Parenting for the Future

In this Episode you will learn about: The reasons all kids should learn programming Hedy, a free, opensource platform to teach kids textual programming   The role of natural languages in teaching programming How parents can teach themselves programming The Codasium Program Efforts to make programming a mandatory subject in K-12 schools   Why gender stereotypes have no place in STEM education

In this Episode you will learn: The meaning of educational displacement Why children need to see themselves and their experiences in the places they learn   Why identity is a story and not a category How hate takes root   The relationship between "othering" and radicalization How the suffering of one child can cause many to suffer   How interfaith collaborations and conversations can irradicate ha...

In this Episode you will learn about: How parents can raising confident, curious, human-centered people The life-shaping power of books and conversations Civic journalism Keys to rebuilding trust in the press and key institutions   Why hope is a muscle and how we can make it strong

In this Episode you will learn about: Now Look!   The newest book by Sydney Lea The scourge of addiction in small-town America The role of nature in shaping a life The   role of friendship and community in saving a life Why a Liberal Arts education matters more than ever How to help kids embrace poetry Three poets all kids (and parents) should read

In this Episode you will learn about: Courageous girls and women speaking up about the issues of our time How we can help our daughters find and use their voices How we can reconnect with our own voices and use them to raise awareness, fight for justice or share hope How some of the world's most popular brands show their commitment to girls and women

In this Episode you will learn about: Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM) in the digital world The incredible harms of CSAM How Apple places user privacy above children protection The Heat Initiative's efforts to push Apple to detect, report and remove   CSAM How our kids can get exposed to or themselves appear in CSAM Sextortion Generative AI and CSAM Online enticements How to talk to your kids a...

Neuropsychiatrist Founder of Amen Clinics Author of 12 NYT Bestsellers Creator of "Scan my Brain" Produced 17 national public television shows about the brain   Education/Degrees

In this Episode you will learn about: How parents survive and thrive after the losing a child The power of ritual to sustain loved ones through and after pending death The importance of community The role of movement in navigating grief Tay-Sachs and how to screen for this disease The work of E-motion The work of Dr. Joanne Cacciatore The work of JScreen at Emory University

In this Episode you will learn about: How care shapes all our lives How suffragists and Black feminists made remarkable gains in care through the Social Housekeepers Movement   Our addiction to independence and how it prevents us from prioritizing care Our "careselves" vs. our "workselves" America's bootstrap myth and how it hurts our ability to care The ramifications of the blind spot toward care...

In this Episode you will learn: • The real meaning of philanthropy • The 5 Ts of being a philanthropist • Surprising ways to get your kids of any age excited about philanthropy • How the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, the world's first philanthropy school, leverages data to help us all understand why giving back is so important to changing the world for the better • Why we need philanthropy...

Dr. Melita Stancil Founder/Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Melita Psychological Services Guest lecturer, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and York college.   Former clinical psychologist, Child Mind Institute   Former Lead Clinician, Ellen Horne Education/Degrees MA and Ph. D In Clinical Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina

Chelsey Goodan Founder, The Activist Cartel Mentorship Director of DemocraShe Mentor & Tutor To Teen Girls Author Education/Degree NYU -   Tisch School of the Arts

Founder of the Village Well Educator Certified Positive Parenting Educator Education/Degree University of California, Davis In this episode you will learn: What it means to "decolonize" your parenting   How to leverage the wisdom of your cultural background in your parenting Why it is important to interrupt intergenerational pain to create healthy, thriving families How to apply positive parenting...

Chris Balme Founding Principal at founding principal at Hakuba International School, Japan   Co. Founder and Former Head of The Millennium School Founder and Director of Argonaut Ashoka fellowship recipient Author Education/Degree: B.A., University of Pennsylvania B.S., Wharton School of Management.

Navigating conversations about identity, diversity, and justice can be fraught with linguistic traps and emotional landmines. On this episode we learn from Kenji Yoshino, Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and Faculty Director of the school's Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging how to have nuanced and empathetic conversations about our differences, whether in our workplaces, o...

Studies have shown that 69-90% of us will experience at least one serious traumatic event during our lifetimes. The sudden death of a loved one. A debilitating illness.  A natural disaster. War. What differentiates us?   H ow we respond ;  how resilient we are.  Our guest today has found that extremely resilient people share  the 10 attributes we discuss in this episode.   As we reflect on the  pe...

On October 24, 2023 a bipartisan coalition of 32 US. Attorneys Generals filed a Federal lawsuit against Meta alleging that the company knowingly designed and deployed harmful features at Instagram, Facebook, and its other social media platforms to induce young children and teenagers into addictive and compulsive social media use contributing significantly to a youth mental health crisis. The suit...

There are over 300,000 transgender children under 13 years of age in the United States.and every single one of them is under attack.   Join me in conversation with Jodie Patterson, former Chair of the Human Right Campaign Foundation Board, author, activist and mom to a transgender child where we explore the transformative privilege of parenting transgender children and why fighting for their right...

"Some of issues parents expected to confront when their child was in their early twenties. have been pushed later.   I think it's safe to say that many parents expected to still be providing some financial assistance to their child when their child was in their early twenties. Don't think that many parents expected to be doing it when their child was 30, and I think that from the young person's po...

" The truth is Congress has so completely failed. They Haven't passed a Privacy law since Mark Zuckerberg was in diapers. It's pathetic. Shame on them! This has reshaped everybody's lives, and they just sat there, and because of their political partisanship, the fact There's not a federal privacy, law, or Laws regulating social media platforms is a joke.  Absolute abject failure of our political s...

'When I work with the athletes and talk about toolboxes, I think helping them build tool belts that give them the arsenal. So when? Not if but when the headwind blows. Oh, I got this! I have agency over my destiny. I get to decide what's next for me, (remove Petal's sound) Yes, I'm gonna need help along the way and support, of course, but I'm not gonna let any setback, not making the team or that...

"Complex care typically refers to the children at the very tip, who are the sickest and the book is really written to be more, all inclusive, because many children, while they may not be complex, they have chronic health conditions which cause a lot of increased work for their families. " Director of Pediatrics at the Atria Institute in New York City Education/Degree: BA, Harvard University MD, Va...

"The ability to introspect to work through problems. This is one of the reasons we are so successful as a species. The ability to introspect is how we learn from our problems and plan for the future is what allows us in part to build spaceships that literally land SUVs nowadays on other planets like Mars. but, on the other hand, people struggle enormously with introspection to the point that they...

"Well, if we break money down to its simplest components, right? And how we handle it, what do we do with our money. We really do 3 things right. We spend it. we save it, we give it away. And if you think about what actually goes into the decisions around each of those you know. They're all about emotions and behaviors. spending is about modesty and prudence and thrift, or it's about greed and env...

"A third of the young people who come to us feel like it's unclear to them how to affect change. And so our goal has to be start small, start with the things that are accessible that you can actually do today, whether that's educating yourself or taking a first volunteer action. And then that portal can be a way to level up engagement so that you get to do more and more over time." CEO of Do. Some...