First Years Episode Structure and Season One
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Episode Breakdown
 Feature 1 (4-5 min.)
The lead topic helps viewers explore complex parenting issues, involving health care, nutrition, adoption or even family finance decisions. This segment sheds light on all sides of a topic, allowing for variations in parenting styles and beliefs.
Real parents share their thoughts on the lead topic, followed by opinions from renowned medical experts such as Joshua Sparrow, M.D., Director of Special Initiatives at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center; Jane Anderson, M.D., Chief of Pediatrics at UCSF, Mt. Zion, Dawn Duane M.D., M.P.H., Stanford University Pediatric Neurologist and Thomas Tarshis, M.D., M.P.H., Stanford University Pediatric Psychiatrist. To explore all sides, alternative health care practitioners are also consulted. Parents absorb a range of options and are encouraged to analyze their problems with respect to their own child's temperament and needs.
 Feature 2 (3-4 min.)
This segment is devoted to developmental milestones. We meet parents who are trying to get their child to sleep through the night, cope with temper tantrums, toilet train and so on. This segment will chronicle the real-life experience of one family grappling with a specific issue. The family will be given expert advice from a professional and we get to see how the situation is resolved.
 Hands On, How To (3 min.)
Our warm and reassuring FIRST YEARS host Sydney Ranin consults with a wide variety of experts who provide insight and guidance on a range of topics: The newest baby products, the hottest toys, the safest gear and the coolest gifts on the market today.
Commentary (2 min.)
 No parenting show would be complete without a few minutes of laughter. FIRST YEARS commentary is a moment of levity in which a guest finds the funnier side of parenting, while suggesting common-sense attitudes and tactics that can go a long way towards easing the burdens of raising your little one. Commentators include MSN Financial Columnist MP Dunleavey, comedian Jimmy Tingle, and Josh Kornbluth, screenwriter and monologist.
The commentary rotates with Baby 101 segments, which help parents find solutions for day-to-day problems: How do you transition from baby food to adult food? How do you manage to make your child sit through his first haircut? These maybe minor issues but we’ll have easy solutions for them.
The third segment in the rotation is Daddy 101. Whether single, part-time, or married-but-overwhelmed, this segment reaches out to men trying to establish themselves in their parenting role. Possible topics address bonding with your baby, the pros and cons of father’s groups and the perplexing question of sex after the baby arrives.
 Pediatrician, Professional Expert (2 min.)
In this segment we will feature medical commentary from renowned experts in all fields of pediatric medicine — behaviorist, developmental, neurological, and psychiatric. Our team of well-known professionals will weigh in on a wide variety of topics, from developmental stages, to how to help your child be happy and successful.
 Parent Certified (2 min.)
Each FIRST YEARS episode concludes with the voices of real parents. In this segment, different parents describe how they dealt with problems presented earlier in the show, keeping with the FIRST YEARS philosophy to offer parents the widest possible spectrum of views on any given topic. Most important, Parent Certified reminds all parents that they can and will make the best decisions for the children they love.
Season One: 13 Episodes
Show #1:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Autism
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Developmental Stages
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Positive Discipline
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Rainy Day Projects
Commentary: 2 minutes
Top 10 Things Not To Say To Your Child
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Sleepovers
Show #2:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Recovering From Child Birth
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Post Partum
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Baby and Keeping Your Marriage Intact
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Latest Tools to help keep an eye on your child
Baby 101: 2 minutes
Making your own baby food
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Favorite Baby Food
Show #3:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Asthma
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Ear Infections
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Tantrums
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Hottest Toys
Daddy 101: 2 minutes
Getting Comfortable with that new daughter
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Tantrums
Show #4:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Nature vs. Nurture
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Building Self Esteem
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Nurturing the baby brain
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Entrepreneurial Parents: From Toilet Paper Saver to Piggy Bank w/4 tummies
Commentary: 2 minutes
New Parents Top 10 Financial Mistakes
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Traveling with a child
Show #5:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Television Watching: Will Baby Einstein make my child smarter?
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Speech Development: things to not worry about (example: stuttering)
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Is it ok for your child to be bored? Overbooking our kids
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Activities For Kids
Baby 101: 2 minutes
Healthy Snacks
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Activities for Kids
Show #6:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Expanded Birth Screening Tests
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Infant Hearing, Vision
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Raising a happy and well adjusted child
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Best Car Seats
Daddy 101: 2 minutes
Bonding Tips for New Dads
Parent Certified: 1 minute
How I Bonded
Show #7:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Adoption
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Dealing with a 2 year old
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Parenting and Divorce
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Hand-me-down gear and safety
Commentary: 2 minutes
Is it ever ok to toss your child’s artwork?
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Divorce and Logistics
Show #8:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Obesity
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Brain Development
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Birth Order and Your Child’s Personality
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Choosing a Pre-School
Baby 101: 2 minutes
First Haircut
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Breastfeeding Tips
Show #9:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
ADHD
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Breast Feeding
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
How not to raise a Bully
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Activities For Kids
Daddy 101: 2 minutes
More Companies Offering New Dads Time Off
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Child’s Favorite Meal
Show #10:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Losing a child
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Toilet Training
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Potty Training
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Buying first shoes
Commentary: 2 minutes
When did 3 become the new 2 Family size
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Whining
Show #11:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
How To Cope with Childhood Surgery
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Top 10 New Parents Mistakes
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Getting Your Child Ready for that sibling
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Teaching Your Child about money
Baby 101: 2 minutes
Over the Counter medications
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Separation anxieties
Show #12:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
Single Parents
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
How To Keep Breast Milk Safer
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Family Traditions and Celebrations
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Making Birthdays Special
Daddy 101: 2 minutes
Dad Shower-What To Get A New Dad
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Family Traditions and Celebrations
Show #13:
Feature #1: 4-5 minutes
How Young is too young for tutoring
Pediatrician, Developmental Expert (Professional Expert): 2 minutes
Dealing with a 3 year old
Feature #2: 3-4 minutes
Inspiring Creativity in Children
Hands on, How to Segment: 3 minutes
Finding a Super Babysitter
Commentary: 2 minutes
Play Group Etiquette
Parent Certified: 1 minute
Car Seat Cooperation
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