The Sweet Spot Podcasts

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of the Sweet Spot podcast, interviews Dr. Robin Goldstein, author of The New Baby Answer Book, 2E: From Birth to Kindergarten, Answers to the Top 150 Questions about Raising a Young Child published by Sourcebooks Trade.

Dr. Robin Goldstein is a nationally known parent educator, specialist in child development, and faculty member at John Hopkins University. Her advice has appeared in Redbook, Working Mother, Good Housekeeping, and other national publications. She is a frequent guest on TV and radio, and a popular corporate speaker. As a parenting consultant, Robin advises families on their everyday challenges and helps parents understand their young child's behavior. Visit her website.

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcast, interviews Dr. Joanne Stern, author of Parenting Is a Contact Sport: 8 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Kids for Life published by Greenleaf Book Group Press.

Joanne Stern, PhD, is a psychotherapist with a private practice emphasizing family and couples counseling. She’s a teacher, consultant, speaker, and expert guest on parenting and family topics, including communication, discipline, self-esteem, addictions, eating disorders, grief, and loss. In 2002, she also became an EEG neurofeedback practitioner to address a variety of childhood disorders, including attention deficit disorder, anxiety, and depression.

Dr. Stern is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, families, and groups learn, heal, change, and grow in their relationships with one another.

Parenting Is a Contact Sport: 8 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Kids for Life is her first book. A mother and grandmother, she and her husband, Terry Hale, live in Aspen, Colorado.  Visit her website.

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcast, interviews Dr. Tamar Chansky, author of Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility, and Happiness published by Da Capo Lifelong Books.

Dr. Tamar Chansky is a clinical child psychologist, founder and director of The Children's Center for OCD and Anxiety in suburban Philadelphia, creator of the educational website, worrywisekids.org, and the author of the Freeing Your Child Series. A frequent guest on radio and television, Dr. Chansky also provides workshops and trainings for parents and professionals. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Philadelphia.  Visit her website.

For nearly a decade Michelle Nicholasen produced documentaries for PBS, including award-winning films for NOVA and FRONTLINE.  Her journalism has covered controversial science and public policy issues such as AIDS, autism, power lines, tobacco, breast implants and human evolution. Her mini-series on 20th century science for middle schoolers called A Science Odyssey: Short Trips, has won multiple awards including a Cine Golden Eagle. 

 In 2004 she gave up her film career to raise five children under the age of five. How did this happen? After a 2-year battle with infertility, Michelle and her husband hit the IVF jackpot.  She gave birth to her first daughter in 2001.  Then, trying for a second child, she became pregnant with triplet girls.  When the triplets were 10 months old, she became spontaneously (and impossibly) pregnant with her fifth child, a boy.  Michelle survived an intense learning curve and decided to put all her little-kid behavior strategies, along with Barbara O'Neal's decades of wisdom, into a book to give a leg-up to other moms and dads. Visit her website.