with special guest Nadine Block

Lu Hanessian	Nadine Block	Barbara Nicholson

* the practice and effect of spanking on cognitive and physical well-being

* the confusion surrounding spanking and good behavior

* how our own childhood experience drives our decision to spank or not

* what to do if your spouse and you disagree on spanking

and more

* the practice and effect of spanking on cognitive and physical well-being

* the confusion surrounding spanking and good behavior

* how our own childhood experience drives our decision to spank or not

* what to do if your spouse and you disagree on spanking

and more.

Register for this call to hear hosts Lu Hanessian and API cofounder Barbara Nicholson talk

with Nadine Block

Founder and Director of the Center for Effective Discipline, Founder of the National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools; Past Regional Director, Chair of Governmental Relations for the National Association of School Psychologists; Co-Chair, End Physical Punishment of Children (EPOCH -USA); Founder/Chair of SpankOut Day, USA “Raising Good Kids Without Hitting;” and Board Trustee National Child Protection Training Center

• What’s the issue? Here’s a summary to get you going. Or more: The Report on Physical Punishment in the United States: What Research Tells Us About Its Effects on Children
• Reality check on how physical punishment of children persists:
  • In the United States
    
  • Around the world
• Register for the API Live Teleseminar with Nadine Block on August 30 at 9pm EST and learn more about what you can do in your community to end corporal punishment, ask her your questions (apilive@attachmentparenting.org) and learn about H.R. 5628, the Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act.
• API Support Groups can make plans for next year’s Spank Out Day grants now, Applications are due in October 2010.

About Nadine Block

Nadine Block served from l987 to 2010 as the Executive Director of the Center for Effective Discipline, a non-profit organization which provides information about the effects of corporal punishment of children and alternatives. She serves as co-chair of End Physical Punishment of Children (EPOCH-USA).

Nadine has a long history of advocacy on behalf of children and families. She has served as a teacher, a school psychologist, and a consultant to mental health and child abuse prevention organizations. She developed policies and directed legislative action to affect bans on corporal punishment of children in schools at state and national levels. In 2009, a coalition of fifty organizations she coordinated achieved a ban on school paddling in Ohio making it the 30th state to do so.   Her commitment to ending all corporal punishment of children stems from a firm belief that children are entitled to the same right that all other citizens enjoy, to be free from physical assault.

She is recognized as a national leader in the effort to ban corporal punishment of children and has gained international recognition in that effort. She founded the Center for Effective Discipline and co-founded the National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools. She founded SpankOut Day USA April 30th and served as its coordinator from since l998. The Center provides mini-grants for non-profit agencies to support educational programs for parents on positive discipline and effects of physical punishment on SpankOut Day each year. More than 600 grants have been awarded. SpankOut Day April 30th is recognized internationally by NGO’s who observe the day with education programs for parents. The observance is sometimes called “No Hitting Day” or “No Smacking Day.”  She is a founder emeritus of Support for Talented Students, non-profit organization which provides scholarships for programs outside of the regular school day for gifted and talented students.

Nadine has appeared before the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States on this issue and has presented workshops overseas at the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, She was invited to attend a UNICEF regional consultation on Violence Against Children in 2005, and a meeting of the Committee on the U.N Convention on the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Switzerland.

She organized the development and dissemination of a research report on physical punishment of children and youth for EPOCH-USA. The Report on Physical Punishment in the United States: What Research Tells Us About Its Effects on Children, authored by Elizabeth T. Gershoff, PhD, brings together over one hundred years of social science research and dozens of published studies on physical punishment conducted by professionals in the fields of psychology, medicine, education, social work, and sociology, among other fields.  The report has been endorsed by many major family/child serving organizations in the U.S.

Nadine has been interviewed by many live and print media sources including Larry King Live, Hannity and Comb, ABC News, New York Times, USA Today, Good Morning America, BBC Channel 4, London, CBS 48 Hours, Redbook, Reuters Health Network, NBC Today, Family Circle Magazine, PBS, Youth Today, Village Voice, Parenting Magazine, Time Magazine, and many state and local newspapers.

She has received awards from Prevent Child Abuse America (Donna Stone Award), the Ohio PTA (Oak Tree Award), the National Association of School Psychologists (Friend of Children), the Child Abuse and Neglect Committee of the Ohio Academy of Pediatrics and several others. Nadine is active in her community in a variety of organizations and has held leadership positions in several of them. She is married and the grandmother of ten children.

Register now for this API LIVE! Teleseminar

Monday, August 16, 8 pm EST/5 pm PST – note earlier time!

on Attachment Parenting

with special guest Mayim Bialik

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Lu Hanessian	Mayim Bialik	Barbara Nicholson

Register for this call to hear hosts Lu Hanessian and API cofounder Barbara Nicholson talk with attachment parenting mother of two and actress Mayim Bialik.

• Hear about Mayim’s personal AP parenting experiences
• Find out about her new projects, including an AP book she’s writing on what babies need (and don’t need) and why she feels so compelled to spread the word.

You can support API’s mission and take advantage of the knowledge and experience API Live’s special guests by signing up today.

Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

After registration, you will get an email with the call-in information and then after the program you will receive the download details for this exciting MP3.

Register now for $19 ($9 for API members–so join today!).

If you are not an API member, you will be able to join and purchase (for $44 total – a 25% savings!). API Leaders register for free.

About Mayim Bialik

Mayim Hoya Bialik is best known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the early-1990s NBC television sitcom ”Blossom.” Bialik was born in San Diego, California to first generation Jewish American parents, documentary film makers and teachers. She played the young Bette Midler in “Beaches” and also had guest roles on some of television’s most beloved shows of the 1980s and 1990s, such as “MacGuyver,” “Webster,” “Facts of Life,” and “Murphy Brown”. She also appeared in Woody Allen’s “Don’t Drink the Water” in 1994, HBO’s “Fat Actress,” and the HBO comedy series ”Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

At the end of ”Blossom,” Bialik earned a BS from UCLA in 2000 in Neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and went on to the Ph.D. program in Neuroscience, also at UCLA. She completed her doctorate in the Fall of 2007, which examined Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in adolescents with Prader-Willi syndrome. Bialik was a dedicated student leader at UCLA Hillel, leading and starting a Women’s Rosh Chodesh group, chanting and blowing shofar for High Holiday services, and conducting and writing music for UCLA’s Jewish a cappella group.

Recent appearances include a recurring roles on “Secret Life of the American Teenager,”  FOX’s “Till Death,” and her recently announced recurring role on the CBS Chuck Lorre hit “The Big Bang Theory” playing Jim Parson’s nerdy, brainy girlfriend. She recently portrayed 1960’s activist Nancy Kurshan in “Chicago 8,” to be released in 2010.

Bialik is married to a graduate student who she met in calculus at UCLA, gave birth to a son in 2005, and a second son (born at home, largely unassisted) in 2008. Bialik is a board member and co-founder and chair of Jewish Free Loan Association’s Genesis branch, and is an avid student of all things Jewish. Bialik is devoted to a lifestyle of attachment parenting, homeschooling, natural family living, vegan cooking, and even makes her own shampoo. She currently studies weekly independently and through Partners in Torah.  Ms. Bialik keeps a traditional Jewish home, cares for her boys with her husband all on their own, and is thrilled to be both working again, and writing and speaking for a variety of Jewish groups around the United States.

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“SEPARATION ANXIETY:

YOUR CHILD’S AND YOURS”

with special guest Elizabeth Pantley

Lu Hanessian	Elizabeth Pantley	Lysa Parker

Purchase this recording to hear host Lysa Parker and guest host Gena Kirby talk with Elizabeth Pantley about:

• If you work so hard at creating attachment, why encourage separation?
• Do AP children have more separation anxiety than others?
• If you have a baby who won’t let you out of her sight without crying how do you handle that?
• Should an AP parent ever leave their child with a babysitter?
• What do you do if your child cries when you leave him with a sitter?
• Is it normal for a parent to suffer separation anxiety?
• What are your tips for parents who have a hard time separating from their children?

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“SETTLING THE COSLEEPING

CONTROVERSY“

Get the Facts About Cosleeping, SIDS, Bedsharing and Breastfeeding

with special guest Dr. James McKenna

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Lu Hanessian	James McKenna	Lysa Parker

Purchase this teleseminar to hear hosts Lu Hanessian and Lysa Parker talk with Dr. McKenna about:

• Why the cosleeping debate?
• What if the baby won’t transition out of our bed?
• Can we put the baby in the middle?
• Can’t there be siblings near the baby?
• Until what age are the guidelines relevant?
• Can I nurse lying down? How?
• And answer your questions–email them to APILive@AttachmentParenting.org

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Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

After purchase, you will get an email with the download details for this exciting MP3.

Purchase now for $19 ($9 for API members–so join today!).

If you are not an API member, you will be able to join and purchase (for $44 total – a 25% savings!). API Leaders register for free.

About Professor James McKenna, PhD.

Dr. McKenna is the Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Chair in Anthropology at Notre Dame University and the Director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Anthropology and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, also in Anthropology. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley for two years before accepting a tenure track position at Pomona College in Claremont, California where he taught for 20 years, and won several teaching awards. In 1997, he was recruited by the University of Notre Dame, where he is a Professor and the director of the University of Notre Dame Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory. His areas of interest and expertise are Infant Sleep, Breast Feeding, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Evolution of Human Behavior (especially parenting and infant development). Dr. McKenna is best known for his pioneering studies of the differences between the physiology and behavior of solitary and co-sleeping mothers and infants-and the connection these data might have in addressing SIDS risks. He has published three books, the most recent one titled Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent’s Guide to Cosleeping. In addition, he has published well over 50 peer-reviewed papers on SIDS and co-sleeping.

Sign up now to listen in as API Co-Founders Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker talk with Lu Hanessian about using our mistakes, conflicts and fears to raise our kids.

* Are you enjoying the ride with your children…or feeling burdened by vicious circles, self-doubt and guilt?
* Do you feel regretful of your reactions and exasperated by the dynamics with your child?
* Do you wonder if you’re messing up with your kids?

On this call, API founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson talk with Lu about how:

* our “flaws” are actually pathways to raising resilient, secure, connected kids
* without an awareness of how our story drives our fears, our kids re-enact it
* without self-understanding and empathy, parents then tend to manage rather than engage, control rather than connect, in a chronic practice of “defensive parenting”
* we can turn our old wounds to new wisdom and teach our children resilience
* we can use the gift of our anger, fear, doubt, chaos, anxiety, struggles, and conflicts to “heal” our inner conflicts both in brains, minds and relationships
* understanding the brain science of attachment can give us our roadmap for reconnection even if we came from a painful past with insecure attachments
* we can create or “earn” a secure attachment so we can offer this to our kids

You can support API’s mission and take advantage of the knowledge and experience API Live’s special guests by signing up today. Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

After purchase, you will get an email with the download details for this exciting MP3.

REGISTER NOW for $19 ($9 for API members–so join today!). If you are not an API member, you will be able to join and register (for $44 total – a 25% savings!). API Leaders register for free.

About Lu Hanessian

Lu is an award-winning journalist, author of acclaimed book Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New Motherhood (2004), Joyride (2010), and Thrive: How the New Brain Science Can Help Us Raise Whole-Minded, Whole-Hearted Kids Who Thrive (2011). Lu is former NBC anchor/host and Discovery Health Channel host of “Make Room for Baby,” parent educator and sought-after speaker. For five years, she hosted The Science Show, syndicated in 110 countries.

Lu is the founder and director of a unique online ‘parent growth’ series of educational webinars called Parent2ParentU featuring cutting-edge science, interviews, insights and real-life videos for the 21st century parent. www.parent2parentu.com

In Spring 2009, Lu founded and launched WYSH Wear Your Spirit for Humanity. www.wearyourspirit.com a socially conscious brand of inspirational t’s and products that promote authenticity, empathy and connection.

She is currently working toward completing her certification in the Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) Integrative Program with Dr. Daniel Siegel (Mindsight Institute), and is excited about the profound and far-reaching applications of IPNB to parenting and education in the 21st century.

Her articles have been published in The New York Times, Mothering, and Fit Pregnancy, and she has been interviewed on NPR, MSNBC, FOX News Channel, The View and The Today Show.

She is the grateful mother of two boys, 8 and 11.

Listen in as Lu Hanessian and Lysa Parker talk with Dr. Bob Sears about an issue that affects 1 in 110 children in this country: autism. Dr. Sears talks in depth about autism and shares insights from his new book “The Autism Book.”

“Dr. Bob” discusses:
* Why has there been an increase in autism cases over the last decade;
* Role of yeast overgrowth (candida) in autism;
* Suggestions for preventing autism;
* What to do if you suspect your child might have autism – finding a doctor, supplements and diet to start, other helpful therapies;
* And much MORE!

You can support API’s mission and take advantage of the knowledge and experience API Live’s special guests by signing up today. Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

After purchase, you will get an email with the download details for this exciting MP3.

Register now for $19 ($9 for API members–so join today!). If you are not an API member, you will be able to join and register (for $44 total – a 25% savings!). API Leaders register for free.

REGISTER NOW!

About Dr. Bob Sears

Robert W. Sears, MD, FAAP, is a board certified pediatrician in private practice in Dana Point, CA. “Dr. Bob”, as his little patients like to call him, received his medical degree in 1995 from Georgetown University and completed his pediatric training at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles in 1998. He is a co-author of six books so far in the Sears Parenting Library, including The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood, Father’s First Steps, The Baby Book, The Premature Baby Book, and The Baby Sleep Book.

His first solo work, The Vaccine Book – Making the Right Decision for your Child, highlights his passion for providing America’s parents with a fair and objective look at childhood vaccines. Dr. Bob is also co-author of Happy Baby: the Organic Guide to Baby’s First 24 Months, in which he provides new families with practical ways to raise a health baby in an increasingly toxic world.

Dr. Bob is passionate about combining mainstream medicine with a more natural and holistic approach to pediatric care in his office and his writing. He is a Defeat Autism Now! physician who uses biomedical treatments to help recover children from autism and is author of The Autism Book: What Every Parent Needs to Know About Early Detection, Treatment, Recovery, and Prevention (April 2010).

Dr. Bob is a medical consultant for Happy Baby Organic Baby Food, an Advisory Board Member for Kaplan University Department of Health Sciences, and the Director of the Talk About Curing Autism Physician’s Advisory Panel. Dr. Bob has appeared on the CBS Early Show, The Ellen Show, CNN, and the Dr. Phil Show. He is the proud father of three boys, ages 17, 14 and 8. In his spare time Dr. Bob enjoys surfing the California waves, mountain biking, playing bass guitar with his teenage son guitarist, trying to keep up with his youngest son, reading, speaking at parenting conferences throughout the U.S. and is the chief editor and writer for www.AskDrSears.com and www.TheVaccineBook.com.

You want to co-sleep, but your partner says it’s unhealthy. You want to respond to your child’s needs, but your parent says that’s coddling. What does an AP parent do when a partner resists? Is it really about AP… or an underlying issue? Listen in as API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Lysa Parker and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss marriage and parenting with Dr. Laura Markham.

You can support API’s mission and take advantage of the knowledge and experience API Live’s special guests by signing up today. Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

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About Dr. Laura Markham

As both a mom and a Clinical Psychologist trained in Attachment Theory at Columbia University, Dr. Markham offers a unique perspective on raising kids. Her relationship-based parenting model has helped thousands of families across the U.S. and Canada find compassionate, common-sense solutions for everything from separation anxiety and sleep problems to sass talk and cell phones.

Dr. Markham is the founding editor of AhaParenting.com, where she offers hundreds of free articles, as well as ebooks and audio downloads to support parents in connecting with their kids and creating a richer family life. Her daily parenting inspirations reach an ever-growing email list.

Dr Markham hosts a weekly internet radio show, where she regularly takes on a wide range of challenging questions from parents of infants through teens. In addition, she serves as parenting expert for Mothering.com, Pregnancy.org, Storknet.com, ParentingBookmark.com, and HipSlopeMama.com. Her articles are widely published online. In private practice, and as a speaker and presenter at parenting workshops and seminars, she enjoys connecting face-to-face with parents to help them transform their relationships with their children, regardless of age. Dr. Markham lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two terrific teenagers.

Register now to listen in as API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Lysa Parker and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss connection with Dr. Laura Markham.

The theme for the call is: If I’m an Attached Parent, Why Do I Get Disconnected? Making Sense of Our Reactions to the Stresses of Daily Life–and Recovering from Them.

You can support API’s mission and take advantage of the knowledge and experience API Live’s special guests by signing up today. Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

After purchase, you will get an email with the download details for this exciting MP3.

API Members always attend at a special rate of only $9, and you can join while purchasing the Teleseminar to get the member price.

About Dr. Laura Markham

As both a mom and a Clinical Psychologist trained in Attachment Theory at Columbia University, Dr. Markham offers a unique perspective on raising kids. Her relationship-based parenting model has helped thousands of families across the U.S. and Canada find compassionate, common-sense solutions for everything from separation anxiety and sleep problems to sass talk and cell phones.

Dr. Markham is the founding editor of AhaParenting.com, where she offers hundreds of free articles, as well as ebooks and audio downloads to support parents in connecting with their kids and creating a richer family life. Her daily parenting inspirations reach an ever-growing email list.

Dr Markham hosts a weekly internet radio show, where she regularly takes on a wide range of challenging questions from parents of infants through teens. In addition, she serves as parenting expert for Mothering.com, Pregnancy.org, Storknet.com, ParentingBookmark.com, and HipSlopeMama.com. Her articles are widely published online. In private practice, and as a speaker and presenter at parenting workshops and seminars, she enjoys connecting face-to-face with parents to help them transform their relationships with their children, regardless of age. Dr. Markham lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two terrific teenagers.

Register now to listen to Lu Hanessian host two hours of enlightening and encouraging pre-recorded discussion from API’s 15th Anniversary Think Tank Event featuring Dr. William Sears, Martha Sears, Dr. James McKenna, Ina May Gaskin, Dr. Isabelle Fox, Mary Ann Cahill, Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker.

Enjoy the exchange among these experts, listen to their responses to questions of our time, and hear their answers to questions from the audience. Make your purchase now at the regular API Live teleseminar price—before the price goes up. Enjoy this special value as our holiday gift to you!

You can support API’s mission and take advantage of the knowledge and experience API Live’s special guests by signing up today. Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

After purchase, you will get an email with the download details for this exciting MP3.

API Members always attend at a special rate of only $9, and you can join while purchasing the Teleseminar to get the member price.

Sign up now and listen in as API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss meeting needs with Jan Hunt.

You can support API’s mission and take advantage of the knowledge and experience Ask API Live’s special guest by signing up today. Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

About Jan Hunt

Psychologist Jan Hunt, M.Sc., author of The Natural Child: Parenting From the Heart and A Gift for Baby, offers telephone counseling worldwide, with a focus on attachment parenting and unschooling, and guided imagery sessions for emotional healing.

Jan has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and over twenty years of experience as a counselor and writer on parenting issues. She is the Director of The Natural Child Project and is on the Advisory Board of Attachment Parenting International.

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