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.
Episodes
200 episodes
How art can transform a kid’s trauma into resilience with Matt Sandoval
Matt Sandoval is in the business of transforming kids’ trauma. To accomplish this, he and Free Arts, the organization he leads, employ a simple formula: art + mentors = resilience. Matt and I discuss how this equation works, as well as his tips...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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33:47
How to help kids overcome math anxiety with Aditya Nagrath
Aditya Nagrath believes that math anxiety is real and that one of its chief instigators is memorization. This is why his book, Treating Mathematics Anxiety, and the system he created at Elephant Learning focus on fostering an understan...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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30:05
How kids benefit from being entrepreneurs with Leah Ellis
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 topic...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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33:57
Thanksgiving Episode: James Baldwin's and James Baldwin's perspectives on the holiday
In this mini Thanksgiving episode, I investigate what James Baldwin and the other James Baldwin have to say about the holiday. More information is at talkingaboutkids.com. Full-length Talking Abou...
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8:48
What a child of deaf parents can teach you about communication and connection with Maria Gallucci
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,...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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35:25
How organized sports should benefit kids with Harvey Araton
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 reader...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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35:38
How to protect kids from trafficking and exploitation with Erin Williamson
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 tha...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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38:43
How to break generational cycles to parent better with Harper Bailey
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, h...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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39:24
How to support the language and cognitive development of deaf children with Donna Jo Napoli (part 2)
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 Videobo...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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33:21
How to support the language and cognitive development of deaf children with Donna Jo Napoli (part 1)
More than half of all deaf students who graduate from high school have reading skills at or below fourth grade level. Research indicates that low literacy makes it difficult for individuals to obtain or maintain any employment, let alone the ki...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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46:22
Why mental-health lessons in schools might be a great idea with Kevin Runions
Recently, Lucy Foulkes, a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian newspaper titled, “Mental-health lessons in schools sound a like a great idea. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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45:15
How better staffing improves preschool with Paul Buckley
Do you know where the substitute teachers for your child’s preschool come from? If you are like me, you might imagine that potential substitutes and administrators sit down and get to know each other, possibly over tea and finger sandwiches. My...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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35:03
How to help a child with Tourette’s navigate school with Piper Gibson
Piper Gibson is a Doctor of Functional Medicine; the Founder of the Tic Disorder Institute: Regenerating Health; and the author of Tic Talk: Common Misconceptions, Natural Approaches, and Real Conversations about Tic Disorders. Piper i...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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32:55
What you need to know about the latest divorce trends with Kelly Scott
Family law is complicated. There are prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, custody petitions, visitation petitions, and post judgment matters, among other issues. Moreover, family law exists within an evolving society where perspective...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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50:24
What fathers need to know about family court with David Pisarra
David Pisarra wants to help fathers navigate their custody and divorce cases to secure more time with their kids. Like several previous Talking About Kids guests, David believes that the processes and systems can be easily biased against father...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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33:45
How to navigate the college admissions process with ease with Lee Norwood
Lee Norwood is passionate about helping families find the “perfect college fit.” As the founder of Annapolis College Consulting and a member of the CounselMore Executive Board, Lee spends a lot of her time dispelling myths about college admissi...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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38:01
Summer Episode 6: What to watch this summer
This is the final mini summer vacation episode of Talking About Kids. In the previous five episodes, I asked some past guests to recommend movies or episodes of TV shows to inspire parents, educators, and direct service providers. This final re...
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3:31
Summer Episode 5: What to watch this summer
This is the fifth of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. To help listeners have a rejuvenating summer, I asked some previous guests to recommend movies or episodes of TV shows to inspire parents, educators, and direct servi...
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4:34
Summer Episode 4: What to watch this summer
This is the fourth of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. To help listeners have a rejuvenating summer, I asked some previous guests to recommend movies or episodes of TV shows to inspire parents, educators, and direct serv...
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4:35
Summer Episode 3: What to watch this summer
This is the third of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. To help listeners have a rejuvenating summer, I asked some previous guests to recommend movies or episodes of TV shows to inspire parents, educators, and direct servi...
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3:58
Summer Episode 2: What to watch this summer
This is the second of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. To help listeners have a rejuvenating summer, I asked some previous guests to recommend movies or episodes of TV shows to inspire parents, educators, and direct serv...
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4:19
Summer Episode 1: What to watch this summer
This is the first of six mini summer vacation episodes of Talking About Kids. Summer is a time for relaxation and, hopefully, rejuvenation. It is in that spirit that I asked some previous guests to recommend movies or episodes of TV shows to th...
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4:05
Why it is important to recruit more Latinx adults into the field of education with Edgar Palacios
Like my previous guest, Ulric Shannon, my guest this episode, Edgar Palacios, believes that students are more successful when they see themselves reflected in their teachers, and, like Ulric, Edgar is a graduate of the Surge Institute. Today, E...
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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46:54
Why it is important to support emerging education leaders of color with Ulric Shannon
Ulric Shannon believes that students who do not see themselves reflected in their teachers and in the educational leadership develop harmful beliefs about authority, power, and value. Indeed, statistics show that the faculty in many school dist...
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Season 4
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Episode 39
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33:00
Why safe spaces are important to kids
To succeed, to be happy and healthy, kids need safety and support. Unfortunately, too many kids do not feel safe or supported at school or in out-of-school-time programs (OST) because they do not share the dominant culture’s abilities, race, re...
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Season 4
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Episode 40
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5:46
