NEW PLANS for a NEW YEAR! Check out these shows as you begin to do your own organizing #488 Preparing Middle Schoolers for Life, #482 Down Time, #363 Managing Our Kids' Screen Time, #337 Multitasking Kids, #194 Helping Kids Get Organized and #191 Kids and Chores
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Hundreds of thousands of listeners across the U.S. and (via American Forces Radio) around the world tune in weekly to Parents' Perspective. Caring adults find help with topics as diverse as schools in a stressful time, parents as advocates, stepfamilies, playground safety, risk-taking behavior, toddlers and media, helping children learn to manage money, and what teens want their parents to know. Fifty per cent of listeners are male. Experts in such fields as child development, medicine, nutrition, psychiatry, education, sports, social work, child care, and law enforcement provide up to date information and resources.
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As all caring adults know, children are not only everyone's business; they are everyone's future.
Chris Mercogliano, Former Director, Albany Free School; author, In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness
Defending Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness, by Chris Mergogliano
The Case Against Homework, by Sarah Bennett
Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv
The Alternative Education Resource Organization
Chris Mercogliano on getting kids to love reading
Maryanne Kearny Datesman, ESL Teacher and Administrator; co-author (with JoAnn Crandall and Edward N. Kearny), American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture, Third Ed..
The Center for Applied Linguistics
The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
Kent Norman, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Cognitive Area, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland
Kent Norman, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Cognitive Area, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland
Tim Kasser, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology at Knox College; author, the High Price of Materialism and Psychology and Consumer Culture.
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
The Center for a New American Dream
The Price of Privilege, Madeline Levine
Born to Buy, Juliet Schor
Consuming Kids, Susan Linn
Dave Honchalk, Trustee, Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education; recently retired Supervisor of Outdoor Education, Montgomery County, MD schools
Environmental Protection Agency Kids Site
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Jillian Copeland, founder and director of The Diener School; Educational consultant to special needs community
Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head, Carla Hannaford
How the Special Needs Brain Learns, David Soussa
The Out-of-Sync Child, Carol Stock Kranowitz
All Kinds of Minds, Melvin Levine
The MommyDocs, Rachel Schreiber, M.D., Allergist; Jamie Freishtat, M.D., Pediatrician; podcasters of pediatric medical information (www.mommydocs.com)
Melissa DelBello, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Director, Research Education and Training, Division of Child Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Vice-Chair, Clinical Research, University of Cincinnati Department of Psychiatry
Gary Litovitz, M.D., psychiatrist, Medical Director, Dominion Psychiatric Hospital (Falls Church, VA)
Rebecca Berman, licensed social worker, Dominion Hospital