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Conversation Balloons

Conversation Balloons

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 Host Leah Farish interviews experts and friends about all things generational. No matter your age or stage, whether you're growing or growing old, you wonder at, fume at, or love someone in another generation. It might be workplace issues, raising kids, or caring for an elder--We're here to bring understanding, solutions, empathy, and a little fun to intergenerational relationships. Our conversation balloons hover over thorny social problems and pop with insight about how to handle them. Some of our guests are scholarly, some faith-based, some rich only in lived experience.Conversation Balloons Social Sciences
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  • 79. The Simple Thing Babies Need w/ Erica Komisar

    79. The Simple Thing Babies Need w/ Erica Komisar
    May 14 2025

    Erica Komisar tells her pressured New York City patients that their children have a universal, brain-based, irreducible need: their parents, mainly, mom. How to balance this need with career and personal fulfillment? We have to talk! Turns out that being there for babies benefits the parents too

    Additional resources:

    Komisar, Erica. Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters. 2017

    www.komisar.com

    attachmentcircles.org

    Instagram and X: @ ericakomisar
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    34 mins
  • 78. Elders and Littles, Sharing Space w/ Shannon Jarrott

    78. Elders and Littles, Sharing Space w/ Shannon Jarrott
    Apr 30 2025

    It's Global Intergenerational Week! So we connect with national expert on shared-site programs bringing seniors and kids together, Dr. Shannon Jarrott, as she describes how the generations can thrive together when retirement centers and daycare, or elder activity sites and schools, can mingle. Physical and emotional benefits accrue to both age cohorts. You'll learn what cyber seniors and memory cafe's are, so tune in! And listen to our future episode about Zinnia TV with Allyson Schrier!

    Additional resources:

    Generations United -- gu.org

    Shared site programs -- sharingspace.org

    ONEgeneration

    Senior Enrichment Center-- onegeneration.org

    St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care --stanncenter.org

    Grace Skilled Nursing and Therapy -- gracejenks.com

    Jenks Public Schools --jenksps.org

    Inverness -- covlivinginverness.org

    Holland Hall School -- hollandhall.org
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    46 mins
  • 77. The Success Sequence and Low-Income Students w/ Ian Rowe

    77. The Success Sequence and Low-Income Students w/ Ian Rowe
    Apr 16 2025

    Black scholar and educator and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Ian V. Rowe on why and how his Vertex schools are shaping low-income young people with moral foundations and optimism. Children in the Bronx are learning the four cardinal virtues and the personal agency which lead them into "the success sequence" that lifts kids out of poverty.

    Additional Resources:

    Book: Agency: The four point plan (F.R.E.E.) for all children to overcome the victimhood narrative and discover their pathway to power

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    51 mins

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