Positive Parenting for 7/5/09: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Meg Meeker, author of Boys Should Be Boys.
Topic: Secrets to raising healthy sons.
Issues: Why moody and rebellious boys are not normal; single sex education; teaching boys to survive in a world that doesn’t value masculinity; what parents and teachers can do to support and encourage boys.

Guest 2: Lara Zibners, author of If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay.
Topic: How to know if your child’s illness or injury is really an emergency.
Issues: There’s no such thing as a fever that’s too high; You don’t really need to keep a child awake after a head injury; Why car seats are important—even if you’re “just going around the corner”; Ear infections don’t require antibiotics; and more myths debunked

 

 Positive Parenting for 6/28/09: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.

 

 Positive Parenting for 6/21/09 [26:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.

 

 Positive Parenting for 6/14/09: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.

 

 Positive Parenting for 6/07/09: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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).

 

 Positive Parenting for 5/31/09 [26:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code.
Topic: Greatness isn’t born, it’s grown.
Issues: The three elements of the talent code: deep practice, ignition, and master coaching; How to identify and encourage deep practice; motivational tools used by the worlds greatest teachers and motivators; how to recognize a growing skill

Guest 2: Andrew Cherlin, author of The Marriage-Go-Round.
Topic: The state of marriage and the family in America today
Issues: Why religious Americans have a higher divorce rate than non-religious ones; the battle over same-sex marriages; why government support of marriage (over $100 million spent per year!) doesn’t produce the desired results.

 

 Positive Parenting for 5/24/09 [26:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Tom Heck, author of Duct Tape Teambuilding Games
Topic: Fun activities to help your team—and your family—stick together
Issues: Using team-building games and experiential learning to teach leadership, trust, cooperation, creativity, problem solving, and confidence.

Guest 2: John Bradshaw, author of Reclaiming Virtue
Topic: How we can develop the moral intelligence to do the right thing at the right time for the right reason.
Issues: The meaning of “inborn moral intelligence” and how we can cultivate it; how we can awaken in our children the desire to be good people; why our attempts to teach virtue fail so often; using movies and other cultural references to teach kids about virtue

 

 Positive Parenting for 5/17/09 [26:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Dara Chadwick, author of You’d Be So Pretty If…
Topic: Teaching our daughters to love their bodies—even when we don’t love our own
Issues: What girls learn from mom’s attitudes about appearance; trigger words that set off a body image crisis; boys’ role in girls’ body image; what works and what doesn’t when talking to your daughter about healthy eating and exercise habits

Guest 2: Michael Gurian, author of The Purpose of Boys.
Topic: Helping our sons find meaning, significance, and direction in their lives.
Issues: What is purpose and why do we need one? How boys and girls develop purpose differently; how the loss of purpose in American boyhood is affecting families, women, and society as a whole.

 

 Positive Parenting for 5/10/09 [26:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Izzy Rose, author of The Package Deal
Topic: One woman’s not-so-glamorous transition from single gal to instant mom
Issues: Social supports (or the lack) for step mothers; keeping expectations reasonable; dealing with the pressure to love the kids right away; dealing with the children’s biological mother; how to introduce the kids (“my step-kids” vs “my kids”)

Guest 2: Amy Tiemann, author of Mojo Mom.
Topic: Nurturing yourself while raising a family
Issues: how to negotiate a fair division of labor in the house; putting an end to the mommy wars; what happens to a new mother’s life when she brings home a baby? the huge identity shift that new parenthood creates

 

 Positive Parenting for 5/3/09 [26:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Marie Pinak Carr, coauthor of Sending Your Child to College.
Topic: Everything you need to know and do if you have a child going off to college
Issues: Getting organized; digging through the paperwork; navigating the insurance maze; financing your child’s education; moving; staying in contact with your child

Guest 2: Jerilyn Ross, author of One Less Thing to Worry About.
Topic: Coping with common anxieties
Issues: Understanding what triggers your anxieties and the ways you respond to them; how to tell whether an anxiety is healthy, helpful, or harmful; the difference between normal anxiety and anxiety disorders; transforming anxiety from a destructive force to a positive one.