Positive Parenting for Military Families Archives - Mr. Dad

Jennifer Hanin, author of What to Do When You Can’t Get Pregnant.

Topic: Options for couples facing fertility issues.

Issues: Advances in natural products for women; new supplements, medications, and treatment protocols; the latest in egg freezing, vitrification, gender selection, and genetic testing.

Melissa Atkins Wardy, author of Redefining Girly.

Topic: How parents can fight the stereotyping and sexualizing of girlhood.

Issues: How to redefine girly in your home; getting friends and family on board; navigating kids’ play; how to avoid stereotyping girls and boys; saying no to sexed-up toys and too-sexy-too-soon parties.

Deborah Carlisle Solomon, author of Baby Knows Best.

Topic: Raising a confident and resourceful Child.

Issues: The RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers); how to respond to your baby’s cues and signals; how to help your baby develop healthy sleep habits; seeing your infant as a competent people with a growing ability to communicate, problem-solve, and self-soothe.

Patricia Papernow, author of Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships.

Topic: What works and what doesn’t.

Issues: What makes stepfamilies different? Five challenges for stepfamilies; why ex-spouses are part of the family; how stepfamilies change and develop over time.

Joseph Primo, author of What Do We Tell the Children?

Topic: Talking to kids about death and dying.

Issues: Learning to help kids deal with the “how” and “why” of death and loss; the importance of honest communication; giving kids coping skills they’ll be able to use throughout their lives.

Tim Hollister, author of Not So Fast.

Topic: Parenting your teen through the dangers of driving

Issues: How brain development affects driving; what driver’s ed doesn’t produce safe drivers; how and why to prepare a “flight plan” for each drive before handing over the keys; how an when to say no.

Richard Greenberg, author of Raising Children That Other People Like to be Around.

Topic: Five common-sense musts from a father’s point of view.

Issues: The S-M-A-R-T approach to parenting: Set an example; Make the rules; Apply the rules; Respect Yourself; Teach in all things.

Tim Jordan, author of Sleeping Beauties, Awakened Women.

Topic: Understanding and guiding the transformation of adolescent girls

Issues: There has been a lot of attention paid to the rising levels of depression, anxiety, cutting, and relationship aggression in girls over the past few decades. But what if those issues aren’t the problem? What if we got it all wrong? In this show, we speak with one of the country’s leading experts on girls and find out what’s really going on with girls as they make the normal transformation from girl to woman.

[amazon asin=0143115510&template=thumbleft&chan=default]James Gordon, Founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, and author of Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey our of Depression.

Lauren Tarasewicz, Military Program Manager for Sittercity

Maureen Haney, Program Manager for Tutor.com for U.S. Military Families

[amazon asin=0062082426&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Catherine Steiner-Adair, author of The Big Disconnect.

Topic: Protecting childhood and family relationships in the digital age.

Issues: How technology can put children’s development at risk; how tech is keeping children from forming close interactions with the adults in their life; insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater understanding, authority, and confidence when dealing with their kids and technology.

[amazon asin=B00F8LP87Q&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Anne Katherine, author of Boundaries in an Overconnected World.

Topic: Setting limits to preserve your focus, privacy, relationships, and sanity

Issues: Making social media, smart phones, and other devices work for you rather than against; tips to keep you focused at work and home; how to tell whether you’ve got a tech boundary problem; protecting your identity and your reputation; what to do if you can’t set boundaries for yourself (or your family).

Stephen Judd, Manager, Information Technology and Distance Education

MSG Jennifer Loredo, Master Resilience Trainer

[amazon asin=0762786655&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Luis Fernando Llosa, co-author of Beyond Winning.

Topic: Smart parenting in a toxic sports environment

Issues: Why kids shouldn’t do organized sports until about age 11; the importance of not trying to live your sports fantasies through your children; avoiding bullying, trash talk, and elitism; picking sports based on your child’s developmental stage; suggestions for how to revamp the youth sports industry.

LTG William E. Ingram, Jr. Director, Army National Guard

LTG Michael Ferriter, Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (ACSIM) and Commanding General, U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM)

[amazon asin=0062204343&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Susan Forward, author of Mothers Who Can’t Love.

Topic: A healing guide for daughters

Issues: The old cliche says that women marry their fathers–turns out, they marry their mothers; five types of mothers who can’t love: (severely narcissistic, overly enmeshed, control freak, mothers who need mothering, mothers who betray and neglect); recognizing the links between past and present–and how to make lasting changes.

Command Chief Warrant Officer, Phyllis Wilson, talks about mental and physical fitness in the Army Reserve

Jacqueline Goodrich, founder of The General’s Kids

[amazon asin=0807013196&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Susan Katz Miller, author of Being Both.

Topic: Embracing two religions in one interfaith family

Issues: The growing phenomenon of dual-faith relationships; debunking the myth that raising children with two religions confuses children; the benefits of learning two faiths; how the interfaith experience enriches children, makes them more tolerant, encourages them to ask meaningful questions, and sparks creative thinking.

Brigadier General Tammy Smith, Director of Human Capital Core for the U. S. Army Reserve, talks about Army Reserve Family Programs

[amazon asin=1594631204&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Guy Winch, author of Emotional First Aid.

Topic: Practical strategies for treating failure, rejection, guilt, and other psychological injuries

Issues: How to ease the sharp pain of rejection; how to stop the devastating ache of loneliness or disappointment of failure; how to recover from low-self-esteem or loss; how to deal with nagging guilt; much more

Angela Caban, founder, Homefront United Network, homefrontunited.com/

Sue Hoppin, founder, National Military Spouse Network, www.nationalmilitaryspousenetwork.org/

Adriana Domingos-Lupher, co-founder, MSB Net Media, msbnewmedia.com/

Christina Bell Landry, owner, DumBell Fitness, dumbellfitness.com/

Bridget Platt, CEO and founder, Daddy’s Deployed and Mommy’s Deployed, daddysdeployed.com/

Jennifer Pilcher, founder and CEO, MilitaryOneClick.com, militaryoneclick.com/

Jessica Bertsch, president of Powerhouse Planning, www.powerhouseplanning.com/

Ginger Miller, founder and CEO, Women Veterans Interactive, www.womenveteransinteractive.org/

Christy DeWitt, Sales Manager, Nomades, nomadescollection.com

Kellie Dudley, R. Riveter, www.rriveter.com/

Lori Churchhill, co-founder, Locknload Java, locknloadjava.com/

Wendy Polling, My Military Life/Military Life Radio, mymilitarylife.com/

Krista Wells, The Military Spouse Coach, themilitaryspousecoach.com/