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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.

Reach Out and Read Reach Out and Read

    • Kids & Family

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.

    The Science Sessions: Cultural Pride and Children's Health

    The Science Sessions: Cultural Pride and Children's Health

    Racism and discrimination affects the health of children, and can have lifelong consequences.  Dr. Ashaunta Anderson, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has been studying this, and in particular the concept of racial socialization.  We discuss with her how ‘positive childhood experiences’ – such as embracing and enhancing cultural pride, can help mitigate these challenges.

    • 32 min
    Squish the Peas: Life Lessons from Toddlers

    Squish the Peas: Life Lessons from Toddlers

    Eat with the funniest person in the office; when you wake up, give yourself a high five; turn off screens one hour before bed, and demand a bedtime story.  These are just a few of the secrets to a happier life that our guest, Dr. Hasan Merali, author of "Sleep Well, Take Risks, Squish the Peas: Secrets from the Science of Toddlers for a Happier, More Successful Way of Life", says we can and should learn from both the young children in our lives…and from our past younger selves.

    • 33 min
    Building Early Relational Health Ecosystems

    Building Early Relational Health Ecosystems

    In this special 'double feature' podcast recorded in front of a live audience, the Early Relational Health Funders Summit hear from four speakers with different experiences of building and maintaining a robust Early Relational Health ecosystem.  We’re looking at the practices, programs, and policies that need to work independently, and also together, to fully benefit families with young children.
    Individual interviews can be found at the following timecodes:
    Dr. Dipesh Navsaria: 01:43
    Hope Williams-Burt: 23:06
    Allison Logan: 36:00
    Dr. Corey Williams: 48:40
    Deborah Brown: 56:39
    Ira Hillman: 01:08:25

    • 1 hr 11 min
    Introducing 35 for 35

    Introducing 35 for 35

    Thirty-five years ago, Reach Out and Read was founded in one clinic in Boston as a route to supporting shared reading with young children at home. Today, we're in all 50 states with 6200 program sites, comprising 8.8 million interactions through 7 million books. Marking that anniversary, and in partnership with Scholastic, we've created 35 for 35, a visionary, wide ranging collection of books that reflect our mission and the families and communities we serve.  Marty Martinez, CEO of Reach Out and Read,  Judy Newman, Chief Impact Officer at Scholastic, and Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, the award-winning author and illustrator team behind one of the books in the collection, join us to talk about this incredible project.

    • 35 min
    The Science Sessions: How Parenting Changes the Brain

    The Science Sessions: How Parenting Changes the Brain

    We know that kids' brains change as they grow, but did you know that their parents' brains change too? Dr. Darby Saxbe, a clinical psychologist, professor and director of clinical training at the Department of Psychology, and the Principal Investigator of the NEST Lab (NeuroEndocrinology of Social Ties Lab) at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, joins us to talk about emerging research that shows how parenthood changes the brain and how encouraging focused time between parents and children benefits everyone in the relationship.

    • 30 min
    Meg Medina, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

    Meg Medina, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

    Beloved author Meg Medina, current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and the first of Latina heritage in the program’s history, joins us to talk about 'mirrors and windows' in children's books and why what kids hear coming off the page is just as important as what they see.

    • 36 min

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