Podcast Episodes

167: Healing and Helping with Mutual Aid with Dean Spade

In this conversation with Dean Spade we resolve a long-running challenge in my understanding: when we talked with Dr. john powell on the topic of Oth…

3 years, 10 months ago

166: Learning to trust your child – and yourself

Episode 166

Claire had used respectful parenting methods since her children were babies, so child-led learning seemed like a natural fit for her.  She protected …

3 years, 10 months ago

165: How grit helps (and how it doesn’t)

Episode 165

At the beginning of our stay at a friend’s house in Oregon six weeks ago, my eight-year-old daughter Carys had biked a flat mile on a mountain biking…

3 years, 11 months ago

164: Supporting Neurodivergent Children with Dr. Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist

Episode 164

Parents have been asking me for episodes on neurodivergence for a while now so I’m hoping this episode will become the start of a mini-series. In thi…

3 years, 11 months ago

163: Should children vote? with Dr. John Wall

Episode 163

Every once in a while a blog post about ‘childism’ makes the rounds on social media, which is described as being a “prejudice against young people” t…

3 years, 11 months ago

162: Supporting children through grief with Katie Lear

This episode builds on our conversation with Dr. Atle Dyregrov on the topic of talking with children about death, where we focused mainly on death as…

4 years ago

161: New masculinites for older boys with Dr. Michael Kehler & Caroline Brunet

We've covered a number of episodes in the past that feed into this one, including Raising Emotionally Healthy Boys with Dr. Judy Chu (which focused o…

4 years ago

160: Wanting What’s Best with Sarah Jaffe

There are lots of books available now on how to talk with children about issues related to race, but Sarah W. Jaffe noticed a gap: there weren't any …

4 years, 1 month ago

159: Supporting Girls’ Relationships with Dr. Marnina Gonick

I've been wanting to do this episode for a loooong time. We covered episodes a long time ago on how children form social groups, and what happens whe…

4 years, 1 month ago

158: Deconstructing Developmental Psychology with Dr. Erica Burman

I read a lot of textbooks on parenting for my Master’s in Psychology (Child Development), I’ve read tens of thousands of peer-reviewed papers on the …

4 years, 1 month ago