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Jen Turner had always wanted to be a mom. But when she developed macular edema, an eye disease, doctors warned her that pregnancy could result in p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:36
- Purchases: 1
This time on Peace Talks Radio, the conflict scenario that we’re going to look into with our guests is ubiquitous across cultures and is as old as ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Oct 05, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
An intimate conversation about the death of a child. What happens after the hardest thing happens?
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 31:27
Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle") stars in the touching and humorous first piece, Napoleon in Exile, directed by Marsha Mason (four time Aca...
Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Georgia Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 7
How fast are kids growing up? Jasmyn Harlan, a senior in high school, asks kids of various ages what they want to be when they grow up. Surprisingl...
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 03:48
Barbra Hendricks and her son, Brent, discuss what it's like to live with Cystic Fibrosis, and remember Brent's sister Tiffany, who died from the di...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 02:25
When I was 15, my father was sentenced to three months in prison. I was one of the 2.7 million Americans under 18 with a parent who’s incarcerated.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
What makes some people able to cope with life's challenges better than others? A growing field of science is peering into the brain to find an answer.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KPIK-LP
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 28:13
- Purchases: 2
We look at some programs that stress the peacemaking, unifying aspects of sports and we ask the question, why don't more celebrated sports stars sp...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
"My sense has been that most men ultimately really do want children, and I think many of longer relationships -- that's been part of the end."
-Bet...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
This is the second of two programs exploring the special challenges of raising boys into becoming young men who DON’T turn to violence and crime a...
Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
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
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
How old is gender? Can a six-year-old child really be considered transgender? Marlo Mack explores this question, with a little help from her tran...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
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
The first of two PEACE TALKS RADIO programs that will explore the special challenges of raising boys into becoming young men who DON’T turn to viol...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and KUNM
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
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
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
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
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
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
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
