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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Guests are frequently world renowned, often entertaining, and always stimulating. The daughter of a terrorist discussed helping children reject hatred; a county executive related how he dealt with anxious residents during sniper attacks; a social worker (who is also a bereaved parent) provided encouragement and support for parents who have lost a child; and a psychologist with adult children in the armed forces discussed issues arising when soldiers return to their families.

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Recent Shows

343. Children with Autism

Griffin Doyle, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, child & adult psychotherapy

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342. Helping Children Cope When a Parent is Seriously Ill

Wendy Schlessl Harpham, M.D., author, When a Parent Has Cancer, together with Becky and the Worry Cup; long-term cancer survivor and mother of three

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341. Separation Anxiety

Rene Hackney, Ph.D., founder and teacher of Parenting Playgroup

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340. Anxiety Disorder

Daniel Pine, M.D., Chief, Child and Adolescent Research, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH

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339. Children’s Food Allergies

Richard Layton, M.D., pediatric allergist

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338. Pre-Kindergarten Education

Libby Doggett, Ph.D., Executive Director, Pre-K Now

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337. Multitasking Kids

Jordan Grafman, Ph.D., Chief, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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335. Military Children

Diane Ursano, licensed clinical social worker who comes from family of “military brats”

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RESOURCES

Military Onesource

Battlemind.org

Couragetocareforme.org

Military Teens/Kids on the Move

Booksformilitarychildren.info/

Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

Talk, Listen, Connect – Helping Families During Military Deployment, a project of Children’s Television Workshop


334. Poetry for Children

Mary Quattlebaum, author and poet

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RESOURCES

Mary Quattlebaum’s author website

A Family of Poems, edited by Caroline Kennedy

The 20th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury, edited by Jack Prelutsky.

The Beauty of the Beast, edited by Jack Prelutsky.

Poetry Speaks to Children, edited by Elise Paschen (poems and accompanying CD of poets reading their own work)