Developmental Psychologist Abigail Baird… Our first guest on our new podcast.
This is launch day, and there’s excitement in our house.
I’m writing this on the morning of June 10th, two months to the day since I moved on from full-time employment as Business Correspondent and news anchor at ABC News Radio to work on my digital audio startup.
Our new weekly half-hour podcast, How Do We Fit It?, is now searchable on iTunes and other podcast sites. There are four episodes so far with new ones being added each week. Please subscribe!
With a great deal of help from our fab producer, Miranda Shafer, we built a website that has lots of info on us and what we are up to. We’re also posting photos on Instagram and thoughts on Twitter and Facebook.
My buddy, former Popular Mechanics Editor-in-Chief, Jim Meigs, and I are both practical guys, impatient for solutions. We’ve spent decades reporting the news, and want to move past tired old left vs. right rhetoric of yesterday to something new.
Instead of despair, our podcasts are about hope. Each show is a lively conversation, built around a smart guest, who is known for fresh thinking and innovative ideas.
The expert we reached out to for our first show is Abigial Baird. As Developmental Psychologist at Vassar College, Abi studies the teenage brain. She’s a thinker and a doer – the proud mother of two young twins.
As dads and journalists, Jim and I know what a challenge technology presents for parents and kids. Computers, video games and mobile devices are a huge temptation. But are they an obstacle or a great opportunity as children learn about the world?
Here on our first show, Abi shares her humor, enthusiasm and wisdom as a caring parent and a whip-smart neuroscientist. We learned a lot listening to her. We think you will too!
Please download and subscribe to our podcasts. If you like what you hear, share us on social media. We’d very much like to read your suggestions for new shows.
We are public radio without the N P R. Thanks for being part of our brand-new community.
Here Hear! 