Positive Parenting for Military Families Archives - Mr. Dad

John Miller, author of Raising Accountable Kids.

Topic: How to be an outstanding parent using the power of personal accountability.

Issues: What is personal accountability; learning to ask the QBQ: the question behind the question; understanding that parenting is a learned skill; modeling accountable behavior; the benefits of accountability.

Michele Borba, author of The 6 Rs of Bullying Prevention.

Topic: Best proven practices to combat cruelty and build respect.

Issues: A framework for reducing peer cruelty; concrete methods for increasing positive behavior and promoting kindness; strategies for mobilizing parents and students; guidelines for forming a bullying prevention team and creating an anti-bullying policy.

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 partnerships.

Jessica Lamb-Shapiro, author of Promise Land.

Topic: One woman’s journey through America’s self-help culture.

Issues: Overcoming phobias and fears; walking on hot coals; coping with grief at the saddest camp in the world; the trouble with the Law of Attraction; the best and the worst of the self-help gurus.

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.

Lauren Sandler, author of One and Only.

Topic: The freedom of having an only child, and the joy of being one.

Issues: What are only children really like? Debunking stereotypes and myths about “onlies”; the benefits to children, relationships, and society of having–and being–an only child.

Gary Mayerson, author of How To Compromise With Your School District Without Compromising Your Child.

Topic: Combatting bullying and how to get effective services for children with autism or developmental disabilities.

Issues: Special concerns of kids with special needs; determining the services you need; working with the school district to get what you’re entitled to under the law; why bullies target kids with autism and other developmental disabilities; the importance of encouraging bystanders to confront bullies.

Caitlin Flanagan, author of an article in the Atlantic magazine, “How Helicopter Parents Cause Binge Drinking.”

Topic: Why the way some white professionals raise their children is exacerbating an alcohol problem on some U.S. college campuses.

Issues: The difference between college drinking in the 1970s and today; the difference between “good parents” and “get-real parents”; how top colleges reward intensity and how binge drinking is a perfect form of that quality; why black students drink less than students of any other race.

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 texting and sexting; how to know whether your child is having a problem with sexual identity.

Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise.

Topic: Helping kids thrive and survive in their digital world.

Issues: The differences between “digital natives” and “digital immigrants,” assessing your own digital literacy; becoming a tech-positive parent; friendship and dating in the digital age; how much screen time do kids really have? the “forever” nature of the Internet; where do we go from here?

Naomi Katz, author of Beautiful.

Topic: Becoming an empowered young woman.

Issues: How to deal with the most challenging issues of adolescence, including body image, the media, relationships, competition, sex, and peer pressure; confronting the questions that girls are most afraid to ask; strategies to navigate our complicated world.

Ross Greene, author of Raising Human Beings.

Topic: Creating a collaborative partnership with your child.

Issues: We need to figure out who our children are—what their skills, values, beliefs, personality traits, goals, and directions are—get comfortable with that, then help them pursue a life that fits with all those things.

Jessica Joelle Alexander, coauthor of The Danish Way of Parenting.

Topic: What the happiest people in the world know about raising confident, capable kids.

Issues: Six essential principles of Danish parenting: Play, Authenticity, Reframing, Empathy, No ultimatums, and Togetherness; how to implement those principles into your daily life.

Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult.

Topic: How to break free of the overparenting trap and prepare your kid for success.

Issues: What we’re doing now and what overparenting looks like; the devastating results of overparenting (lack of life skills, psychological harm; damaged job prospects, substance abuse, and more); what we need to be doing instead (give them unstructured time, teach life skills, teach kids how to think, and more).

Eve Megargel, author of Learning to Kiss.

Topic: An unflinching portrait of a nonverbal young man with autism.

Issues: What happens when autism and pain collide; an honest account of a mother’s physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions; the struggle to communicate.

Robert Melillo, author of The Disconnected Kids Nutrition Plan.

Topic: Proven strategies to enhance learning and focus for children with autism and other neurological disorders.

Issues: Recognize the difference between a fussy eater and a problem eater; ease the sensory issues that make for mealtime mayhem; identify food sensitivities using elimination diet; choose supplements that will ensure adequate amounts of specific vitamin and minerals for brain health.

Kyle Schwartz, author of I Wish My Teacher Knew.

Topic: How one question can change everything for our kids.

Issues: Building community; breaking down barriers that create poverty; all families count; supporting students through grief and loss; when students are in danger; school cultures that build character; building a classroom of self-efficacy.

Paula Fass, author of The End of American Childhood.

Topic: A history of parenting from life on the frontier to the managed child.

Issues: How the American understanding of childhood differs from that of many other countries; how the way we raise our children mirrors the way our society and culture has developed; why childhood lasts a lot longer now than it did 150 years ago or so; and much more.

Frederick Travis and Robert Keith Wallace, coauthors of Dharma Parenting.

Topic: Understand your child’s brilliant brain for greater happiness, health, success, and fulfillment.

Issues: Different brain/body types and where they come from; how understanding your child’s brain/body type will help you better connect; how each type responds to food and other inputs; routines to improve family dynamics.

Katherine Ozment, author of Grace without God.

Topic: The search for meaning, purpose, and belonging in a secular age.

Issues: Percentage of adults who don’t identify with any organized religion is growing; are they skipping out on more than tired rituals and ancient folklore? How do non-religious people fill the need for community, more guidance, and meaning without religion?