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

Parents' Perspective is an award-winning weekly radio program, airing on radio stations across the country and around the world. For a list of stations, click here, or check out our list of available podcasts to listen online or download to your MP3 player.

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

65. Talking with Kids about Sexuality

Nancy Weil, Teacher, Life Science and Human Development
Deborah Roffman, Sexuality Educator


64. Working Mothers

Laura Sessions Stepp, Staff Writer, Washington Post
Beverly Finkelstein, elementary school teacher


63. Children and the Performing Arts (II)

Kathy Judd, Director, Washington Conservatory of Music
Thomas A. Bogar, Ph.D., teacher of theatre, TV production, English


62. Gift Giving

Janet Bodnar, Senior Editor, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, columnist: “Ask Dr. Tightwad”
Susan Magsamen, founder, Curiosity Kits


61. Transmitting Cultural Heritage (II)

Gladys Follender, parent and grandparent, Jewish
Linda Reese-Davidson, parent, attorney, African-American


60. Parental Involvement in Schools (II)

Susan Meyers, P.T.A. President, mother of four
Margaret Flagg, MSW/LCSW-C, parent educator, mother of three


59. Shaken Baby Syndrome (and “what to do when the baby cries”)

Beverly Byron, R.N., M.S.N., nurse educator and trainer, Department of Health and Human Services, Montgomery County, MD
Andrea Adelman, treasurer of Shaken Baby Alliance, parent of shaken baby


58. Parenting Education

Linda Bart, elementary school counselor and parent educator
Donna Shelly, pediatric clinical nurse specialist, health policy associate, Georgetown University, and parent


57. Homework

Michael Kirchberg, full-time tutor
Elizabeth Singer, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, George Washington University, Children’s National Medical Center (Wash., DC), and Jewish Social Service Agency


56. Kindergarten Readiness

Anita Marcus, kindergarten teacher
Nancy S. Belknap, Ph.D., Professor of Special Education, George Washington University