The ultimate guide to potty training + Ending food fights [26:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Preston Smith, author of The Potty Trainer.
Topic: The ultimate guide to potty training your child.
Issues: When to start potty training; how to do it; the importance of parents staying engaged in the process; the increasing number of post-potty-training issues such as bedwetting, daytime accidents, etc; when a toilet-related issue warrants a trip to the pediatrician.

Guest 2: Laura Jana, coauthor of Food Fights.
Topic: Winning the nutritional challenges of parenthood armed with insight, humor, and a bottle of ketchup.
Issues: How to pick your battles and arm yourself accordingly; tv dinners, fast foods and other nutritional minefields; the 5-second rule; influences of family, friends, and others.

 

 Teaching financial responsibility + Bringing up geeks [26:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Lewis Solomon and Janet Stern Solomon, coauthors of Bratproofing Your Children.
Topic: How to raise socially and financially responsible kids.
Issues: Protecting children from potentially negative influences of parents’ wealth; protecting your wealth from being destroyed by children and grandchildren.

Guest 2: Marybeth Hicks, author of Bringing Up Geeks.
Topic: How to protect your kid’s childhood in a grow-up-too-fast world.
Issues: Redefining “geek” in positive terms (Genuine, Enthusiastic, Empowered Kids); freeing children from cultural conditioning while instilling important values; pursuing passions instead of fashions; resisting peer pressure and destructive behavior; supporting the love of learning that helps kids excel in school.

 

 Improving eyesight naturally + Stop being right and start being happy [26:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Meir Schneider, creator of the The Natural Vision Improvement Kit.
Topic: Improving eyesight naturally.
Issues: Proven, non-surgical methods of improving eyesight; exercises to increase eye health; what accounts for the growing percentage of children who wear glasses; Meir Schneider’s inspirational story of overcoming blindness using these techniques. See Self-healing.com for more info and schedule of classes and seminars.

Guest 2: Auriela McCarthy, author of The Power of the Possible.
Topic: How to stop being right and start being happy.
Issues: How to stop arguing over mundane issues like housework; using everyday stories from real people as a way to get you to rethink everything you believe about relationships and how to make them better.

 

 Raising safe kids in a crazy world + How risk and responsibility help teens thrive [26:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Paula Statman, author of Raising Careful, Confident Kids in a Crazy World.
Topic: Teaching kids to be safe and strong.
Issues: Striking a healthy balance between safety and panic; turning nice kids into safe kids; why scare tactics don’t work; what parents and kids need to know about sex offenders; much more.

Guest 2: Michael Ungar, author of Too Safe for Their Own Good.
Topic: How risk and responsibility help teens thrive.
Issues: Adolescents are safer now than at any time in history—why are we overly protecting them? How bubble-wrapping kids stunts their healthy growth and puts them at harm; the benefits of experiencing manageable amounts of danger.

 

 Positive discipline at home and in the classroom + Raising kids by keeping your cool [26:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Ronald Mah, author of Difficult Behavior in Early Childhood.
Topic: Positive Discipline for preK – third grade and beyond.
Issues: Reconciling different behavioral expectations of families and schools; applying timeout effectively; motivating children immediately and powerfully; identifying early signs of depression, anxiety, and special needs.

Guest 2: Hal Runkel, author of ScreamFree Parenting.
Topic: Raising your kids by keeping your cool.
Issues: Why your emotional reactions to a child’s misbehavior backfires; parenting is not about kids—it’s about parents; why the greatest thing we can do for our kids is learn to focus on ourselves; how empty threats are really broken promises.

 

 Hiring the right nanny for your child and you + America's under-nurtured children [26:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Alyce Desrosiers, author of Nannies for Modern Moms.
Topic: Hiring the right nanny for your child and you.
Issues: What type of nanny do you need? Pitfalls to finding the right nanny; determining the right “fit” for your child; evaluating and eliminating candidates

Guest 2: Anne Pierce, author of Ships without a Shore.
Topic: America’s Undernurtured Children.
Issues: Many of the problems afflicting America’s young people are rooted in the very practices that area meant to help them; many of the change in what’s considered acceptable parenting are based on untested theories and false beliefs; are we creating kids without a moral compass?

 

 Understanding autism + Improving brain power [26:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Michael Chez, author of Autism and Its Medical Management.
Topic: How parents and professionals can use medical knowledge to better understand autism.
Issues: What is autism? Why autism is more common today than in previous generations; relevant medical interventions; using medication and other therapies to treat and reduce symptoms of autism how autism

Guest 2: John Medina, author of Brain Rules.
Topic: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home, and school.
Issues: Exercise boosts brain power; Repeat to remember—remember to repeat; sleep well, think well; male and female brains are different.

 

 Handling your 2-5-year old's most exasperating behavior + The high cost of invasive parenting [26:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Michelle Nicholasen and Barbara O’Neal, authors of I Brake for Meltdowns.
Topic: How to handle your 2-5-year old’s most exasperating behavior.
Issues: when your child won’t play with others, hug or kiss a relative, can’t share, or constantly interrupts; kids who can’t (or won’t) sleep by themselves; picky eaters; surviving family travel, and more.

Guest 2: Hara Estroff Marano, author of A Nation of Wimps.
Topic: The high cost of invasive parenting.
Issues: Today’s parents are getting too involved in their children’s lives—doing their homework, selling their Girl Scout cookies, filling out their college applications, solving their roommate problems, and more; the terrible consequences of parents’ good intentions.

 

 76 ideas for raising amazing children + Legal planning for busy parents [26:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Tom Sturges, author of Parking Lot Rules.
Topic: 76 Ideas for raising amazing children.
Issues: Everyday lessons; manners matter; discipline and punishment, play sports, pain happens, and many more.

Guest 2: Alexis Martin Neely, author of Wear Clean Underwear!
Topic: Legal planning for busy parents.
Issues: Everything you need to know about estate planning; what can be learned from celebrities who had poorly written wills; handling second marriages or step-children; other common mistakes parents make and how to keep from making them.

 

 Helping teens who cut and self-injure + The surprising truth about violent video games [26:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest 1: Michael Hollander, author of Helping Teens Who Cut.
Topic: Understanding and ending self-injury.
Issues: Dispelling the myths about teenage “cutting”; what motivates cutting; what parents can do to make the cutting stop; effective treatments that can help troubled teens cope with extreme emotions in a healthier way.

Guest 2: Lawrence Kutner, coauthor of Grand Theft Childhood.
Topic: The surprising truth about violent video games and what parents can do.
Issues: Do video games really make children more violent? How violent video games may actually prevent fights by helping kids work through their anger; why girls like Grand Theft Auto almost as much as boys do; the myth that kids lose social skills by playing video games