Positive Parenting for Military Families Archives - Mr. Dad

Amber Ankowski and Andy Ankowski, co-authors of Think Like a Baby.

Topic: Learn to better understand your child’s developing mind.

Issues: Setting up simple research experiements to do with your baby; fun ways to get insight into what’s happening inside your child’s skull; the importance of talking to your baby; playing with reflexes; how music affects a child–before he or she is even born; many more experiments.

Elizabeth King, author of Acing the ACT.

Topic: An elite tutor’s guide to strategies and understanding that make a big difference.

Issues: The ACT is now more popular than the SAT; difference between the two tests; advantages of the ACT; the difference between a tricky question and a trick question; strategies to ensure that you get the best possible score.

Megan Bearce, author of Super Commuter Couples.

Topic: Staying together when a job keeps you apart.

Issues: The super commuting phenomenon; who are supper commuters? coping with suspicions of infidelity; six steps to make super commuting work; three characteristics of a successful super commuting relationship.

Sara Connell, author of Bringing in Finn.

Topic: An extraordinary surrogacy story.

Issues: One woman’s story of the tragedy and heartbreak of infertility and losing pregnancies, and the process of opening her heart and mind to the idea of her 60-year old mother carrying her child for her.

Norman Doidge, author of The Brain’s Way of Healing.

Topic: Remarkable discoveries from the frontiers of neuroplasticity.

Issues: What is neuroplasticity and how does it work? the stages of neuroplastic healing; rewiring the brain with light; healing serious brain problems through movement; the special connection between music and the brain; how the brain rebalances itself.

Robert Melillo, author of Disconnected Kids.

Topic: Balancing the brains of kids with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other neurological disorders.

Issues: How the developing mind is wired; what causes left- and right-brain disconnect; identifying left- or right-brain deficiency; (re)training the brain through physical stimulation.

Beth Kobliner, author of Make Your Kid a Money Genius Even If You’re Not.

Topic: Why talking to your kids about money may be the most important thing you’ll do as a parent.

Issues: Rules for talking to your kids about money; how to save more; understanding the value of hard work; getting (and staying) out of debt; better, smarter spending; insurance; investing; saving for college; much more.

Isaac Lidsky, author of Eyes Wide Open.

Topic: Overcoming obstacles and recognizing opportunities in a world that doesn’t see clearly.

Issues: Tackling fears in moments of extreme change; taking ownership of your mental capability to shape your own reality; focusing your viewpoint with regard to purported weaknesses; is there such a thing as luck? How to listen with your eyes wide open to understand what others are communicating.

Dennis Trittin, author of What I Wish I Knew at 18.

Topic: Life lessons for the road ahead.

Issues: Getting a perspective on life; the importance of character; relationships and communication; handling adversity; career selection and advancement; college academics; managing your finances; love and marriage; much more.

Lisen Stromberg, author of Work, Pause, Thrive.

Topic: How to pause for parenthood without killing your career.

Issues: The politics of pausing; men want a place in the home; conscious careers, conscious choices; thriving: the career you deserve, the life you want; money matters; the need to prepare yourself and your career before you pause; what to do during your pause.

Michael Gurian, author of Saving Our Sons.

Topic: A new path for raising health and resilient boys.

Issues: Recognizing and confronting the boy crisis; the real causes of male violence; the new science of healthy boyhood; dangerous attacks on boyhood; supporting and building male emotional intelligence; the male motivational and maturity gap; much more.

Harriet Lerner, author of Why Won’t You Apologize?

Topic: Healing big betrayals and everyday hurts.

Issues: Best ways to ruin an apology; why some people refuse to apologize while others over-apologize; how to get past anger and resentment when you’ll never get the apology you deserve; why forgiving too quickly can hurt you; the simple sentence that will teach children to apologize.

Michael Hollander, author of Helping Teens Who Cut.

Topic: Skills and techniques to end self-injury.

Issues: Understanding self-injury and why kids do it; introducing DBT (dialectical behavior therapy) and why it’s successful; how does hurting themselves make some kids feel better; how to help your child restore emotion to its proper place.

Michael Bennett and Sarah Bennett, authors of F*ck Love.

Topic: Sensible advice for finding a lasting relationship.

Issues: Reasons good people can’t find good partners; questions to which the answer is always “no”; how to prevent yourself from getting worn out by internet dating; the myth of the sense of humor; should my partner and I break up? what to consider before deciding to get divorced.

Damian Ross, creator of the Self Defense Training System.

Topic: Real-world self-defense strategies

Issues: Why traditional martial arts don’t work on the street; getting comfortable with the idea of doing violence to someone who’s trying to harm you or a loved one; how to create distance and diffuse potentially violent situations; devastating strategies even beginners can use to improve their chances of survival.

Jason Hanson, author of Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life.

Topic: Safety and survival techniques to keep your family protected.

Issues: Picking locks; essential items to carry at all times; know when you’re being followed and how to lose your tail; preventing home invasions, carjackings, and kidnappings; traveling safely no matter where you are.

Kent Hoffman, co-author of Raising a Secure Child.

Topic: How “Circle of Security Parenting” can help you nurture your child’s attachment, emotional resilience, and freedom to explore

issues: How to balance being nurturing and protective with promoting your child’s independence; what emotional needs a toddler or older child may be expressing with difficult behavior; how your own upbringing affects your parenting style—and what you can do about it.

Richard Watts, author of Entitlemania.

Topic: How not to spoil your kids, and what to do if you already have.

Issues: Why it’s a mistake to be friends with your child; Do delay gratification, Do let your kids struggle; Do give memories instead of things DON’T sacrifice yourself to make life easier for them; DON’T share your estate plan with them; DON’T hand down too much.

Michele Angello and Alisa Bowman, coauthors of Raising the Transgender Child.

Topic: A complete guide for parents, friends and caregivers.

Issues: Signs your child may be transgender; it’s not just a phase; what leads to gender diversity; mourning the loss of the child you never had; the benefits of allowing children to explore gender identify; how to support your child; legal issues facing transgender children and their parents.

James Greenblatt, author of Finally Focused.

Topic: The breakthrough natural treatment plan for ADHD.

Issues: The Plus-Minus plan identifies nutritional and other deficits (magnesium, lithium, probiotics, omega 3s, sleep, exercise) and surpluses (sugar, copper, intestinal imbalances, food allergies) and suggests ways to overcome them.