- -: Wally Lamb on Meeting Columbine Gunman's Father
April 20, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/12/04/Wally_Lamb_The_Hour_I_First_Believed While signing copies of The Hour I First Believed, his novel about the Columbine High School massacre, author Wally Lamb was approached by the father of gunman Eric Harris. Lamb remembers the details of the emotion...
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- -: Linking Motherhood and Morality - Anna Funder
May 8, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/12/Anna_Funder_on_Courage In light of the birth of her daughter, author Anna Funder shares her personal experience with courage and morality. Funder believes motherhood has taught her a visceral "gut" understanding of good and bad. ----- Anna Funder de...
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- -: Dooce Blogger Heather Armstrong on Breastfeeding
May 8, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/01/Heather_Armstrong_It_Sucked_and_Then_I_Cried Dooce blogger Heather Armstrong relates humorous stories about breastfeeding, in an excerpt from her book, It Sucked and then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita. ----- Cre...
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- -: Time for a New Women's Movement? - Ruth Reichl
June 5, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/10/Not_Becoming_My_Mother_Ruth_Reichl Ruth Reichl protests what she views as the "abysmal" choices working women have to make when they start a family. In response, she urges for a new women's movement in the United States. ----- Ruth Reichl admits tha...
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- -: Verbal Judo: For Best Results, Discipline Calmly
June 24, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/10/Verbal_Judo_Diffusing_Conflict_Through_Conversation Dr. George Thompson, president and founder of the Verbal Judo Institute, names the most effective methods for discipline. He draws from the time his son broke a vase to argue that calmness and disint...
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- -: Privacy and Parenting - Ayelet Waldman
July 2, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/16/Bad_Mother_Ayelet_Waldman Author Ayelet Waldman reads from her book Bad Mother on the role of privacy in her household. ----- Author of the Mommy-Track mystery series, Ayelet Waldman reads from her book, Bad Mother. Covering topics as diverse as th...
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- -: How to Respond When Kids Smoke Pot?
July 3, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/16/Bad_Mother_Ayelet_Waldman 'Bad Mother' author Ayelet Waldman explains why she believes in a harm-reduction approach to educating kids about the danger of drugs, and thinks the D.A.R.E program is completely ineffective. Waldman says her kids know pot i...
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- -: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Why Do Children Fib?
October 15, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/30/The_Secret_Lives_of_Parents_Revealed Authors Po Bronson and Ayelet Waldman discuss the intricacies of childhood lying. Bronson offers the developmental cycle of lying in young children, while Waldman illustrates with a humorous story. ----- Although...
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- -: Max Blumenthal: The Far Right 'Hates' Children
October 28, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/29/Republican_Gomorrah_Max_Blumenthal Journalist Max Blumenthal ties far-right ideology to authoritarian parenting styles, which he describes as methods intended "to break the will of children." He cites Republican leader James Dobson's book Dare to Disc...
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- -: Can Your Behavior Affect Your Genes? - David Shenk
April 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/18/The_Genius_in_All_of_Us_David_Shenk Can the decisions you make influence your children's genetics? Maybe, according to emerging research. The Genius in All of Us author David Shenk introduces the field of epigenetics, which explores how environmental ...
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