Jana Mohr Lone is director and founder of the University of Washington’s Center for Philosophy for Children. She joins us to talk about why children offer unique viewpoints on life’s philosophical mysteries, and why it’s important to take them seriously.
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Melissa Febos joins us to talk about the flawed ways we ask children to shape their identities from puberty and her own coming-of-age story as she worked to find her voice and set boundaries.
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Lynn Berger joins us to talk about the origins of birth order psychology and whether the roles we’re assigning children are based in fact or fiction.
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Former Buzzfeed LGBT culture editor Saeed Jones joins us to discuss his coming-of-age growing up black and queer in a Texas town.
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Fordham University psychology professor Tiffany Yip joins us to talk about what an anti-racist conversation with children should sound like and why it’s not happening as often as it should.
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Melissa Fay Greene, Kirk Distinguished Writer in Residence at Agnes Scott College, joins us to talk about severe attachment disorders and the science behind reaching the children of serious trauma.
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Richard Snow, former editor-in-chief of American Heritage magazine joins us to talk about the huge gamble Disney’s amusement park was in 1955, and about how it turned the entertainment industry on its head.
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Genna Reed, lead science and policy analyst in the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, joins us to talk about a new report that details how federal government policies are backsliding when it comes to child well-being.
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Pamela Stone, professor of sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, joins us to talk about the struggles of highly-educated, well-connected women with resume gaps.
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Nick Estes, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, joins us to talk about how generations of tribes grapple with the brutal legacy of trauma inflicted by the U.S. government on Native American children.
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Nefertiti Austin joins us to talk about what that painstaking process taught her about how America thinks of single, black motherhood.
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Jaquira Diaz joins us to talk about overcoming her struggles with sexual assault and depression, growing up in Puerto Rican housing projects, and more.
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