Guest: Joe Califano

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 64 , Segment 3

Episode: The River Republic, Straight Talk Parenting

May 15, 2015 9:00 pm
16:01 mins

, national anti-smoking campaign. His book “How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid” has just been released in revised form to meet the challenges facing today’s kids and parents Nearly every child in the U.S. will be offered drugs or alcohol before graduating from high school. But, if you can get your children to the age of twenty-one without smoking, using drugs or abusing alcohol, they’re just about certain never to use those substances. So the adolescent years are critical. And that’s why Joseph Califano wrote his book about raising drug-free kids—a new revision of which was released last year.

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River Republic

51 MINS

Guest: Daniel McCool, author of the book, “River Republic, The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers.” He is director of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program and a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Utah

Straight Talk Parenting

36 MINS

Guest: Vicki Hoefle, professional parent educator and family coach. Her latest book is “The Straight Talk on Parenting: A No-Nonsense Approach on How to Grow a Grown-Up” In her last best-seller, she urged parents to stay on the sidelines and keep quiet, even if it meant using duct tape on their hands and mouths to allow their kids to step up and learn respect, responsibility and resilience. In her new book, “The Straight Talk on Parenting: A No-Nonsense Approach on How to Grow a Grown-Up,” Hoefle pushes parents to ask themselves: “Do you want to produce a polite seven-year-old or raise a high-functioning, emotionally healthy adult?” In her interview, she explains the difference between raising a well-behaved child and “growing a grown-up.”