The Supporting Child Caregivers Podcast
Helpful information about child development and parenting issues for child caregivers--parents, teachers, health workers, and other child caregivers across the globe.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Episode 81: 081 The SCC Pod - True or False: Long days in Daycare is Harmful to Young Children
Professor Henrik Zachrisson talks to us about his important research studying the outcome of children who spend long days in daycare. References:Dearing E & Zachrisson H (2017). Concerns over interna…
00:41:21 |
Tue 06 Sep 2022
Episode 80: 080 The SCC Pod - Thomas the Tank Engine
Part 5 of our Children and Daycare series: Alayne Stieglitz, an infant and early childhood specialist, and the co-founder of SCC, will talk about some of her many experiences as an early childhood ed…
00:47:17 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
Episode 79: 079 The SCC Pod: 5 Essentials for Successful Daycare
Patricia Ryan, a consultant and trainer for group care programs, talks to us about evidence-based practices that support relational health among young children, parents, and providers and tells us he…
00:42:14 |
Wed 17 Aug 2022
Episode 78: 078 The SCC Pod: Supporting Children’s Natural Desire to Learn
A Montessori trained educator and infant parent mental health therapist, Tracy Epps, talks about her experience with children and parents, emphasizing what she calls “conscious, gentle parenting”.
00:33:12 |
Tue 09 Aug 2022
Episode 77: 077 The SCC Pod: Framework for Understanding Day Care Issues - Daycare Ep 2
Dr. Dorothy Richardson speaks about her experiences as a consultant to daycare providers and her experiences as a psychotherapist for very young children and their families. She gives her “framework”…
00:38:35 |
Mon 01 Aug 2022
Episode 76: 076 The SCC Pod: Daycare Ep 1
Dr. Judith Yanof speaks about her experiences consulting to daycare providers and early educators and about the Boston Psychoanalytic Society’s conference on early childhood. This is a wonderful intr…
00:42:09 |
Tue 26 Jul 2022
Episode 75: 075 The SCC Pod: More About Family Vacations
Alexandra Harrison continues her discussion of family vacations with another Ask Me Anything episode, demonstrating that 1) Be prepared; 2) Be flexible; and 3) Lower expectations are good guidelines …
00:11:08 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
Episode 74: 074 The SCC Pod: A Successful Family Summer Vacation in 3 Steps
Alexandra Harrison discusses how to have a happy and relatively stress-free summer vacation in an Ask Me Anything episode.
00:15:26 |
Thu 14 Jul 2022
Episode 73: 073 The SCC Pod - Vacations to Remember
Alexandra Harrison recalls her family vacations in the Dordogne and lessons to be learned, memories to be cherished.
00:00:58 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
Episode 72: 072 The SCC Pod: Preview of the next episode.
Alexandra Harrison previews next week’s podcast episode: “My Family Vacations in France: What I Have Learned about Family Vacations-- What Works and What Doesn’t”
00:01:41 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
Episode 71: 071 The SCC Pod: Kids and Transitions 6 — The Rhythms of the Day – The Loss of A Family Dog
Alexandra Harrison shares her reflections on the recent death of her family dog and what it can help us understand about how humans maintain their sense of comfort and safety through patterns of enga…
00:17:04 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
Episode 70: 070 The SCC Pod: Kids and Transitions 5 - Transition to a New Sibling
Preschool teachers, Maura Walsh and Dee Lyle, speak about the transition from being the only child to being a big sister or brother. It has its pluses and minuses!
00:32:48 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
Episode 69: 069 The SCC Pod: Kids and Transitions 4 - The Transitions of Divorce
The Couples and Family Therapist in Newton and a specialist on divorce and parenting issues, Dr. Robin Deutsch, speaks about the “good enough divorce” and how to help children make the transition fro…
00:45:39 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
Episode 68: 068 The SCC Pod- Kids and Transitions -The Transition to Preschool
LisaBeth Calvo and Christina Isidoro, two talented and experienced teachers in the toddler room, talk about how they support children make the transition to preschool, typically their first “home awa…
00:46:07 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Episode 67: 067 The SCC Pod - Kids and Transitions 2
Tess, an occupational therapist at OTA Kumar Center specializing in sensory processing, talks to us about the challenges that children with sensory sensitivities face when they attempt transitions.
00:50:55 |
Mon 23 May 2022
Episode 66: 066 The SCC Pod: Kids and Transitions - Transitioning from Preschool to Elementary School
Elizabeth Tedesco, a teacher at the Cambridge Ellis Preschool in Cambridge, MA, talks about the transition from preschool to elementary school.
00:37:27 |
Mon 16 May 2022
Episode 65: 065 The SCC Pod: Ask Me Anything
Alexandra Harrison continues the discussion from the last episode regarding the question of what to do when your child says he is a bad kid and will extend this discussion to include Family Values, “…
00:19:24 |
Mon 09 May 2022
Episode 64: 064 The SCC Pod: Ask Me Anything
Alexandra Harrison talks about the painful and difficult question, "What should parents do when they discover their child thinks he is a bad kid?"
00:17:42 |
Mon 02 May 2022
Episode 63: 063 The SCC Pod - Kids and Food: Nutritious and Delicious Food for Children with Dietary Requirements
Today we will have our fifth episode in our Kids and Food series. I am delighted to welcome Dr. Alka Bagri to our program. Dr. Bagri is an art historian by training with a doctorate from Oxford Univ…
00:44:05 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
Episode 62: 062 The SCC Pod: Kids and Food from Austrailia
In this episode of the Food and Kids series, Natalie Beaumont-Smith recalls her childhood breakfasts in Australia and the joys of vegemite. Natalie Beaumont-Smith, is a Work/Life Analyst and Program …
00:30:20 |
Mon 18 Apr 2022
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