[amazon asin=0307884848&template=thumbleft&chan=default]John Elder Robison, author of Raising Cubby. Topic: A father and son’s adventure with Asperger’s, trains, tractors, and high explosives. Issues:How an unapologetically eccentric dad raised his equally eccentric son. A tender, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny story of a father and son who grow up together. [amazon asin=0062208969&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Andrea Buchanan, […]

[amazon asin=0465029825&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Jerome Kagan, author of The Human Spark. Topic: The science of human development. Issues: Why claims of the impact of attachment are based on misinterpreted research; the intertwined development of language and morality; the limited effects of childhood on later life; the role that culture and historical era play […]

[amazon asin=0761162410&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Elizabeth Fishel, coauthor of When Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up? Topic: Loving and understanding your emerging adult. Issues: The zigzagging road to adulthood; the college years; the boomerang kid; the bank of mom and dad; when things go wrong; having–and enforcing–expectations; emerging at last. [amazon asin=B001G8WQU2&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Jodi Mindell, author […]

[amazon asin=1118228839&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Carl Pickhardt, author of Surviving Your Child’s Adolescence. Topic: How to understand, and even enjoy, the rocky road to independence. Issues: Preparing for the inevitable; a road map to early, mid-, and late adolescence; discipline that does–and doesn’t–work; why constant arguing is better than silence. [amazon asin=B00263J6SQ&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Janine Walker Caffrey, […]

[amazon asin=0451413334&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Adrian Kulp, author of Dad or Alive. Topic: Confessions of a stay-at-home dad. Issues: One man’s hilarious journey from bringing home the bacon to frying it–along with assembling the crib, learning how to “accessorize” his daughter, flying with an infant for the first time, booze-free baby showers, and navigating […]

[amazon asin=1620576112&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Nicole Green, VP of Communication, Carson-Dellosa Publishing, publisher of Summer Bridge Activities Topic: Preventing summer learning loss. Issues: Reading comprehension; multiplication and division; social studies; grammar; character development, and more. [amazon asin=1250035856&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Laura Overdeck, author of Bedtime Math. Topic: Making math fun. Issues: Clever, smart ways to get kids interested […]

[amazon asin=1616081716&template=thumbnail1&chan=default]Guest 1: Michael Goldberg, author of The Myth of Autism. Topic: How a misunderstood epidemic is destroying our children. Issues: The epidemic of autism—we’ve gone from 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 110 in just 30 years; autism is not a psychological or developmental condition—it’s actually a medical disease […]

[amazon asin=1401324878&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Sarah Smiley, author of Dinner with the Smileys. Topic: One military family, one year of heroes, and lessons for a lifetime Issues: The heartwarming story of a family’s commitment to fill a deployed servicemember’s place at the family dinner table with interesting people–teachers, Olympians, politicians, athletes, authors, comedians, and […]