Reach Out and Read

Updated: 10 Jul 2025 • 142 episodes
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From the national organization Reach Out and Read comes a brand new podcast centered around the belief that children’s books build better brains, better family relationships, and happier, healthy children and societies. Join us as host Dr Dipesh Navsaria, a pediatrician with a children’s librarianship degree, dives into a wealth of varied early childhood health and literacy topics with expert guests examining the many facets of supporting the parent-child relationship as key to early success.

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How we think and talk about kids and digital media use has evolved as we've learned more and refined better approaches that are more practical for parents.  Dr. Jenny Radesky, Co-Medical Director of the AAP's Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health, joins us to talk about "The 5 C's" - a straightfo

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We can all benefit from healthy relationships and connections, but sometimes kids (and adults) just want some 'alone time' - and that's OK too.  Author and illustrator Vera Brosgol joins us to dig into several of her fantastically imaginative book worlds that help explore relationships with our family, and ourselves.

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12 Jun 2025 • EN

Words With Wings

Poetry is often perceived to be "hard" or inaccessible, but as our next guests illustrate, poetry can offer an "uplifting journey through everyday moments, moods and experiences" for kids at any age or stage of development. Author Matthew Burgess and illustrator Doug Salati join us to talk about "Words With Wings", the

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29 May 2025 • EN

The Hedgehog's Dilemma

How can one discuss topics such as social exclusion, anxiety, paranoia, human intimacy, affection, and our need to bond with others?  A brilliant book, The Hedgehog's Dilemma, by Dutch author Toon Tellegen, is a "metaphor for the dilemma humans are faced with in their intimate relationships with others", exploring all

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Approaching families with a ‘resilience lens’ is a relatively new practice but might turn out to be one of the most impactful tools in our pediatric toolbox yet.  Dr. Gretchen Pianka, author of “Coaching Families for Resilience: How Pediatricians Can Support Caregivers and Prevent Burnout", joins us to talk about how t

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Relationships have long been recognized as a catalyst of learning; changing our focus away from a solely child-centric model of education to relationship-centered thinking may prove to be the key to success.  Isabelle Hau, Executive Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, joins us to talk about her new book 

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