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Hear Lu Hanessian and Lysa Parker talk with Dr. Bob Sears about an issue that affects 1 in 110 children in this country: autism. Click to listen now free of charge
Dr. Sears talks in depth about autism and shares insights from his new book “The Autism Book.”
“Dr. Bob” discusses:
* Why has there been an increase in autism cases over the last decade;
* Role of yeast overgrowth (candida) in autism;
* Suggestions for preventing autism;
* What to do if you suspect your child might have autism – finding a doctor, supplements and diet to start, other helpful therapies;
* And much MORE!
About Dr. Bob Sears
Robert W. Sears, MD, FAAP, is a board certified pediatrician in private practice in Dana Point, CA. “Dr. Bob”, as his little patients like to call him, received his medical degree in 1995 from Georgetown University and completed his pediatric training at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles in 1998. He is a co-author of six books so far in the Sears Parenting Library, including The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood, Father’s First Steps, The Baby Book, The Premature Baby Book, and The Baby Sleep Book.
His first solo work, The Vaccine Book – Making the Right Decision for your Child, highlights his passion for providing America’s parents with a fair and objective look at childhood vaccines. Dr. Bob is also co-author of Happy Baby: the Organic Guide to Baby’s First 24 Months, in which he provides new families with practical ways to raise a health baby in an increasingly toxic world.
Dr. Bob is passionate about combining mainstream medicine with a more natural and holistic approach to pediatric care in his office and his writing. He is a Defeat Autism Now! physician who uses biomedical treatments to help recover children from autism and is author of The Autism Book: What Every Parent Needs to Know About Early Detection, Treatment, Recovery, and Prevention (April 2010).
Dr. Bob is a medical consultant for Happy Baby Organic Baby Food, an Advisory Board Member for Kaplan University Department of Health Sciences, and the Director of the Talk About Curing Autism Physician’s Advisory Panel. Dr. Bob has appeared on the CBS Early Show, The Ellen Show, CNN, and the Dr. Phil Show. He is the proud father of three boys, ages 17, 14 and 8. In his spare time Dr. Bob enjoys surfing the California waves, mountain biking, playing bass guitar with his teenage son guitarist, trying to keep up with his youngest son, reading, speaking at parenting conferences throughout the U.S. and is the chief editor and writer for www.AskDrSears.com and www.TheVaccineBook.com.
They discuss "If I’m an Attached Parent, Why Do I Get Disconnected?" Making Sense of Our Reactions to the Stresses of Daily Life–and Recovering from Them.
About Dr. Laura Markham
As both a mom and a Clinical Psychologist trained in Attachment Theory at Columbia University, Dr. Markham offers a unique perspective on raising kids. Her relationship-based parenting model has helped thousands of families across the U.S. and Canada find compassionate, common-sense solutions for everything from separation anxiety and sleep problems to sass talk and cell phones.
Dr. Markham is the founding editor of AhaParenting.com, where she offers hundreds of free articles, as well as ebooks and audio downloads to support parents in connecting with their kids and creating a richer family life. Her daily parenting inspirations reach an ever-growing email list.
Dr Markham hosts a weekly internet radio show, where she regularly takes on a wide range of challenging questions from parents of infants through teens. In addition, she serves as parenting expert for Mothering.com, Pregnancy.org, Storknet.com, ParentingBookmark.com, and HipSlopeMama.com. Her articles are widely published online. In private practice, and as a speaker and presenter at parenting workshops and seminars, she enjoys connecting face-to-face with parents to help them transform their relationships with their children, regardless of age. Dr. Markham lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two terrific teenagers.
Hear API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Lysa Parker and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss attachment parenting with Dr. William Sears. They delve into:
* Needs in infancy: Why fulfilling infant needs is critical for healthy attachment;
* Meeting a child’s needs and deciphering wants in toddlerhood: Why parents get confused and anxious about this transition;
* Understanding how meeting a child’s wants is really coming from our own unconscious ‘needs';
* Exploring the real dynamics behind permissive parenting;
* and MORE!
Dr. Sears, or Dr. Bill as his “little patients” call him, is the father of eight children as well as the author of over 30 books on childcare. Dr. Bill is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. Dr. Bill received his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto — the largest children’s hospital in the world, where he served as associate ward chief of the newborn nursery and associate professor of pediatrics. Dr. Sears is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a fellow of the Royal College of Pediatricians (RCP).Dr. Bill is also a medical and parenting consultant for BabyTalk and Parenting magazines and the pediatrician on the website Parenting.com.
* the practice and effect of spanking on cognitive and physical well-being
* the confusion surrounding spanking and good behavior
* how our own childhood experience drives our decision to spank or not
* what to do if your spouse and you disagree on spanking
and more.
Hear hosts Lu Hanessian and API cofounder Barbara Nicholson talk
WITH NADINE BLOCK
Founder and Director of the Center for Effective Discipline, Founder of the National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools; Past Regional Director, Chair of Governmental Relations for the National Association of School Psychologists; Co-Chair,End Physical Punishment of Children (EPOCH -USA); Founder/Chair of SpankOut Day, USA “Raising Good Kids Without Hitting;” and Board Trustee National Child Protection Training Center
Nadine has a long history of advocacy on behalf of children and families. She has served as a teacher, a school psychologist, and a consultant to mental health and child abuse prevention organizations. She developed policies and directed legislative action to affect bans on corporal punishment of children in schools at state and national levels. In 2009, a coalition of fifty organizations she coordinated achieved a ban on school paddling in Ohio making it the 30th state to do so. Her commitment to ending all corporal punishment of children stems from a firm belief that children are entitled to the same right that all other citizens enjoy, to be free from physical assault.
She is recognized as a national leader in the effort to ban corporal punishment of children and has gained international recognition in that effort. She founded the Center for Effective Discipline and co-founded the National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools. She founded SpankOut Day USA April 30th and served as its coordinator from since l998. The Center provides mini-grants for non-profit agencies to support educational programs for parents on positive discipline and effects of physical punishment on SpankOut Day each year. More than 600 grants have been awarded. SpankOut Day April 30th is recognized internationally by NGO’s who observe the day with education programs for parents. The observance is sometimes called “No Hitting Day” or “No Smacking Day.” She is a founder emeritus of Support for Talented Students, non-profit organization which provides scholarships for programs outside of the regular school day for gifted and talented students.
Nadine has appeared before the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States on this issue and has presented workshops overseas at the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, She was invited to attend a UNICEF regional consultation on Violence Against Children in 2005, and a meeting of the Committee on the U.N Convention on the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Switzerland.
She organized the development and dissemination of a research report on physical punishment of children and youth for EPOCH-USA. The Report on Physical Punishment in the United States: What Research Tells Us About Its Effects on Children, authored by Elizabeth T. Gershoff, PhD, brings together over one hundred years of social science research and dozens of published studies on physical punishment conducted by professionals in the fields of psychology, medicine, education, social work, and sociology, among other fields. The report has been endorsed by many major family/child serving organizations in the U.S.
Nadine has been interviewed by many live and print media sources including Larry King Live, Hannity and Comb, ABC News, New York Times, USA Today, Good Morning America, BBC Channel 4, London, CBS 48 Hours, Redbook, Reuters Health Network, NBC Today, Family Circle Magazine, PBS, Youth Today, Village Voice, Parenting Magazine, Time Magazine, and many state and local newspapers.
She has received awards from Prevent Child Abuse America (Donna Stone Award), the Ohio PTA (Oak Tree Award), the National Association of School Psychologists (Friend of Children), the Child Abuse and Neglect Committee of the Ohio Academy of Pediatrics and several others. Nadine is active in her community in a variety of organizations and has held leadership positions in several of them. She is married and the grandmother of ten children.
Jean Illsley Clarke, Ph.D., CFLE, coauthor of How Much is Enough? is author of more than twenty books including: Self-Esteem: A Family Affair and Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children. Jean is a dynamic sought-after speaker who holds a Master of Arts degree in Human Development. Jean has been awarded two honorary doctorates. The first, from Sierra University and the second from Concordia University, St. Paul in the Spring of 2003. She is a teaching and supervising member of the International Transactional Analysis Association and a Nationally Certified Family Life Educator. Recently she was named Distinguished Alumna of the Year and given the Larry Wilson Award by theCollege of Human Ecology at the University of Minnesota.
The overindulgence project began in 1996 with the mission of studying the relationship between childhood overindulgence and subsequent adult problems and parenting practices. To date, David Bredehoft, Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson and our research assistants have completed five studies and currently have two additional studies in process investigating overindulgence involving a combined 2,614 participants to date.
Get the Facts About Cosleeping, SIDS, Bedsharing and Breastfeeding with special guest Dr. James McKenna - Click to listen now free of charge
Hear hosts Lu Hanessian and Lysa Parker talk with Dr. McKenna about:
About Professor James McKenna, PhD.
Dr. McKenna is the Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Chair in Anthropology at Notre Dame University and the Director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Anthropology and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, also in Anthropology. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley for two years before accepting a tenure track position at Pomona College in Claremont, California where he taught for 20 years, and won several teaching awards. In 1997, he was recruited by the University of Notre Dame, where he is a Professor and the director of the University of Notre Dame Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory. His areas of interest and expertise are Infant Sleep, Breast Feeding, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Evolution of Human Behavior (especially parenting and infant development). Dr. McKenna is best known for his pioneering studies of the differences between the physiology and behavior of solitary and co-sleeping mothers and infants-and the connection these data might have in addressing SIDS risks. He has published three books, the most recent one titled Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping. In addition, he has published well over 50 peer-reviewed papers on SIDS and co-sleeping.
Listen in as API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Lysa Parker and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss how parents can take the punishment out of discipline with Hold On To Your Kids author Dr. Gordon Neufeld.
About Dr. Neufeld
Dr. Neufeld is a Vancouver-based developmental psychologist with over 30 years of experience with children and youth and those responsible for them. A foremost authority on child development, Dr. Neufeld is an international speaker, a bestselling author (Hold On To Your Kids) and a leading interpreter of the developmental paradigm.
Dr. Neufeld has a widespread reputation for making sense of complex problems and for opening doors for change. While formerly involved in university teaching and private practice, he now devotes his time to teaching and training others, including educators and helping professionals. He appears regularly on radio and television and is currently developing a series of video-courses for parent education. He is a father of five and a grandfather of three.
Hear API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss meeting needs with Jan Hunt. - Click here to listen now free of charge
About Jan Hunt
Psychologist Jan Hunt, M.Sc., author of The Natural Child: Parenting From the Heart and A Gift for Baby, offers telephone counseling worldwide, with a focus on attachment parenting and unschooling, and guided imagery sessions for emotional healing.
Jan has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and over twenty years of experience as a counselor and writer on parenting issues. She is the Director of The Natural Child Project and is on the Advisory Board of Attachment Parenting International.
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What could meditation mean to a foster mother who has learned to arise at 5:15 each day, in order to have 10 minutes of quiet before she begins the careful morning ritual needed for awakening her deeply troubled child without a meltdown? What could meditation mean to an adoptive father sitting alone at midnight, pondering what was happening to the peace of his home, the safety of his other children, and the intimacy he used to share with his wife? Could meditation make a difference to those foster or adoptive families who are on the brink of placement disruption, who are about to conclude they can simply not make it through another day?
Use these meditations in any way that suits you. There is no right or wrong way. If you find one that particularly speaks to you, you may find yourself listening to it every day, at about the same time. Maybe you will invite your spouse to join you, on the screened-in porch. Maybe you will listen to the entire CD on certain nights of despair, or listen to a funny one in the kitchen, while whistling. But it is my hope that you will find something herein that restores hope, that challenges your feelings of impotence, that reminds you why your efforts are far from being in vain.
