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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

171. Importance of Movement in Learning

Mary Rentschler, educational therapist (educational kinesiology)

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170. Depression in Children and Adolescents

Kenneth E. Towbin, M.D., Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Chief, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mood and Anziety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH

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169. The Overweight Child

Stacie Isenberg, Psy.D., the Ross Center, Washington, DC

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168. When Tragedy Strikes A Military Family

Maj. Dr. Willis Leavitt, Assistant Project Officer, Operation Solace, The Pentagon
Sandra Hanish, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Operation Solace, The Pentagon

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167. Kids in a National Medical Emergency

Joseph Wright, M.D., Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center

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166. Kids and Advertising

Michael Brody, M.D., Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

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165. Learning Issues

Penny Heltzer, Founder and Head, Potomac Education Center

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164. Building Stronger Extended Families

Beulah Levy, L.C.S.W., Jewish Social Service Agency

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163. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children

Lt. Cmdr. Glen Crawford, M.D., Child Psychiatrist, Medical Director, Inpatient Psychiatric Adolescent Service, Bethesda Naval Hospital

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162. Making the Case for Parents

Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer; author, Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

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