Positive Parenting | Mr. Dad

Elisha Cooper, author of Falling. Topic: A father, a daughter, and a journey back. Issues: A moving memoir of how a family copes with the discovery of a child’s cancer, sleepless nights, surgeries, and worry, and ultimately recovery.

Megan Faure, author of The Babysense Secret . Topic: Learning how to understand your baby’s moods. Issues: Creating a baby-centric routine and struggle less to get your baby to sleep; understanding your baby’s sensory world and signals to avoid overstimulation, which leads to fussiness.

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. Laura Overdeck, author of Bedtime Math. Topic: Making math fun. Issues: Clever, smart ways to get kids interested in math; teaching math through stories; why it’s never too early to start math; why we should do math with our kids just like we read to them.

James M. Stone, author of 5 Easy Theses. Topic: Commonsense solutions to American’s greatest economic challenges. Issues: Will Social Security and Medicare be solvent when we need them? Income inequality; why healthcare in the US costs twice as much as in other advanced countries; making college affordable; the unbridled power of the financial sector and how to control it.

Diane Ehrensaft, author of The Gender Creative Child. Topic: Nurturing and supporting children who live outside gender boxes. Issues: The difference between gender and sex; does gender have to be binary (male or female)? supporting a gender creative child; when parents may need to get help from professionals.

Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed. Topic: What works to help low income kids and why. Issues: What does growing up in poverty do to children’s mental and physical health and development? How does adversity at home affect their success in the classroom? What practical steps can parents, teachers, and policymakers take to improve their chances for a positive future.

Richard Louv, author of Vitamin N. Topic: Enriching the health and happiness of your family and community. Issues: Why vitamin N (time in nature) is the perfect prescription for everyone, helping reduce stress, enhance fitness, boost creativity, and create a nature-rich community; fun, educatinal games and activities you can do with your family to ensure that all of you get more vitamin N.

Michele Borba, author of Unselfie, Topic: Why empathetic kids succeed in our all-about-me world. Issues: The hidden advantage of empathy and why it matters for children; how to develop empathy; what empathetic kids do that non-empathetic kids don’t; developing moral courage; becoming an empathetic leader

Carol Stock Kranowitz, author of The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up. Topic: Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder in the adolescent and young adult years. Issues: What Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is and how common it is; growing out of SPD vs. coming up with workarounds; adults with SPD; helping educators better cope with SPD students.

Catherine Price, author of Vitamania. Topic: How vitamins revolutionized the way we think about food. Issues: How vitamins were discovered and named; the surprising story of America’s blind devotion to vitamins at the expense of our health; why so much we “know” about vitamins is actually wrong; what vitamins actually do (and don’t do).

Asha Dornfest, author of Parent Hacks. Topic: Genius shortcuts for life with kids. Issues: The little-known advantages of cabbage leaves; using ankle weights to keep a stroller from tipping; hiding your valuables in a (clean) diaper; and more than 100 more real-world, field-tested strategies from parents.

Tara Haelle, coauthor of The Informed Parent. Topic: The science of parenting in your child’s first four years. Issues: The importance of looking at the science before acting on advice you get from a friend (or the Internet); the truth about soft cheese, cat poop, alcohol, vaccines, SIDS, bed sharing, pacifiers, and much more.

Janet Lintala, author of The Un-Prescription for Autism. Topic: A natural approach for a calmer, happier, and more focused child. Issues: The connection between autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and gastro-intestinal problems; the importance of enzymes and probiotics; the benefits of a complete GI protocol.

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 to kids raised the Dolphin way?

Valerie Davis Raskin, coauthor of This Isn’t What I Expected. Topic: Overcoming postpartum depression. Issues: Symptoms of postpartum depression (PPD) and how it’s different than “baby blues”; dealing with panic attacks, stress overload, and obsessive urges; breaking the cycle of negative thinking; coping with the loss of self-esteem, when to get help; the dad’s role in support a new mom suffering from PPD