Talking About Kids
Talking About Kids is a weekly podcast for parents, educators, and direct service providers that explores the latest information on issues impacting children and adolescents, from preventing bullying to unlocking creativity. Hosted by R. Bradley Snyder, author of The 5 Simple Truths of Raising Kids, each episode presents a new topic and introduces listeners to authors, academics, and visionaries from around the globe.
Talking About Kids
Latest Episodes
How spatial awareness affects kids with Meenal Agarwal
An underexamined consequence of screen time is the effect it has on kids’ spatial awareness. My guest this episode, Meenal Agarwal, is a board-certified optometrist, a spatial awareness expert, an authority on the eye-brain connection, and the ...
What you need to know about the newborn gut microbiome with Stephanie Culler
The infant gut microbiome supports immune development and may help prevent noncommunicable diseases, yet many infants lack essential microbes. In this episode, Stephanie Culler and I discuss the research, the health effects of this deficit, and...
What you need to know about picky eaters with Katie Kimball
Picky eaters are not born. They are created. For over 17 years, Katie Kimball has been helping families come to grips with this fact so that they can undo harmful patterns and establish food customs that promote health and wellbeing. It is a pr...
Indigenous People's Day Episode: What kids need to know about migration
This episode is being released on Indigenous Peoples Day or Columbus Day, depending on which you observe. Humans have always migrated. Out of desperation, ambition, and captivity, individuals and groups of individuals have and continue to try t...
What you need to know children’s exposure to plastics (part 2 of 2) with Imogen Napper
My guest for the second part of Talking About Kids’ miniseries on children and plastics is Imogen Napper. Imogen is a Post Doctoral Researcher at The University of Plymouth, where she studies plastic pollution in the environment. Imogen is a Na...