This week's show highlights:

• Every child must learn code
• Unlocking parental intelligence

Mark is a father of two and stay-at-home dad who has homeschooled his children. Having begun his career as a virtual reality researcher at NASA, Mark Engelberg transitioned into game development and design at Salient, and is currently a professional puzzle designer and inventor of several award-winning logic puzzle toys. 

Engelberg collaborates with research psychologists who need custom puzzles to study intelligence and cognition, often using computer algorithms to generate puzzles that rival the quality of hand-crafted puzzles. In addition to following his passion in puzzle-making, Mark Engelberg enjoys teaching college-level math and computer science, and tutors some of the brightest young students in the greater Seattle area. 

Laurie Hollman, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst with specialized clinical training in infant-parent, child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapy. She has been on the faculties of New York University and the Society for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, among others. She has written extensively on parenting for various publications, including the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, The International Journal of Infant Observation, The Inner World of the Mother, Newsday's Parents & Children Magazine, Long Island Parent, and her popular column, PARENTAL INTELLIGENCE, at Moms Magazine. She also blogs for Huffington Post.

So pull up a chair, shake up a cocktail, and kick up your heels while you tune in to the refreshingly real talk about what it takes to be a functional - and fun - parent in today's wild world of raising kids.

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