PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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A child learning to separate from his parents at daycare or preschool will awaken from a dream in which he’s abandoned.
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:14
Maria Trozzi’s book Talking with Children about Loss describes how children understand death at different ages.
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:41
Kids really do know best sometimes.
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:24
I’ve recently observed many parents frantically trying one punishment after another as they react to the ornery antics of their little ones. Child...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:55
This young couple left their doctor’s office with a confirmation of their suspicions that they are to become parents. And suddenly, they know that...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:32
Somewhere between the super bowl and baseball’s opening day, it happens every year. Here we are, right in the thick of flu season.
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:26
Instead of recognizing that both children are doing just fine, they’ve fallen into the trap of comparing their children.
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:32
The goal of childhood is to prepare kids to live successfully in a world full of bumps and scrapes.
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:31
For the remainder of the flight, that parent felt as if she had an ally. She knew someone really saw and valued her family.
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:26
We seem to carry our fathers’ opinions of us throughout our lives.
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:36
The baby of the family has a different sort of existence from the very beginning.
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:44
Parents despair over their children’s disappointing behavior
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:33
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
Recent reports about women choosing not to bear children has brought the “Childfree Choice” into the spotlight.
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 02:20
Parents long to know what’s on their kids’ minds
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 02:11
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
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
Amazingly, a wide variety of parenting styles produce healthy adults.
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 02:16
Children sometimes turn out very differently from their parents.
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 02:33
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
“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
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
Recently I attended a fifth grade “graduation” ceremony. Stuffed like sardines into the hot multi-purpose room typical of public schools, proud pa...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 02:26
Among my favorite memories is a lovely evening in late May of 1984. Just home from the hospital, I sat outside with my newborn son, listening whil...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 02:19
A recent summer storm provided an object lesson for a family I know.
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 02:21
