Advice Goddess Radio, Tonight, 7-8pm PT: Dr. Gabrielle Principe, Parenting Sans Paranoia--Why The Overstructured Childhood Is So Bad For Kids
Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.
NOTE: A word on the "Best of" replays, including tonight's. I'm in the final days of working absolutely insane hours to complete my next book. This is the only reason I haven't been doing live weekly shows, and I will soon be all-live every weekend, featuring some very exciting researchers and their books.
My guest tonight, psychology professor Dr. Gabrielle Principe notes that the panic-stricken parental race to raise tiny geniuses is actually bad parenting -- leading to overcontrolled childhoods that have negative effects on kids' development.
This way of raising children is marketing-driven, not science-driven (though marketers typically claim their toys and learning tools are based in science).
Take Baby Einstein videos. In 2007, UCLA's Department of Health Services chairman Frederick Zimmerman and his colleagues found that kids watching these had a 17 percent decrease in vocabulary acquisition for each hour they spent watching them per day.
Through looking at solid science on the human brain, Dr. Principe has figured out ways for parents to naturalize childhood again, so a child's environment gels with how the brain was designed to grow.
Her clearly written and dryly witty book: "Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan."
Join us tonight as she busts countless myths about how to raise children and lays out simple, clear advice for how kids can thrive.
Listen at this link at 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/07/15/dr-gabrielle-principe-parenting-sans-paranoia
Don't miss last week's show on better sex! My guest was marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis, author of the extremely helpful book, "The Sex-Starved Marriage," which I've referenced in my advice column.
This is not only a show that explains how to bring the sex back into your relationship but how manage things if one of you wants it more than the other (or if one of you wants it and the other wants it not at all).
Unlike all of those "sexperts" who basically tell you that one of you just has to throw on a nurse's uniform before you have at it, Michele Weiner Davis gives real, practical, pragmatic solutions for this problem -- ones that take into account how people really are and how life actually works.
Listen live (on tape) at this link at 7 p.m. Pacific, 10 p.m. Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/07/08/michele-weiner-davis-put-the-sex-back-in-your-relationship
Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, here at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.
I love her book!!!
Nicolek at July 14, 2013 9:45 PM
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https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/07/advice-goddess-124.html#comment-3802980">comment from NicolekI'm so glad. I loved her book and loved her. Some people you can just tell are warm, wonderful people, and I felt that about her when we spoke on the radio.
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at July 14, 2013 11:36 PM
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