6/28/09
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.

7/5/09
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

7/12/09
Guest 1: Joe Kita, author of The Father’s Guide to the Meaning of Life.
Topic: What being a dad teaches about hope, love, patience, pride, and everyday wonder.
Issues: The life lessons parents learn—that would remain secrets if they didn’t have children; essential reading for fathers; the importance of play (and not just for the kids); what our children teach us about ourselves and how they make us better people.

Guest 2: William Sears, author of The NDD Book.
Topic: Nutritional Deficit Disorder.
Issues: Identifying NDD; understanding how NDD affects children’s learning, behavior, and health—and what we can do about it; overcoming NDD without drugs; how to fit a healthy, fresh-food diet into today’s busy lifestyle.

7/19/09
Guest 1: Marc Weissbluth, author of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins.
Topic: Sleep training your multiples.
Issues: The difference between healthy sleep and junk sleep; why it’s important for babies to learn to fall asleep unassisted; tips for synchronizing twins’ sleep schedules; recognizing early drowsiness clues so you can catch the sleep wave before it’s too late…

Guest 2: Ellen Gibran-Hesse, author of Failure to Launch.
Topic: How to get teens and young adults to independence.
Issues: Guide your teen to the life and job skills needed to be independent; helping a college student structure their college experience so they’re employable after graduation; helping teens and young adults develop money management skills; how to do all that and still maintain close relationships.

7/26/09
Guest 1: Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, author of In Her Own Sweet Time.
Topic: Finding love, commitment, and motherhood as a single woman
Issues: Testing your fertility and what the results show about your ability to conceive; what it’s really like to search for a sperm donor; how to date while still thinking about motherhood; the joys and challenges of becoming a single mother by choice.

Jeffrey Bernstein, author of Liking the Child You Love.
Topic: Build a better relationship with your kids even when they’re driving you crazy.
Issues: Taming the most common toxic thought patterns that stop us from parenting effectively, including the “always” or “never” trap, seething sarcasm; emotional overheating; “should” slamming, and dooming conclusions.

8/2/09
Guest 1: Dian Levin, coauthor of So Sexy, So Soon.
Topic: The new sexualized childhood and Issues: Dealing with the onslaught of sexual images and situations that surround our kids–on tv, movies, video games, and even cartoons; the impact of all this sexual content on kids emotional and social growth; what parents can do to protect their kids.

Guest 2: Robie Harris, author of It's Perfectly Normal, It's Not the Stork, and It's So Amazing.
Topic: Straight talk about talking to kids about sex and sexuality.
Issues: The answers to nearly every question about birth, babies, bodies, families, and healthy sexuality.

8/9/09
Guest 1: Lisa Gillis, coauthor of Virtual Schooling.
Topic: Optimizing your child's education.
issues: How to ignite your child's passion for learning; easily and effectively improve your child's current school work; powerful learning resources that can help kids excel; the proper use of computers and technology in education.

Guest 2: Bobbi Conner, author of Unplugged Play.
Topic: Battery-free, plug-free, electricity-free games and activities for kids of all ages.
Issues: The importance of unstructured play; coping with "I'm bored," low-tech fun that can stretch the imagination, spark creativity, build strong bodies, and keep the kids busy while you're making dinner…

8/16/09
Guest 1: John Duffy, clinical psychologist and life coach. http://www.drjohnduffy.com/
Topic: A new approach to parenting teens
Issues: Entering your teens world; making yourself more available; learning new ways of communicating with your teen in a way that brings you closer together; the thin line between being an authority figure and a friend to your child.`

Guest 2: Gemini Adams, author of Your Legacy of Love.
Topic: Realizing the gift in "goodbye."
issues: If one of your parents died, which would prefer to inherit: their money or a letter saying how much they loved you? 90 percent said they'd rather receive the letter: how preparing our emotional assets can reduce the family's grief and suffering, provide them with a continuing loving bond, and help them preserve special memories.

8/23/09
Guest 1: Malina Saval, author of The Secret Lives of Boys.
Topic: Inside the raw emotional world of male teens.
Issues: Why the author believes that the "boy crisis" we hear about is overblown; understanding the landscape of boys' social cliques; how parents can get closed-mouth sons to open up.

Guest 2: Amy Nobile, coauthor of I'd Trade My Husband for a Housekeeper.
Topic: Loving your marriage after the baby carriage.
Issues: The challenges of modern parenthood for married couples; a frank look at marriage post-tots; keeping parenthood compatible with marital bliss; how moms can learn to make the most of what they have and love their marriage as much as the husband and kids.

8/30/09
Guest 1: Sam Goldstein, coauthor of Raising a Self-Disciplined Child.
Topic: Help your child become more responsible, confident, and resilient.
Issues: Teaching children of any age, from preschool to adolescence, the value of self-control, self-reliance, and self-assurance—skills that will last a lifetime.

Guest 2: Eva Bramwell, personal trainer, fitness instructor
Topic: The importance of exercise
Issues: How to warm up; identifying the right fitness program for you; working with a personal trainer; great workouts for families; avoiding injury

9/6/09
Guest 1: David Swanson, author of Help—My Kid Is Driving Me Crazy.
Topic: How kids manipulate their parents.
Issues: Why kids manipulate; Learning to recognize 17 distinct types of manipulate and what you need to do to disarm them.

Guest 2: Diana Peters Meyer, author of Overcoming School Anxiety.
Topic: Getting kids ready for school.
Issues: How to help your child deal with separation, tests, homework, bullies, math phobia, and other worries; telling the difference between normal start-of-school jitters and anxiety that warrants a call to the specialists.

9/13/09
Guest 1: Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, editor of "My Little Red Book."
Topic: Stories about first periods.
Issues: How dads can approach his daughter's first period without making it uncomfortable for either of them; why there is a taboo around the subject matter.

Guest 2: Guest Michael Greenberg, author of Hurry Down Sunshine.
Topic: A father's story of love and madness.
Issues; What it's like to be the parent of a child who suffers from mental illness; understanding and coping with the anger, frustration, desperation, and helplessness that parents and other loved ones may feel when trying to save a child from mental illness.

9/20/09
Guest 1 and 2: Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, authors of NurtureShock
Topic: New thinking about children
Issues: Why just about everything you think you know about parenting could be wrong; why the most brutal person in a child’s life is often a sibling; when is it too soon—or too late—to teach a child about race; why reading to your child may not be the most effective way of stimulating vocabulary.

9/27/09
Guest 1: Rachel Compos Duffy, author of Stay Home, Stay Happy.
Topic: Secrets to loving at-home motherhood.
Issues: Embracing the choice to stay home with confidence; taking care of yourself guilt-free; mentally and physically recharging every day, and more.

Guest 2: Deborah Copaken-Kogan, author of Hell is Other Parents.
Topic: Tales of maternal combustion
Issues: A collection of witty, smart, funny, poignant essays on dealing with intrusive and judgmental other parents, modern working parenthood, raising a family on inadequate income.