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Oct 30, 2025

Sometimes called “spirited” or “deeply feeling”, highly sensitive children are “more likely to have challenges regulating their big emotions because their brains are wired to process and react to their experiences in the world more deeply than other children." Claire Lerner, a licensed social worker and author...


Oct 16, 2025

We continue to learn so much about the development of our brains in the first 1,000 days of life, and how the social world around those young brains matter deeply.  What can parents and caregivers do in those early days to allow healthy and strong brain growth? Dr. Andrew Garner, pediatrician and co-author of...


Oct 2, 2025

There are loads of poetry books for children but not too many by children.  Sarah Manguso, author and curator of the new book "Questions Without Answers", joins us to talk about children's deep (and often unknowingly) philosophical questions—and that though kids may yet be developing their vocabulary, they have plenty...