Guests: Jane Samuel, Head of School, [email protected], and Elizabeth Guamaccia, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, [email protected], Auldern Academy, North Carolina, Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, 919-837-2336, www.auldern.com, talk about how the growth of the female brain starts it on its unique growth pattern almost from conception which results in significant differences in what females and males need in schools and their lives as they grow up.

Guest: Dr. Kevin Ross Emery, [email protected], facebook.com/mydrkevin, managingthegift.com, author of Managing the Gift of Your ADD/HD Child, explains how ADD/HD is not a disorder, but part of the evolutionary progress of expanded capability.

Guest: Dr. Kim Dennis M.D., 630-343-2332, [email protected], www.timberlineknolls.com, Medical Director at Timberline Knolls, RTC Lemont Illinois, discusses and explains Eating Disorders and the traumas that are usually behind clinical Eating Disorders.

Guest: Ron Thompson Ph.D.,402-498-1254, [email protected], www.boystown.org/NRI, Director of the Boys Town National Research Institute for Child And Family Studies explains the research Boys Town has been doing for more than 22 years on at-risk children and the resulting program they provide parents groups on what they refer to as Common Sense Parenting.

Guest: Doug Covey, 800-426-4952, [email protected], www.blueprinteducation.org, CEO of Blueprint Education-AZ, talks about his experience in developing a business providing a wide variety of education opportunities largely using the developing potentials of Online Education.

Guests: Ken Steiner PhD, Head of School, and Lisa Sinsheimer, Parent Liaison, [email protected], both with John Dewey Academy-MA, 413-528-9800, www.jda.org, talk about how their Caring Confrontation is an healing educational model approach that relates to students and other adults in a direct and honest way that builds self-respect and a sense of belonging in a school community.

Guest: Sanford Shapiro, Founder of the Bend Learning Center, 541-383-3208, [email protected], www.ldresources.org, discusses the trend to integrate treatment for Learning Disabilities and for Emotional/Behavioral problems in private parent-choice schools and programs for struggling children with problems being successful.

Guest: Sanford Shapiro, Founder of the Bend Learning Center, 541-383-3208, [email protected], www.ldresources.org, discusses the trend to integrate treatment for Learning Disabilities and for Emotional/Behavioral problems in private parent-choice schools and programs for struggling children with problems being successful.

Guest: Mike Watson, 256-426-8873, [email protected], www.mwatsonconsulting.com, Co-founder of the recent Three Springs treatment centers headquartered in Alabama, Watson is currently doing program consulting for schools and programs for struggling teens. Drawing on his 39 years of experience in the field, he offers his suggestions for what parents need to watch for to find effective schools and programs that emphasize providing quality and effective services for struggling teens.

Guest: Carl Olding, 406-847-4400, [email protected], www.elkmountainacademy.org, Founder of Elk Mountain Academy, a Therapeutic Boarding School in western Montana for boys with substance abuse problems. Olding talks about how legal prescription medications are increasingly being redirected by teens into being abused and hints as to how parents and grandparents might watch for signs of this abuse.