Release date: December 1, 2025 Leah Ellis says that she created The Society of Child Entrepreneurs to help kids develop capacities like resilience and problem solving. The society currently offers workshops and coaching and is piloting a full curriculum with lessons on topics such as turning a passion into a plan. From what I have seen, Leah is doing great things, and the curriculum aligns with evidence-based practices and encourages individual reflection and positive peer-t

Release date: November 24, 2025 In this mini Thanksgiving episode, I investigate what James Baldwin and the other James Baldwin have to say about the holiday. More information is below. Full-length Talking About Kids episodes return next week (December 1, 2025). Links James Baldwin's Fifty Famous People with James Baldwin's picture on the cover https://a.co/d/fax1GAZ

Release date: November 17, 2025 Maria Gallucci is a CODA, which stands for a Child of Deaf Adults. As she chronicles in her new book, Raised in Silence: Lessons on Listening, Love, and Loud Family Dinners from a Child of Deaf Adults , being raised by two deaf parents, learning American Sign Language (ASL) as her primary language, and, while still a child, helping her parents navigate the hearing world was often challenging for Maria. However, as she and I discuss, being a CO

Release date: November 10, 2025 Harvey Araton is an award-winning reporter and best-selling author whose journalism and fiction expertly explore both the best and worst of sports. Harvey’s forthcoming work, The Goal of the Game , is his first written for middle readers, and the title is both a declaration and a question. As you will hear in our discussion, Harvey’s career has afforded him unique insights into what youth sports does well, where it is being led astray, and wha

Release date: November 3, 2025 Is it possible to foster in kids the skills and knowledge needed to avoid trafficking and exploitation without needlessly exposing them, even in small way, to the devasting ugliness of those worlds? My guest today, Erin Williamson, believes that it is possible. Erin is the Chief Programs & Strategy Officer at Love146, an organization that has been fighting to end child trafficking and exploitation for over two decades. As you will hear, the app

Release date: October 27, 2025 What happens when a public health leader writes a memoir? In Harper Bailey’s case the resulting work is as instructional as it is engaging. As you will hear in our discussion, this was intentional. Harper wanted It Was Her: A Memoir , her debut book, to inspire readers to do the “inner work so children don’t inherit unhealed wounds.” As you will also hear, that inner work is demanding and perpetual, and it might even take on different forms de

Release date: October 20, 2025 This is the second part of my episode on the cognitive health of deaf children. My guest is Donna Jo Napoli, Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice at Swarthmore College, author of fiction and science books, and co-director of Rise Videobooks. The first part focused on early language and cognitive development. This second part focusses on what Donna Jo and her colleagues are doing to improve the reading skills of deaf students. More inform

Release date: October 13, 2025 More than half of all deaf students who graduate from high school have reading skills at or below fourth...

Release date: October 3, 2025 Recently, Lucy Foulkes, a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University...

Release date: September 29, 2025 Do you know where the substitute teachers for your child’s preschool come from? If you are like me, you...

Release date: September 22, 2025 Piper Gibson is a Doctor of Functional Medicine; the Founder of the Tic Disorder Institute: ...

Release date: September 15, 2025 Family law is complicated. There are prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, custody petitions,...

Release date: September 8, 2025 David Pisarra wants to help fathers navigate their custody and divorce cases to secure more time with...

Release date: September 1, 2025 Lee Norwood is passionate about helping families find the “perfect college fit.” As the founder of...

Release date: August 25, 2025 This is the final mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. In the previous five episode, I...

Release date: August 18, 2025 This is the fifth of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. To help listeners have a...

Release date: August 11, 2025 This is the fourth of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. To help listeners have a...

Release date: August 4, 2025 This is the third of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. To help listeners have a...

Release date: July 28, 2025 This is the second of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. To help listeners have a...

Release date: July 21, 2025 This is the first of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. Summer is a time for...