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Series

Caption: Claudia Quigg
112 Pieces

In less than four short minutes, Claudia Quigg gives parents a healthy dose of encouragement, as she thoughtfully examines the issues facing today’s families.

Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
24 Pieces

Quiddity is a highly produced literary radio program with a companion international (print) literary journal. Quiddity is produced and published by Illinois Public Radio’s hub-station, NPR member and PRI affiliate WUIS, and Benedictine University. The journal publishes exemplary prose and poetry from emerging and established writers around the world. The radio program features interviews with select authors, best-selling and burgeoning. It also includes readings of new, original works by poets and writers.


Latest Pieces

Caption: Claudia Quigg
It’s one of those enigmas of child-rearing: In order to flourish, children need a complex mix of events that are both normal and novel.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Recent reports about women choosing not to bear children has brought the “Childfree Choice” into the spotlight.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Parents long to know what’s on their kids’ minds

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
Caption: Claudia Quigg
There were never two parents raising the same child anywhere who ever agreed entirely about how to do it.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
Caption: Claudia Quigg
It’s easy to form judgments about what parents should or shouldn’t do in these circumstances, and to puff up with pride that we would surely handle...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Amazingly, a wide variety of parenting styles produce healthy adults.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:16
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Children sometimes turn out very differently from their parents.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Claudia Quigg
A family of five I know has had a heck of a year. They’ve lost a grandfather, suffered the loss of a job, and now struggle with the serious illnes...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:14
Caption: Claudia Quigg
“Don’t sweat this deadline,” commented the longsuffering contractor. “It’s not a matter of life and death.”

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Claudia Quigg
If there’s one thing I know about parents of toddlers, it’s this: They would give their signed Michael Jordan basketball if their child would pee ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:25