Are your kids complaining about not getting that Playstation or motorized scooter they wanted for Christmas? Is your 10 year-old already demanding her own credit card? When Eileen and Jon Gallo were raising their kids, they had to work hard to communicate the value of money without encouraging miserliness or materialism. Also on the show, Albany passed gay rights bill earlier this month but noticeably absent was language protecting transexuals. Psychotherapist Amy Bloom discusses how normal transsexual CEOs, crossdressing cops, and harmaphrodites with attitude really are.
Open Phones
Listeners' comments on a New York Times article about how parents talk to their kids about racism
Confusing Sex
Psychotherapist Amy Bloom, author of Normal: Transexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitude (Randomhouse, 2002) on the transgender, transsexual and transvestite.
Angelic Tongues
Anthony Freeman Burgess, Senior Pastor of Rehoboth Apostolic Assemblies, Inc. in Jamaica, Queens on the growing popularity of Pentecostalism
Buy, Buy Baby!
Calls on holiday shopping and gift comparing and Eileen Gallo, psychotherapist and columnist for the Journal of Financial Planning and Jon Gallo, estate-planning attorney, on their book, Silver Spoon Kids: How Successful Parents Raise Responsible Children (McGraw-Hill, 2002)
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