Claire Lerner, LCSW-C, author, Bringing Up Baby: Three Steps to Making Good Decisions in Your Child’s First Three Years.
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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Recent Shows
251. Foreign Languages for Kids
Naomi Woolsey, Head, Primary School, Washington International School
Melody Meade, Assistant Head, Primary School, Washington International School
250. Inclusive Camps
Sara Portman Milner, LCSW, Director, Division of Camp, Youth, and Special Needs, Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD
249. Home Alone
Mary Eberstadt, research fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, author, Home Alone America
248. Changing Schools Mid-Year
Ileen Rogers, founding member and former board member, Military Child Education Coalition
246. Children in Hospitals Away from Home
Anne Swire, Director of Development and Public Relations, The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health; mother of 16-year-old leukemia survivor
Trish Ayers, mother of a 5-year-old son, being treated at NIH and family staying at The Children’s Inn over a period of months
245. Slowing Down
Paula Sayag, Ph.D., Early Childhood Specialist, Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning of Greater Washington, DC
244. Breastfeeding
Lisa Wood Shapiro, author, How My Breasts Saved the World: Misadventures of a Nursing Mother