Parent Choices For Struggling Teens

Guest: John Winton, Founder of Breakwater Expeditions, 208-263-0277, info@breakwaterexpeditions.com, www.breakwaterexpeditions, talk about how effective an exposure to nature can be toward healing families. Co-host: Larry Stednitz, educational consultant.

Guests: Dr. Russell Hyken Ph.D. Educational and Placement Specialist, in St. Louis, 314-691-7640, rhyken@ed-psy.com, www.ed-psy.com and Steve Walters: Social Media for InnerChange in Utah, 801-376-7225, stevenw@innerchange.com, www.innerchange.com talk about the significance of Social Media and ways educators can use Social Media.

Guest: Lisa Sinsheimer M.D., Clinical Consultant, Admissions and Parent Liaison for John Dewey Academy -MA, www.jda.org, 917-597-7814, lisa@sinsheimer.net, talks about her concerns with our society increasingly looking to psychotropic medications to solve normal problems of life.

Guest: Jerry Mintz, Founder and Director of Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO), NYC, 516-621-2195, Jerryaero@aol.com, www.educationrevolution.org, talks about how Democratic Education is based on children?s natural curiosity and urge to learn.

Guests: Jane Samuel, Head of School, jane.samuel@sequeltsi.com, and Elizabeth Guamaccia, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, eguarnaccia1@me.com, Auldern Academy, North Carolina, Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, 919-837-2336, www.auldern.com, talk about how the growth of the female brain starts it on its unique growth pattern almost from conception which results in significant differences in what females and males need in schools and their lives as they grow up.

Guest: Dr. Kevin Ross Emery, drkevin@managingthegift.com, facebook.com/mydrkevin, managingthegift.com, author of Managing the Gift of Your ADD/HD Child, explains how ADD/HD is not a disorder, but part of the evolutionary progress of expanded capability.

Guest: Dr. Kim Dennis M.D., 630-343-2332, kdennis@timberlineknolls.com, www.timberlineknolls.com, Medical Director at Timberline Knolls, RTC Lemont Illinois, discusses and explains Eating Disorders and the traumas that are usually behind clinical Eating Disorders.

Guest: Ron Thompson Ph.D.,402-498-1254, ronald.thompson@boystown.org, www.boystown.org/NRI, Director of the Boys Town National Research Institute for Child And Family Studies explains the research Boys Town has been doing for more than 22 years on at-risk children and the resulting program they provide parents groups on what they refer to as Common Sense Parenting.

Guest: Doug Covey, 800-426-4952, dougc@blueprinteducation.org, www.blueprinteducation.org, CEO of Blueprint Education-AZ, talks about his experience in developing a business providing a wide variety of education opportunities largely using the developing potentials of Online Education.

Guests: Ken Steiner PhD, Head of School, and Lisa Sinsheimer, Parent Liaison, lisa@sinsheimer.net, both with John Dewey Academy-MA, 413-528-9800, www.jda.org, talk about how their Caring Confrontation is an healing educational model approach that relates to students and other adults in a direct and honest way that builds self-respect and a sense of belonging in a school community.

Guest: Sanford Shapiro, Founder of the Bend Learning Center, 541-383-3208, sanfordmshapiro@gmail.com, www.ldresources.org, discusses the trend to integrate treatment for Learning Disabilities and for Emotional/Behavioral problems in private parent-choice schools and programs for struggling children with problems being successful.

Guest: Sanford Shapiro, Founder of the Bend Learning Center, 541-383-3208, sanfordmshapiro@gmail.com, www.ldresources.org, discusses the trend to integrate treatment for Learning Disabilities and for Emotional/Behavioral problems in private parent-choice schools and programs for struggling children with problems being successful.

Guest: Mike Watson, 256-426-8873, tmw1950@yahoo.com, www.mwatsonconsulting.com, Co-founder of the recent Three Springs treatment centers headquartered in Alabama, Watson is currently doing program consulting for schools and programs for struggling teens. Drawing on his 39 years of experience in the field, he offers his suggestions for what parents need to watch for to find effective schools and programs that emphasize providing quality and effective services for struggling teens.

Guest: Carl Olding, 406-847-4400, colding@elkmountainacademy.org, www.elkmountainacademy.org, Founder of Elk Mountain Academy, a Therapeutic Boarding School in western Montana for boys with substance abuse problems. Olding talks about how legal prescription medications are increasingly being redirected by teens into being abused and hints as to how parents and grandparents might watch for signs of this abuse.

Guest: Mike Watson, 256-426-8873, tmw1950@yahoo.com, www.mwatsonconsulting.com, Co-founder of the recent Three Springs treatment centers headquartered in Alabama, Watson is currently doing program consulting for schools and programs for struggling teens. Drawing on his 39 years of experience in the field, he offers his suggestions for what parents need to watch for to find effective schools and programs that emphasize providing quality and effective services for struggling teens.

Andy Anderson, 727-512-9144, alanderson1537@earthlink.net, ispaaac.com, Ex. Dir. of the Independent Small Programs Alliance (ISPA) discussed the advantages and possible future of small parent-choice residential schools and programs for struggling teens.

Andy Anderson, 727-512-9144, alanderson1537@earthlink.net, ispaaac.com, Ex. Dir. of the Independent Small Programs Alliance (ISPA) discussed the advantages and possible future of small parent-choice residential schools and programs for struggling teens.

Guest: Doug Czyz, 402-990-5371, doug.czyz@boystown.org, boystown,org, National Admissions Coordinator for Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska talks about the 93 year history of Boys Town and how it has evolved over the year as the needs of children with problems have changed.

Guest Brandi Elliott, bmelliott@verizon.net, the Director of Admissions and Business Development for Northwest Academy in Idaho has 19 years experience with struggling teens and their families, and Guest Kimball DeLemar, Kimball@innerchange.com, a licensed Social Worker is a Senior VP of Interchange headquartered in Utah with more than 25 years experience working with stugglingteens and their families talk about changes and challenges in society that are impacting education and speculate on what education might look like in a few years.

Guest: Robin Schafer robinschafer@comcast.net, President of Masterful KIds, is a Certified Emotional Intelligence Trainer and Certified Life and Career Coach. She talks about how the stress of academic achievement is a major contributor of many problems of children such as obesity, dropping out of school, substance abuse etc.