Shimi Kang, author of The Dolphin Way. Topic: Raising healthy, happy, motivated kids without turning into a tiger. Issues: What happens to kids raised by Tiger parents? the skills required to succeed in the 21st Century–and how Dolphin parenting encourages their development; The importance of play and downtime; what happens [...]
Quanyu Huang, author of The Hybrid Tiger. Topic: Secrets of the extraordinary success of Asian-American Kids. Issues: The differences between Chinese and American education; the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches; is it possible to say that one is better than the other> developing kids’ ambitions before discovering their interests. [...]
The job vs. life conflict we all face seems overwhelming and never ending. It doesn’t have to be that way.
This is episode thirteen and a half because apparently 13 is an unlucky number. Today we talk to screenwriter, blogger at thedaddycomplex.com and soon to be author of the CTFD Parenting Method book, David Vienna. We get in to his thoughts on creativity, why he thought puppets would be a [...]
My lovely mom, Diane, joins the show for a belated Mother’s Day special. We talk about her and my dad being intimate, me seeing her naked as a teenager, the awful way she dressed me as a kid, getting drunk on vacation, my mom’s crazy union job, when I got [...]
Take a close look at your child’s class picture. If there’s 25 cute, smiling faces in that group, statistically about seven of those kids are being raised by single parents. Maybe more depending on where you live. Of the 30-40 million homes in the United States with children under the age of [...]
Art Eddy and Ryan Hamilton are pleased to welcome dad blogger extraordinaire, Lorne Jaffe. His blog – Raising Sienna – is a look into, as Lorne states, "Discoveries of a father dealing with depression and anxiety." Art and Ryan talk to Lorne about the moving recitation of his legendary blog [...]
The Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) Program is the largest school based father engagement program in the nation with nearly 4000 schools participating. Kristi, a mother of three young children, found that coordinating her children’s after-school activities was no small task and left a great deal of room for [...]
Johanna Stein, author of How Not to Calm a Baby on a Plane. Topic: Hilarious, real-life lessons in parenting. Issues: Going to war against the color pink; calming your child on a plane with a barfbag puppet–that someone else had used; your first emergency room visit; the most embarrassing and [...]