Progressive Parenting

Tonight the topic is Agnes Gereb. 

 Dr Agnes Gereb is a qualified Hungarian obsetrician, midwife and international homebirth expert. She is respected worldwide for her work on behalf of pregnant women. She has championed the right of women to choose how they give birth and has herself attended many thousands of successful home births.

Agnes was taken into police custody on 5 October 2010 – minutes after attending to a woman who had unexpectedly gone into labour at Agnes’ birth centre in Budapest. Both mother and baby were transferred to hospital, where they were soon discharged.

Hungarian law prevents midwives from attending births outside hospitals and Agnes has been charged with ”reckless endangerment of life committed in the line of duty”. She could face imprisonment for 1–5 years.

Annie is a respected educator, award-winning author, and a trusted online adviser. Her life’s work is helping teens become more self-aware, self-confident and better able to make choices that reflect who they really are. She does it through Q&A, events at schools, and books like her Middle School Confidential™ series.

Annie is also committed to working with parents and teachers. Part of that effort recognizes that 21st century children require 21st century parenting and mentoring. Annie’s live events and her “Family Confidential” podcast series teach adults how to give teens what they need for healthy social/emotional development in middle school and beyond.

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Tonight on our program we will be speaking with Dr. Bill Sears about reading and your little one.

“Without question, the most important thing parents can do is read aloud to their child.  When a child is ready to start reading on his or her own, the last thing you want is for them to get discouraged. The problem with many books labeled ‘for emerging readers’ is that they are still too hard for the true beginner.

Women have been told that CPS will be called if they don't capitulate to a c section! if you don't know what your rights are then you don' have any!.

 My guest is Lisa Pratt an Attorney whose focus is on empowering women during their pregnancies and birth

A Full Scale Birth Revolution on Labor Day

A massive uprising happened today. Thousands of men, women and children gathered (today, September 3rd, 2012) as part of a national movement. Improving Birth’s “National Rally for Change on Labor Day” was hosted in close to 100 major cities, in all 50 states across the country. Thanks to the intricate works of social media, ImprovingBirth.org was able to organize a massive movement to bring awareness to the lack of evidence-based maternity care in the US. One writer coined it as

“The largest women’s movement in decades.”

Join us live tonight as I speak with Dawn Thompson the woman behind it all.

My guest tonight is Robert Nickell

Robert is also the founder and CEO of DaddyScrubs, the first online global brand offering delivery room duds and daddy gear for expectant and new dads. The website includes a popular weekly parenting blog, penned by Nickell (aka Daddy Nickell) covering topics such as bonding with your child and what fathers should expect during pregnancy and infancy.

Nickell is a well known syndicated columnist for national newspapers, parenting magazines and websites including Baby Couture Magazine, Oh Baby! Magazine, City Parent Magazine, and Homeschooling Parent. He provides tips and insights from a father’s perspective.

Daddy Nickell has appeared on many national talk shows and daytime television shows including “Good Morning L.A.”, “Good Morning Texas”, “Fox 5 San Diego”, “WZZM 13”, “OK52”, and “KSBI TV”, offering tips to new parents.

Join me when I interview Dr. Elliot Berlin, DC. Four expectant mothers, from completely separate walks in life, came late one November  to the offices of Dr Elliot Berlin. They had a few things in common; they had undergone C-sections, were all pregnant again, and were determined to try and birth vaginally. They had individually sort the education they needed to tackle this task and decipher the truth in what amounted to a tidal wave of misinformation, coercion, skewed medical policy and insurance limitations.Trial Of Labor is the documentation of their highly emotional journey to attempt what nature intended: to simply birth naturally. This is their story.

How to Connect With Dad In a Powerful Way, One Question that  can change everything. My guest is Joe Valley of Empowered Papa.

About Joe is his own words:

"I am Joe Valley, creator and writer of Empowered Papa. I provide encouragement and education. I support the modern birth movement. I advocate for informed birth choices. I talk about birth the empowered way. I coach. I teach. I listen.

I help ordinary people become extraordinary parents. How? By guiding them through this amazing transformation in their lives."

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Tonight I will be talking to Melissa Wardy, her goal is to empower girls to change the way the world thinks about them.  “We need to ‘Redefine Girly’ and show the world just how smart, brave, and adventurous our daughters can be.  Pigtail Pals was created to provide parents with images and messages they would be proud to raise their girls with.”  

In 2010 Melissa began the Redefine Girly blog to educate parents on issues of gender stereotypes and sexualization that our children face.

This is week 8 of working with my life coach. Christy Diane Farr, who heads an amazing program called SICK OF BEING STUCK! Sick of Being Stuck (SOBS) is an approach to clutter-clearing that promises to cultivate change in all of the gardens of your life.

This program is about creating space for you in your life. People come to Seeds and Weeds Coachingwhen they are feeling lost, overwhelmed, or invisible. If you’re trying to make a change — improve health, change jobs, express creativity, find (or rediscover) love, increase resource flow, etc. — but you just can’t seem to make it happen on your own, this program may be for you.

Tonight we are tackling my relationship with my husband of 13 years. YIKES!!