Aired: June 29, 2009 – 11:00 AM PST
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TITLE: Teens and moms surviving their emotions and raging hormones
SPECIAL GUEST: Cindy LaFerle Author of the “Writing Home ” & Former Editor of InnSider, a national travel magazine
Many mothers face emotional and physical changes — including menopause — during the same time their teen-aged kids are experiencing similar challenging times. During this week’s show Allen and his guest, Cindy LaFerle will discuss important ways moms can learn to deal with both sides of the equation, as well one of the hottest topics parents face, “When and how to start letting go!”
Cindy La Ferle writes essays, columns, and features on family topics and women’s midlife issues. Formerly the editor of Innsider, a national travel magazine, she has published award-winning pieces in more than 60 different newspapers, magazines, and anthologies.
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Since 1984 Cindy La Ferle has been writing essays, newspaper columns, and features on family topics and women’s issues — and she has been invited to speak to groups about the importance of recording and sharing our family stories.
Formerly the editor of Innsider, a national travel magazine, she has published pieces in more than 60 different magazines and newspapers, including Reader’s Digest, Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion, Country Gardens, The Detroit News & Free Press, Better Homes & Gardens, Literary Mama, Writer’s Digest and The Christian Science Monitor. Her personal essays are anthologized in a wide variety of likely (and unlikely) places, from Guideposts gift books to a Houghton Mifflin English textbook for 11th graders.
A member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, she has won several awards for my columns and essays, including the Michigan Press Association’s “First Place for Local Columns” (Better Newspaper Contest) for her weekly Life Lines column in The Daily Tribune (Royal Oak, MI).
Writing Home is a collection of reflective essays and columns on home and family life. Previously published in national magazines and newspapers, these pieces were written after she left the corporate world to work from home while raising her son. Writing Home has won several awards for creative nonfiction, and was dubbed “an anthem for the thinking woman.” .
Cindy lives with her husband in suburban Detroit when she is not working on the 1957 Frank Lloyd Wright home they purchased for their future retirement in western Michigan. A memoir on that experience is in the works. She is also on the faculty of the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, where she teaches creative writing classes and occasionally shows her artwork — another passion that keeps her busy in the winter when she can’t work outside in her garden.
She sells the book to help fund the organization’s activities (much like the Girl Scouts sell cookies). However, the Teaching Moments are FREE. Because Cindy wants to reach as many children as possible, she encourages people to cut and paste them into their newsletters, blogs, newspapers, bulletin boards, etc. She asks for a byline including our website www.goalsettingforstudents.com.
