New Dad at 58 You ever think what would it be like to revisit raising children? What would you do differently and what would you repeat. Having raised two children (Born in 1966 and 1969) I had a child born in 2001 and have the chance to use all that I have learned Through the years to raise this one. Listen to my weekly podcast and hear how things go.

Senior Dad
Show about parenting Host Senior Dad Stan Goldberg speaks with parents, educators, experts, and professionals offering cutting edge information about how to raise our children to succeed in the modern world. Hear the latest scandals, disputes, best practices, and food choices from the best sources in the world. Visit the Senior Dad Briefing Rooms that are packed with usable knowledge on teaching methods, homework, Autism, and even a special San Francisco Briefing Room. Listen and learn.

Senior Dad #062- Yin and Yang of Happiness
10 May 2010 at 12:29pm
I want to be happy. I want my kid to be happy. Sound familiar? Most of us want this but getting there is something else. How do we get our kids to expect to be happy? Christine Carter the author of ?Raising Happiness? joins me to chat about how we can promote happiness in our children?s lives and our own.The greater autism community of New York State has been working on a new comprehensive autism insurance bill for two years. They gathered supporters and lobbied legislators. They had victory in sight and it all started unraveling before their eyes to become their worst nightmare. New bill less coverage. Michael Smith, Chairman and Northeas...
Sr Dad 061- All doctored up
24 Feb 2010 at 11:40am
We are what we eat. We are facing a national epidemic of childhood obesity, hypertension, and high cholesterol from our bad eating habits. Dr Alan Greene, author of ?Feeding Baby Green? joins me in a Skype video-visit to talk about teaching children to love great food by starting them early. Since Alan is a Pediatrician we also discuss the health and education related issues of the Autism epidemic and other health related issues.With autism reported by the Center for Disease Control to be one percent of our population and anecdotal accounting by teachers of much higher numbers, we need to focus on strategies for early diagnosis and treatme...
Senior Dad #60- Holiday Cheer
2 Dec 2009 at 10:23am
Buy fresh and support local farmers. Senior Dad Stan Goldberg visits the Alemany Farmer's Market with his family for the family's weekly visit.Sara Bennett co-authored ?The Case Against Homework? with Nancy Kalish. Both have been guests on my show in the past. On this show I share with Sara some of my homework wins and losses and she shares with us what the last 3 years running stophomework.com was like.The Spark Program identifies at-risk middle-school students who need to be motivated by the relevancy of school and matches them with people in industry that are employed in the student?s ?dream job?.  The student then becomes an intern at ...
Senior Dad #59- 24 Liquor Stores
1 Oct 2009 at 9:26pm
The Tenderloin district of San Francisco has the heaviest concentration of children in the City. It also had 2,000 violent crimes last month. Twenty-four liquor stores are in one four-block area, alongside sex shops, drug users, and the homeless. This is the playground for 3,500 children of the urban poor. When a new liquor store tried to get permitted, community activist Barbara Lopez energized the community and developed a broad based support against the permitting. Is this the turning point in the resurgence of the Tenderloin? Barbara Lopez joins me to update me on how the community came together. She helps me understand a world so diff...
Senior Dad #58- Common Sense
16 Jun 2009 at 8:09pm
When school districts create short lists to evaluate their progress with their small schools, or want a road map to move toward small learning environments, or a coach or consultant to help them refine their small school directions, these short lists have one thing in common. That common element is Inquiry and Learning For Change, based in Oakland, California. John Watkins, Principal of the firm joins me to talk about small schools and a wide range of topics about how our schools and learning environments are changing and the political conditions that may help or inhibit this process. John Watkins- A thinking man?s perspective.Ellie Goldbe...
Senior Dad #57- Too much technology
3 Jun 2009 at 1:55pm
John C. Dvorak is an internationally renowned technology reporter and analyst. John joins us to tell us if you can expect your paper textbooks to be replaced by digital ones shortly.Distracted? this is a very popular word and it describes what is happening to many people in our modern world. We look at our children and see that they can't focus and we wonder whether this is caused by some medical condition or by the way we live. Commercials, technical devices, music and popular entertainment pull us in several directions. Are these the root causes of the distraction of our society? Maggie Jackson, the columnist for the Boston Globe has wri...
Senior Dad #56- Healthy, Happy Kid!
4 May 2009 at 4:06pm
Amber LamprechtLearning and reading are unquestionably tied together. No doubt someone can learn without knowing how to read but it makes the acquisition of information a lot harder. Amber Lamprecht specializes in teaching different types of learners how to read. One of of techniques she uses is multi-sensory learning. We discuss this as well as how the 20 percent of our population that are dyslectic-thinkers need to be trained to use their talents to learn to read. We also focus on the effects on children when we delay addressing the issues around learning to read until later grades. Amber shares with us what parents should look for as si...
Senior Dad #55- IEP4all
25 Mar 2009 at 7:46pm
Mel Levine on Individual Education plan for all.The Sustainable ChefThroughout his life Bryant Terry has tried many different diet plans. As a Chef he has explored cuisine from varied corners of the United States. Nationally known, he has participated in sustainable garden projects on both coasts and he has appeared in a featured article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine. Now a Berkeley resident, he has spoken at Alice Water?s and Ann Cooper?s school food project.In this conversation we chat about his new book ?The Vegan Soul Kitchen? as well as his cooking roots, growing organic produce at home, school food, sustainable gardening, buy...
Senior Dad #54- Head Start, Then, Now and the Future
9 Mar 2009 at 12:09pm
Todd Risley, noted researcher was one of the team that named ?time outs?, a tool that parents have been employing as a technique to help them retain their sanity as their children grow. Todd?s major work, along with researcher Betty Hart, was a study that showed convincingly that the more a parent talks to their child, between birth and age three, the larger the child?s vocabulary, and the higher the child?s IQ. Start behind, stay behind. I recently learned of Todd?s passing in December 2008. As we remember the contributions of Todd I am broadcasting my interview with Todd from December 2006. The interview was conducted while Todd was home...
Senior Dad #53- Less Money, More Issues
12 Feb 2009 at 10:11am
This show has two ?Briefs?. Mel Levine chats with me about ?Trust?. I am also joined by Susan Barnes the founder of ?Classes for Causes and we learn what is happening there. The last story on the show is from Mike Henry an involved parent. We here the frightening escalation of punishment his son received from the school district and in a post script I share another ?Racism? story in it?s not racism, it?s EGO.
Senior Dad 052- Moves of Change
5 Jan 2009 at 11:39am
Kris Olson was one of the founders of Parents for Public Schools in Waco, Texas. Kris has witnessed some very critical times for her city and its school system. Kris was in school when the courts ordered desegregation. In her lifetime she has seen the system go from promoting busing to discontinuing busing. Her entire family is a product of the Waco school system. Her city has grown and learned and Kris shares with us what that journey was like.We introduce a new feature called a brief. This will be a self contained topic that is usually less then 10 minutes in length. Mel Levine helps us kick off this feature with a 8:42 show about ?rules...
Senior Dad 051- I Am Potential
10 Nov 2008 at 8:47pm
Patrick Henry Hughes was born enabled. His father, Patrick John, relates that when Patrick was four months old, the sound of the piano soothed the child, and by the time Patrick Henry was a-one-year old he was playing tunes on the piano. In the ensuing years Patrick Henry learned to play the trumpet and developed his voice. When Patrick applied to college he wanted to be in the pep band. The band director said ?no problem?, however, all pep band members were also members of the marching band. This was somewhat of an obstacle for Patrick since he was born without eyes and had a muscle disease that made him wheelchair-bound. His father said ...
Senior Dad 050- Being quiet is not an option
27 Oct 2008 at 11:48am
When faced with a situation where a parent feels that a school system is not doing all it can for their children, some parents just complain. Some parents write letters and some parents, like Los Angeles parent Bill Ring, act. Bill got involved. He was on district parent advisory committee and when that was not yielding results, he started his own parent organization. When he was not satisfied with his child?s middle school choices he worked with others to start a charter middle school. The city rejected his application and he applied to the county. When the county rejected the application, they went to the state.  But time marched on, and...
Senior Dad 049- What type of change do you want?
14 Oct 2008 at 9:15am
The small school movement and the charter school movement are definitely forces that are having increasing impact on public schools. It is hard to find a more out-spoken advocate for both of these movements as Joe Nathan. He was active in the formulation of small charter schools at the beginning of the modern-day small-schools movement. He is the Director of the University of Minnesota Center for School Change. The center features and promotes charter schools. This is Joe?s first visit to a Senior Dad Briefing Room, and we discuss his background, beliefs, and define areas of agreement and disagreement. Some of Joe?s ideas are controversial...
Senior Dad 048- The Observant Witness
24 Sep 2008 at 4:38pm
The news business has been changing even before that runner burst through the door, breathless to deliver her earth-shattering news. Nanette Asimov was not in the business that far back, but has been the mainstay of the Education Beat for the San Francisco Chronicle for over twenty years. Her focus is on state and national issues and has recently begun investigating special education and autism. Her stories are insightful, informative, and occasionally controversial, as her words describe a vision that is uncomfortable for some. Speaking with Nanette gives us insight to the person we meet so frequently at our breakfast table. Nanette Asimo...