Guest 1: Barbara Nicholson, author of Attached at the Heart.
Topic: Proven parenting principles for raising connected and compassionate children
Issues: Strategies to strengthen your emotional bond with your child; how to be a more conscious parent; how raising children with empathy and respect and improve society as a whole.

Guest 2: Jennifer Kolari, author of Connected Parenting
Topic: Transform your challenging child and build loving bonds for life
Issues: The CALM program (Connect, Match the affect of your child, Listen, and Mirror); foolproof strategies for setting limits and changing negative behavior for good.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:08 — 23.9MB)

Guest 1: Joe Deyo, author of Checklists for the New Dad.
Topic: Pregnancy, delivery, and baby's first year
Issues: Building a solid plan for fathering; making a smooth lifestyle transition with a baby at home; improving yourself and your marriage; baby proofing the home.

Guest 2: Sam Apple, author of American Parent.
Topic: Strange, surprising in modern babyland.
Issues: Is the Lamaze method a Stalinist plot (yes!); Does it sting when you pour baby shampoo in your eyes? Who invented waterbirthing? And many other odd, unusual, and strange thinks about parenthood.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (23.8MB)

Guest 1: Bruce Wolk, author of Made Here, Baby!
Topic: Finding the best American-made products for kids
Issues: Family businesses, green companies, minority- and women-owned businesses; how small manufacturers get distribution; why buying American products can help assure us of quality and safety.

Guest 2: Jean Twenge, author of The Narcissism Epidemic.
Topic: Living in the age of entitlement
Issues: The characteristics of narcissism; how narcissistic values such as materialism, vanity, and entitlement have spread to the culture at large; the real costs of narcissism in the workplace, relationships, school, and everywhere else.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (23.8MB)

Guest 1: Andrea Buchanan, author of The Double Daring Book for Girls.
Topic: A guide to everything a girl needs to know
Issue: Camping to schoolyard games, great women in history, shooting pool; how to throw and catch; making sand castles, the Greek alphabet, how to spin a hula hoop, and much more

Guest 2: Allison Pugh, author of Longing and Belonging.
Topic: Parents, children, and consumer culture
Issues: How parents decrease their own power in the home by putting their children’s needs first; how to handle kids’ consumer desires in a down economy; what really drives consumer desires (hint: it’s not all about advertising).

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (23.9MB)