SMU philosopher Jean Kazez joins to talk about the daunting list of questions would-be parents have to consider.
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Confronting Medical Uncertainty
Elizabeth Silver joins us to talk about what it’s like as a parent to feel helpless when your child’s future is up in the air.
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Why Childcare Should Be Federally Subsidized
Grover Whitehurst joins us to talk about the idea of federally subsidized childcare.
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Do Parents Matter?
This hour, we’ll talk with parenting experts Robert and Sarah LeVine about what we can learn from other cultures when it comes to child rearing. They write about their decades of research in “Do Parents Matter? Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don’t Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax.”
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When Kids Leave The Nest
This hour, we’ll talk about how to refocus our lives once children are all grown up with Melissa T. Shultz, who writes about the idea in her memoir, “From Mom to Me Again: How I Survived My First Empty-Nest Year and Reinvented the Rest of My Life.”
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Dealing With Child Anxiety
This hour, we’ll talk about strategies for helping kids get past nervousness with child psychologist Dr. Kathleen Trainor. She’s the author of “Calming Your Anxious Child: Words to Say and Things to Do.”
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Your Friend, Your Kid
This hour, we’ll talk about why being pals with our kids might actually stunt a child’s development with Dr. Leonard Sax, author of “The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups” .
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Parenting Through Puberty
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can better understand the challenges of puberty – and about how we can keep the peace at home – with Dr. Kevin Leman, author of “Planet Middle School: Helping Your Child through the Peer Pressure, Awkward Moments & Emotional Drama.”
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The Parenting Paradox
We’ll talk about how we can be better parents with Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.
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The Two-Dad Dynamic
We’ll talk this hour about two-dad households with Aaron Goodfellow, author of Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship.
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Choosing To Be Child-Free
Whether or not to have children is a complicated, personal choice. Still, many who decide to forgo baby bottles and cradles in favor of pantsuits and suitcases face judgment from peers. This hour, we’ll talk about with Meghan Daum, the editor of “Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids.”
Career, pantsuit, suitcase,
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How To Blend A Family
This hour, we’ll talk about strategies for making one family out of two with Dr. George S. Glass. His new book is Blending Families Successfully: Helping Parents and Kids Navigate the Challenges so that Everyone Ends Up Happy.
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