Let's Talk Kids

Series produced by NPR Illinois

Caption: Claudia Quigg
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.


112 Pieces

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We hope that every child has a safe home where he is loved and cared for, provided with every need. But for about 400,000 American children each y...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
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When the world sees our children, it sees them as they are at this moment and in this environment, through a narrow lens. Their teacher at school ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:44
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News buzzed around a friend’s family tree that the second baby to be born would be another little girl. I had heard about the excitement, so when ...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:39
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Sweet Will recently celebrated his fourth birthday. Before his party, he could hardly contain his excited anticipation about opening his presents.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
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One story from my annals of parenting shortcomings involves a pair of runaways. The scoundrels in question were my two daughters, ages three and f...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
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Each day millions of people leave for work or school or even longer journeys with no one to say goodbye or miss them in their absence. Tragically,...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:23
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Unwilling to allow his son to continue in this self-centered orientation, he chose to have a much-needed talk with this otherwise-terrific young man.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
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When that peace-shattering event occurs, all our smugness evaporates. At first we recoil in denial. And then reality sets in when we’re faced with...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
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And so it goes with siblings, those creatures who most closely share our DNA and our childhood experiences. Sometimes we despise them, and often w...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
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I’m not the first to notice or comment on the relentless schedules that have families living in their cars with one eye on the clock and the other ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
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This week has brought outrageous giggles, a writing lesson, some highly-sought-after information, and some new social insights, all the gifts of bo...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:23
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There’s a new bird’s nest in the oak tree in your backyard, but you might look right past it. You’ve observed droves of such nests before and you m...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:19
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In the everyday lives of families, water becomes a significant part of the routine this time of year. Sweaty bodies need more baths. Kids out of ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:23
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They’re calling it “Social Surrogacy,” this new practice of affluent parents delegating the tasks of pregnancy and childbirth to another person. S...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
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Closer than classmates, more sensational than siblings, cousins are a boon to growing up.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:24
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Dads love their babies just like moms do. But they have a very different way of showing that love.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
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Kids don’t need easy childhoods to grow up happy. They need parents who love them and who teach them how to successfully face hardship. Kids deve...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:25
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Welcome to the summer season with your kids. Even if they act like monkeys sometimes, here’s hoping these warm days bring some particular pleasure...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
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Memorial Day provides a healthy opportunity for children to be assured that people who’ve died are still part of our lives in both memories and the...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
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When it comes to teaching children to be unafraid of people with disabilities, earlier is better.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:38