Meet the Experts
WHO: Over 20 bloggers and podcasters who specialize in the field of Positive Parenting are coming together to give you the solutions you need to enjoy your children more.
WHAT: Each day during the Spring Fling, a different Podcaster or Blogger will be releasing a special Positive Parenting theme-related article or show to let you in on their best tips.
As a special bonus, we will be featuring two exclusive interviews with best-selling authors that you won’t find anywhere else!
WHEN: May 15th – May 31st, 2011
WHERE: From a computer in the comfort of your own home, or a SmartPhone wherever your busy life takes you.
HOW: Sign up in the box in the top right-hand corner of the webpage by entering your name and email address to be notified of the Parenting Expert’s blog and podcast release dates and times during the Spring Fling Event. Remember to “Like” us on Facebook.
—> Our Guest Authors! <—
Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
Written by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman,NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children is one of the most influential books about children ever published, NurtureShock is a revolutionary new perspective on children that upends a library’s worth of conventional wisdom.
With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, the authors demonstrate that many of modern society’s strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring–because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Nothing like a parenting manual, NurtureShock gets to the core of how we grow, learn and live.
NurtureShock was on the New York Times best seller list for six months, and the hard cover spent over a year on Amazon’s list of Top 100 Nonfiction Books. Editions ofNurtureShock are being published around the world – in sixteen languages, to date.
Dave Crenshaw
Parents are genius at multitasking, right? And busy moms (and some dads) have turned it into an art! Join Kirsten and Anamarie of Parenting Chat Cafe as they interview Dave Crenshaw, author of the Myth of Multitasking to learn what kind of impact our highly trained multitasking skills are having on our children and our relationships. Dave will be sharing key tips to get more done, in less time and still have energy to play a game with your children. Dave usually speaks to corporate and business owners, so we are so excited to get and entire hour of Dave talking about Parenting!
Dave Crenshaw has appeared in TIME magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, SIRIUS XM Radio, and BBC News. His first book, The Myth of Multitasking: How ‘Doing It All’ Gets Nothing Done, has been published in six languages and is atime management best seller. His latest book, Invaluable: The Secret to Becoming Irreplaceable, is also an organizational behavior and motivation bestseller. He is also the President of the International Association of Productivity Coaches. Dave is the foremost expert in helping you and your business become Invaluable and has helped thousands of clients worldwide.
—> Meet Our Experts! <—
Parenting Chat Cafe with K ‘n A - Podcast
Kirsten Nelson & Anamarie Seidel
www.ParentingChatCafe.com
The humorous and informative podcast for parents raising children in a new millenium. Kirsten and Anamarie are two overworked, overstressed, and overachieving moms chatting about parenting, purpose and personal growth.
BONUS GIFT!
Kirsten has beautifully narrated the powerful Serenity Chapter from As A Man Thinketh by James Allen. This soothing MP3 will help you stay calm and focused amidst crazy, everyday life.
Marg Saunders - Radio Show
www.FamilyAdvice.com.au
http://www.ChildrenAreEverything.com.au
Margaret Saunders is proud and enthusiastic later in life mom with two beautiful teenagers aged 16 and 19. She lives in a beautiful small seaside village called Dromana which is 1-1/2 hours out of Melbourne Australia. She is an International Parenting Expert, specializing in toddler and children’s issues.
Margaret is an author, speaker and the host of the Children Are Everything Radio Show. Margaret is also passionate about the dynamics of our families and has studied intensively and is now a Family Energy Coach. She believes that the energy we have as a parent permeates into those around us, especially our children. Her family energy coaching sessions are designed to align your energy, revitalise, calm and renew you so that the energy you put out around you calms all those you come into contact with; as well as healing your own deep family issues.
BONUS GIFT!
Free complimentary 15 minute family energy reading consultation and advice = valued at $47.00.
Denny Hagel - Blog
www.MissingSecretToParenting.com
Awakened Parenting LLC
Awakened Parenting is dedicated to helping parents raise children the way Nature intended it to be. In order to create lives that reflect their dreams and passion with courage, confidence and a healthy self-esteem, it is critical that parents have the skills and tools to instill in their children a strong sense of personal responsibility for what happens in their lives through an awareness and understanding of their innate power to choose. It is our passion to inspire parents and provide them with these skills.
BONUS GIFT!
Denny Hagel offers a FREE e-Book to help parents raise children with a sense of personal responsibility for what happens in their lives.
Sandi Schwartz - Radio Show, Blog
www.SandiTeaches.com
www.LeadingEdgeParentingPage.com
Sandi Schwartz is known as the Parenting Guru who knows how to take care of business while taking care of hearts. An expert in child development and spiritual growth as well as the Law of Attraction, Sandi’s wisdom gives answers to the challenges that parents are faced with today. This is a MUST HEAR show for every parent and grandparent who is ready to make a conscious shift and empower their children to joyfully grow into their greatness.
Sandi Schwartz is an internationally respected expert when it comes to understanding children and inspiring parents into their greatness. She brings over forty years of experience in the field of child development to her career as educator, author, radio show host, and captivating motivational speaker. Sandi combines the best of traditional wisdom with open-hearted awareness, delivering an uplifting message that empowers parents to interact with their children with loving, sensitive confidence. She holds a Masters Degree from Columbia University in Child Development and is the recipient of many distinguished awards.
BONUS GIFT!
Sign up for Sandi’s Daily Love Nuggets, start your day with a little inspiration!
Sue Atkins - Podcast
www.TheSueAtkins.com
Sue Atkins is a Parenting Expert, Broadcaster, Speaker, and Author of the best selling Raising Happy Children for Dummies one in the famous black and yellow series and the author of the highly acclaimed “Parenting Made Easy” CDs and her articles are published all over the world from China to Poland!
In her Podcasts she takes a look at all sorts of aspects of bringing up kids from toddler to teen and looks at subjects like toddler tantrums, undone homework, untidy bedrooms, bullying, fussy eaters, managing the challenges of divorce, to blending step families, or balancing work and home life.
BONUS GIFT!
How to give your kids the gift of self-esteem ebook (Value £27)
This friendly guide shows you what confidence is and where it comes from, how you nurture it in your child and offers you practical tips and techniques to build on your skills and develop your own confidence as a parent.
Christine Carter- Blog
www.GreaterGoodParents.org
www.RaisingHappiness.com
Dr. Christine Carter is a sociologist and happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and since she’s reading all the research related to raising happy children anyway, she thought she might as well make it useable to parents through her blog and book Raising Happiness.
Dr. Carter’s intention is to bring a scientific framing (what does the research actually say?) to our opinion-based parenting debates and advice. As a parent herself, Dr. Carter knows that sorting fact from fiction can be confusing when it comes to parenting: Raising Happiness is very much about her own struggles mothering her two school-aged daughters. Her parent-to-parent tone and humorous, tell-all approach make scientific research accessible and fun.
BONUS GIFT!
Spring Fling participants will receive a 10% savings off of Christine’s Raising Happiness Class
Happiness Matters- Podcast
www.HappinessMatters.com
We all aspire to live happy and fulfilled lives and raise our children with these values, but the stresses we face day to day can get in our way. Join Rona Renner, R.N. and Christine Carter, Ph.D, co-hosts of Happiness Matters where you’ll learn about the science and art of cultivating values and passing them on to the children in our lives.
Sharon Silver- Blog
www.ProactiveParenting.net
www.ReactRespond.com
Sharon Silver has lived what every parent is living: a real life, parenting real children. Sharon is a parent educator, speaker, coach, and radio and TV host with an intuitive understanding of the challenges parents face. Sharon is the founder of Proactive Parenting and author of Stop Reacting and Start Responding: 108 Ways to Consciously Discipline and Become the Parent You Want to Be. Parents from over 43 countries are benefiting from the tips in her book. The goal of Proactive Parenting and Stop Reacting and Start Responding is to encourage parents to use discipline which expresses a parents’ boundaries with the emotional volume turned down.
BONUS GIFT!
FREE E-Book 3 Things You Can Do NOW to Stay Connected As You Correct Behavior
Sometimes after a parent corrects behavior a child remains emotional and at a loss as to how to reconnect to their parent. This FREE E-Book shares 3 ways for parents to reconnect and reestablish the parent/child bond so everyone can move on with the day.
WorkAtHomeMom Solution - Blog
www.WAHM-Solution.com
The WAHM Solution is your solution as a work at home mom. Leanne and Cheryl provide you with step-by-step information to help you build your online home business successfully, from blogging to social media to marketing to time management. They also offer you the expertise of their positive parenting partner and author Sharon Silver.
BONUS GIFT!
FREE E-Book
With the WAHM Success Kit, you’ll be able to master your time and achieve balance in your life so that you have more time for the things you love to do. You’ll get 31 Ways to Manage Your Time as a Successful Mom Entrepreneur, The Time Tips Tracker, Work at Home Tips From 31 Successful Mom Entrepreneurs, The Balance Exercise, and instructional audio and our weekly newsletter.
Family Anatomy - Podcast
www.FamilyAnatomy.com
Family Anatomy is a podcast and blog where psychologists present the latest information about parenting, relationships and mental health. The hosts allow listeners “behind the curtain,” discussing how they apply parenting best practices and relationship-enhancing strategies in their own lives.
Peggy Nolan - Radio Host
www.TheStepMomsToolbox.com
Peggy Nolan passionately engages in helping stepmoms become better people and live their true authentic lives and to help them go from Survive to THRIVE. Mother of two adult children, stepmother of four adult children, and grandmother of one. Peggy holds a Master of Arts in Information Management and has over 18 years of information technology and project management experience.
Peggy is a certified yoga teacher, first degree black belt in Muay Thai Kickboxing, Stepmom coach & mentor, published author, and radio show host. Her articles appear in StepMom Magazine, Diva Toolbox, MORE Online, and Aspire Magazine. Peggy’s radio show, The Stepmom’sToolbox is one of the most popular and downloaded shows on BlogTalk Radio in the category, “women.” Peggy also writes Serendipity Smiles, a blog where she shares her creative life.
BONUS GIFT!
When you sign up for the Spring Fling, you will receive Peggy’s powerful eBook The 30 Day Affirmation Challenge to begin transforming your life from the inside out.
Gigi Newcomb - Blog
Woman. Wife. Mother. Daughter. Sister. Friend….I wear these among many other hats and I am trying to balance them all! In order to achieve this and some other goals, I have decided to aim to become a better woman/wife/mother every day! As a family we deal with being a military (NAVY) family, blending cultures (DH is White-American and I’m Hispanic American), homeschooling our daughters, and me working on my BA (Psychology- child/adolescent, Family/Marriage)…as well as all the “normal” challenges all other families face today.
We choose to parent as positively as possible. One of our main goals is to give our kids the best possible childhood we can give them while raising them to be the best people THEY can be. We want our kids to grow up and automatically have a smile on their face when looking back on these years!
Zen Parenting- Podcast, Blog
www.ZenParentingRadio.com
www.CathyCassaniAdams.com
Join Cathy and Todd Adams as they share stories and insight and offer simple tools that lead to Zen Parenting……your life as a conscious parent awaits!
Cathy Cassani Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a PCI Certified Parent Coach, a Certified Elementary School Teacher, and a Certified Yoga Instructor. She is the author of The Self-Aware Parent: 19 Lessons for Growing with Your Children and she is a writer and blogger for Chicago Parent Magazine. She is an instructor in the Sociology Department at Dominican University and a yoga instructor at her local studio.
Todd Adams is a sales representative for a company called JVI based out of Lincolnwood, IL. He is a real estate investor and property manager in the Chicago land area, Alumni Association President of his fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha, and managing partner in Santa-Cause, a charity he developed with friends. Todd teaches parenting classes with Cathy and supports fathers in finding a healthy work/life balance. Together Todd and Cathy have three little girls.
Parenting Unplugged - Radio Show
www.ParentingUnpluggedRadio.com
Todd and Laura Mansfield began broadcasting Parenting Unplugged in February 2009 with the mission of providing resources to parents, from all walks of life while modeling open and honest conversation between a husband and wife parenting team. Their goal is to provide authentic, entertaining and interesting programming. Live every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday 11am PST.
Kelly Rudolph - Blog
Kelly Rudolph of PositiveWomenRock.com and “Your Personal Safety Trainer,” CEO of SURVIVE! Self-Defense LLC (since 1999) uses her positive attitude and healthy sense of humor to teach men, women, teens and kids how to avoid verbal, mental, emotional and physical attack/abuse through Positive Practical Prevention. She is the author of 5 personal safety books, producer of the Safety Quick Tips DVD, award-winning TeleSeminar Leader and popular media guest.
BONUS GIFT!
Safety Quick Tips eBook & Audio Book (Value $37)
Discover Kelly’s definition of “victim” that will change your life forever! Learn from 16 real-life stories that illustrate why simple personal safety skills are vital for your family. Did you know safety has much more to do with self-esteem than self-defense? Or that what your children learn about safety from others will likely put them in greater danger? Find out what YOU need to know in order to keep your family safe.
Dads Unplugged - Radio Show
www.DadsUnplugged.com
Hosts Todd Mansfield and Kent Lewis take a “different” look at the “other side” of parenting. By dads & for dads, watch out ladies it’s dangerous here. These two aren’t afraid to speak their minds, at least until they get home. Live every Wednesday 11am PST.
Kim West - Blog
www.TheSleepLady.com
Kim West has spoken to numerous parenting groups across the country about the importance of children’s sleep and how to gently teach your child to go to sleep and sleep through the night. Kim is the author of GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT: The Sleep Lady’s Gentle Guide to Helping Your Child Go to Sleep, Stay Asleep and Wake Up Happy with co-author Joanne Kenen. She is also the author of 52 Sleep Secrets for Babies (2008) and The Good Night, Sleep Tight WORKBOOK: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy (2010).
Kim is a mother of two and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been a practicing child and family therapist for more than eighteen years. Known as The Sleep Lady® by her clients, over the past fifteen years she has helped thousands of tired parents all over the world learn to listen to their intuition, recognize their child’s important cues and behaviors, and gently create changes that promote and preserve his or her healthy sleep habits.
West has appeared on the Dr. Phil, Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, TLC’s Bringing Home Baby and CNN, and has been written about in a number of publications including The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Baby Talk, Parenting, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today, The Telegraph, The Irish Independent and the Washington Post. West hosts the sleep section of The Newborn Channel, played in maternity wards in hospitals across the country.
Jacqueline Green - Blog
www.GreatParentingShow.com
Jacqueline Green has worked with thousands of parents in the 10 plus years she’s been a parenting educator. Her own serious parenting issues such as overwhelm, anger and discipline issues as well as depression inspired her to become a student of parenting knowledge in order to become the great parent she wanted to be! Although she deals with serious topics, her message is one of hope based on her own personal transformational experience, as well as from helping other parents transform. One of her passions is learning from other experts as the host of the GreatParentingShow.com.
Dr. Heather - Blog
www.BabyShrink.com
Dr. Heather Wittenberg is a psychologist who lives on Maui with her husband and four young children. She gives parenting tips on her website BabyShrink.com, and provides child development expertise for national parenting magazines and educational companies. She helps parents enjoy their children MORE– by doing LESS.
BONUS GIFT!
PPN Spring Fling Participants are eligible to receive an exclusive 33% discount on a one-hour parenting coaching session to help you solve some of your toughest parenting challenges.
Sandra Huber - Blog
www.TheSoulfulParent.com
Sandra is the “soul” and “coach” behind the Soulful Parent. She has supported many families in the road to successful parenting and she’s deeply passionate about changing the world, one family at a time. She connects with other parents who are tired of looking for answers outside of themselves. Her clients are savvy, clever moms who love their children and understand that parenting is an inside job. They get that it has nothing to do with the latest book, seminar, or expert but a lot to do with the commitment they have made to become the best moms they are meant to be!
Sandra devotes a lot of time to offering suggestions and what she likes to call “food for thought” to an increasingly supportive community on Twitter and Facebook, where parents have free access to support, ideas, articles but most of all, to the encouragement each provides. Are you ready for more tips to put the soul back into your parenting?
BONUS GIFT!
When you sign up for the Spring Fling, you will receive Sandra’s eBook, The Art of Effective Parenting: 10 Ideas to a more Peaceful, Rewarding and Fun Parenting Experience.
Dawn Whittaker - Blog
www.CheekyChops.ca
Dawn migrated from England to the USA at 18 to pursue a career as a professional Nanny. Her career took her all over the world helping families in States, Australia, Canada and the UK. She experienced numerous child care roles; day nanny, live in nanny, baby nanny, overnight nanny, trouble shooting nanny as well as a childcare consultant for a nanny agency.
Her experience as a mother of two children, combined with her Nanny experience compelled her to start her own business. She knew she could help tired parents regain their sleep and boost their often flagging confidence. Dawn admits that being a Nanny is far easier that being a Mum. The parent role is often very overwhelming. Parents struggle with emotional reactions to issues that constantly arise in life and she helps guide them through this discomfort with ease and grace.
Cathy Adams – Blog
www.ChicagoParent.com/community/the-self-aware-parent
Cathy Cassani Adams is the author of “The Self-Aware Parent: 19 Lessons for Growing with Your Children.” She and her husband, Todd, host Zen Parenting Radio on Pagatim.fm. Cathy Cassani Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a PCI Certified Parent Coach®, a Certified Elementary School Teacher and a Certified Yoga Teacher. Cathy is Adjunct Faculty in the Sociology Department at Dominican University where she teaches Sociology of the Family. She received her Master’s in Social Work from Loyola University, and her Bachelor’s in Elementary Education from Drake University. Cathy worked for many years as a Child and Family Therapist and Clinical Educator at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
She opened her own parent coaching practice after the birth of her first daughter and now focuses on workshops, presentations, client coaching and writing. Cathy has been featured in Parents Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Ebony Magazine, Chicago Parent Magazine, Today’s Chicago Woman and West Suburban Magazine. She is a recurring guest on WGN Radio Chicago and she was the subject of a Fox News Special Report on the parent coaching profession. Cathy lives in Elmhurst, IL with her husband Todd and their three daughters and can be found at www.cathycassaniadams.com.
Brought to you by Kirsten Nelson and Anamarie Seidel
About Kirsten and Anamarie:
Kirsten Nelson and Anamarie Seidel of ParentingChatCafe.com founded Positive Parenting Network in 2011 to be an all-inclusive resource for parents to find podcasters, bloggers, authors and products that help promote positive parenting techniques, skills and tools. For more information about Kirsten and Anamarie, go to www.ParentingChatCafe.com.
