Reach Out and Read

Updated: 20 Mar 2025 • 134 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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20 Mar 2025 • EN

Bonding with a Newborn

It's overwhelming to form a relationship with a new baby while your relationship with yourself as a new parent is in flux!  Keeping it simple is one of the ways parents can get through a challenging but rewarding time.  Dr. Joanna Parga-Belinkie, a clinical neonatologist and author of "The Baby Bonding Book", explains

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06 Mar 2025 • EN

The Last Human Job: Part 2

In Part 2 of our interview with Allison Pugh, professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and author of "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World", we talk about what  "connective labor" means for early relational health, and can how physicians, practitioners, and caregivers can apply t

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20 Feb 2025 • EN

The Last Human Job: Part 1

How people connect to one another is something we sometimes don't think about, and how technology touches modern life is a key factor.   Allison Pugh, Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and author of a notable book on this subject, joins us to talk about how, and why, the human connections now at risk i

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Dr. Clare Crosh and Dr. Diogo Anyigbo join us to talk about what they have learned from families about how they view and practice shared reading and how that can inform messaging and resources that inspire and enable families to sing, tell stories and share books with their young children.

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23 Jan 2025 • EN

The Daycare Myth

Addressing childcare and education in this country has been a challenge for decades, but according to our next guest, fixing it comes down to one thing - acknowledging that we’re thinking about the whole system upside-down, and flipping it right-side-up. Dan Wuori, known globally for his uplifting and educational socia

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What does early relational health have to do with getting your kids to put their shoes on? Julie King, co-author of "How to Talk So Little Ones Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Age 2-7", offers a series of parenting tools that lean into emotional intelligence and foster early relational health.

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