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• News: Middle schoolers are overstressed and overbooked. What parents can do to reduce the stress and make childhood more fun.
• Game reviews: Can software and games make your baby a genius? A lot of manufacturers claim they can. We’ll talk about whether that’s true.
• Email question: Discipline for single parents. It’s easy to be too lenient, too strict, or too inconsistent. How to overcome those obstacles.
• Interview: Every dad’s worst nightmatre–a teenager who drinks. A discusion about how and why teens start drinking and what parents need to do to keep their kids away from the bottle, with former teen drunk Koren Zailckas, author of Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood.

 

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• News: Women who have gum disease and/or other dental problems have an increased risk of complications during pregnancy.
• Movies: Mr. Movie reviews Eight Below and Curious George.
• Email question: Prenatal communication. The benefits and how to make it fun.
• Interview: Mother-daughter communication. Understanding how moms and daughter communicate (or don’t) and how that communication affects fathers, with Deborah Tannen, author of You’re Wearing That?

 

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• News: Breastfeeding babies for only two extra months dramatically reduces their suceptibility to illness.
• Book reviews: Great books about dinosaurs.
• Email question: Miscarriage affects men in important–but often-overlooked–ways.
• Interview: the science of parenting. A discusion of what’s been scientifically proven to work–and not to work, with Lawrence Steinberg, author of The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting.

 

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• News: The real truth about hot tubs. You may never feel safe in the water again.
• The Play Guy: Playing with preschoolers. Great ideas and easy activities that kids will love.
• Email question: Can men get pregnancy symptoms too? Absolutely. In fact, most do!
• Interview: Talking to kids about sex. A discussion about raising sexually healthy children, with Debra Haffner, author of From Diapers to Dating.

 

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• News: Vegetables are packing less nutritional value than in the past. What you can do about it.
• Book reviews: Great books about baseball.
• Email question: Understanding your relationship with your father and how it affects the way you parent.
• Interview: 21st-century bullies are moving off the playground and onto the Internet. A discussion about Internet safety and helping our kids cope with cyberbullies, with Kevin Storr from i-SAFE America.

 

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• News: A vaccine for ear infections may be around the corner.
• Movie reviews: Films about Ireland, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.
• Email question: Feeling guilty about spending too much time at work? Is it possible to make up for lost time?
• Interview: Recent discoveries show that boys and girls are different in far more ways than we ever thought. A discussion about gender with Leonard Sax, author of Why Gender Matters

 

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• Email question: How does an expectant father’s sex drive change during the pregnancy?
• Technology reviews: Nintendo’s Nintendogs.
• News: Verbal stress. Forget the old sayings; the truth is that sticks and stones don’t do nearly as much long term damage as words.
• Interview: Improving the odds that second (and third) marriages will last, with Barbara LeBay, author of Remarried with Children

 

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• Email question: Is it normal for kids to have imaginary friends?
• Music reviews: DVD and CD for kids, by The Laurie Berkner Band and Buck Howdy.
• More and more dads say they’re willing to give up promotions and career advancement in order to spend more time with their children and families.
• Interview: Raising introverted children in an extroverted world, with Marty Olsen Laney, author of The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child.

 

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• Email question: New dad feels left out while his wife is breastfeeding. The dad’s critical role in breastfeeding–the more encouraging he is, the longer his wife will do it and the more she’ll enjoy it.
• Movie reviews: Great films to watch with your daughter.
• Calcium is very important to good nutrition but most children don’t get nearly enough. What we can do to overcome that problem.
• Interview: Looking at marriage from the man’s perspective. What does it take to make a marriage succeed? Scott Holtzman, author of The Secrets of Happily Married Men.