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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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