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#98 — Tech Brain: The Vice Grip of Screens and Lights ** April 20, 2016 Guest // VIctoria Dunckley, MD ** Host // Carla Atherton Has technology grabbed ahold of your kids’ brains, with the vice grip of blue screens and blinking lights? It’s affecting our children socially. It’s messing with brain function and development. It’s …
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#96 — Teen Boundaries Around Tech Usage ** February 24, 2016 Guest // Emily Roberts, MA, LPC ** Host // Carla Atherton Do you have trouble talking to your teens about creating boundaries around their usage of technology? Do you feel like they are sometimes lost to you, immersed in a world of blue lights and …
#91 — SPD: Processing a New Future for Kids ** November 18, 2015 Guest // Meghan Brookler ** Host // Carla Atherton About 5% of children have difficulty receiving “normal” sensory inputs from the environment — sound, light, smell, clothing, food, movement — and respond in ways that are deemed inappropriate, like crying, screaming, covering …
#90 — Pediatric Autoimmune & Neuropsych Disorders ** November 11, 2015 Guest // Heather Korbmacher, MED, NBCT ** Host // Carla Atherton Imagine that your healthy, happy child contracts a common illness and, seemingly overnight, becomes a different child, with emotional outbursts, physical aggression, strange body movements and vocalizations, and other surprising behaviors. Parents are perplexed and wringing …
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#87 — Gentle Parenting is Fearless ** October 21, 2015 Guest // Alison Smith ** Host // Carla Atherton Modern parenting can be an exercise in extremes and contradictions. We’re afraid to let kids walk to the park by themselves but we leave them unattended for hours with the entire internet in their pockets. We enroll …
#82 — Childhood Obesity Today ** September 9, 2015 Guest // David White ** Host // Carla Atherton Americans are ballooning up — adults and kids alike. Suddenly, normal food portions are super sized, clothing manufacturers are resorting to sizes 0, 00, and even 000 to avoid offending touchy customers, and people are spilling over the armrests …
#78 — Raising Sex-Healthy Kids ** August 12, 2015 Guest // Jennifer Wiessner, LCSW, AASECT ** Host // Carla Atherton Sex ed. Those two words are enough to have many of us running for the hills. Fall in, parents! It’s your job to raise sex-healthy kids. Children are consuming more media than ever before and the not-so-hidden messaging …
#76 – Compulsory Education: Is This the Only Option for Our Youth? ** July 8, 2015 Guest // Matt Hern ** Host // Carla Atherton Carla Atherton interviews Matt Hern, lecturer, writer, historian, about lifelong learning, self-directed learning, deschooling, and compulsory education – tune in for an inspiring discussion about how we can better unleash our children’s …
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