Alaska ICE - Kids These Days Radio Show

Your Hosts: Nancy Seamount and Steve Heimel

Kids These Days! has been a pilot series of radio call-in shows airing once per month as part of the APRN Talk of Alaska program. Each show topic examined issues related to teens and families, and explored ways parents and adult mentors can support positive youth development. Listen to the shows in the series by clicking on the Past Shows links below. Check here for news and updates about the next step for Kids These Days.

Hosts
Steve Heimel
Nancy Seamount

Content Advisor
Dr. Harriet Heath

KTD Podcast
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Past Shows

The following are links for additional resources related to past programs:

Past Show: Raising Assertive Children
Tuesday, January 18th 2005 at 10:00am
Dr. Chuck Smith, author of "Raising Courageous Kids" was our guest to share specific strategies we can use to insure our child is neither a victim or a bully, but is able to live assertively and even act with moral courage when he or she walks out the front door on his or her own in the morning.
Listen to the show, which aired January 18th at 10:00 a.m. Note: This is a large audio file (13 MB or so) and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed and player settings. If you don't want to listen to the whole show, we have made audio excerpts from the show available as well.

Past Show: Teaching Character and Values
Tuesday, February 15th 2005 at 10:00am
Who's giving your child their values - you or today's bizarre pop culture? Guest Dr. Harriet Heath will talk with Alaskans about how we can all draw upon our own set of personal, religious and/or cultural values to raise our children to become adults we admire.
Listen to the show, which aired February 15th at 10:00 a.m. Note: This is a large audio file (14 MB or so) and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed and player settings.If you don't want to listen to the whole show, we have made audio excerpts from the show available as well.

Past Show: Navigating Toward Healthy Relationships
Tuesday, March 15th 2005 at 10:00am
We looked at how teens and adults can work together to postpone sexual involvement and have healthy teen dating and friendships. Our guest was Dr. Jill Murray, a parent, licensed psychotherapist, national speaker, and author of numerous books, including the featured book, But I Love Him: Protecting Your Teenage Daughter from Controlling, Abusive Dating Relationships.
Listen to the Show which aired Tuesday March 15th at 10 a.m. Note: This is a large audio file (14 MB or so) and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed and player settings. If you don't want to listen to the whole show, we have made audio excerpts from the show available as well.

Past Show: Preparing for What's Next After High School
Tuesday, April 19th 2005 at 10:00am
On this show we will be exploring how to get our teens ready for work-life success. Our guest is Dr. Kenneth Gray, Professor of Workforce Education and Development at Pennsylvania State University and author of this month's featured books Other Ways to Win: Creating Alternatives for High School Graduates and Getting Real - Helping Teens Find Their Future. Dr. Gray will share his strategies designed to involve teachers, parents, guidance counselors and students themselves in the process of preparing for high school graduation, postsecondary options, and the workplace.
Listen to the Show which aired Tuesday April 19th at 10 a.m. Note: This is a large audio file (14 MB or so) and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed and player settings.

Past Show: Alcohol and Drug Experimentation: Beyond Just Say No
Tuesday, May 17th 2005 at 10:00am
Hosts Steve Heimel and Nancy Seamount will discuss effective parent roles to prevent and deal with teen alcohol and drug experimentation. Their guest is David L. Marcus, a contributing editor to U.S. News & World Report, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of this month's featured book, What It Takes To Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out, a compassionate look at kids and families in crisis around adolescent drug and alcohol abuse. They'll explore the spectrum of experimentation and effective parent roles that work at each of the critical stages: Prevention, Intervention and Recovery.
Listen to the Show which aired Tuesday May 17th at 10 a.m. Note: This is a large audio file (14 MB or so) and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed and player settings.

Past Show: Adolescents: An Untapped Resource in our Society
Tuesday, June 21st 2005 at 10:00am
Hosts Nancy Seamount and Steve Heimel will discuss the vital role youth play and the meaningful contributions youth make in our communities when given the opportunity. Our guest is Cathryn Berger Kaye, a consultant, mentor, parent, and advocate for service learning and the author of this month's featured book: The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action.
Listen to the Show which aired Tuesday May 17th at 10 a.m. Note: This is a large audio file (14 MB or so) and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed and player settings.

Where to Hear Kids These Days
To find your local APRN Member Station click here and look at the list on the right hand side of the page.

Formats for Follow-Up

One-on-One Follow-up with Your Teen

Dialoging with Your Teen
There are critical differences between a dialogue and an argument, and learning how to engage in an effective dialogue with their teen can reap enormous benefits for a parent.

Follow-up in a Group Setting

Dialogue Format
A "dialogue" is a conversation that is animated by a search for understanding rather than for agreements or solutions. This is a great communication tool to promote healthy discussion between adults and the kids they care about.

Socratic Seminar Format
The Socratic method of teaching is based on Socrates' theory that it is more important to enable students to think for themselves than to merely fill their heads with "right" answers. The open-ended questions in this format allow students to think critically, analyze multiple meanings in text, and express ideas with clarity and confidence.

Job Description for Parenting Adolescents

Kids These Days! is pleased to offer a Job Description for Parenting Adolescents based on six principles about parenting adolescents that have widespread consensus among researchers and parent educators of many different cultures. Kids These Days! co-hosts, national parenting experts, and listeners will be talking together to develop practical application of these principles throughout the series when seeking solutions to problems faced by Alaska teens and those who love them.

Alaska Native Parenting Resources

Kids These Days! is dedicated to drawing on the wisdom and knowledge available right here in Alaska, along with research and information from national experts, to make the show a relevant and valuable resource for all Alaskans. Enter here to view some of the Alaska Native parenting resources that Kids These Days! is pleased to make available to our listeners.

Landmark Research Regarding Raising Adolescents

Parenting: What Really Counts (book review) A review by Dr. Harriet Heath of Susan Golombok's book that poses the question: "What is important to the healthy development of children? - the relationship they have with significant adults in their lives or the structure of their early childhood families including factors such as living conditions?"

Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action This report by Dr. A. Rae Simpson details the research and conclusions upon which the Kids These Days! Job Description for Parenting Adolescents is built, and is filled with important information and research for any parent.

Included in this report are the "Ten Tasks of Adolescence" (pdf) which lists universal themes such as adjusting to biological changes, developing more complex decision making and problem solving skills and understanding and expressing more emotionally complex experiences that all teens will face along their journey into adulthood.

Hardwired to Connect: The Case for Authoritative Communities This exemplary report was conducted by the Commission on Children at Risk, a group of distinguished physicians, scholars, scientists, and youth service professionals. These professionals amassed and integrated the most recent neuro-scientific and social science evidence. This Commission identified the crisis of American childhood to be one of a lack of connectedness to other people as well as to deep moral and spiritual meaning.

Kids These Days! Partner Organizations