Family - Parenting

February 18, 2010

Interview with Francine Russo, author of the book They're Your Parents, Too!: How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy

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Mike Carruthers:
Adult children often become the caregivers to their elderly parents and when siblings are involved it can get complicated.

Francine Russo:
It is a major emotional passage and emotions will be blown way out of proportion.
 

Francine Russo, author of the book They're Your Parents, Too! …

February 8, 2010

Interview with Richard Whitmire, author of the book Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That's Leaving Them Behind

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Mike Carruthers:
Kids in elementary school are learning more, sooner and it’s creating a problem for boys.

Richard Whitmire:
For example today a kindergartner is doing verbal skills what a second grader did twenty years ago. The girls adjusted beautifully to that, the boys have not.
 

Richard Whitmire, author of the book Why Boys Fail...

January 29, 2010

Interview with Greg Baer, author of the book Real Love in Marriage: The Truth About Finding Genuine Happiness Now and Forever

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Mike Carruthers:
Have you ever experienced real love? Probably not, according to this guy…

Greg Baer M.D.:
Almost nobody, and I mean like less than 1% of the people on the planet, understand what love is - that's the problem.
 

Dr. Greg Baer, author of the book Real Love in Marriage ...

January 6, 2010
Interview with Louis Upkins, author of Treat Me Like a Customer: Using Lessons from Work to Succeed in Life

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Mike Carruthers:
For a lot of people today, career and achievement are more important than anything else.

Louis Upkins:
People are so driven by success that they’re willing to step on the things that they say matter to them.

November 24, 2009

Interview with Po Bronson, author of the book NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

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Mike Carruthers:
Parents are often concerned about how their children get along with each other. So here’s a statistic you might find interesting…

Po Bronson:
From the ages of 3 to 10, on average, siblings will  - for every hour they spend together - they will get into arguments 3 and a half times per hour. It will add up to 10 minutes of every hour spent arguing.
 

Po Bronson

November 23, 2009

Interview with Po Bronson, author of the book NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

www.NurtureShock.com

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Mike Carruthers:

If you’re a parent, you’ve probably heard that it’s not good to fight in front of your children. But that’s actually not very practical.

Po Bronson:

On average parents (if you count even the slightest bicker) it’s like 8 times a day that they’re sort of arguing. And kids are witness to it 45% of the time - and they’re feeling it, they’re picking up on it.

November 12, 2009

Interview with Joseph Allen, co-author of the book Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old

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Mike Carruthers:
Many of our teenagers have a problem and here it is...

Joseph Allen:
We are seeing more and more parents who are running flat out trying to provide everything they can for their teens - from lessons to summer camps to electronic gadgets. And yet in spite of all of this nurturance they find that there teens are still just remarkably helpless and dependent even in the face of simple everyday tasks.

Joseph Allen, co-author of the book Escaping the Endless Adolescence

November 4, 2009

Interview with Marje Monroe, Racing to Keep Up: Talking with your kids about technology use and strategies to protect the home computer

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Mike Carruthers:

If you have kids in your house using the Internet you should be aware…

Marje Monroe: 

That in the past two years there has just been a proliferation of viruses, scams, targeted to children and children’s gaming sites. And this puts kids and their computers at risk.

October 28, 2009

Interview with Dr. Doyle Williams Chief Dental Officer for Delta Dental.

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Mike Carruthers:

In an attempt to stop the spread of cold and flu germs in your house, don’t neglect your toothbrush. Particularly if someone in the house is already sick. For instance…

Dr. Doyle Williams:

If you use a communal tube of toothpaste - you put that toothpaste on and you touch the bristles you put it on so you’ve re-contaminated the whole tube of toothpaste.
 

October 27, 2009

Interview with Susan Stiffleman, author of the book Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm and Connected

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Mike Carruthers:

Parenting can be a tough job, especially if you’re locked in a power struggle with your child.

Susan Stiffleman:

Power struggles happen when a parent doesn’t fully own their role as what I call “the captain of the ship in the child’s life.”