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Reach Out and Read
From the national organization Reach Out and Read comes a brand new podcast centered around the belief that children's books build better brains, better family relationships, and happier, healthy children and societies. Join us as host Dr Dipesh Navsaria, a pediatrician with a children's librarianship degree, dives into a wealth of varied early childhood health and literacy topics with expert guests examining the many facets of supporting the parent-child relationship as key to early success.
Episodes
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How the Human Brain Learned to Read
The human brain doesn't come wired to read. Remarkably, recognizing, decoding, and comprehending a single word takes many different repurposed brain circuits…
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Food is Love. Or is it?
Feeding and being fed isn't merely a nutritional transaction — it's also an emotional and relational act inexorably linked to the act of caring. Dr. Natalie…
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Wonder: What It Means for Childhood
Young children are born with a natural sense of wonder: an instinctual and powerful drive to explore and learn about their world. Dr. Frank Keil, professor of…
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Child Poverty in the US: Causes, Effects, and Solutions
Child poverty is a problem that's much closer to home than many of us realize, with over a third of US children living in poverty at some point in their…
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Building a Parent Nation
How can we support children? By supporting their parents - particularly during the most critical years of their children's development. Dr. Dana Suskind…
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Kids and the Metaverse
The 'metaverse' is the latest tech buzzword. But what in the world is it? Josh Golin, Executive Director at Fairplay, joins us to take a closer look at what it…
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Adoption: A Family Journey
Adoption is a very common route to becoming a parent; yet, many don't know how to talk about it, and know little about adoption. And even those strongly…
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Child Refugees: What It Means to Leave a Home
If you're a refugee, you're disproportionately likely to be a child — and coping with many challenges that you're developmentally unprepared to handle. Dr…
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Early Math Part 2: Building a Math Picture Book
We take a closer look at early math picture books themselves in Part 2 of our series on the topic. Robie Harris, author of Crash! Boom!, and Hilary Van Dusen…
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Early Math Part 1: What is Early Math and Why Does it Matter?
We know that reading aloud promotes everything from language enrichment to emotional intelligence, but did you know that it also helps with learning math?…
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Meet Marty Martinez, Reach Out and Read's New CEO
Breaking News: We're pleased to introduce Reach Out and Read's new Chief Executive Officer, Marty Martinez! He joins today's podcast to share the personal and…
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Co-Parenting Through Separation and Divorce
When faced with divorce or separation, a couple that had trouble agreeing when they were together now need to agree on parenting when apart. Dr. David Hill…
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Reading in the NICU Part 2: What To Do and How To Do It
We talk about the emotional and physical architecture of NICU reading programs and their effect on babies, their families, and the medical staff who implement…
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Helping Kids Face Challenging Emotions
Parents love seeing their children experience feelings of joy, happiness, and success. Conversely, they often feel a desire to protect their children against…
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The Ideal Preschool Teacher
Science tells us early learning is critically important, yet somehow it's both remarkably expensive and those doing it are massively underpaid. There's a huge…
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Paper: A Timeless Innovation
Paper! It's everywhere and yet it's not usually at the forefront of our thoughts. Despite this being a podcast about reading, we haven't really talked about…
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Banned Books and The Discomfort They Bring
Book banning is often done with the intention of "protecting children". But who decides what is or isn't okay? And are we doing children and their families a…
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The First Chapter: A Conversation with Dr. Robert Needlman
How in the world did anyone have the idea to not only talk about shared book reading in regular medical checkups for kids, but to bring in a book and use it as…
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How to Raise Kids Who Aren't A**holes
There's no shortage of parenting advice out there. How much is opinion, and how much is based on research evidence? Science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer…
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Reading in the NICU: Reclaiming Parenting of Newborns
Newborn Intensive Care Units are physically and emotionally daunting for new parents. With many of the typical parenting roles supplanted by medical necessity…
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Books Without Words? Explaining Wordless Picture Books
Reading without words? We generally associate reading with text, but reading *pictures* can offer a rich and delightful opportunity for insight and literacy…
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Back to School: Making Human Connections a Priority
As we transition back to school during an ongoing pandemic, we hear a lot about a 'covid learning slide', which adds to the stress of a return. But, is that…
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Detoxifying Stress: Resiliency, Relationships, and Reading Together
"Toxic stress defines the problem. Relational health defines the solution." This is the core of the recent revision to the American Academy's policy statement…
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Best Beginnings: Book Sharing from Birth
A baby's brain is forming thousands to millions of neuronal connections per minute, absorbing new information in the first six months. This is the perfect…
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Quirky Kids
When parenting, teaching, or caring for kids, there can be a fine line between those with a readily identifiable diagnosis, and those who are just plain…
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Sometimes You Have to Lie
'Ole Golly says there is as many ways to live as there are people on the earth'. So says Harriet in "Harriet the Spy", the brainchild of author Louise…
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From Book Desert to Reading Oasis
Have you heard of book deserts? Nearly half of our nation's children live in one: neighborhoods that lack public libraries and bookstores and where more than…
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Opening Up the Book on Reach Out and Read
It's clear that Reach Out and Read has become a significant part of American pediatrics. And while operating on such a large scale can generate incredible…
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Raising Black Children
All parents face challenges somewhere along the journey of raising children. But some groups of parents deal with issues that don't necessarily affect all. Drs…
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"William's Doll" and the Legacy of Charlotte Zolotow
The publication of Charlotte Zolotow's picture book William's Doll (1972) not only broke gender stereotypes, but became a landmark moment in American…
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Inner Truths, Part 2: The Research Behind LGBTQ+ Children's Books
In Part 2 of our series on LGBTQ+ children's books, we talk to Dr. Jamie Campbell Naidoo, a professor at the University of Alabama's School of Library and…
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Inner Truths: Crafting LGBTQ+ Children's Books
LGBTQ+ children's books play a crucial role in offering 'mirrors and windows' for all children and their caregivers, yet they remain not only hard to find, but…
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Parenting from Prison: Maintaining Connections through Reading
While parenting can be challenging, can you imagine what it's like doing so from behind bars? Even so, maintaining the parent-child relationship is critical to…
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How We Read Now
When it comes to reading preferences, are you on Team Print or Team Digital? It turns out you may not have to pick sides. How we read matters, but why we make…
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And the Winner is... Book Awards and Children's Literature
The shiny medallions prominently displayed on award-winning children's books are familiar to many. But what's behind those seals? How are the winners chosen?…
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Different Stories: Developmental Differences and Reading Aloud
We know shared reading benefits all children, but for those with developmental differences it offers unique opportunities. Dr Monica Ultmann, the Director of…
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Military Families: Resilience, Readiness, and Reading
Military families face situations that pose distinctive social and emotional challenges to the health and wellbeing of their children. First, AAP President Dr…
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The Secret To Reading With Young Children
We know reading aloud with children matters. But whether you're experienced at it or if you're not sure how to read well with young children, we can all learn…
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Demystifying Philanthropy
Philanthropy touches our lives on a daily basis, but the decision-making process by those who hold the so-called 'purse strings' can be seemingly shrouded in…
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The Other Side of the Screen: A Thoughtful Conversation on Children and Digital Media
Technology has been an indispensable tool during the pandemic, but how has the massive shift to an almost exclusively online life affected children? Sal Khan…
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The Enchanted Hour
An antidote to distraction in the modern age? A way to build better brains through books? Or simply a treasured memory of childhood — and parenting? We discuss…
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Policy in Action: North Carolina
One might think that investing in programs that meaningfully support children, families, and early learning can't possibly survive the "red tape" of government…
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The Magic of Reading Aloud
Can you imagine reading aloud for an incredible 3,218 nights in a row? Alice Ozma, author of "The Reading Promise", and her father Jim Brozina, a children's…
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Jason Reynolds is Crazy About Stories
Jason Reynolds, novelist, poet, and the Library of Congress's National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, joins us in a far-ranging, sublime, and deeply…
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Stories of Gratitude
Reading aloud brings people together, and we thank every person who reads aloud to a child. To mark this holiday devoted to giving thanks, we asked three…
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Nicholas Kristof: Equity in America
Pulitzer prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof has covered neglected social and economic welfare topics all over the world, but his most recent book…
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Vote Kids
We're joined by Mark Del Monte, CEO of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Dr. Nate Chomilo, pediatrician and policy expert from Minnesota, to discuss how…
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A Good Time To Be Born
It's easy to think that the way we think about children and parenting is the way it's always been — the birth of a child is accompanied by the expectation that…
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Advancing Early Foundational Relationships
Early foundational relationships are the strongest predictor of young children's long-term success — what happens to kids in those early months and years of…
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EdTech and Screen Time During COVID-19
The reality of remote learning is here, and it's led teachers and families to re-evaluate what school means during COVID-19. Josh Golin and Seth Evans, both of…
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Chelsea Clinton: The Gift of Reading
Chelsea Clinton, author, advocate, and vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, joins us to talk about growing up with books, the role of books in her own…
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What Meaning Do Children's Books Have in a Time of Crisis?
Children's books can bring much comfort and insight for children and adults alike. With all that is happening in our world, we figured that now is a good time…
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Disparities and Social Determinants of Health
As the Flint water crisis played out within government and the media, it became readily apparent that a major factor in the crisis was that the communities…
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Diversity in Children's Literature
Books serve as mirrors to children, providing reflections of themselves, as well as windows to let them see others. We know that a broad, diverse range of…
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Crafting Diversity in Children's Literature
We continue our conversation on "Diversity in Children's Literature" by speaking with Ashley Lukashevsky, an artist and illustrator whose recent book…