Parenting Is a Contact Sport

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.