WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Live & local call-in on raising healthy babies. Happens on the third Thursday of every month from 10 – 11 AM.
Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Positive Discipline
What is meant by “positive discipline”? What are some of the tools
of positive discipline? How can “time out” be used in a positive,
respectful way?
Guest: Chip DeLorenzo, director of the Damariscotta Montessori
School
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Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Doulas
What is a doula? What is the history of doulas? What specific things can doulas do for birthing families?
Guest: Ava Goodale, certified birth doula serving mid-coast Maine
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Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
Why is “focus and self-control” an important skill? How can we teach this? What are some of the fascinating studies that reveal infants’ earliest abilities? What are the other “essential life skills” and specific suggestions about how to instill those in our children?
Guest: Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-founder of the “Families and Work Institute” and author of “Mind in the Making: Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs”
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Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Topic: Have you or someone you know had a cesarean birth, either unplanned or planned? Evelyn Conrad feels that many women’s feelings surrounding their cesarean births are not validated or addressed by anyone in the medical community or even by their family or friends. On this edition of Baby Talk, Evelyn, birth advocate and doula, talks about ways that help women to heal following a cesarean birth. And we are joined by others, including Paula Holland, birth doula and mother of four children, three of whom were born vaginally following an initial C-section.
Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Consciously Parenting
What is the “Consciously Parenting Project”? What should parents think about as they prepare for the birth of a child? What are some ways of addressing challenging behaviors in the early years?
Guest: Rebecca Thompson, Director of the “Consciously Parenting Project”
FMI: www.consciouslyparenting.com
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Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Bonding with your child through music
Guest: Amy Robbins-Wilson
Specific ways that adults can use lullabies and other music with newborns, toddlers, and preschoolers and will reassure us that we don’t need perfect singing voices.
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Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Mirroring & Modeling
What is meant by mirroring? What are some things that children might see in parent’s eyes? Why is positive modeling important? How can parents change their negative parenting habits?
Guest: Bonnie Harris, author of When Your Kids Push Your Buttons (and What You Can Do About It) and Confident Parents, Remarkable Kids
Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Postpartum Depression: and interview with Noelle Ellis, who talks about her own experiences, as well as how family and community can help women who are suffering from the illness.
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