Kids
Guests: Savannah Zayas, Kevin McCorry, Maura Bernt, Sydney Coffin High school is already stressful and confusing ...
Air Date: July 19, 2017
Listen 00:49:00Reshuffling resources and tapping enthusiasm, Philly launches kids health initiative
Philadelphia is starting a new push to improve the health of impoverished children. For now — it will rely on reshuffling existing re ...
9 years ago
ListenGun violence and children; gun shops and suicide prevention
Guests: Ruth Abaya, Scott Charles, Ralph Demicco, Marty Vriniotis The statistics around guns and children are sta ...
Air Date: July 6, 2017
Listen 00:49:01Winter at the Philadelphia Zoo
Want to experience the joy of a snowball fight without having to claim the parking spot you just spent two hours shoveling with a folding ...
9 years ago
Permitting concealed guns in Pa. schools would make kids less safe
Legislation recently passed out of the Senate to permit school personnel to carry concealed guns in Pennsylvania's public schools is a dangerous step in the wrong direction.
9 years ago
“How dare you!” – on political outrage
Guests: Angela Nagel, Jillian Jordan, Conor Friedersdorf Political discourse has turned into an outrage machine. ...
Air Date: June 21, 2017
Listen 00:48:59“Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World”
Guest: Mitch Prinstein Most of us have some painful memories from our school days – maybe we were always the la ...
Air Date: June 12, 2017
Listen 00:49:00Let dads father and moms mother
On May 4, 2017, I read an article that I feel devalued and misrepresented the true nature of dads in its title: “ ...
9 years ago
Kids thrive when they swim among peers and mentors with common interests
Learning heroes can come from a wide range of settings in young people’s lives. One unexpectedly appeared in my son’s life when he wa ...
9 years ago
Guests: Doug Fierberg, Gentry McCreary 18 members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State University face c ...
Air Date: May 12, 2017
Listen 00:49:21‘Driving’ to Delaware operating room gets kids revved up for dental surgery
Miniature vehicles are helping a Wilmington, Delaware, clinic ease fear before surgery and cut down on medication. Four-year-old D ...
9 years ago
ListenMartha: Living amidst a culture of fear
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the personal immigration stories of individuals who are living in the Philadelphia region without legal status.
9 years ago
Jeidi: Fearing how to survive if parents are deported
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the per ...
9 years ago
‘Patricia’: Supporting a family in the U.S. and in Guatemala
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the per ...
9 years ago
How to talk about teen suicide
Guests: Guy Diamond, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Matthew Wintersteen The controversial Netflix series, 13 Reas ...
Air Date: May 8, 2017
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