Saturday June 16: Interesting show on how bad nutrition available to college students really is! College students Arvind Srinivasan and Saad jafri shockednutritionist Vijaya Parmeswaran Deo with their knowledge on the constraints college students face when trying to eat healthy, starting with odd class times, and ending with bad cafeteria choices!

Here is the recording of the show for those who missed it.

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ICC Parent Talk is a weekly radio show sponsored by the India Community Center. It airs on Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM, live on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. The call in number for the show is 510-7701550.

If you have questions or comments about the show, or if you would like to participate on the show, please drop me a line at radio@indiacc.org. For news about the upcoming shows, check out the ICC Parent Talk page.

Saturday June 9: I talked with Sandhya Balakrishnan and Tiffany Lu of Flex Prep about college admissions and why they need not be as stressful as parents and students make them out to be.

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ICC Parent Talk is a weekly radio show sponsored by the India Community Center. It airs on Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM, live on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. The call in number for the show is 510-7701550.

If you have questions or comments about the show, or if you would like to participate on the show, please drop me a line at radio@indiacc.org. For news about the upcoming shows, check out the ICC Parent Talk page.

Saturday June 2: My guests Kishma Patnaik of Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation and career coach Louise Goeckel talked about the importance of kids finding their own paths based on their interests and passions.

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ICC Parent Talk is a weekly radio show sponsored by the India Community Center. It airs on Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM, live on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. The call in number for the show is 510-7701550.

If you have questions or comments about the show, or if you would like to participate on the show, please drop me a line at radio@indiacc.org. For news about the upcoming shows, check out the ICC Parent Talk page.

Saturday May 26: My guests Dr. Nirmaljit Dhami of the Maternal Mood Clinic at the El Camino Hospital and therapist intern Geetha Narayanan talked about the various symptoms of Post Partum Depression and the impact it can have on the mother-child relationship as well as on the rest of the family. Did you know the PPD can present very differently from regular depression? Here is the recording of the show.

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ICC Parent Talk is a weekly radio show sponsored by the India Community Center. It airs on Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM, live on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. The call in number for the show is 510-7701550.

If you have questions or comments about the show, or if you would like to participate on the show, please drop me a line at radio@indiacc.org. For news about the upcoming shows, check out the ICC Parent Talk page.

When I last wrote about Madhu Bhasha Kendra ( Hindi has made it !(In Fremont, that is)), founder Madhu Aggarwal was in the process of setting up her own company after having taught at the India Community Center for some time. Since then the program has grown in strength, acquiring not just a stellar reputation but also a WASC certification. ( The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is one of six regional accrediting associations in the United States. The Commission provides assistance to schools located in California and other Western states.) Best of all, the Kendra’s after- school Hindi program is accepted for accreditation not just in Fremont but also Milpitas, Palo Alto, Saratoga, Cupertino, and Pleasanton.

This summer, Aggarwal has received a federal grant through the STARTALK program to teach a 5-week course in Hindi. This means that the summer program is completely free for high- and middle-school students.

The program is woven around a virtual tour of India. The students will plan for a trip to India to attend a wedding and will pretend to be staying with a host family. Through this scenario they will learn to interact with their hosts, vendors (for wedding purchases!), and transporation officials. The fun and practical program will also include wedding rituals like Mehndi and Haldi.

The summer program will be held in Mission San Jose High School in Fremont from June 25 to July 27, 2012 from 9:30 am to 1 pm. To get more details check out mbkhindi.org.

On Saturday May 19, I talked to Gayathri Narayanan and Robert Niederman about Mindful Parenting. The concept is that the parent-child relationship does not need to be adversarial and confrontational. What I took away from this show is that kids, no matter how young, need to feel that they are valued as individuals and that their feelings and thoughts are important. It sounded too good to be true, but my guests firmly believed that just acknowledging your child’s point of view would go a long way in defusing the tension in the parent-child relationship. At the end of show I brought a cool camp for teens to the listeners’ attentions. It is a fun and rewarding camp for the socially conscious teen and is run by the Bay Area Solidarity Summer group. More info at http://www.solidaritysummer.org/

Here is the recording of the show.

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Here are some other resources for the parent interested in learning more about the mindful parenting technique.

Books

Kohn, Alfie. Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason. New York: Atria Books, 2005.

Rosenberg, Marshall. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. California: PuddleDancer Press, 2001.

Siegel, Daniel J., and Mary Hartzell. Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.

Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.

Gottman, John. Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Grille, Robin. Parenting for a Peaceful World. New York: Longueville Press, 2005.

Websites

http://www.echoparenting.org/

http://www.cnvc.org/

http://www.alfiekohn.org/index.php

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730447/ (this is a paper on mindful parenting)

Youtube Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu7wEr8AnHw (Daniel Siegel’s TED talk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awzf-wzao1Y (Alfie Kohn)

ICC Parent Talk is a weekly radio show sponsored by the India Community Center. It airs on Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM, live on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. The call in number for the show is 510-7701550.

If you have questions or comments about the show, or if you would like to participate on the show, please drop me a line at radio@indiacc.org. For news about the upcoming shows, check out the ICC Parent Talk page.

Saturday May 12: The ICC Table Tennis Program is one of the most successful in the world. In a matter of 7 years, super coach and program director Rajul Sheth has taken it from a community center activity to a world class trainer of champions. I was very lucky to be able to interview the three members of the Olympic Team from the ICC TT program as well as coach Rajul on the secrets of his success.

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Parent Talk is a weekly radio show sponsored by the India Community Center. It airs on Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM, live on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. The call in number for the show is 510-7701550.

If you have questions or comments about the show, or if you would like to participate on the show, please drop me a line at radio@indiacc.org. For news about the upcoming shows, check out the Parent Talk page.

Saturday May 5: Do your kids have a speech issue? What kind of services are available? How does the parent get the resources and services that can best help the child? I talked to speech and language pathologist Namita Maunder to find out. Check out the recording below.

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Parent Talk is a weekly radio show sponsored by the India Community Center. It airs on Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM, live on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. The call in number for the show is 510-7701550.

If you have questions or comments about the show, or if you would like to participate on the show, please drop me a line at radio@indiacc.org. For news about the upcoming shows, check out the Parent Talk page.

Saturday April 28: An interesting talk with Sudhir Kulkarni, advisor to online money managing site for kids guluck.com, and financial consultant Neepa Shah about helping kids be more responsible with money. Some interesting issues that came up: What do you do when kids want to spend their own money on things you don’t approve of? How do you give kids a sense of the value of money when we live in a time of plenty? Check out the recording below.

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Parent Talk is a weekly radio show sponsored by the India Community Center. It airs on Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM, live on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. The call in number for the show is 510-7701550.

If you have questions or comments about the show, or if you would like to participate on the show, please drop me a line at radio@indiacc.org. For news about the upcoming shows, check out the Parent Talk page.

Parent Talk is a weekly radio show sponsored by the India Community Center. It airs on Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM, live on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. The call in number for the show is 510-7701550.

Saturday April 21: On this episode I talked with sleep specialist Dr. Nitun Verma, Medical Director of the Washington Township Center for Sleep Disorders about sleep issues for kids these days. Did you know the optimum time to go to sleep in North America is 9 p.m.?  These and other interesting facts about sleep can be found in the recording below.

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If you have questions or comments about the show, or if you would like to participate on the show, please drop me a line at radio@indiacc.org. For news about the upcoming shows, check out the Parent Talk page.