Leading Edge Parenting: Recent Episodes
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Move into your greatness and discover your parenting power. Fall in love with your children over and over as you release resistance by embracing traditional wisdom aligned with leading edge thinking. Join us as dreams of loving abundantly are transformed into joyful reality! Previous Guests include Bernie Siegel, Naomi Aldort, and Veronica De Andres. Another Great Show through the Law of Attraction Radio Network.
Tracie Carlos shares her journey from frustration and fear to joyful acceptance after her two year old son, Connor was diagnosed with autism. She opens her heart as she tells how she shifted from the old ways of thinking into a new way of living which embraces autism as a gift rather than a disease or disability.
Our children are being born into a world that is quickly changing. Learn how to relax and allow your children to discover the spirituality that is deep inside their own souls. Guest Barbara Mayer, author of Beyond Religion- The Personal Search for Truth helps us open up to new possibilities!
Guest Liana Lowenstein, child psychotherapist, provides insight into the our child's inner world. Learn how to use play as a way of helping children deal with fears, death, guilt, and divorce.
Join guest author Isaac Romano as he shares the reasons children exhibit challenging behaviors and how you can turn misbehavior into giggles, cooperation, and happy families.
Join Chetan Parkyn, author of "Human Design" and discover the people you and your children were born to be! Chetan offers the 3 keys of this revolutionary new system that will help you understand why you and your kids behave the way you do. Learn how to get your free personality blueprint.
Guest Elizabeth Diamond, author of "7 Mindsets to Master Self-Awareness offers 3 simple techniques to help you stop reacting to your children's behavior and start tuning in to your own balance and well being, empowering you to be the parent you want to be in the new year.
Sandi interviews Jewels, the creator of the Law of Attraction radio network and together they help parents understand the power of their thoughts. Are you ready for this question? "Would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?" Learn how to shift your thoughts to empower yourself and your children!
Join guest Blythe Lipman, infant and toddler specialist, as she shares her wisdom for reducing stress and increasing joy during the holiday season. Whether your holiday includes traveling, oodles of relatives or the stress of having company, learn how relax and help your kids ease through it all.
Join Linda Lantieri, as she offers the work she has done with Daniel Goleman in helping children gain an inner strength to meet the challenges and opportunities that come their way. Learn how to help develop your children's ability to calm their bodies and quiet their minds, for success in school and beyond.
Songwriter and musician, Sandi Kimmel shares songs that have inspiring messages for children. You will be uplifted as you feel your own spirit come alive through the music.
Join Dumari Dancoes as she shares her journey from frustration to empowerment as a mom who is now connected to her own divine spirit. Using the law of attraction, trusting the voice that lives within and learning about Human Design theory has helped her find the answers to parenting from her heart. Learn how to say 'YES" to the magic that transforms the parent-child relationship!
Join guest Bobbi DePorter as she guides parents in helping children feel safe and confident dealing with bullies as well as other childhood challenges. Learn how to create a 'home court advantage'' as kids learn to make decisions, express opinions and stand in their greatness.
Guest Dr. Gerald Newmark, author of "Raising Emotionally Healthy Children" shares the five critical needs of children. Parents neglect their children's emotional health without knowing it. Tune in to find out more!
Spend an hour with your own personal trainer! Mark Provost, owner of Provost Personal Training shares the four keys to reaching your full potential as a parent. Live a healthy lifestyle that includes emotional prosperity!
The holiday season is approaching and it is time to start thinking about your plans. But, how do you handle the holidays with your ex and still nurture your child's emotional well being? Author Ellen Kellner offers her 'pro-child' tips for parents going through a divorce.
Learn how to raise emotionally healthy children with our guest Ellen Braun, creator of 'Raising Small Souls.' The power of your heart energy can re-direct the flow of your whole day!
Guest author Katrina Kenison shares intimate memories of the joys and struggles of raising her family. She will touch your heart as you relate to the challenges of 'letting go' as life brings inevitable changes.
Larryy Michel, host of "Match Matrix" will help parents understand their children's unique core energetic makeup. By analyzing the energy that flows between parents and children we can become more compatible and less frustrated with each other.
Learn how to change your child's inner dialogue about fear, bullies and feeling safe. Join guest Marlise Karlin as she and Sandi guide you in helping your child find inner courage and strength to handle school, friends, bullies and the pressures of being a kid.
Guest Lenore Skenazy is a syndicated columnist, author and very funny public speaker who believes our media obsession with reporting scary news has created a generation of over-worried parents. Join Sandi and Lenore as they talk about a commonsense approach to parenting for these overprotective times..this promises to be a lively and thought provoking show.
With divorce rates rising each month, parents are struggling with painful emotions, custody arrangements and the challenges of adjusting to a new life. This week's guest is the author of "Getting Over It" and offers practical advice for moving through the issues into greater satisfaction and success for parents and their children.
Our kids are living in a digital world with pressures to master academic skills and conquer the electronic universe. Authors Carol Kranowitz and Joye Newman urge parents to acknowledge the importance of playful activity and offer lots of ideas for sensory and motor experiences that are crucial for children's development and learning.
With wit and humor Dr. Gerry Fewster implores parents to move past their own issues and recognize their kids' inherent potential to reach beyond the status quo and create a future of meaning and purpose. Sandi asks Gerry the tough questions: Just how to do it! You won't want to miss his answers.
Parenting in the 21st century is shifting into mindful awareness and we are being 'forced' to open our belief systems and hearts to new ways of being with our kids. This is actually a good challenge because it opens the doorway of growth for everyone. Join guest Meg Blackburn Losey as she helps us nurture our children's gifts and talents by getting in touch with ourselves.
This is a topic that freaks out some parents! Guest Caron Goode will ease your discomfort and offer understanding regarding your children's imaginary friends, scary monsters and other psychic experiences.
Sandi interviews Annie Burnside, author of Soul to Soul Parenting, an inspiring and empowering book which helps parents raise spiritually conscious children. We'll look at practical ways parents can help their family make conscious choices of love, compassion, forgiveness and gratitude.
Sandi interviews the authors of "The Law of Attraction- the Next Generation" as they teach parents how to use the magic of the Universe to empower children to take responsibility, think positively, make decisions and create the life they were born to live. Does this mean their rooms will be clean? Tune in to a lively and uplifting discussion!
Attitudes about money are connected to beliefs about abundance in all areas of our lives. Guest Nan Akasha shares powerful insights on creating a wealth mindset for parents and children.
Infidelity isn't something that just happens with movie stars, athletes and politicians. Statistics are staggering with affairs occurring in up to 40% of marriages. In this deep and sometimes difficult discussion, Sandi and Dr. Ana Nogales look at the staggering affects that adultery has on the kids. Perceptions of love, marriage, self esteem and trust can forever be altered. Dr. Nogales offers practical solutions on finding our way back to healthy relationships through healing and forgiveness.
Liz Diamond, creator of the Intentional Scrapbooking Method returns to give us detailed information about how to help our children use art as a tool to consciously launch dreams from thought into successful, desired outcomes. Using a fun, simple method that any child can embrace, parents can help their kids use the process of day-dreaming to clarify their vision of what they want in life.
Author, researcher, and educator Kim John Payne joins Sandi as they talk about reducing the stress that both parents and children feel in our busy, super-sized society. As our pace accelerates, our children's behavior shows the pressure. Learn how to simplify daily life, reducing stress, aggressive behavior and even symptoms of ADHD!
One hundred years ago Maria Montessori offered the world a revolutionary method of supporting the natural development of children. This week's guest, Bobbi Cecio joins us, clarifying how we can use this timeless wisdom to enrich our children's lives today.
Our society perpetuates some compelling myths about parenting and children. Susie Walton, San Diego's parenting educator of the year, helps us to follow our hearts and intuition as she gently discards the beliefs that limit us from opening our hearts and expanding our minds, allowing our children's light to shine ever so bright!
Dr. Charlotte Reznick, author of 'The Power of Your Child's Imagination' offers techniques used by successful Olympic athletes. Children can learn to have fun & be successful as they deal with pressures in school, summer camp, sports, & making friends.
The 'strong willed' child can easily overwhelm parents, leaving them frustrated and inadequate. Join Sandi and her guest Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, as they offer positive approaches to living with intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent children.
Here's the magic wand! How do you stop yelling, threatening, punishing and help children be responsible, have self control and a desire to be cooperative? Join Sandi and Kathryn as they uncover the pathway to parenting strategies that really work!
Parenting is challenging under the best of circumstances but even more difficult when dealing with angry, hurt feelings from divorce. Guest Ellen Kellner shares soothing solutions that nurture children during these tough times. She gives specific suggestions for dealing with everything from holidays, money, school functions, birthdays, ~ all the way through the kids' weddings!
Guest Meredith Walt is a mom with lots of ideas for getting kids in shape~ except Sandi disagrees with some of them. Tune in to a great debate!
Dr. Bailey talks about strategies that reduce aggression, hyperactivity and impulsivity while improving brain function and school achievement.
Sandi interviews Johanna Maaghul, author of 'The Prodigal Family.' Learn how to transform old childhood patterns, freeing yourself to parent your own children with the love that comes from a deep sense of humility and forgiveness.
Liz Diamond, mother of four, explains how to use creativity and positive affirmations to deliberately create all that you and your children desire. Whether or not scrap booking is your 'thing' you will learn how to move thought into physical form and have fun at the same time!
Life Coach, Lainie Goldstein, helps us understand how our own childhood experiences continue to impact our grown up responses to life and most especially how they contribute to the way our children 'push our buttons.' Learn how to clear away the self limiting beliefs that stop us from having the family relationships that we truly desire.
Kraig Kidd, co-founder of The Children's Academy for New World Leadership, became a single dad at the age of 43. He shares the lessons he is learning about life from his 4 year old daughter and his vision for a leading edge school.
Oh, the pain of living with a belief system that says, 'no matter what I do, it is not good enough.' Jan Denise, joins me in helping us re-discover our own 'enough-ness' so that we can be more aware of the subliminal ways we pass on worry and negativity to our children.
Asha Praver helps us find our deepest sense of well being as we connect to our inner wisdom. Relationships among family members directly impact our children. Learn how to be a more peaceful parent no matter the stress and influences of the world.
Sandi uses the book, "Redirecting Children's Behavior" to understand two of the main reasons why children misbehave and offers ideas on how parents can lovingly get them back on track.
Learn how to 'rig your child's environment for happiness' with guest Christine Carter, Executive Director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, New research is showing that happiness is a learned skill and parents have huge input!
Lance Shaw became a single dad of two young kids the same week he was faced with loosing a high powered job. Tune in to find out how he used his challenges as inspiration for creating a joyful, abundant, positive family life.
Children with sensory processing issues can be hard to understand and challenging to parent. Carol Kranowitz helps parents deal with the frustrations of raising a kid with SPD. She is the leading expert today in this field. You won't want to miss this show.
Join Sandi as she interviews Caroline Britton, author of "Happy In My Skin," a book that lays out the strategies for developing courage, determination, confidence and self-esteem. Learn how to encourage these traits in your children.
Child development specialist, Nancy Carlsson-Paige discusses why time outs backfire and how to have empathetic, confident, creative kids without punishments or yelling. She will give practical advice for parenting challenges.
Jonathan is the spiritual director for the acclaimed Canyon Ranch Health Resort and he comes to share how he personally uses a spiritual path to balance the challenges of being the daddy of an active toddler.
The Nurtured Heart Approach has been incredibly successful in transforming difficult children into their greatness. Creator of this approach, Howard Glasser shares strategies and exercises to move parents and children into their own unique and miraculous greatness!
Dr. Matthew James teaches us how to connect to our deeper self, where we, as humans find the true wisdom to love, to forgive, and to be the wise parents we all wish to be. In this season of love, come join us as we discover the spiritual shamanism secrets of ancient Hawaii.
Lance Shaw found out that some of his best strategies as a single dad were the same successful techniques he used as a business man and an engineer. These unique processes worked wonders as he taught his kids about compassion, leadership and creativity. Lance combines humor and business in his approach to loving parenting!
The messages we get as children that we aren't good enough, smart enough, worthy enough can haunt us throughout our lives. Jan Denise offers concrete processes of discovering our own innate goodness so we can pass them to our children.
You may not like what Laurie A Couture has to say but it is necessary to hear it! Instead of medicating and punishing children we need to change some of our own behaviors. Yikes! Are we willing to change to help our children? Learn more , about Attachment Parenting and what you can change right now, on this show.
Don Mesibov, co- founder of The Institute for Learning Centered Education will explain the constructivist theory of how children really learn. Help your children learn how to think for themselves so they can reach their true potential.
Brain expert, Don Joseph Goewey gives us strategies to eliminate the stress and worry that spoil the joy of the holiday season as well as daily life. Join us to learn the secrets of being a 'STREE FREE PARENT!"
Tracy Liebmann helps us locate the 'triggers' from our own childhood that challenge us from being the parents we want to be. Learn how to soothe your own 'inner child' and find some tools that will help you when you feel overwhelmed.
Our panel of grandmas talk about the joys and challenges of using The Law of Attraction in their relationship with their grown children and grandchildren.
Learn how quickly your family can become close, cooperative and respectful. Kathryn is the president of International Network for Children and Families and is a leading authority in helping families grow in peaceful, healthy ways.
Lisa is a featured teacher in "The Secret" and she uses the Law of Attraction as well as her own life's experiences to explain her secret to happiness. Learn how to use the law of 'No Matter What' to help your children and yourself live the life of your dreams!
Join Dayna Martin as she shares her experiences as a mom who 'unschools' her children. Dayna also incorporates the law of attraction into her unique parenting style. Use some of Dayna's techniques to spark your own parenting greatness!
Join Sandra Dodd, international leader of the Unschooling movement, as she shares her passion and knowledge about creating a home environment in which natural learning flourishes.
Guest Howard Glasser, author of "You Are Oprah" will explain how to use his Nurtured Heart Approach to transform intense, hard to handle children into their greatness. This very same technique can be used to cultivate and ignite the greatness within ourselves!
Nancy Carlsson-Paige will offer practical suggestions for creating a peaceful home. Without engaging in power struggles, punishments, spankings or time outs, Nancy will give strategies to solve arguments peacefully.
If falling asleep or staying asleep is an issue for you or for your children, then this show is just for you! Lack of enough sleep is becoming a national epidemic and we intend to give you all the answers to getting the sleep you all deserve!
Discover the 'magic' of pre-paving happy, successful days as your children return to school. Feel the power of your belief system as you set your intentions for allowing positive experiences into your life and your child's world. Stop worrying and start allowing!
Dr. Alman, creator of 'Keep It Off For Life' will help us see how we unconsciously pass on negative patterns to our children. He will offer proven tips and strategies to break the cycles of negative self images for parents and children.
Just back from the first ever Unschooling Conference in London, Dayna shares the radical concepts based on the belief that children learn best when internally motivated. As keynote speaker of the conference Dayna is an expert on a movement that trusts children's ability to learn through their passions. What? No more tests? What a concept! Join us as we learn the connection between The Law of Attraction and Radical Unschooling.
Sonia Choquette is a world-renowned visionary, intuitive consultant and revolutionary teacher. She will share her wisdom for awakening your children's sense of their soul's heritage and their connection to their Inner Teacher. What better gift can there be than an intuitive life of confidence, inner peace and creative expression?
Help your child soothe daily stress and anxiety using the magic technique of Guided Imagery. Learn how to help your child transform worry and pressure into joy and success using a process that taps into their natural imagination.
Today's show is for the grown ups! It is challenging enough to be the parent/grandparent we want to be, but when the stress of daily life is mixed in we sometimes say and do things we later regret. Lynn will share her top 3 successful strategies for learning how to 'shift' out of stress mode and move into our parenting greatness.
Learn how to give up controlling your children's behavior, stop yelling and deliver energy from your loving heart directly into the heart of your child. Howard shares how to use the 'energy' of video and computer games to create a prescription for great parenting and cooperative kids!
Learn how to help your children use the Law of Attraction during times of stress. Teresa uses stories and playfulness to show kids the power of their thoughts. She also focuses on helping children and parents deal with the challenges of divorce.
Michael encourages us to look at our own amazing abilities to live life to the fullest and to see the connection between our grown up state of joy or limitation with the environments in which our children grow and learn. Join us and discover your power!
Scott is back by popular demand due to his insights and fun loving approach to parenting! Join us as we look at typical challenges and find new ways of handling frustrating situations. Scott's leading edge way of creating partnerships with his children is bound to inspire you to move into your own vision of joyful parenting.
Children and parents are more than just physical beings. Join us as we unlock our understanding and potential to tap into the world of angels, spirit guides and psychic wisdom. Learn how to use this gift to enrich your relationship with your children.
One of the greatest gifts we can give to our children is to encourage them to find their 'voice.' Litany Burns, internationally known clairvoyant, invites parents into the inner world of the child, teaching us how to encourage their connection to their internal strength, creative ideas, self-love and intuition so that they can lead more wholly joyful and authentic lives.
Imagine being a teenager with a mentor who gives you the message that you have the power within yourself to be and do and have anything you desire. What a gift! John Edwards is helping kids throughout Australia and beyond, as he teaches them specific techniques to unlock their positive potential. Join us as he shares some of these powerful skills.
Is positive discipline just another way of saying it is OK to control your children as long as you do it with a soft voice and a smile? Can we move away from needing to control into a mutually respectful relationship with our kids? What does it mean when experts say, 'meet the children's needs' or 'understand the belief behind the behavior?' Join us and find out!
Alfie Kohn, outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades and test scores, challenges us to look at the ways we mask our desire to 'control' our children by calling our behavior 'encouragement.' We cannot fool ourselves anymore. Join us to learn the importance of loving your children UNCONDITIONALLY!
Our relationships with our children begin while they are developing in the womb. Traci will explain how to build a loving, trusting bond right from the beginning, continuing through a lifetime of expanding joy and mutual understanding and respect.
Join us as we open our hearts and minds as we understand how our children are our teachers, healers, guides, messengers, spiritual companions, sage and friend. Author Michelle Starkey will help us view life through the eyes of a child, showing how we can learn the biggest lessons of our lives.
What does it take to create a school that meets the needs of all children? How do we really measure success? My guests are the Educational Leaders of a school with a vision that is leading edge and is creating its own reality. Join us as we talk about the potential, the challenges and the realities of integral education.
Scott Noelle is a dad who has discovered the secret to enjoying parenting unconditionally! Scott teaches parents how to shift from controlling and coercion to creative partnership where joy, fun and feeling good permeate the child-parent relationship. If you would like to learn how to bring this positive energy into your home life, join us this Wednesday as we investigate the Leading Edge thinking and strategies of 'Attraction Parenting.'
Join Sandi as she and Dr. Bernie Siegel talk about the connection between your child's emotional well being and physical health. As author of many best selling books on the mind, body, spiritual connection, Dr. Bernie will be sharing his wisdom on the importance of feeling loved and why kids become grand and great grand to us as we get older. If only we had this wisdom when our children were younger!
Naomi Aldort, author of 'Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves' is a return guest, back by popular demand. Naomi will offer her wisdom on raising cooperative, successful, responsible children without using scolding, punishing or threatening. Her techniques are not about gentle ways of controlling children but about a way of understanding a child so she/he can be the best of herself, not because she fears a parent, but because she wants to, of her own free will. Join us as we learn Naomi's strategies and techniques for raising emotionally healthy, happy, successful children.
Veronica de Andres comes to us from Argentina, sharing the wisdom from her movie," Full Confidence." Imagine bringing up children who have the ability to move into their greatness, letting nothing stop them from fulfilling their dreams. Join us as Veronica helps us all discover the secret to our own unique full confidence.
Artist Jami Taback shares how art helped her escape into a world of hope and inspiration during a very painful childhood. We live in a time when fears for the future put much stress and emphasis on reading and math scores, disregarding the value of music, creativity and the arts. Join us as Jaime shares inspiring stories of how she reaches underachieving children as they discover their inner gifts and talents. Do you have a creative child? Learn how to nurture that gift!
Spirit coach, Pamela McQuade joins us as we unlock our own spiritual guidance and learn how to enrich each day with greater passion and joy. Sandi and Pam will discuss how parents can balance following their life's purpose while encouraging their children to follow their own spiritual path.
"Guided Imagery is like having a wonderful dream in an awake state." Our guests, Dr. Charles Leviton and his wife Patti will lead us into an amazing process where we will take a journey into ourselves, opening our minds to a higher consciousness, filling our hearts with loving intentions. Learn how to use imagery to heal your own wounded child as well as help your children live without stress and, after a busy day, fall into a peaceful sleep.
Our guest, Naomi Aldort, author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves will share how parents can understand and be for their children so that the young ones can do their best; not because they fear their parents, but because they want to, of their own free will. Join Sandi and Naomi as they discuss bringing peace and clarity to difficult situations as well as to ordinary parenting issues. Learn how to nurture your deep, peaceful parent-child connection as you raise self-reliant, content children.
Many parents struggle with getting their children to eat good, healthy food. Traci Gaffney, founder of A Loving Way, is going to offer ideas and tips that not only encourage healthy eating but will contribute to a loving parent/child relationship while empowering your kids to make good decisions in all areas of their lives. Join us as we go from 'power struggles' to 'self empowerment."
Join our guest Rhonda Ryder, as she shares the secrets of raising happy, successful kids and teens. Rhonda recently interviewed 5 teachers from the movie, "The Secret." She is eager to let you in on the powerful messages they gave her..secrets that you will never find in a traditional parenting book!
Are you ready to expand your understanding of how Universal Forces impact your relationship with your children? Cathi Curen, family astrologer, will share her knowledge, experience and wisdom as she teaches us how to use astrology to heal our family relationships.
We've become a test driven society, Our schools are failing our children because we are too focused on test scores and have forgotten how real learning takes place. Join Sandi and her guest, Don Berg as they build an 'educational conspiracy' that teaches children how to thrive in this world.
Blue and Patrick McGowan have taken Sandi's seminars for the last two years and made some amazing shifts in their thinking, understanding and interactions with their children. Challenges that used to lead to screaming or punishments now open pathways to communication and unconditional love. Learn how Patrick got his child to tell the truth and how Blue fell in love with her strong willed daughter all over again!
This promises to be a most enlightening and provocative show as Sandi and Dr. Siegel explore the powerful connection between parenting styles and the health of children. Dr. Siegel is the author of many books that explain the relationship between emotional and physical health and his book, Love, Magic and Mud Pies was written specifically for parents. Listen in to find out why Bernie (as he likes to be called) has written the following, " What parents are often doing is literally taking their child's life away as they impose behavior patterns, careers and more. The sweet identical twin sister who pleases Mom & Dad & the family & internalizes anger is far more likely to develop breast cancer than her little devil of a sister who is always doing her own thing." Makes you think, doesn't it?
Parents have lots of questions about their children's behavior. It is natural to wonder if there is a better way to handle the daily challenges of living with kids. Join Sandi as she uses real situations and questions received from parents to guide you in thinking like an expert. You'll be pleased and surprised at some of her suggestions.
Do you ever wonder why children in the same family behave so differently? Would you like to get 'inside' your child's body so that you can understand him/her more? Join us as we learn about our children's temperaments and how that impacts their behavior. If you have ever tried to 'change' your child, this program will show you where your true power lies.
Join us as we celebrate the relationship between parents and children! Our first show will lay the foundation for understanding our children and ourselves as physical, emotional and spirit beings.