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Guest: Malcolm Gauld, President of Hyde School, 207-443-5584, mgauld@hyde.edu, www.hyde.edu, explains the importance of integrating character education in with academics so the students can be properly prepared to have a successful career and life.

Guests: Linda Zimmerman, CEO/President, and Dr. Kurt Wolfekuhler, Clinical Director of Sandhill Child Center, New Mexico, 505-565-1577, talk about how the expanding knowledge of how the brain operates can be used to treat young children who previously were considered too damaged for healing. Using sophisticated brain mapping techniques, healing therapies like music, drumming, riding and grooming horses, immersion tank, neuro-feedback and more traditional therapies can be focused on specific weaknesses in the brain to strengthen self regulation abilities.

Guest: Ken Rabow, 416-633-4333, ken@reallifecoaching.ca, http://www.reallifecoaching.ca, lives in Toronto, Canada and is a Life Empowerment Coach and Huffington Post Blogger. Ken talks about his work using many alternative therapies helping self-sabotaging teens and young adults, and how new communication technologies are changing so fast it seems to be creating a younger generation that seems to be adopting a new way of thinking about how to adjust to the world.

Guest: Joel Horowitz, horowitzjoel8@gmail.com, www.friendsoffamilies.org, founder of the Friends Of Families Foundation With Children In Crisis, and co-founder and Director of Tommy Hilfiger Company. He discussed his personal experiences that led to his enrolling his daughter in a wilderness therapy program and a therapeutic Boarding School, which eventually led to his founding Friends of Families in 1998 to help families needing financial help for their child to finish their placement.

Guests: Doug Kim-Brown, 208-267-1111, kimbrown@coldreams.com, www.echosprings.net, Founded/Director of Echo Springs Transition Center for Young Adults. Brandi Elliott, 909-337-8093, bmelliott@verizon.net, www.nwacademy.net, Marketing for Northwest Academy and co-owner of Powell-Elliott Consulting. Doug and Brandi talk about the possible causes and possible solutions to the increasing phenomenon of young adults, known as Boomerang Kids, Twixters, Endless Adolescence, or Perma Kids, failing to establish themselves as mature functioning adults by their 20s and winding with little motivation and living with their parents.

Guest: Katie Gill, actress and star of Lifeline Made for TV movie ?Betrayed at 17.? Contact Account Executive Ariela Weston, Levine Communications Office, 310-300-0950 x313, AWeston@lcoonline.com. Katie talks about this movie that revisits the issues in the popular movie of a few years ago, Mean Girls, updated for the age of the Internet, and discusses the role of her character and the other characters.

Guest: Kelley King, Associate Director of The Gurian Institute, Kelley@gurianinstitute.com, www.gurianinstitute.com, explains how some of the problems of boys can be traced to an inadequate knowledge of the differences in the brains of boys and girls and what parents and other adults can do to help boys.

Guest: John Winton, Founder of Breakwater Expeditions, 208-263-0277, info@breakwaterexpeditions.com, www.breakwaterexpeditions, talk about how effective an exposure to nature can be toward healing families. Co-host: Larry Stednitz, educational consultant.

Guests: Dr. Russell Hyken Ph.D. Educational and Placement Specialist, in St. Louis, 314-691-7640, rhyken@ed-psy.com, www.ed-psy.com and Steve Walters: Social Media for InnerChange in Utah, 801-376-7225, stevenw@innerchange.com, www.innerchange.com talk about the significance of Social Media and ways educators can use Social Media.

Guest: Lisa Sinsheimer M.D., Clinical Consultant, Admissions and Parent Liaison for John Dewey Academy -MA, www.jda.org, 917-597-7814, lisa@sinsheimer.net, talks about her concerns with our society increasingly looking to psychotropic medications to solve normal problems of life.

Guest: Jerry Mintz, Founder and Director of Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO), NYC, 516-621-2195, Jerryaero@aol.com, www.educationrevolution.org, talks about how Democratic Education is based on children?s natural curiosity and urge to learn.

Guests: Jane Samuel, Head of School, jane.samuel@sequeltsi.com, and Elizabeth Guamaccia, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, eguarnaccia1@me.com, Auldern Academy, North Carolina, Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, 919-837-2336, www.auldern.com, talk about how the growth of the female brain starts it on its unique growth pattern almost from conception which results in significant differences in what females and males need in schools and their lives as they grow up.

Guest: Dr. Kevin Ross Emery, drkevin@managingthegift.com, facebook.com/mydrkevin, managingthegift.com, author of Managing the Gift of Your ADD/HD Child, explains how ADD/HD is not a disorder, but part of the evolutionary progress of expanded capability.

Guest: Dr. Kim Dennis M.D., 630-343-2332, kdennis@timberlineknolls.com, www.timberlineknolls.com, Medical Director at Timberline Knolls, RTC Lemont Illinois, discusses and explains Eating Disorders and the traumas that are usually behind clinical Eating Disorders.

Guest: Ron Thompson Ph.D.,402-498-1254, ronald.thompson@boystown.org, www.boystown.org/NRI, Director of the Boys Town National Research Institute for Child And Family Studies explains the research Boys Town has been doing for more than 22 years on at-risk children and the resulting program they provide parents groups on what they refer to as Common Sense Parenting.

Guest: Doug Covey, 800-426-4952, dougc@blueprinteducation.org, www.blueprinteducation.org, CEO of Blueprint Education-AZ, talks about his experience in developing a business providing a wide variety of education opportunities largely using the developing potentials of Online Education.

Guests: Ken Steiner PhD, Head of School, and Lisa Sinsheimer, Parent Liaison, lisa@sinsheimer.net, both with John Dewey Academy-MA, 413-528-9800, www.jda.org, talk about how their Caring Confrontation is an healing educational model approach that relates to students and other adults in a direct and honest way that builds self-respect and a sense of belonging in a school community.

Guest: Sanford Shapiro, Founder of the Bend Learning Center, 541-383-3208, sanfordmshapiro@gmail.com, www.ldresources.org, discusses the trend to integrate treatment for Learning Disabilities and for Emotional/Behavioral problems in private parent-choice schools and programs for struggling children with problems being successful.

Guest: Sanford Shapiro, Founder of the Bend Learning Center, 541-383-3208, sanfordmshapiro@gmail.com, www.ldresources.org, discusses the trend to integrate treatment for Learning Disabilities and for Emotional/Behavioral problems in private parent-choice schools and programs for struggling children with problems being successful.

Guest: Mike Watson, 256-426-8873, tmw1950@yahoo.com, www.mwatsonconsulting.com, Co-founder of the recent Three Springs treatment centers headquartered in Alabama, Watson is currently doing program consulting for schools and programs for struggling teens. Drawing on his 39 years of experience in the field, he offers his suggestions for what parents need to watch for to find effective schools and programs that emphasize providing quality and effective services for struggling teens.