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

55. Bullying

Maureen Donnelly, M.D., child and adolescent psychiatrist, faculty, Georgetown University Medical Center and Children’s Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Barbara Hurwitz, teacher of middle school and elementary school

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54. Stay-at-Home Parents

David R. Zoellner, Ph.D., engineer and stay-at-home dad
Tracy Thompson, journalist and stay-at-home mom

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53. Step-Families

Sherlyn Askwith, LCSW-C, Jewish Social Service Agency
Leigh A. Leslie, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Family and Community Development, University of Maryland

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52. Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Anger

Rob Guttenberg, Director of Parenting Education for the YMCA’s Bethesda Youth Services
Kathleen Estep, LCSW, Community Psychiatric Clinic (CPC Health)

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51. Helping Children Learn to Manage Money (II)

Janet Bodnar, Senior Editor, Kiplinger’s Magazine, and author, Dr. Tightwad’s Money-Smart Kids and Mom, Can I Have That?
Mary Lou Werthmann, Director, Mentoring Program, and Adult Eduacation teacher of parenting classes

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50. Children’s Friendships

Cathi Cohen, LCSW, CGP, Director of In Step and Stepping Stones
Ron Vande Loo, Ph.D., psychologist, private practice and community mental health

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49. Testing and Tutoring

Paul Penniman, tutor
Laurie Dietzel, Ph.D., Co-Director, Diagnostic and Psychological Services, Kingsbury Center

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48. Hearing

Diane M. Brewer, Audiologist, George Washington University

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47. Parenting A Disabled Child

Mary Truland, mother of four, one child with cerebral palsy
Joyce Lipman, President of the Arc of Maryland, mother of two, one child developmentally disabled

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46. Abuse and Neglect

Cheryl Banks, Community Educator, Maryland Child Protective Services
Nancy Lohman, LCSW, Maryland Child Protective Services

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