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Nurturing Minds podcast

@nurturingminds.bsky.social

A psychologist and a philosopher (and guests) discuss topics in the psychology and philosophy of parenthood.

Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For decades, research on kids' gender relied on tools built to assume gender is binary and fixed, so a nonbinary child, or one whose sense of self was true today and open tomorrow, didn't fit the instrument.

Thumbnail image of Nurturing Minds podcast, Season 2 Episode 6, features a photo of the cohosts in the upper left corner and the guest, Prof. Fernando Salinas-Quiroz, in the lower right corner. The episode title, "What a six-year-old taught a child psychologist about being nonbinary", is in the lower left corner.

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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

neurotypical parents can support an autistic child, and what she’d do if she were the Czarina of Vaccines. Find + follow the show on your favorite podcast-dispensing app, or use this RSS Feed link to add the podcast to your player directly: feed.podbean.com/nurturingmin...

Thumbnail image of the podcast episode, featuring a photo of the cohosts in the upper left corner, the episode title in the lower left corner, and a photo of the guest, Dr Meryl Alper, in the lower right corner.

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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Season 2, Episode 3 is out! Michael Yarbrough (@mwyarbrough.bsky.social) — associate professor of Law & Society at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center — joins @rachelriskind.bsky.social and @ricksva.bsky.social to talk about what it means to be +

This is a thumbnail image of the Nurturing Minds Season 2 episode 3 interview with Dr Michael Yarbrough, entitled, "Kinship, child freedom, and who can take your fries".

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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Season 2 Episode 2 is out! We asked Rita Gehrenbeck-Shim, a teacher at Boston Day and Evening Academy, about what Boston Public Schools' new bell-to-bell smartphone restriction looks like at her school. (She spoke on her own behalf and not as a BDEA or BPS representative.)

The Nurturing Minds thumbnail image for this episode features photos of the cohosts in the upper left corner and a captioned photo of the guest, with the words, "Featuring Rita Gehrenbeck-Shim". On the left side is the episode title, "After the ban: Building sustainable smartphone policies that support students".

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