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"School Agers" by Deja Taylor
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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The youngest kid in kindergarten, Deja stood up for herself one day by bringing up death... a lesson she had learned too young and was struggling t...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:19
Commentary: Sick Workers and Kids Need Our Help
From: Dick Meister
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This commentary notes the great need to provide paid sick leaves to the millions of American workers who can't afford to take time off even if they...

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Jan 25, 2007
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: (Christmas) The Naked Truth
From: Spokane Public Radio
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It's Christmas night. The kid is asleep. Two tired adults get naked under the tree for a little celebrating of their own. What could go wrong? Eve...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Delta College Public Radio, and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Home Planet: The Dance
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Of all the tender moments I have shared with my children, I think I?ll remember the dancing the most.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 03:06
Home Planet: Fly away home
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Watching a family of Swallows who have nested under the eaves brings a comparison to the drama in the human nest

  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 03:22
COMMENTARY: CONTROL YOUR PIT BULL, PLEASE
From: KRCC-FM
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Commentator Sandy Knauf doesn?t think pit bulls should be banned, but as a mother with a neighbor who has a pit bull, she says she?s worried.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2006
  • Length: 05:22
Pumpkin Belly
From: Nanci Olesen
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a commentary by Nanci Olesen about Halloween and her pumpkin painted belly

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 26, 2006
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
COMMENTARY: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS - DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE
From: KRCC-FM
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It?s hard not to be shocked by the gun violence in three schools last week, but we need to keep these incidents in the proper perspective.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2006
  • Length: 07:51
COMMENTARY: WELCOME BACK RECESS
From: KRCC-FM
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Commentator Caroline Vulgamore worries that the time honored tradition of running around on the playground appears to be threatened.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2006
  • Length: 05:37
Falling into the Change of Seasons
From: Nanci Olesen
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A commentary by Nanci Olesen about the change of seasons

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Sep 22, 2006
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Two teens, one from Israel, one from Lebanon, hash things out, Part 2
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! A teenager from Lebanon has a conversation with a teenager from Israel about politics and life, Part 2

  • Added: Sep 20, 2006
  • Length: 06:48
CL 2006 Mel Levine,MD "Helping a mind become defined."
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Dr.Mel Levine examines the many ways children learn.

Bought by KMXT, Interlochen Public Radio, and AIFM


  • Added: Sep 20, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
COMMENTARY: A FORCED PROMISE MEANS NOTHING
From: KRCC-FM
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Teacher Eva Syrovy argues that merely reciting the pledge because you have to is an empty ritual.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 05:03
Douglas Webb, AIDS advisor in Africa reports on orphans and vulnerable children
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! UNICEF's AIDS Advisor on Eastern and Southern Africa, Douglas Webb, gives a full report on UNICEF's new publication on Orphans ...

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Aug 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Playing "Advergames" with Kids' Health
From: Dick Meister
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This is a commentary noting that the Internet has become a major tool for selling easily exploited kids the junk food that has helped make childhoo...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2006
  • Length: 03:11
Home from the Road, a commentary by Nanci Olesen
From: Nanci Olesen
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Nanci Olesen recalls a recent trip west with her family: bad coffee and sweet times

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 27, 2006
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
Digestive Wellness for Children
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Nutritionist Elizabeth Lipski, PhD discusses her new book Digestive Wellness for Children about preventing and healing digestive disorders in child...

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Jul 25, 2006
  • Length: 57:37
  • Purchases: 1
Martin Bell's Democratic Republic of Congo Child Alert
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! Ex-BBC War Correspondent Martin Bell gives a report on Dr Congo and the affects of war, disease and hunger on children there

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2006
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Part five: Tanni Grey Thompson
From: Siobhan Mullen / David Lewis
Series: Get On With It
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the final part of our series looks at an athlete and mother

  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 10:04
Sunglasses for Baseball: a commentary
From: Nanci Olesen
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Nanci Olesen has to wear sunglasses to watch her son play baseball, so she doesn't give herself away

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WKSU


  • Added: Jun 02, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
The War on Contraception, and Where It Will End
From: Merle Kessler
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The war on contraception, and where it will end.

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
I'm so embarrassing to my children
From: Nanci Olesen
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Commentary by Nanci Olesen: I'm so embarrassing!

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Kansas Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 14
Keep It Simple
From: Jacob C. Norman
Series: Practical Perspecitves
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The Trials and Tribulations of planning your son's birthday party.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2006
  • Length: 02:15
Home Planet: Twenty-one things to think about when turning 21.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Written for a daughter who is turning 21, the list includes twenty-one things every adult should think about; lessons no book or school will ever t...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2006
  • Length: 03:45
Home Planet: What I see in your eyes.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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One day, when my first child was just a toddler and I was holding her close, she stopped talking suddenly and leaned quite close to me. Capturing m...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2006
  • Length: 03:06

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