Hiding healthy foods in kids’ favorite meals + Taking back family life in a world gone crazy over youth sports [26:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Missy Chase Lapine, author of The Sneaky Chef.
Topic: Simple strategies for hiding healthy foods in kids’ favorite meals.
Issues: Outsmarting even the pickiest eaters; rescuing dinner from becoming a battlefield; 13 ways to get nutrition into foods that kids already love.

Guest 2: Regan McMahon, author of Revolution in the Bleachers.
Topic: How parents can take back family life in a world gone crazy over youth sports.
Issues: The impact of sports on family life; the physical risks involved in getting into sports too young; stress and burnout; understanding coaches’ and parents’ roles.

 

 9 ways to motivate your kids to achieve + Move over Lamaze and Bradley [26:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Janine Walker Caffrey, author of Drive.
Topic: 9 ways to motivate your kids to achieve.
Issues: Getting kids excited about learning; encouraging children to seek opportunities beyond their comfort zone; using rewards and consequences to get results; inspiring children to take charge of their own life.

Guest 2: Sarah McMoyler, coauthor of The Best Birth.
Topic: A Guide to the safest, healthiest, most satisfying labor and delivery.
Issues: Understanding the causes of pain and pain management approaches; myths about doctors and the medical team (hint: they’re on you’re side); everything you need to know to make the best, most-important decisions on the biggest day of your life.

 

 Playdates, blind dates, and other dispatches from the dating world + Getting adult children to move out of the house [25:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Rachel Sarah, author of Single Mom Seeking
Topic: Playdates, blind dates, and other dispatches from the dating world
Issues: The ins and outs of dating for single parents; developing as a one-parent family; when to start dating after a breakup; when to introduce your children to the new person; the deceptions and possible dangers to on-line dating.

Guest 2: Ellen Gibran-Hesse, founder of web site KidsOutNow.com
Topic: Get your grown kids out of the house now
Issues: About 18 million young adults are still living at home after college; how to be supportive of your adult child while encouraging his or her independence; why having a college education is no guarantee that your child will have essential life skills; how parents can help adult children learn what they need to know to survive on their own, and get them out of the house within six months.

 

 Moving from chaos to calm + Inside the preschool entertainment boom [26:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Beth Grosshans, author of Beyond Time-Out.
Topic: Moving from chaos to calm.
Issues: Why our emphasis on talking and self-esteem is responsible for parental ineffectiveness and children’s unruliness; looking at the imbalance of power in families (where kids have too much and the parents not enough); the parenting styles that most commonly lead to that imbalance of power.

Guest 2: Dade Hayes, author of Anytime Playdate.
Topic: Inside the preschool entertainment boom.
Issues: The inner workings of the $21 billion business of entertaining babies and toddlers; How the success of Dora the Explorer prompted the development of other multi-lingual shows; the positive effects of media moderate media exposure (as long as it’s supplemented by good parenting)