Family - Parenting

May 13, 2013

Interview with Amy Lupold Bair, author of the book Raising Digital Families For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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Mike Carruthers:
How much time should kids be spending on digital devices, watching TV and playing video games?

Amy Lupold Bair:
The general recommendation is a couple hours a day is plenty. And then you can set different rules in terms of weekend and week day.
 

April 10, 2013

Interview with Bruce Feiler, author of the book The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

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Mike Carruthers:
One thing happy and successful families have is fun, a lot of fun together.

Bruce Feiler:
And if you build up those positive memories - almost whatever it is that your family does, if you like to cook or hike or swim or do jigsaw puzzles – it doesn’t really matter.
 

April 9, 2013

Interview with Bruce Feiler, author of the book The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

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Mike Carruthers:
Is your family a happy family? It turns out that happy families have a few important things in common.

Bruce Feiler:
They adapt all the time, there’s a system where they can change in our case we have a family meeting once a week where we talk about how we’re functioning as a family.

March 5, 2013

Interview with Ashley Merryman, co-author of the book Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing

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Mike Carruthers:
A lot of the competition has been taken out of kids’ sports everyone’s a winner and no one keeps an official score.

Ashley Merryman:
But the kids keep score, they all know and actually the sort of illusion that everybody wins is really kind of troubling to kids.
 

December 28, 2012

Interview with Dr. David Katz, author of the book The Way to Eat: A Six-Step Path to Lifelong Weight Control

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Mike Carruthers:
It's interesting what we teach our kids about eating.

David L. Katz M.D.:
In a society where we have epidemic obesity and diabetes in children, I've yet to meet the parent who doesn't encourage their child to clean their plate.
 

December 25, 2012

Interview with Agatha Gilmore, author of the book Celebration: The Santa Book 

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Mike Carruthers:
How did the story of Santa Claus begin?

Agatha Gilmore:
Santa really started with a legend of a real monk who was born around 200 AD in Patara, which is a region in Turkey.
 

December 24, 2012

Interview with Tim Walsh, author of the book Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them

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Mike Carruthers:
Of all the classic toys on the market which one has been around the longest?

Tim Walsh:
Well, Raggedy Ann is the longest continuously licensed character. She came out in 1918 and she's always been on a lunch box or as a doll or in a storybook somewhere.
 

December 18, 2012

Interview with Dr. Kevin Leman, author of the book What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life

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Mike Carruthers:
Where you fall in the family’s birth order does seem to make a difference in how you turn out.

Dr. Kevin Leman:
The first 23 astronauts in outer space guess what - 21 first born and 2 only children not a middle or a baby in sight.
 

November 15, 2012

Interview with Patricia Aburdene, author of the book Conscious Money: Living, Creating, and Investing with Your Values for a Sustainable New Prosperity

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Mike Carruthers:
Have you ever stopped and really thought about your beliefs about money?

Patricia Aburdene:
It’s important because your values and your beliefs about money shape your choices. And your choices write the story of your life and of your financial life.
 

November 14, 2012

Interview with David Horsager, author of the book The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line

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Mike Carruthers:
Do you know people who make commitments and then flake out?

David Horsager:
Many, many, many people are making commitments, I think, without counting the costs, without thinking about really am I really going to stick with this? Or I’m just going to say it it’s so easy to say.