Parenting for the Future

This interview with Erin Williamson from Love 146, delves into the organization's efforts in survivor care, prevention education, and community engagement to combat human trafficking. We discuss the complexities of trafficking, the role of traffickers, the importance of prevention programs, and practical tips for parents to protect children online. This episode features Erin Williamson from Love 146 discussing the realities of child trafficking, risk factors, warning signs, and how communities can work together to prevent and respond to this grave issue. Learn about survivor care, prevention programs, and how to empower children and caregivers with vital safety information.

In this Episode you will learn about: The state of women's health in the US The role of instinct in staying healthy QUILT – the way to tell your story to your doctors and medical providers How to make a "Family Medical Tree" What we can do to advocate for more and broader funding for Research into Women's Health 

In this Episode you will learn about: Navigating bigotry as part of a multiracial, multi-religious and multi-ethnic family  The power of parental values  Why all "isms" are actually connected The role of fear in amplifying all "isms" How to be actively antiracist in your everyday life Why we should not be afraid of sharing true history with our kids A surprising lesson from M&Ms The tribal myth Why what we don't do, don't read and don't talk about shape our kids How we can incentivize enough people to whisper, so that collectively we create a loud roar against racism and oppression

In this Episode you will learn about: Promly: Social media for Gen. Zs by Gen. Zs Public Benefit Corporations The Gen. Z suicide crisis   Why the Gen. Z voice is pivotal in policy impacting Gen. Zs The Kid Online Safety Act Shadow's Edge – Gaming for Mental Health Stockpile – A money app for families How parental values shape changemakers How loss can spur life-saving innovation

In this Episode you will learn about: The history of the Fresh Air Fund  Not defining children based on the communities from which they come The Fresh Air Fund camps and summer curriculum How the Fresh Air Fund serves children year-round  How the Fresh Air Fund develops young leaders How families influence the work of the Fresh Air Fund Corporate partners and their role in the work of the Fresh Air Fund How you can support the Fresh Air Fund Why green space and time in the outdoors can change a life for the better

In this Episode you will learn about: The Microschool movement  Colossal Academy Non-traditional learners and microschools How every learner can thrive in microschools How microschool students perform on standardized test The global education gap Why Microschooling may be the future of learning "Optimistic Edu-futurists"      

In this Episode you will learn about: The Onyx Family origin story How Onyx built a multi-million-dollar YouTube franchise The role of faith in building a business for positive impact AI and the entertainment industry Opportunities to have positive impact on social media  The importance of "finding your lane" Beyond YouTube – how to build a sustainable, scalable entertainment brand Why the world needs more entertainers who spread love

In this Episode you will learn about: The number of children around the world who are grieving the death of a parent or caregiver  How children experience grief Ramifications of unaddressed grief How families and communities can support grieving kids What schools can do to better support grieving children Strategies parents and caregivers can use to help their kids understand and accept the inevitability of death Weekend camps for grieving families Resources created by grieving kids for grieving kids The work of Experience Camps to allow grieving children to embody lives full of hope and rich with possibility

In this Episode you will learn about: The definition of "bias" Surprising forms of bias The roots of biases The ages biases begin to emerge Culture-based Counter Transference The Crawford Bias Reduction Theory The LETUP model Strategies parents can use to reduce bias

In this Episode you will learn about: • How hope, love and connection are the most wonderful gifts from stories • How stories can shape our experience in the world • How a change of scenery can change one's life • Why we should read aloud to our kids • The authors who most profoundly influenced Kate DiCamillo • How parents can raise children who have an insatiable love of reading

In this episode you will learn about: Philosophy – what it is and how it can help us navigate a complicated world How racism shaped the Philosophical Canon The Less Commonly Taught Philosophies (LCTPs) Immanuel Kant's influence on the Philosophical Canon Why teaching Indigenous, African, East Asian, South Asian, and LGBQ+ philosophical traditions can help solve complex problems How philosophy helps us disagree without demonizing How to help your kids develop a philosophical mindset

In this Episode you will learn about: The genesis and work of Born This Way Foundation  The link between kindness and mental health The power of a public health approach to mental wellness Why youth advisory boards are crucial for the success of youth mental health initiatives  The "Be There Certificate", a free, online mental health course  The LGBTQ+ Study by Born This Way Foundation and Hope Lab

In this Episode you will learn about: Acute myeloid leukemia  The role of a father in shaping a life "Remaindered" kids The far reach of a mother's love How musicals can anchor a parent-child relationship The power of the "village" in raising a child

In this Episode you will learn about: The meaning of "financial independence" How your upbringing influences your attitude towards money  Why it is important to talk about money with your kids How an allowance can help kids understand money/finance The three phases of your financial life How to protect your earnings  Various types of insurance Trusts Asset allocation and asset location  Taxable, tax deferred and tax-free investments How to prepare to financially care for older parents/family members

In this Episode you will learn about: Diana Chao's journey Letters to Strangers The power of youth for youth mental health support Culture Bound Syndromes The importance of family mental health conversations The psychopharmaceutical industry How community and connection save lives

In this Episode you will learn about: Sewell Setzer Character.AI How AI Companions impact our kids/a child's brain The relationship between Character.AI, Google LLC and Alphabet, Inc.  Warning signs to look out for when your kids have AI Companions Large Language Learning Models Anthropomorphic AI 

In this Episode you will learn about: ABSee Me Why kids need windows and mirrors to learn Why seeing themselves in their classroom is crucial for every child Why learning materials that reflect the class are the most powerful Goldman Sach's One Million Black Women – Black in Business program Emirates National Schools What parents can do to ensure their child is represented in their learning materials

In this Episode you will learn about: The U.S. foster care system  Why kids go into foster care Reunification – pros and cons The foster parenting experience The work of a case/social worker The role teachers play in the foster care system How fostering can change a child's life for the better Strategies to improve foster care for all involved What you can do to help kids in foster care

In this Episode you will learn about: The meaning of intelligence The scientists who developed IQ tests How racism and discrimination shaped the IQ test  Eugenics Why standardized tests don't measure intelligence IQ tests most frequently used in the US How IQ tests shape the lives of kids with Down Syndrome and other conditions How to advocate for fairer measures of intelligence

In this Episode you will learn about: The definition of "body image" Why body image impacts every aspect of our lives How mothers influence their children's body image How culture and geography impact body image Eating disorders  Disordered eating  Diet culture How to listen to our bodies and teach our kids to do the same The Health at Every Size movement "Embodiment" The effects of social media on body image FACE: A tool to avoid the comparison culture of social media

In this Episode you will learn about: The definition of "citizen" Why U.S. schools have failed to teach civics or what it means to live in and support a democracy The ramifications of not understanding our political system How to overcome obstacles to talking to your kids about politics 4 questions to ask your kids when they show interest in politics How to help our kids if they express extremist of violent political views How to register your child vote How our kids are advantaged by learning about our political system and government The basic information you need to start conversations about politics with your kids

In this Episode you will learn about: Why short, consistent positive messages and actions can meaningfully improve mental wellness   How to develop a gratitude habit and teach your kids to do the same  Gratitude journaling The Gratitude challenge Dream journaling How texts can promote mental health How AI can save lives

In this Episode you will learn about: The reasons all kids should learn programming Hedy, a free, opensource platform to teach kids textual programming  The role of natural languages in teaching programming How parents can teach themselves programming The Codasium Program Efforts to make programming a mandatory subject in K-12 schools  Why gender stereotypes have no place in STEM education

In this Episode you will learn: The meaning of educational displacement Why children need to see themselves and their experiences in the places they learn  Why identity is a story and not a category How hate takes root  The relationship between "othering" and radicalization How the suffering of one child can cause many to suffer   How interfaith collaborations and conversations can irradicate hate The power of every person's story How we can build resilience to hate  

In this Episode you will learn about: How parents can raising confident, curious, human-centered people The life-shaping power of books and conversations Civic journalism Keys to rebuilding trust in the press and key institutions  Why hope is a muscle and how we can make it strong

In this Episode you will learn about: Now Look!  The newest book by Sydney Lea The scourge of addiction in small-town America The role of nature in shaping a life The  role of friendship and community in saving a life Why a Liberal Arts education matters more than ever How to help kids embrace poetry Three poets all kids (and parents) should read

In this Episode you will learn about: Courageous girls and women speaking up about the issues of our time How we can help our daughters find and use their voices How we can reconnect with our own voices and use them to raise awareness, fight for justice or share hope How some of the world's most popular brands show their commitment to girls and women

In this Episode you will learn about: Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM) in the digital world The incredible harms of CSAM How Apple places user privacy above children protection The Heat Initiative's efforts to push Apple to detect, report and remove  CSAM How our kids can get exposed to or themselves appear in CSAM Sextortion Generative AI and CSAM Online enticements How to talk to your kids about online safety  

Neuropsychiatrist Founder of Amen Clinics Author of 12 NYT Bestsellers Creator of "Scan my Brain" Produced 17 national public television shows about the brain  Education/Degrees

In this Episode you will learn about: How parents survive and thrive after the losing a child The power of ritual to sustain loved ones through and after pending death The importance of community The role of movement in navigating grief Tay-Sachs and how to screen for this disease The work of E-motion The work of Dr. Joanne Cacciatore The work of JScreen at Emory University

In this Episode you will learn about: How care shapes all our lives How suffragists and Black feminists made remarkable gains in care through the Social Housekeepers Movement  Our addiction to independence and how it prevents us from prioritizing care Our "careselves" vs. our "workselves" America's bootstrap myth and how it hurts our ability to care The ramifications of the blind spot toward care  How you can join the fight for paid leave and other key facets of a care infrastructure for America

In this Episode you will learn: • The real meaning of philanthropy • The 5 Ts of being a philanthropist • Surprising ways to get your kids of any age excited about philanthropy • How the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, the world's first philanthropy school, leverages data to help us all understand why giving back is so important to changing the world for the better • Why we need philanthropy more than ever

Dr. Melita Stancil Founder/Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Melita Psychological Services Guest lecturer, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and York college.  Former clinical psychologist, Child Mind Institute  Former Lead Clinician, Ellen Horne Education/Degrees MA and Ph.D In Clinical Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina

Chelsey Goodan Founder, The Activist Cartel Mentorship Director of DemocraShe Mentor & Tutor To Teen Girls Author Education/Degree NYU -  Tisch School of the Arts

Founder of the Village Well Educator Certified Positive Parenting Educator Education/Degree University of California, Davis In this episode you will learn: What it means to "decolonize" your parenting  How to leverage the wisdom of your cultural background in your parenting Why it is important to interrupt intergenerational pain to create healthy, thriving families How to apply positive parenting principles to common and not-so-common parenting challenges  

Chris Balme Founding Principal at founding principal at Hakuba International School, Japan  Co. Founder and Former Head of The Millennium School Founder and Director of Argonaut Ashoka fellowship recipient Author Education/Degree: B.A., University of Pennsylvania B.S., Wharton School of Management.

Navigating conversations about identity, diversity, and justice can be fraught with linguistic traps and emotional landmines. On this episode we learn from Kenji Yoshino, Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and Faculty Director of the school's Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging how to have nuanced and empathetic conversations about our differences, whether in our workplaces, our social circles, or in our homes and how to teach our children this skill so that they can thrive in a diverse and complex world.  

Studies have shown that 69-90% of us will experience at least one serious traumatic event during our lifetimes. The sudden death of a loved one. A debilitating illness.  A natural disaster. War. What differentiates us?  How we respond;  how resilient we are.  Our guest today has found that extremely resilient people share  the 10 attributes we discuss in this episode.  As we reflect on the  personal and global challenges we have all faced in 2023 and look forward to the new year, understanding how we can not only become more resilient but teach our children to develop resilience, is undoubtedly one of the most important lessons we can learn.  

On October 24, 2023 a bipartisan coalition of 32 US. Attorneys Generals filed a Federal lawsuit against Meta alleging that the company knowingly designed and deployed harmful features at Instagram, Facebook, and its other social media platforms to induce young children and teenagers into addictive and compulsive social media use contributing significantly to a youth mental health crisis. The suit also alleges that Meta has repeatedly misled the public about the substantial dangers of its platform's use.  But in 2021 before these lawsuits, an anonymous employee of Facebook filed a series of complaints with the US. Federal government, claiming that Facebook had been misleading the public and investors about the impact of its services on the mental health of children and young adults. That employee later revealed herself to be Frances Hogan, and she is our guest today. As we enter the holiday season where our kids are likely to spend more time than usual on screens, this conversation is more important than ever. 

There are over 300,000 transgender children under 13 years of age in the United States.and every single one of them is under attack.  Join me in conversation with Jodie Patterson, former Chair of the Human Right Campaign Foundation Board, author, activist and mom to a transgender child where we explore the transformative privilege of parenting transgender children and why fighting for their rights and protecting their ability to thrive is non-negotiable if we want a future where all our children will thrive. 

"Some of issues parents expected to confront when their child was in their early twenties. have been pushed later.  I think it's safe to say that many parents expected to still be providing some financial assistance to their child when their child was in their early twenties. Don't think that many parents expected to be doing it when their child was 30, and I think that from the young person's point of view they probably expect to be getting some help from their parents while they were still in college and right out of college, but I'm sure that they didn't expect that to be having to go to their mother and father and ask for financial help on the over 30 or 32, and that is going on today. And so I think the shifting timetable of the transition to adulthood has really made this an important topic and parents are perplexed" Distinguished University Professor and  Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University Education/Degree: AB in Psychology,  Vassar College Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies Cornell University

" The truth is Congress has so completely failed. They Haven't passed a Privacy law since Mark Zuckerberg was in diapers. It's pathetic. Shame on them! This has reshaped everybody's lives, and they just sat there, and because of their political partisanship, the fact There's not a federal privacy, law, or Laws regulating social media platforms is a joke.  Absolute abject failure of our political system in the twenty-first century." Founder and CEO, Common Sense Media Co-Founder, Center for the next generation  Education/Degree BA, Stanford University J.D., Stanford Law School

'When I work with the athletes and talk about toolboxes, I think helping them build tool belts that give them the arsenal. So when? Not if but when the headwind blows. Oh, I got this! I have agency over my destiny. I get to decide what's next for me, (remove Petal's sound) Yes, I'm gonna need help along the way and support, of course, but I'm not gonna let any setback, not making the team or that coach not liking me, determine my future. " Peak Performance Coach Motivational Speaker Co-host: "Raising Athletes" Podcast Education/Degree: BA, College of William and Mary

"Complex care typically refers to the children at the very tip, who are the sickest and the book is really written to be more, all inclusive, because many children, while they may not be complex, they have chronic health conditions which cause a lot of increased work for their families. " Director of Pediatrics at the Atria Institute in New York City Education/Degree: BA, Harvard University MD, Vagelos College of physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

"The ability to introspect to work through problems. This is one of the reasons we are so successful as a species. The ability to introspect is how we learn from our problems and plan for the future is what allows us in part to build spaceships that literally land SUVs nowadays on other planets like Mars. but, on the other hand, people struggle enormously with introspection to the point that they become overly angry, anxious, and depressed. And so we've got this remarkable tool. but it's really unwieldy. Sometimes it helps us. Sometimes it hurts us."  Professor, University of Michigan's Psychology Department and Russ school of Business Founder and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan Education/Degree: Ph.D. Columbia University BA University of Pennsylvania

"Well, if we break money down to its simplest components, right? And how we handle it, what do we do with our money. We really do 3 things right. We spend it. we save it, we give it away. And if you think about what actually goes into the decisions around each of those you know. They're all about emotions and behaviors. spending is about modesty and prudence and thrift, or it's about greed and envy. saving is about delayed gratification. Patience. giving is generosity. It's a sense of gratitude.  So it's easy to think about this as a sort of you know, hard mathematical science, but I prefer to think of it as a social science. Money is about behavior as much as it is about numbers and math." "Your Money" Columnist, The New York Times Education/Degree BA, American Studies, Amherst College

"A third of the young people who come to us feel like it's unclear to them how to affect change. And so our goal has to be start small, start with the things that are accessible that you can actually do today, whether that's educating yourself or taking a first volunteer action. And then that portal can be a way to level up engagement so that you get to do more and more over time." CEO of Do.Something.org, one of the world's largest organizations exclusively for young people who are committed to positive social change Education/Degree: BS in Legal Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,  J. D., Fordham Law School. DoSomething.org  

"When we talk about caring for other people, we are also talking about caring for the common good, and we're talking about caring across difference. Relatively speaking, it's not hard for people to care for someone else. Almost everybody cares for somebody else. the higher bar for a lot of people is caring for people who are different from them in race or class, or culture, or political orientation, or religious orientation"   Senior lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School of government. Faculty director of Harvard's Making Caring Common Project Education/Degree: Ed.D., Harvard University

Jonathan Rubenstein is father to one daughter and the founder and CEO of Joe Coffee, New York City's original specialty coffee company and a pioneer of the Third Wave Coffee Movement.    The award-winning collection of cafes is best known for brewing the highest quality coffee and serving its community of customers with warm, authentic hospitality.   Jonathan is here to talk about how cup of coffee and a lot of care can make the world a better place  

Laurie Palau is a mom two almost grown-up daughters, host of the super popular weekly podcast, This ORGANIZED Life, and  founder of Simply B Organized, a lifestyle company helping people declutter their lives so they could live simply and more meaningfully.   Laurie's advice has been featured in national publications including Real Simple and The New York Times and she speaks frequently on clutter, parenting, and entrepreneurship.     She is the author of the best-selling book Hot Mess: A Practical Guide to Getting Organized.   This book is the topic of our conversation today.