint Louis,
Speaker:which contains a multitude of the best places to the best playground,
Speaker:the best place to take someone from visiting from out of town,
Speaker:the best place for something you've never done before.
Speaker:So a question is, most people in Saint Louis have
Speaker:or haven't done what? Most people in Saint Louis have done
Speaker:this and most people in Saint Louis haven't done this. What do you think.
Speaker:Most people have not taken like a canoe raft boat ride down the
Speaker:Mississippi. That is an option that people have.
Speaker:Another can I give you too? Oh yeah. A lot of people haven't done the
Speaker:trolley ride that goes around the city.
Speaker:We tourists do that when they come, and I know when I go to other cities,
Speaker:I like to take their trolley rides. Right.
Speaker:Or London, everybody has to go on the big red bus, right?
Speaker:The double decker. Bus and sit up on top. Yes.
Speaker:And take all the pictures and just. I'm in London,
Speaker:but but nobody thinks to do. There's a trolley ride downtown
Speaker:that you can go around to all the different. It will go by.
Speaker:It'll go by like Millionaire's Row. It goes in front of the cathedral,
Speaker:the the old courthouse, like things like that.
Speaker:It just it goes around and and you can take that as a Saint Louis
Speaker:tourist that lives here, tour your own city, experience these sorts
Speaker:of things a day. Yeah, for sure. A day in a staycation. No.
Speaker:We can just see what we have to offer here in in Saint Louis.
Speaker:You live here. You don't have you don't have to
Speaker:travel. Yeah. A lot of people,
Speaker:you hear don't ever go in the arch. That's true. Yeah. They live here.
Speaker:It's been or they did when they were little and they just don't even
Speaker:remember their parents took them and then and so go up in the arch,
Speaker:see all those things. I think the things that people
Speaker:have done, a lot of families go to the magic House.
Speaker:That's just it's a nostalgic place. It's been around for a long time.
Speaker:Everybody knows about it. Kids love to go there.
Speaker:Anything in Forest Park, right? Everybody goes to Forest Park.
Speaker:Everybody goes to the. Zoo, everyone goes to the zoo.
Speaker:And for good reason. It's like one of the best zoos
Speaker:in the country. Right. And and if you find a parking spot,
Speaker:you don't have to pay, like, for it. It's totally free not to say anything
Speaker:bad about the zoos parking lot, but. But free. Is free is. Good.
Speaker:And I like parking down by the World's Fair pavilion.
Speaker:And I like the walk. It's a nice it's a nice walk,
Speaker:right, to get to the zoo. So there's nothing wrong with
Speaker:the free parking. No. So I, I'm a I'm a little
Speaker:philosophical here in drawing some of your psychological background here.
Speaker:Okay. All right. We're going to we're going to
Speaker:mine into that the importance of doing activities like this in
Speaker:the lives of children. Why is that important and how
Speaker:important is it? Well, I'm going to be pulling from
Speaker:more common day, I think, from when I was rather when I was in college,
Speaker:which was quite a few years ago. But now kids have more screens.
Speaker:They have. Back when we were younger,
Speaker:they had we had a television and it only had certain channels,
Speaker:and that's just what it was. Now, even my own kids,
Speaker:we have a multitude of streaming channels on our television.
Speaker:Our kids have tons of video games, they have tons of devices.
Speaker:They even books are on a device now, right?
Speaker:And ultimately getting them outside and exploring.
Speaker:It's hard for parents because the kids, we ask our own kids, hey,
Speaker:we're going to go take a hike. We're going to go do something today.
Speaker:Oh. Can we just stay home like they
Speaker:just want to rest or relax? And really, it's not rest or relax.
Speaker:It's they want to play video games or they just want to sit
Speaker:and relax on the couch, but vegetate, totally vegetate.
Speaker:They all have something on the television playing that they're
Speaker:not even watching because they're playing a game on their cell
Speaker:phone or their or their tablet. And if you walk in the room and
Speaker:they've got the television going, if they've got their game going,
Speaker:and it's like, why do we have all this stuff on?
Speaker:Because you can only focus on one thing at a time.
Speaker:Or maybe that's just me. They would they would say, I know
Speaker:what's going on in the show and I know what's going on in the game,
Speaker:you know? Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. I think even the places that aren't
Speaker:outdoor places that are in this book, it's a way to get your kids engaged
Speaker:with you and out and visiting places with you and talking,
Speaker:because even just a road trip, sometimes my kids, they'll still want
Speaker:to be on their devices in the car. And so we can't even communicate
Speaker:in the car. But once we get to our destination,
Speaker:we're exploring, we're seeing things. And I think that in itself is
Speaker:fundamental for families just to have that togetherness.
Speaker:And build that bond. I think that's a very important
Speaker:point. You make that togetherness in the
Speaker:communication because some parents find it difficult, especially with
Speaker:some kids at certain ages, to have some kind of dialogue back and forth.
Speaker:And I want to explore that a little bit more.
Speaker:We're going to, we're going to take a short break here, but we'll come back
Speaker:and we'll talk about what that that communication should be like and what
Speaker:that interaction has been in your family and how you've nurtured that.
Speaker:This is Arnold Stricker with Mark Langston.
Speaker:We'll be right back for our next segment.
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Speaker:Mark Langston. We're talking to Tara Smith.
Speaker:She's the author of Best Moms Saint Louis, and it is an amalgamation.
Speaker:How about that word, Mark? It is an amalgamation of the
Speaker:best places to do whatever you need to do with your children
Speaker:and your family in Saint Louis. And we were talking before the
Speaker:break about communication and interaction with kids and family.
Speaker:And when you go on these kinds of activities, what is really important?
Speaker:Or let me back up. How have these activities?
Speaker:Nurtured communication, I don't know. I know the book doesn't really.
Speaker:It gives pictures of my kids, but it doesn't really give their ages.
Speaker:So with my kids, my family of four kids,
Speaker:I have a sophomore in high school. I have a 12 year old,
Speaker:I have a ten year old, and I have a three year old.
Speaker:So that is there seven years between the youngest and the next
Speaker:one and and a little bit of a gap between the sixth grader and and
Speaker:the sophomore in high school. So with having different ages,
Speaker:they do their own thing. Now at this point.
Speaker:And even the little ones, she's had to learn how to like,
Speaker:share with other little kids because nobody wants her things.
Speaker:They're just like, we don't want your toys. We don't want your stuff.
Speaker:Like at my house. Like her siblings are like,
Speaker:that's your stuff. Like we don't. And so they in order to be able to,
Speaker:like, have them have some sibling camaraderie, I think these
Speaker:activities help to create that. If we're walking,
Speaker:hiking in the woods, they're they're helping their little sister.
Speaker:She struggles a little bit with walking.
Speaker:And so they they come and they want to hold her hand and help
Speaker:her along and or pick her up and give her a piggyback ride.
Speaker:The oldest, they like to imagine and play Dungeons and Dragons as
Speaker:they walk, right? Just pretend as they're going
Speaker:through the woods. And it's so fun to see these
Speaker:different age groups of kids coming together that when we're at home,
Speaker:they don't want to talk to each other, they don't want to.
Speaker:They'll play board games and things like that.
Speaker:And we always tend to sit around and chat a little bit at dinner.
Speaker:But but to see them like out together and laughing and having fun,
Speaker:that's something that's building a relationship with them that
Speaker:they're going to be carrying on, I think, into adulthood. Absolutely.
Speaker:So are you the best mom in Saint Louis? Absolutely not.
Speaker:That's what the book says, though I. Know the book says that.
Speaker:But if you notice, the mom on the cover has two kids,
Speaker:I have four, and she's blonde and I have brunette hair.
Speaker:it started out brunette like, I am
Speaker:not a blonde. I am not the best mom. I'm just a mom.
Speaker:But I think everybody, honestly, I think every mom is the best
Speaker:because they have a big job. And so ultimately,
Speaker:this book is called Best Mom Saint Louis because the reader
Speaker:is the best mom these places. When you take your kids to these
Speaker:places, your kids will be declaring that you're the best.
Speaker:That's so cool, mom. I know they're going to say that
Speaker:because they're going to be like, you took them to these places.
Speaker:I'm giving you the ideas of where to take your kids, but ultimately
Speaker:you're going to be the one that's taking them to these places.
Speaker:I'm not taking them to these places. I have to drive my WI mom taxi
Speaker:service. I've got to take my kids all
Speaker:over the other places. So I'm sorry, but I can't take
Speaker:your kids to the places for you. You're going to be taking the
Speaker:kids to these places, and they're going to think that you
Speaker:are the best and you are the best. You're doing these things with
Speaker:your kids. You're building time and
Speaker:spending with them. And ultimately, this book can be for
Speaker:aunts, grandparents, uncles, dads. Because just because you're a dad
Speaker:doesn't mean you can't be like a mom. Everybody, even people without kids,
Speaker:can be a mom to someone. Yeah, right. It could be best family, Saint Louis.
Speaker:Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's right. Tara, how old are your kids now?
Speaker:Are they? Oh, yeah. So I have a sophomore in high school,
Speaker:so he's turning 16 on Sunday, so we have first time driver in our house.
Speaker:Okay, I've got a sixth grader. She's, 12 years old.
Speaker:Fourth grader. He's ten. And then the little one is three.
Speaker:And so she'll be going to preschool in the fall.
Speaker:That's quite a that's quite a spread is. Yeah, it really is.
Speaker:And so ultimately the little one is going to be one day she'll be
Speaker:like an only child. Yeah. Oh yeah yeah yeah many.
Speaker:Years from now. But one day. So are you going to write another
Speaker:book when. For adolescents. I know like things.
Speaker:I mean I do include in the book ideas for moms of like,
Speaker:best things for teenagers to do. Okay, granted, there's only,
Speaker:you know, the three, places, but, I mean, I would like to do
Speaker:a guidebook for kids. I think that's in my wheelhouse.
Speaker:I think it's in the back of my mind. If I did some type of a guidebook
Speaker:that's for kids, maybe more, with illustrated illustrations
Speaker:in it and written in a way for kids to enjoy, I think.
Speaker:I don't know, graphic novels are huge for kids right now.
Speaker:I would I think I could see myself writing a guidebook for kids.
Speaker:Another thing that I. Thought About doing is just a book
Speaker:about day trips from Saint Louis, because there are so many great
Speaker:locations that would be good, and that was really hard for me
Speaker:to narrow down on day trips, because there are so many great
Speaker:places that are within driving distance to just go for the day.
Speaker:So I think I could definitely see myself doing a book full of
Speaker:just day trips only. Nobody steal my idea before I
Speaker:before I write it. Okay, we'll cut that part out of the.
Speaker:Air, but I might have a head start on writing it.
Speaker:So it's who gets to the finish line first.
Speaker:So biggest surprise in the book. In terms of location.
Speaker:So I was really surprised to find and I noticed the street as I was driving
Speaker:here to your studio. Is that Selena? Okay, so on Selena,
Speaker:there is a old warehouse building. You would never know that this
Speaker:is inside it. You walk up to the door and you
Speaker:see this little sign and it says Ramp riders.
Speaker:And so then you walk in the door and you go up these stairs up to the very
Speaker:top, and you're like, where am I? It is an entire skate park inside
Speaker:an old warehouse, like skate park, like the ramps that you see on
Speaker:those competitions on television, they're huge.
Speaker:And usually they're outside. Right? This is inside an old skylight
Speaker:like warehouse. And it's just huge ceilings,
Speaker:huge ramps, just fun graffiti and art that's on them.
Speaker:Like inside the in the building, there's a skate shop so people
Speaker:can buy skateboards, they can buy inline skates.
Speaker:They even have BMX bikes and they repair them there.
Speaker:They have classes that kids can take. They have special days that are set
Speaker:aside that just kids can be there or less experienced people on the ramps,
Speaker:so that way they're not getting run over by the hardcore ramp riders.
Speaker:But yeah, it's called ramp riders. And it's it was for someone who
Speaker:doesn't I don't skateboard, I've never skateboarded,
Speaker:but for someone like me to walk in and I was really impressed.
Speaker:And then they have some tables and chairs so you can go in and sit down,
Speaker:eat a snack and watch some of these amazing things.
Speaker:Amazing, talented people. There was a girl when I was looking
Speaker:around just to get a feel for it. For the book, there was a girl that
Speaker:plays on a roller derby team in Saint Louis, and so she had like
Speaker:her pads on and her helmet. Right. But she also,
Speaker:in addition to roller derby, she likes to do trick, like skating,
Speaker:like off of ramps, like on your old school four wheel skates.
Speaker:She was going up these ramps and like, doing flips in the air,
Speaker:doing spins, doing things that you would see,
Speaker:the spins that she was doing. Now, my oldest daughter does
Speaker:figure skating. And so I very much around that world.
Speaker:A lot of my life is around that world these days.
Speaker:So part of the taxi service is going to the rink several times a week.
Speaker:Yeah. To see this, this woman on,
Speaker:on roller skates doing these like axles in the air,
Speaker:I it was just really impressive. And so I can see that it's just
Speaker:very much there's a whole culture behind skateboarding and
Speaker:BMX biking and inline skating. But to be able to have and scooters,
Speaker:they kids can take scooters and go on these ramps as well.
Speaker:So there is a fee to get in. Okay. And but they do like these punch
Speaker:cards. So you can purchase a bunch of
Speaker:punch cards to get in. I'm sure the prices are always going
Speaker:to be changing because everything's price wise is fluctuating,
Speaker:especially right now. But they have punch cards that you
Speaker:can go, and if you take your child, they will not charge the adult
Speaker:that's with the child. So you can and you can take your own.
Speaker:If you're an adult who has your own skateboarder, has a scooter or
Speaker:whatever, you can take it out on the ramps and be doing it to with your
Speaker:child and they won't charge you. They are just going to charge you for
Speaker:the one time, one person coming on. And I know things are tight for a
Speaker:lot of families and I think about, okay, a lot of these activities,
Speaker:maybe they cost things, they cost a little bit of entrance
Speaker:fee or something like that. And how many of these activities
Speaker:would you say that you have in the book are actually free?
Speaker:Now, I know we talked about Forest Park and Park, and a lot of the
Speaker:things in Saint Louis are free. But as you were researching the
Speaker:book and you put the book together, are most of these things free?
Speaker:A lot of them are free. There's parks.
Speaker:There's like the best playground. So I did three of what I thought
Speaker:was the best playground. But then there's certain playgrounds
Speaker:that have the best zip line. And so I didn't want to.
Speaker:Include them and it's hard to find, like a free zip line.
Speaker:Where is a free zip line to go on? I couldn't tell you, but.
Speaker:There are certain playgrounds that have them. I don't want to.
Speaker:Yeah, I'll give you one. Can you say liability?
Speaker:Yeah, yeah. So I'll give you one. It's a Watson Trails Park has a
Speaker:free zip line in there. Down near the lake there's a
Speaker:separate little playground, and some people don't know it
Speaker:exists there. It's a long zip line. It's more short, shorter and of in
Speaker:length, and it kind of gets straight. But yeah, but it's a fun little.
Speaker:It's a disc that you sit on that kids can sit on. And so that's free.
Speaker:And ultimately I was able to include that by doing the free zip line,
Speaker:the best frees of planes. I was able to open it up to
Speaker:include more playgrounds, more parks in the area.
Speaker:And that way, because there are so many phenomenal playgrounds,
Speaker:like so many great playgrounds in Saint Louis in the entire area.
Speaker:Did the rocketship park make it on your list?
Speaker:Do you know what I'm talking about? I do know what you're talking about.
Speaker:The one in Maplewood. It's definitely an honorable mention.
Speaker:Wow, I like that.
Speaker:I do have that playground a lot. So they redid it.
Speaker:They had to redo it, I think. Yeah, I think the old the old way
Speaker:that it was built was a little dangerous. And that's the air.
Speaker:It was really high. That's the liability issue that
Speaker:you're talking about there. I know there's the park out in
Speaker:Manchester that's being redone as well because it was just became
Speaker:a liability issue for sure. They built this.
Speaker:I know, but we survived, right. We survived childhood on those
Speaker:equipment. I don't know how. We used to have a bicycle ramp in
Speaker:my backyard, you know, no helmet. No pads. Underneath. No.
Speaker:We just hit that ramp and see how high we could go in our in our bikes.
Speaker:Yeah. It's like there's also a lot of
Speaker:great hikes and hiking is free. There's our state parks are free.
Speaker:There's just a lot of nature preserves that are free to hike in.
Speaker:And so just exploring those places, it's there's just so many things
Speaker:that you can do with your kids that don't have a cost.
Speaker:So, Tara, I might be overwhelmed a little bit. I'll look at the booking.
Speaker:Oh, there's so many different things to do. Just picking where to start.
Speaker:Well, that might be a tough task. It could be you can cross things off.
Speaker:I think my husband. So my husband had the idea once
Speaker:we were done, like finished with the book.
Speaker:He said that and I say we because this was very much a family effort.
Speaker:My kids, my husband, they had to go to a lot of these places,
Speaker:obviously with me. So this was a year long labor of
Speaker:love. So we're going to see this place now.
Speaker:Yeah, we're getting out. On this hike now and you're
Speaker:gonna like it. You know. And but we made it fun. We did.
Speaker:So ultimately though, my husband was like, once the book is released,
Speaker:we need to go through and a checklist and we're just going to go
Speaker:through and just check off as we do go to each place. Yeah. Again.
Speaker:And just check it off and just go down the line.
Speaker:And it might take us a long time to get hit all the places in the book,
Speaker:but goal is to revisit everything. I'll revisit. Okay, that'd be great.
Speaker:I think that's a good idea. And check them off, get the book
Speaker:and check them off as you go. Yeah, and so families can do that.
Speaker:Get the book, take a highlighter, check it off as you go.
Speaker:Make your make a bucket list. And the book is.
Speaker:Available at Reading Press. It's also available on Amazon.
Speaker:It's also available on your blog site. It is at scene dandy.com.
Speaker:If you're local, I'm happy to deliver a signed copy. Even I have some.
Speaker:I do have some book signings come up. Coming up.
Speaker:It's also at Barnes and Noble at All the Local here,
Speaker:and it's Barnes and Noble online, but also in the local Barnes and
Speaker:Noble stores around the area. Saint Peter's reached out to me.
Speaker:Their store is having me come in, on May 11th. And so they reached out.
Speaker:So I know that it's in Barnes and Noble, it's in Barnes and Noble and
Speaker:Ledoux, all the different locations. It's also in just your smaller
Speaker:bookstores that are local to us. And these are impressive bookstores.
Speaker:I included best bookstores in the book as well.
Speaker:And one thing I like about it is really it could fit in your pocket,
Speaker:in your back pocket. It's a smaller book,
Speaker:it's a paperback. It's I'm going to guess that's
Speaker:six by nine and you're here your book signings Saturday,
Speaker:April 20th at Main Street Books. And folks, you need to check
Speaker:these out with the companies to make sure times don't change.
Speaker:That's 1 to 3 p.m. Main Street Books in Saint Charles.
Speaker:Another book signing at Happy Up Ink on Maryland in Clayton,
Speaker:a book signing June the 1st at the landing hub in Pacific, Missouri,
Speaker:and a presentation and book signing at Betty's Books in Webster Groves.
Speaker:That's Saturday, June 8th. So you got April 20th, Main Street
Speaker:Books, May 4th at Happy Up. June 1st at the landing hub,
Speaker:May 11th out at Barnes and Noble, and June the 8th at Betty's Books.
Speaker:Yeah. And this weekend. On this Saturday I will be at
Speaker:the novel neighbor on April, Webster Groves April 13th at 1030.
Speaker:And all of the book signings I didn't want to do,
Speaker:like a traditional book signing. I wanted to do like an event.
Speaker:So there will be a craft there for kids to do.
Speaker:Betty's books will be an educational, like where kids can come and
Speaker:learn about Dungeons and Dragons, because that's something that she
Speaker:does in her in her bookstore. She's the comic book store and
Speaker:graphic novels, and she has little gaming
Speaker:activities of Dungeons and Dragons. And I'm also going to be on the
Speaker:Women's Exchange in like Ledoux area and Clayton.
Speaker:They are going to have me in for an event.
Speaker:It's like a royalty party where kids can sign up and with their moms,
Speaker:and to come and have it there, that's going to be on June 2nd
Speaker:in the morning. And so I just really expanded it
Speaker:from just your traditional book signings because people might not.
Speaker:My signature is not that awesome. So honestly, come for fun and have a
Speaker:have a fun event, heart and soul. And Ledoux is going to do a
Speaker:mother's day mingle. And that's going to be late
Speaker:afternoon on May 11th, and that's open to the public to
Speaker:come to and just explore the store, have some eats there and just
Speaker:have a good time. Now, do. You just sign and talk to folks, or
Speaker:do you have a little presentation you give and stand up in front of the.
Speaker:Crowd? Yeah, at Kirkwood Library. I'm going to be doing one there
Speaker:for later in the summer, and I'll talk a little bit
Speaker:about the book, probably like a similar setup that
Speaker:I'm doing here with you today, but also they're going to have a
Speaker:craft in another room for kids to do as well. They're at the library.
Speaker:So I was very I just I'm that type of a person from being a blogger
Speaker:and doing crafts with my kids. I didn't want to just sit behind
Speaker:a table and sign books. Yeah, because again, my signature is
Speaker:not that fancy, not a check. Yeah. So come and and just enjoy the day
Speaker:with your kids and maybe stop by one of the places mentioned to grab an
Speaker:ice cream treat or something after. And so come do a craft. Get the book.
Speaker:I'll sign it if you want me to. But but yeah. All right.
Speaker:I have two things here. One is I want to let you know, folks,
Speaker:again, her blog site is seeing dandy, seeing dandy.com seen dandy.com.
Speaker:And you can check on the chocolate depression cake.
Speaker:It's not like you're depressed and you have to eat chocolate.
Speaker:It's a cake that was made during the depression time, but you can
Speaker:check that out. I'm depressed. I got to eat chocolate cake.
Speaker:Every week.
Speaker:Is, maybe there are some single moms. Single dads struggling.
Speaker:What do you tell them? Wanting to know?
Speaker:Like, gosh, I got to do stuff with my kids.
Speaker:I'm working. We're all worn out. Give them some encouragement.
Speaker:When you're doing a great job because you are, you're doing it.
Speaker:You're making it work and your kids love you.
Speaker:And if it's tucking them in at night or reading them a book
Speaker:before you go to bed, they're going to remember that.
Speaker:They're going to probably remember that over taking them to honestly,
Speaker:to all the places in the book. These are fun places.
Speaker:But the things that you're going to do with your kids, like just
Speaker:one on one time with them, that's going to be the most important.
Speaker:Showing up occasionally for school things that they have.
Speaker:It doesn't have to be everything. Even as a stay at home mom,
Speaker:I have four kids. I can't be at everything,
Speaker:and my kids understand that. But if I'm able to make it to
Speaker:one school party that they have, like one party that they have like an
Speaker:a spring party or a fall party or something during the school day,
Speaker:like just one in their elementary years. They remember that.
Speaker:So it doesn't have to be every school party.
Speaker:There are some moms that can make that work and others can't.
Speaker:And I'm I for one can't. And but if you can swing that
Speaker:just to be there for one in that school career of elementary school,
Speaker:they're going to love that. And just being there to listen
Speaker:to them and things like that, and reading those books to a kid,
Speaker:that's a big deal. And it doesn't have to be at
Speaker:nighttime before bed. It's because maybe you're working
Speaker:and aren't there at bedtime, and that's okay too.
Speaker:If you can do it another time, it could be an.
Speaker:You know, a morning book or things like that. Something before school.
Speaker:While the places are fun to do, there's a lot of free places that
Speaker:you can work around your schedule. And but just being there for them,
Speaker:and I know that the parents are like, even if they're struggling,
Speaker:they are there for their kids, and their kids know that.
Speaker:And their kids love them, and their kids know that, that they
Speaker:are loved. Great advice. Oh yeah. The book is called Best Mom
Speaker:Saint Louis. And that's all you moms out
Speaker:there in Saint Louis. You're the best mom in Saint Louis by
Speaker:Tara Smith Tara, thanks for coming on Saint Louis and tune. Thank you.
Speaker:Thanks so much for having me. This been fun. It has been it.
Speaker:Has been a lot of fun. Thank you Tara, thanks.
Speaker:It has not been our word of the day. Oh, here we go.
Speaker:Our word of the day is fatuous, fat, U.S. fatuous.
Speaker:It's describing something such as an idea or remark.
Speaker:To say that it is foolish or silly rather than sensible or logical.
Speaker:We had a very logical and sensible conversation.
Speaker:It wasn't fatuous, it wasn't silly or foolish. It wasn't.
Speaker:I just want to clarify that. Okay. Sorry.
Speaker:Sometimes Mark and I act in a fatuous manner. Yes we do.
Speaker:Well, don't ask me to put that in a sentence. I can't do it.
Speaker:How about. That one? Was that. That's a tough one. Okay.
Speaker:That's a good one, though. Yeah. You have some. You announced a hour.
Speaker:Oh I do, yeah. Let me see if I can. Yeah.
Speaker:Give me a moment I know I computers or something aren't they. Here we go.
Speaker:International Lawyers Day is one thing that it is. Let's see.
Speaker:There's not much going on today there. Maybe tomorrow there is.
Speaker:Let's see. National Chinese almond cookie day,
Speaker:National chicken little awareness day. Chicken little. Yeah.
Speaker:Remember chicken little yes I do okay.
Speaker:National chicken little awareness yeah. It's pretty thin here.
Speaker:If you are a drinker,
Speaker:I don't know if you are. Let's see. National mature women's day.
Speaker:There you go. Oh, National unicorn day.
Speaker:I never got the whole unicorn thing. Tears looking at me like.
Speaker:I used to collect unicorn. Did you really?
Speaker:Porcelain like My Little Pony or. Something like that?
Speaker:These were like, every trip we'd go on. That was your. I would get.
Speaker:Up looking for the unicorn, a. Porcelain unicorn.
Speaker:I have boxes of them. I was going to say.
Speaker:Do you still have them? Yeah. My mom and dad kept everything okay,
Speaker:and they made sure to give it to me. Pass it on. Wow.
Speaker:National sibling day. Yeah, yeah. Don't forget the siblings.
Speaker:You have four or your siblings have I? Never mind about it.
Speaker:Yeah, right, golfer's day. Anybody play golf here? Yes.
Speaker:Do you? It's been a while, though. Is that right idea for some.
Speaker:People, that's every. Day, international safety pin
Speaker:day. Did you know safety pin? Yes. See, you would have missed that.
Speaker:Oh, my gosh. I haven't seen a safety pin in a long
Speaker:time, National bookmobile day. Did you ever go to the bookmobile?
Speaker:Yes. I didn't know I had a day that I.
Speaker:That we didn't either. We have. Something. The government tapped.
Speaker:Into something here. That's great. Yeah. Cinnamon crest day.
Speaker:This is your Congress at work. What a day.
Speaker:Approving these things. Yeah. National Tamara Day,
Speaker:believe it or not, the name Tamara has an interesting history.
Speaker:They say National youth, HIV and Aids Awareness day,
Speaker:salvation Army founder's day always believed in the Salvation Army.
Speaker:They do lots of good work. I know I only have maybe just a
Speaker:couple of more here and I can't believe that there are.
Speaker:National Pet Day is coming up in a couple of days.
Speaker:If you have a pet, you should appreciate your pet a little bit.
Speaker:Dog Therapy Appreciation day. Have you ever had a dog that
Speaker:needed therapy? No. Had one that needed Xanax.
Speaker:And we'll close on this one. National Cheese Fondue Day.
Speaker:Ooh, that's good stuff. That would be something to celebrate.
Speaker:Yeah. So take a National cheese fondue
Speaker:Day with some little smokies. Sounds delicious to me.
Speaker:All right, so I got pulled over by the police today?
Speaker:I was apparently his first speeder, because when he got to my window,
Speaker:he said, I've been waiting all day for you.
Speaker:I said, oh, I got here as fast as I could, and he let me go. Wow.
Speaker:Here's an English lesson tsunami. The T is silent, honest.
Speaker:H is silent. Psychology. P is silent knife, K is silent wife.
Speaker:Husband is silent. That's a. Right. Good. That's good.
Speaker:Jellyfish have survived 650. Million years despite not having
Speaker:a brain. This gives so many people hope.
Speaker:Yes it does. Now, do you have the Twilight Zone
Speaker:music? Yeah, we do somewhat, yeah. No, not that one. How about this one?
Speaker:One of these. Nope, that's not it. This is the only twice.
Speaker:I'm used to that. D d d. D d d. Yeah. Okay. We'll do that one.
Speaker:We'll do that one. Okay. Imagine, if you will,
Speaker:a world in which YouTube, Twitter and Facebook merged to
Speaker:become known as you Twit face. Gosh. Okay, we'll give it to them.
Speaker:While Facebook was down, I managed to meet my family.
Speaker:They are actually quite nice people. Wow. We talked about. That.
Speaker:Yes we did, yes we did. I just replace my litter box
Speaker:with a Fedex box. Now when it's full,
Speaker:I just tape it shut and put it on my porch for someone to steal.
Speaker:Gosh. Breaking news. The earth revolves around the sun.
Speaker:This may upset a few people who think it revolves around them.
Speaker:Yeah. I know those people. The guy at the furniture store
Speaker:told me the sofa would seat five people without any problems.
Speaker:Then it occurred to me, I don't think I know five people
Speaker:without any problems. Hawk, watch out for that hawk
Speaker:swooping down for you right now. Remember when you could lay in
Speaker:one position for hours? Now you have to rotate like a
Speaker:rotisserie chicken every 15 minutes or your hip hurts. I found it.
Speaker:That's what you were like. And lastly.
Speaker:There's the yeah, I know, I. Remember when you're dead. No, I.
Speaker:Remember when. You're dead. Oh, let me back up. Remember. Yeah.
Speaker:When you're dead, you do not know you're dead.
Speaker:It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.
Speaker:Let's take. A bow. You should take. A bow. And let's.
Speaker:See. Oh, he's. Looking for more. That's everybody. Last one here.
Speaker:He's got. Them all. Okay. Cashier says your total is $18.53.
Speaker:I give the cashier $20.53. Cashier gives me a blank stare
Speaker:for 45 seconds and is stuck. Just give me $5 back.
Speaker:Cashier says that's what I thought it was. It just had to make sure.
Speaker:Here you go. I say I okay. Wow, that was almost painful to
Speaker:tell you. I'm numb. Please, please don't pop those.
Speaker:Buttons until an answer is exposed. Okay? Oh. So sorry.
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