Advice Goddess Radio, LIVE - SPECIAL EARLIER TIME - Sun, 1-2pm PT: Yale Parenting Center's Dr. Alan E. Kazdin On Getting Kids To Behave Without Stress
Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.

It turns out some of the ways parents think they'll get their kids to behave -- by berating, threatening, and punishing -- are actually the least effective.

My guest tonight, Yale University psychology professor, Dr. Alan E. Kazdin, who is also director of the Yale Parenting Center, has a parenting template that is not only effective at changing behavior in children, it does it by cutting out the screaming, yelling, and threatening.

Dr. Kazdin has written a fantastic and highly practical book, "The Everyday Parenting Toolkit: The Kazdin Method for easy, step-by-step, lasting change for you and your child." Join us for an incredibly effective, science-based rethink on how to parent kids into behaving the way you want -- with a minimum of stress and unhappiness for you and your kids.

Listen at this link at 1-2 p.m. Pacific, 4-5 p.m. Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/09/01/dr-alan-e-kazdin-get-kids-to-behave-without-stress

Don't miss last week's show on twins research, which unlocks the answers to numerous questions we all have about human nature:

•How much do our genes determine who we are?
•Can we shift our environment to make the best of the genes we have?
•Where do our personalities come from?
•Why are some sisters so different from one another?
•How much does having rotten parents affect your chances for success?
•Why do some abused children grow up to be criminals and why do some become productive individuals?

My very special guest, twins researcher Dr. Nancy Segal, uses her studies of twins to figure out the rest of us -- such as how much we, on average, are shaped by our environment and how much by our genes.

She's the author of four books on twins, which can be found on her website, drnancysegaltwins.org. Join us tonight as she tells fascinating stories about twins and what her research on twins has to tell us about how we come to be the people we are.

Listen at this link or download the podcast:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/08/26/twins-researcher-dr-nancy-segal-on-nature-vs-nurture

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.