How to Raise Kind Kids, Healing the Heart with Love, Snacks, Optimistic Children

Important conversations and encouraging words to help you make every day a great one. How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex We live in such a sexually saturated world and the need to discuss these topics with our children is growing. But how do we approach such sensitive topics? How can we replace uncomfortable silence with healthy dialogue? How can we teach our children to have high standards and to remain morally responsible without frightening them? Dr. Jennifer Finalyson-Fife is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in relationship and sexuality counseling joins us to help guide us through these important and sometimes difficult conversations. You can find her online courses and upcoming workshops and events at Finlayson-fife.com. How to Raise Kind Kids It seems like you can’t go to the grocery store without seeing a kid throw a tantrum… or leave the house without a million complaints from your teenager. No one wants bratty, disrespectful, or ungrateful kids… but parenting doesn’t come with a manual. Dr. Thomas Lickona, author of How to Raise Kind Kids, joins us today to teach us how we can be character coaches to cultivate gratitude and respect in our families. Dr. Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and professor of education emeritus at State University of New York, Cortland. He is the best-selling author of Raising Good Children and Character Matters as well as nine other books on character development. Healing the Heart with Love Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the world. Over the past 100 years, we’ve made incredible technological advancements in heart health –pacemakers and heart transplants among many others. But, Dr. Sandeep Jauhar says that if we can improve our emotional well-being, we just might be able to heal our hearts. Dr. Jauhar is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is also the author of Heart: A History. Snacks Josh Bingham and Amy Biedel join Lisa to talk about some of the most controversial snacks. Optimistic Children Kids can get scared very easily, and it is hard to protect them from a scary world. But there are so many exciting things for children to focus on: their hobbies, curiosity, school, friends, even family. KJ Dell’Anontia is with us today to discuss her thoughts from her article “How to Raise Optimistic Kids in Pessimistic Times,” from TIME magazine. KJ Dell’Antonia is the author of How to Be a Happier Parentand the former editor of the Motherlode blog on the New York Times. She continues to write on the personal and policy aspects of parenthood for the Times and other publications and is the co-host of the #AmWriting podcast. You can learn more about her here(http:// www.kjdellantonia.com).