Positive Parenting for Military Families Archives - Mr. Dad

Amy Tuteur, author of Push Back. Topic: Guilt in the age of natural parenting. Issues: Why there’s no reason to feel guilty about childbirth interventions (epidurals, fetal monitoring, c-sections, etc.)—in fact, childbirth is now safer for mothers and babies because of those interventions; why there’s no reason to feel guilty about epidurals (there’s no such […]

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Stephen Segal and Valya Dudycz Lupescu, coauthors of Geek Parenting. Topic: What Joffrey, Jor-El, Maleficent, and the McFlys teach us about raising a family. Issues: Lessons from (mostly fictional) pop culture icons about creating a positive parenting environment, keeping communications channels open, keeping kids safe, helping kids grow and evolve into advanced beings, and preparing […]

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Vanessa Lapointe, author of Discipline without Damage. Topic: How to get your kids to behave without messing them up. Issues: Why most of what parents learn about discipline is either wrong, damaging, or both; basic child development and brain science info to help you better discipine your child; a way to instinctively navigage challanging moments […]

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Heather Mac Donald, author of The Diversity Delusion. Topic: How race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture. Issues: They hysterical campus; the disaster of affirmative action; the myth of microaggressions; the campus rape myth; the diversity bureaucracy; how identity politics is harming the sciences. Anthony Rostain, co-author of The Stressed Years […]

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Tim Jones, author of You’re Grounded for Life. Topic: Misguided parenting strategies that sounded good at the time. Issues: The trials and tribulations of parents with kids of all ages; the daunting task of starting, raising, and surviving a family; innovative parenting strategies that have produced hilariously disastrous results. Tara Haelle, coauthor of The Informed […]

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Mary Reckmeyer, author of Strengths Based Parenting. Topic: Developing your children’s innate talents. Issues: Setting kids up for success; finding out what your parenting strengths are; understanding your children’s strengths; creating a parent-child partnership based on your and your children’s strengths. Mike Berland, author of Become a Fat-Burning Machine. Topic: Overcoming metabolic syndrome. Issues: How […]

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Robert Weiss, author of Prodependence. Topic: Moving beyond codependence. Issues: Addiction, empathy, and psychotherapy; what is codependence? Our need to connect; defining and understanding pro-dependence; addiction is an intimacy disorder; creating and living co-dependent relationships. Kurt Newman, author of Healing Children. Topic: Stories from the frontiers of pediatric medicine. Issues: A longtime pediatric surgeon talks […]

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Jennifer Weeks, author of The New Age of Sex Education. Topic: How to talk to your teen about cybersex and pornography in the digital age. Issues: Why pornography isn’t always a bad thing; how a parent’s beliefs about sex and sexuality influence how they do or don’t talk to their child about sex; connection between […]

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Eric Jensen, coauthor of Turnaround Tools for the Teenage Brain. Topic: Helping underperforming students become lifelong learners. Issues: Research-based, classroom-tested strategies to strengthen students’ mind, body, and help them become exceptional lifelong learners; how and when to use workarounds; how the brain changes; how increase your student’s effort, build a better attitude, and improve behavior. […]

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William Levin, author of Parenting without Fear. Topic: Raising balanced children in a healing world Issues: Recognizing the guiding signals from our children’s nature in their early years; how we can move into natural partnership with our children’s nature and our own; recognizing and disengaging from the shamed and fearful beliefs that obstruct those natural […]

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