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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The producers/hosts are proud to have the support of the H.S.C. Foundation, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Freeman Foundation, the S.F. Foundation, and the American Psychiatric Foundation, among others, to produce programs on issues of special value for families.
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As all caring adults know, children are not only everyone's business; they are everyone's future.
Julia Berry, Director, St. Columba’s Nursery School
Resources
Audubon Society – find locally and inquire about classes and activities
National Wildlife Federation
Monarch butterfly organizations
4-H Clubs
YMCA
Libraries and librarians
Web sites on specific interests and on backyard development
Research scouting
Research fishing
Google magazines for kids, such as Ranger Rick
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Founder, Child Development Unit, Children’s Hospital, Boston; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, Brown University; author, Touchpoints, Second Edition
Joshua D. Sparrow, M.D., child psychiatrist, supervisor, outpatient psychiatry, Children’s Hospital, Boston; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; author, Touchpoints, Second Edition
Resources
First and foremost: WATCH and LISTEN TO your own baby/child.
Connect with others parents as well as family members and friends; share.
Deborah Szekely, founding “godmotherâ€, mind/body/spirit/fitness movement; founder Rancho La Puerta (Tecate, Baja California, Mexico) and the Golden Door (Escondido, California)
Vicky Holets Whittemore, Ph.D., Science Program Consultant, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE); Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
Susan Verghese, M.D., Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Children’s National Medical Center
Resources
First, a parent should contact the anesthesiologist as soon as possible ahead of time and talk with him/her (sometimes background information can be found on the Web) www.lifelinetomodernmedicine.com
Web sites for organizations such as:
