Jan
30
2012
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| Guest 1: Heath Dingwell, author of Stress-Proof Your Teen. |
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Topic: Helping your teen manage stress and build healthy habits.
Issues: Recognizing when your teen’s behaviors and eating habits signal a problem; helping a teen manage a psychological disorder; helping teens maintain healthy dating relationships and friendships. |
| Guest 2: Carol Jones, author of Toward College Success. |
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Topic: Is your teenager ready, willing, and able?
Issues: Why you need to start college planning when your child is still in middle school; giving your child the tools he or she will need to handle stress, peer pressure, and the responsibility that go along with being a college student. |
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Jan
23
2012
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| Guest: Barbara Greenberg, coauthor of Teenage as a Second Language. |
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Topic: A parent's guide to becoming bilingual.
Issues: Realizing that “me, me, me” is actually age appropriate; learning how not to criticize, judge, or become angry; letting your teens set the rules—and the consequences for breaking them; maintaining good communication, healthy interactions, and a strong connection with your teen no matter what. |
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Jan
16
2012
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| Guest: Kevin Leman, author of Have a New Teenager by Friday. |
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Topic: From mouthy and moody to respectful and responsible in five days.
Issues: Communicating with the “whatever” generation; turning selfish behavior around; establishing healthy boundaries and workable guidelines; becoming the major decision maker in your teenager’s life; gaining respect from your teen. |
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Jan
09
2012
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| Guest: Linda Cohen, author of 1000 Mitzvahs. |
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Topic: How small acts of kindness can heal, inspire, and change your life.
Issues: The importance of doing small things for other people. These could be volunteering at a soup kitchen, visiting someone in an old folks’ home, donating books to the homeless, and hundreds more; how doing even small things for other will make you a better, happier, more fulfilled person. |
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Jan
02
2012
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| Guest: Sheryl Eberly, author of 365 Manners Kids Should Know. |
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Topic: Games, activities, and other fun ways to help children and teens learn etiquette.
Issues: When and where it’s appropriate to text? How and why to write thank-you notes; the proper way to handle on-line bullies; When is it okay to take a phone call during a meal? What’s the protocol for receiving a Facebook friend request from a stranger? |
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Dec
26
2011
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| Guest 1: Fred Kaeser, author of Talking about Sex . |
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Topic: Straight-talking info for parents.
Issues: How our sexualized culture is making kids grow up too quickly; when to start basic conversations about sex (hint: a lot earlier than you think); tools for navigating uncomfortable topics. |
| Guest 2: Eliot Mizrachi, director of Communications for the Entertainment Software Rating Board. |
Topic: Ratings for games and software.
Issues: How and why are movie ratings and software ratings different? How many categories are there and what do they mean? How decides what a game’s rating should be and how do they decide? How effective is the ratings system. Click here to download a smartphone ratings app. |
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