Positive Parenting for Military Families Archives - Mr. Dad

Gary Small, author of The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program.

Topic: Keep your brain healthy for the rest of your life.

Issues: How to improve virtually every type of memory task—from where you left the keys to never forgetting a name; brain teasers to cross-train the brain to sharpen your mind and promote brain efficiency; the importance of healthy nutrition.

Joshua Coleman, author of When Parents Hurt.

Topic: Compassionate strategies when you and your grown child don’t get along.

Issues: What happens when people lose the opportunity to be the parents they desperately wanted to be; mourning the loss of a harmonious relationship with a child; maintaining self-esteem through difficult times; strategies for rebuilding relationships or learning to accept what can’t be changed.

Karen Stabiner, author of The Empty Nest.

Topic: The truth about relationships, love, and freedom after the kids fly the coop.

Issues: How life changes when the kids leave home; changing relationships with young adult children; changing relationships between parents once the kids are gone; differences between the ways mothers and fathers cope with the empty nest.

Gever Tulley, author of of 50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do.

Topic: Teaching your children about safety by helping them learn to manage risk.

Issues: Exciting ways for your children (and you) to explore the world around them; melting glass, walking a tightrope, tasting electricity, throwing things out of moving cars, deconstructing appliances, and more.

Tom Heck, author of Duct Tape Teambuilding Games.

Topic: Fun activities to help your team—and your family—stick together.

Issues: Using team-building games and experiential learning to teach leadership, trust, cooperation, creativity, problem solving, and confidence.

John Bradshaw, author of Reclaiming Virtue[.

Topic: How we can develop the moral intelligence to do the right thing at the right time for the right reason.

Issues: The meaning of “inborn moral intelligence” and how we can cultivate it; how we can awaken in our children the desire to be good people; why our attempts to teach virtue fail so often; using movies and other cultural references to teach kids about virtue.

Guest: Amy McCready, author of If I Have to Tell You One More Time…

Topic: The revolutionary program that gets your kids to listen without nagging, reminding, or yelling.

Issues: Why it’s so difficult to get kids to listen; how giving your child more power, not less can end power struggles; effective ways to correct misbehavior and bring out the best in your children.

Adrianne Ahern, author of Snap out of It Now!

Topic: Four steps to inner joy.

Issues: Learning to understand—and overcome–the reasons people say yes to the wrong relationships, let anger lead them down the wrong path, fail at diets, and believe they aren’t good enough; making a quantum leap to a life of purpose, joy, and excellence.

Lynn Reeves Griffin, author of Negotiation Generation.

Topic: Taking back your parental authority without punishment.

Issues: How to influence your child’s behavior—without controlling it; predicting and preventing challenging behavior; letting go of time outs, grounding, spankings, and other punishments; teaching by example.

Rebecca Jackson, co-author of The Learning Habit.

Topic: A groundbreaking approach to homework that helps kids succeed in school and life.

Issues: Recent research on learning—what works and what doesn’t; managing our kids’ media use; supporting academic homework and reading; mastering time management; communicating effectively; learning to focus; developing self-reliance.

Timothy Denevi, author of Hyper.

Topic: A personal history of ADHD.

Issues: What it’s like to be a boy who can’t stop screaming or fighting or fidgeting; startling stats about ADHD (1/5 of high-school-age boys and 11 percent of all school-age children have been diagnosed with ADHD; the evolution of drug treatments; understanding this complex and controversial diagnosis.

Miriam Liss, co-author of Balancing the Big Stuff.

Topic: Finding happiness in work, family, and life.

Issues: The search for balance; balancing multiple roles; balance as a parent; balance at work; balance is for men and women; balance at home; societal barriers to balance; beyond balance.

Rosalind Wiseman, author of Masterminds & Wingmen.

Topic: The new rules of Boy World.

Issues: Popularity and groups; body image; schoolyard power; locker room tests; girlfriends; intimacy; the emotional lives of boys (which are more complex that we’re led to believe; why boys are lagging behind girls in education; why boys are more likely to commit suicide than girls.

Dina Rose, author of It’s Not About the Broccoli.

Topic: Three habits to teach your kids for a lifetime of healthy eating.

Issues: Teaching children to confidently explore new foods; how kids can know when they’re hungry and when they’re full; how parents can branch out from easy-to-like, easy-to-prepare kids’ means to more mature tastes and textures; the three habits: proportion, variety, moderation.

Patricia Riba, co-author of Fit Kids Revolution.

Topic: Raising healthy and fit children without diets.

Issues: What’s wrong with diets; the real reasons kids are overweight; the psychology of feeding children; protecting your child from a toxic world; how to foster an active lifestyle; feeling safe in an unsafe world.

JJ Keith, author of Motherhood Smotherhood.

Topic: Fighting back against “experts” who are driving us crazy.

Issues: Babies are more durable than you think; avoiding the hyper-judgmental, contradictory, and incorrect info on the internet; what’s wrong with “it takes a village”; why the “make your own baby food” movement is wrong.

Ross Parke, author of Future Families.

Topic: Diverse forms, rich possibilities.

Issues: Redefining “family”; changing parental roles; are two mothers (or fathers) good enough?; are multiple caregivers helpful or harmful?; how many “parents” are too many? (insights from the world of assisted reproductive technologies; overcoming the barriers to change.

Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way for Parents.

Topic: Raising creative children.

Issues: Awaken your children’s sense of wonder–and reawaken your own in the process; help your children turn their passions into art; encouraging self-expression; replenishing your own creative stores while nurturing those of your children; cultivate a lifelong passion for creativity and the creative process.

Laurence Steinberg, author of Age of Opportunity.

Topic: Lessons from the new science of adolescence.

Issues: Why adolescence lasts three times longer than it did back in the 1950s; the adolescent brain is still developing–and growing; how adolescents think; protecting adolescents from themselves; the importance of self-regulation; how can parents make a difference; are adolescents legally responsible for their behavior?

David Elkind, author of Parenting on the Go.

Topic: Quick answers to parents’ most important questions, birth to age 6, A to Z.

Issues: Attention deficit disorder; back-to-school blues; childproofing the computer; empathy in children; time outs; manners and morals; sibling rivalry, and much more.

Shaunti Feldhahn, author of The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages and The Good News about Marriage.

Topic: Debunking myths about marriage and divorce and discovering the little things that make a big difference.

Issues: The truth about marriage (most are happy) and divorce (the actual divorce rate is nowhere near 50%); improving your marriage by doing completely un-intuitive things: go to bed mad, keep score, don’t tell it like it is, and more.

Roma Khetarpal, author of The Perfect Parent.

Topic: How to use your inner perfection to connect with your kids.

Issues: Why we all need a parenting makeover; how perfectly happy, relaxed individuals become stressed out parents; how we empower our children when we understand ourselves; what defines good communication between parent and child; the importance of treating children as individuals, listening to them, and understanding what they’re saying.

Lewis Jassey, co-author of The Newborn Sleep Book.

Topic: A revolutionary method for training your newborn to sleep through the night.

Issues: The importance of sleep for both baby and family; the myths and truths about baby sleep; why babies wake up crying (hint: it’s not always because they’re hungry); the Jassey method of sleep training.