--- title: Susie Allison | TIME description: Susie Allison is a former teacher and mom of three. She is the creator of Busy Toddlerand author of Busy Toddler's Guide to Actual Parenting: From the First "No" to Their First Day of School (and Everything in Between). canonical: https://time.com/author/susie-allison/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/susie-allison/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Susie Allison ## Susie Allison Susie Allison is a former teacher and mom of three. She is the creator of [_Busy Toddler_](https://busytoddler.com/)and author of [_Busy Toddler's Guide to Actual Parenting: From the First "No" to Their First Day of School (and Everything in Between)_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/194314785X/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=194314785X&linkId=7a30cea99f251944c649dd46aeca8a5a)_._ ## Susie Allison *  Mar 15, 2020 ### [How to Entertain Kids Whose Schools Close](https://time.com/5803373/coronavirus-kids-at-home-activities/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/susie-allison/","name":"Susie Allison"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/susie-allison/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/susie-allison/"},"name":"Susie Allison","jobTitle":null,"description":"Susie Allison is a former teacher and mom of three. She is the creator of Busy Toddlerand author of Busy Toddler's Guide to Actual Parenting: From the First \"No\" to Their First Day of School (and Everything in Between).","url":"https://time.com/author/susie-allison/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```