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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If you haven’t been around a continuously crying baby lately, you might not realize how stressful it is. We adults are hard-wired to respond to th...
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 02:43
I was thinking about this Ever-Blooming Hydrangea this week as I listened to a young educator’s observation about a four-year old she was observing...
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Ellen Galinsky is founder and president of the Families and Work Institute. In her book, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every...
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 02:56
His sense of competence glowed in his mastery of the situation, and I couldn’t help hoping with him that his family will soon bring a dog into thei...
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 02:24
Parents are often excited about their kids’ learning, but want to dictate the terms rather than following the lead of kids’ natural curiosity.
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 02:39
Every parent can take some level of stress with children. But for each of us, there’s a tipping point at which our own resources for peace and per...
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 02:24
“Always do your best.” Notice, the concept is not “Be perfect,” but is instead “Do your best.”
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 02:34
When we make assumptions it’s because we believe we know what others are thinking and feeling. When it comes to our children, we blindly assume the...
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 02:29
I would like to think about the Second Agreement, “Don’t take anything personally,” as it applies to the lives of parents.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 02:39
Parents can provide the model to our children that we only speak the truth to them. This involves their watching how we conduct our lives with hon...
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Every parent can take some level of stress with children. But for each of us, there’s a tipping point at which our own resources for peace and per...
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 02:24
The numbers tell a solemn story. American children play outside less now than at any other time in our nation’s history.
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 02:42
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
