Let's Talk Kids
Series produced by NPR Illinois
Claudia Quigg
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.
Let’s Talk Kids, a regular segment produced in the studios of WUIS, comes from child development specialist, Claudia Quigg. Claudia is the founder and Executive Director of Baby TALK, a non-profit organization designed to positively impact child development and nurture healthy parent/child relationships during the critical early years. She also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Millikin University and writes a column for the Decatur Herald & Review.
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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
Children sometimes turn out very differently from their parents.
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 02:33
Amazingly, a wide variety of parenting styles produce healthy adults.
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 02:16
Each morning my little dog and I venture out in our neighborhood for a brisk walk. She employs her excellent nose to read messages from other dogs...
- Added: Nov 18, 2013
- Length: 02:26
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
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
Parents long to know what’s on their kids’ minds
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 02:11
Recent reports about women choosing not to bear children has brought the “Childfree Choice” into the spotlight.
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 02:20
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
Parents despair over their children’s disappointing behavior
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 02:33
There’s one resource every parent needs: a close friend or family member to stand beside them in the trenches.
- Added: Nov 04, 2013
- Length: 02:18
"We've done it all wrong!" moaned the mother. "We've mishandled bedtime, and now we've taught our son the wrong way to go to sleep. Will he ever le...
- Added: Nov 18, 2013
- Length: 02:15
Most parents will tell you that what they really want for their children, bottom line, is a life of happiness. And I have one surefire, works-ever...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 02:19
After the holiday hustle and bustle, an empty datebook can seem anticlimactic. But in my estimation, those empty calendar pages feel like a benedic...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:24
Your day is too full already with too many places to be. As you race from one point to the next, you glance down at your fuel gauge and discover y...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:10
I love words. A well-turned phrase gives me goose bumps. Words play a significant role in my life. But sometimes in the life of a family, words ...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 02:29
The middle-age woman spoke tentatively as she reached for words to express her meaning. She was raised in the south, the great-grandchild of slave...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 02:24
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s take on toddlers is right on: “A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender but you don’t have a top for it.”
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 02:43
My years of marriage have taught me that raising kids with another person is rarely a smooth ride. Any two adults bring very different upbringings...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 02:29
Every parent understands that your joy and sorrow rises and falls with your child. Your heart vacillates between those two extremes as your child f...
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 02:33
