TITLE: THERE ARE NO PERFECT PARENTS – BUT THE KEY TO SUCCESS MAY JUST BE “RADICAL PARENTING”
11:00 am to Noon PST

Special Guest: Vanessa Van Petten, Author and Youthologist

Vanessa Van Petten, joins Allen  in a “revolutionary” discussion on the art of radical parenting. Vanessa, her blog and company: RadicalParenting.com, which she runs with 15 other teen writers, is read by thousands of teens and adults daily and has been featured on hundreds of other parenting sites around the web as the only teen written parenting blog.

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TITLE: KEEPING YOUR RELATIONSHIP VIBRANT IN THE MIDST THE CHAOS OF RAISING KIDS
11:00 am to Noon PST

Special Guest: Dana Bedford Hilmer

Dana Hilmer is with us today with suggestions on how to keep your relationship with your partner vibrant amidst the chaos of raising kids.” Whatever their age! Dana is the author of Blindsided by a Diaper, an anthology revealing the inside scoop on how parenthood changes a relationship. Dana is also the founder of LifestyleMom.com and she will be hosting, right here on LA Talk Radio,her own show entitled The LifestyleMom Radio Café, premiering Tuesday, January 5th.

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TITLE: How Much, How Little; 7 Steps for Disciplining Our Children
11:00 am to Noon PST
Special Guest: Dr. Larry Koenig

Allen and Dr. Larry Koenig, creator of “Smart Discipline, discuss the 10 most powerful and easy strategies to stops bad behavior in its tracks and takes a minute or less to get real results and his “Up With Youth Program”, a pioneering organization devoted to the enhancement of self-esteem in young people.

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TITLE: How Much, How Little; 7 Steps for Disciplining Our Children
11:30 am to Noon PST
Special Guest: Blake Morrison, USA Reporter & Grantham Prize Winner & Co-Author - The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air & America’s Schools

Allen and Blake uncover the major industrial pollution affecting more than 128,000 school playgrounds in and around major U.S. cities.

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TITLE: YMCA’S C.A.R.E Program Maps the Way to Graduation for Truant Youth!”
11:00 am to 11:30 PST
Special Guest: Eason Ramson, C.A.R.E. Program Director

YMCAs C.A.RE. Program Maps the Way to Graduation for Truant Youth! :: Eason Ramson, CARE Director Eason Ramson joins Allen this week to discuss the first of its kind CARE program created by the Hunter’s Point YMCA. CARE is designed to support the San Francisco Unified District by deploying a “circle of care” that re-engages truant youth who live in the Bayview Hunters Point Community ages 13-17, their families, and the community. Youth who complete the nine-week program will be given a map to graduation.

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