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.
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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As all caring adults know, children are not only everyone's business; they are everyone's future.
Linda Perlman Gordon, clinical social worker, family therapist, Trained mediator and Susan Morris Shaffer, Deputy Director, Mid-Atlantic Equity Center, Executive Director of Parents as Essential Partners (PEP). Co-authors, Mom, Can I Move Back in With You? A Survival Guide For Parents of Twentysomethings
Barbara Zakheim, Founder, President, Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse (JCADA)
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), 1-800-787-3224 (TTY) www.ndvh.org
Child Welfare Information Gateway
American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
Hopeline
Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse (JCADA)
Patricia Evans, The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond, Second Edition
Tamar E. Chansky, Freeing Your Child from Anxiety
Alyssa Sanders, manager, Mothers Offering Maternal Support Program (MOMS)
The MOMS Program of the Families Foremost Center at the Mental Health Association
1000 Twinbrook Parkway
Rockville, MD 20851
301-424-0656
Fax 301-738-1030
www.mhamc.org
Paul Kaplowitz, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Endocrinology, Children’s National Medical Center; author, The Short Child: A Parents’ Guide to the Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Growth Problems
Paul Kaplowitz, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Baron, M.D., The Short Child: A Parents’ Guide to the Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Growth Problems
Stephen S. Hall, Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys – and the Men They Become
David, S. Riggs, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, director, Center for Deployment Psychology, Uniformed Services University.
Military OneSource, a comprehensive resource for military families
National Military Family Association
Zerotothree.org’s military resources
David Elkind, Ph.D., professor, child development, Tufts University; author, The Hurried Child, All Grown Up and No Place to Go, and The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children.
Benjamin Gitterman, M.D., co-director, Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, Children’s National Medical Center, George Washington University.
Environmental Protection Agency
The Children’s Environmental Health Network
Children’s Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC)
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PESUS)–10 regions in the U.S., each with a center to deal with environmental issues, with clinical experts in pediatric environmental health
Association of Occupational Environmental Clinics (AOEC)
Jennifer Russell, Clarksburg, Maryland, Ombudsman.
Diane Dorney, publisher, local newspapers and papers about new urbanism.
Brad Sachs, Ph.D., family psychologist; author, The Good Enough Child: How to Have An Imperfect Family and Be Perfectly Satisfied; and The Good Enough Teen: Raising Adolescents with Love and Acceptance (Despite How Impossible They Can Be).
Visit Dr. Sachs’ website at: www.bradsachs.com
Devra Renner, clinical social worker and wife of active duty Air Force officer.
Doris Durand, Ph.D., retired military sociologist, Walter Reed Institute of Research.
A Year of Absence: Six women’s stories of courage, hope and love, edited by Jessica Redmond
Jenny Spouse, a comic strip about the life of a military spouse
Military OneSource, a comprehensive resource for military families
National Military Family Association
Parentopia.net, Devra Renner’s blog
Zerotothree.org’s military resources