Guest 1: Brian Sanders, president and COO, i9 Sports
Topic: Keeping youth sports safe.
Issues: Making youth sports fun and safe; reducing concussion risk.
Topic: Arming your child against bullying, peer pressure, addiction, self-harm, and out-of –control emotions.
Issues: Respond to your child’s internal experiences in healthy ways; acknowledge your child’s thoughts and feelings; help your child establish his or her own sense of identity; help your child develop essential self-validating skills.
Topic: How to raise joyful children when the headlines are full of fear.
Issues: Learning to be more aware of media messages; understanding how children process and react to news; helping children deal with their fears that what’s happening in the news will happen to them.
Topic: How the “troubled teen” industry cons parents and hurts kids.
Issues: Understanding what tough love programs are all about; proof that these programs do more harm than good; how lack of adequate staff training and no accountability has created a multi-billion dollar industry
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"Too often, those who do the most for us are supported the least. Military fathers certainly fall into this category. Brott's wonderfully informative book is not only a much needed salute to the importance of these unique dads, but it is also a field manual for their most important front of all—the home front."
—Roland C. Warren, President, National Fatherhood Initiative
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—Linda Powell, daughter of General Colin Powell, US Army Ret., former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I first purchased this book to use as a basis for my work with children of military parents. The book's content was insightful, well organized, and thorough. I felt the book was so helpful, I purchased several copies and sent them to my son, who is a military officer to present to his men."
—LaVonne, blogger
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—Robert, XO, USMC
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—Eloise, Air Force wife
