Well, not exactly, but I will be taking a break from the “It Takes a Parent” show for the summer, so I can spend more time with my kids. Thanks for being a great audience, and for all your comments and support. I’ll miss you over these next few months, but I hope you’ll be as supportive of my new gig at WYLL AM1160 Chicago as you were of the radio show – each weekday morning at 10:00, I’ll be offering a family and parenting tip of the day, sponsored by Matt’s Cookies. That starts in 2 weeks. I hope you’ll listen in, and let me know what you think.

As always, thanks for stopping by, and I hope you’ll keep visiting and letting me hear from you.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Listening Options:
1. Online: Click the right arrow.
2. Offline: Click the “Download” button.

Hi friends – I hope you’ll tune into “It Takes a Parent,” AM1160/WYLL at noon on Sunday, or later stop by for a podcast here or on National Review.com. This week’s guest is writer Megan Basham, author of “Getting the Life you Want by Helping Your Husband Get Ahead” (Forum Crown, 2008). She has some really provocative things to say, and I’m certainly not afraid to challenge her a bit, too! I think we are both pretty good at taking apart the feminists, and how they they have made things harder, not easier for women – particularly when it comes to marriage!

Meanwhile, I wanted to let you all know that I’ll be taking a break from the “It takes a Parent” show for the summer! My last show until fall will be next week, May 28th. I hope you tune in. And, I hope you get a chance to enjoy the archives over the summer months.

Thanks for stopping by! – Betsy

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Listening Options:
1. Online: Click the right arrow.
2. Offline: Click the “Download” button.

Hey friends – today’s show on “It Takes a Parent” is a “best of,” featuring one of my favorite parenting writers, Marybeth Hicks, as she talks about everything, well, facing moms and families in a culture gone wild.

I hope you can tune in live at noon central, AM1160 Chicago, streaming at www.wyll.com, or scroll down to the entry for March 15th to listen to a podcast of the show anytime.

And have a happy Mother’s Day!!

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Listening Options:
1. Online: Click the right arrow.
2. Offline: Click the “Download” button.

Hi friends – I hope you tune in to “It Takes a Parent” this week when I talk about America’s spirituality. There have been lots of negative news reports about Americans and their drop in religious affiliation. But the news is better than that. I touched on it in this week’s column, and will talk more about it on the show.

I’ll also look at whether it’s true then when it comes to men and religion, “they’re just not that into Him” as Gail Falsani of the Sun-Times put it. The science is that men are not has “hard-wired” for religion as women are. Among other things, I’ll make the case that this is a practical argument for why women shouldn’t occupy positions of authority in the church.

And there are some other fun segments in the “Hart Beat” part of the show too.

I hope you’ll tune in today at noon central, AM1160/WYLL Chicago, streaming at www.wyll.com, or podcast tomorrow here or on Friday at NationalReview.com

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a blessed week.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Listening Options:
1. Online: Click the right arrow.
2. Offline: Click the “Download” button.

Hi friends – I hope you tune in today to “It Takes a Parent” on AM1160/WYLL at noon or streaming at www.wyll.com. I’ll talk to Shannon Royce of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation about the global warming hype – and how to combat the political agenda behind it.

And I have several fun segments for the “Hart Beat” part of the show. Hope you can listen today, or after the show here or on www.nationalreview.com.

Thanks for stopping by!

Betsy Hart

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Listening Options:
1. Online: Click the right arrow.
2. Offline: Click the “Download” button.

Well, yes according to Christina Hoff Sommers. In a great piece last week in the Washington Post, she described how the Obama Administration is now applying Title IX regulations (those which essentially try to force women into varsity level sports, which always leads to the guys losing spots on their varsity teams) to college science programs. There is only one problem: inspite of mass recruitment efforts, only about 20 percent of hard science courses in college are made up of women.

So, once again to make things “equal” this could have the effect of fewer science spots available to men.

Please notice that the Obama administration is not trying to equalize ratios between men and women in English or education departments which are overwhelmingly female.

Here’s Christina’s piece: A Threat in Title IX

Be sure to tune in today when I have this and lots of fun things to talk about in the “Hart Beat” section of the show too! AM1160/WYLL at noon or streaming live at www.wyll.com or later here or on NationalReview.com

And I’d love to see you on May 6th, when I’ll be speaking at the University Club in Chicago on my book, “It Takes a Parent: How the Culture of Pushover Parenting is Hurting our Kids, And What to do About It” at a noon lunch. Members, call the club and make your reservation by May 1st. Non-members can also attend if you call the Book Stall in Winnetka, and make your reservations there. That phone number is (847) 446 8880.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Listening Options:
1. Online: Click the right arrow.
2. Offline: Click the “Download” button.

Hi friends and Happy Easter!

Today on “It Takes a Parent” (AM1160/WYLL Radio noon on Sunday) I have a lot to talk about in the “Hart Beat” part of the show. Men and “biological clocks” for starters, and yet more studies which show that people who have kids are not has happy as those who don’t have kids! What’s up with that?

Then, I get to talk to Dr. Wafik Hanna, of Hanna Facial Cosmetic Surgery and Skinsational Medspa in Hinsdale (and one of my personally recruited, wonderful sponsors) about what’s new when it comes to looking good!

I hope you tune in, and I hope you have a terrific Easter!

Thanks for stopping by – Betsy Hart

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Listening Options:
1. Online: Click the right arrow.
2. Offline: Click the “Download” button.

Hi friends – I hope you tune in to AM1160 WYLL today at 12:00 for the “It Takes a Parent” show. There are lots of fun topics in the extended Hart Beat part of the show today, including, what is up with those runway models and their nasty facial expressions?

Hope you have time to listen, and thanks for stopping by!

Betsy Hart

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Listening Options:
1. Online: Click the right arrow.
2. Offline: Click the “Download” button.

Hi friends – sorry this is late this week. Thanks for your patience.

Here is Part II of “surviving the teen years with your marriage intact,” with Dr. Paul Randolph of Insight Christian Counseling.

Back to an all new show this week!

Enjoy.

And thanks for stopping by – Betsy

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Listening Options:
1. Online: Click the right arrow.
2. Offline: Click the “Download” button.

Hi friends – this week I’ll be traveling with my kids, so today and next Sunday we are repeating the two-part series by Dr. Paul Randolph of Insight Christian Counseling on parents and teens and how the teenage years can spell trouble for their parents’ marriage. I hope you’ll tune in today at noon to AM1160/WYLL radio, or streaming at www.wyll.com.

Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by.

Betsy

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!