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Caption: Claudia Quigg
Parenting has never been and will never be a one-size-fits-all proposition.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:27
Caption: Claudia Quigg
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
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Maria Trozzi’s book Talking with Children about Loss describes how children understand death at different ages.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Kids really do know best sometimes.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:24
Caption: Claudia Quigg
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
Caption: Claudia Quigg
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
Caption: Claudia Quigg
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
Caption: Claudia Quigg
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
Caption: Claudia Quigg
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
Caption: Claudia Quigg
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
Caption: Claudia Quigg
We seem to carry our fathers’ opinions of us throughout our lives.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
Caption: Claudia Quigg
The baby of the family has a different sort of existence from the very beginning.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Parents despair over their children’s disappointing behavior

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Helping Others to Protect Themselves
A caller to my radio show "The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel and Control How You Feel" asked why the schools were not doing more to help his rela...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 19:43
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
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Hospitals advertise their birth centers with soft focus photos of dewy-eyed newborns and kindly nurses, but the reality of giving birth is somethin...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
Caption: Jim Mickle, San Francisco, CA 9/30/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jim Mickle talks extreme reactions, the difference between a remake and a re-imagining, and why he wanted to make the prettiest cannibal movie ever.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2013
  • Length: 15:44
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 03:37
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