Cloudy With a Risk of Children is a wide-ranging podcast designed to help parents navigate and calibrate the “risks” of raising children. We deliver practical, colourful and impactful information that will resonate with parents, from fever to flu, from anxiety to asthma, and from pandemics to pit bulls. Each episode of Cloudy With A Risk of Children tackles a ”risk” faced by kids, on a diversity of topics guided by listener feedback.
Sleep is as natural to the human condition as breathing — and just as critical. Without it, we wouldn’t survive.
Despite that, sleep often doesn’t always come naturally, especially as we get older.
But one would thing it should come naturally when we’re young. And it does, of course.
But dealing with the seemingly random and choppy sleeping patterns of newborns can drive p...
Raising children to be healthy eaters is a major focus for parents. One of the most common questions pediatricians field from parents is "What can I do about my child's picky eating?"
In this episode we interview Anne Blocker, a dietician and the Executive Director of the Ellyn Satter Institute (https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/), an organization dedicated to fostering healthy attitudes and strategies around eating.
Join us as...
Losing a child is every parent's worst nightmare. On today's show we tackle that topic head on as we interview a mom, Cheryl, who lost her little daughter Emma to cancer.
Cheryl shares Emma's — and her family's — journey through her illness. She shares the shock of diagnosis; the details of Emma's medical journey and her passing; what little Emma was like; how her family survived her departure; and the deep impact Emma had — and ...
Lisa Dixon-Wells is a former champion swimmer and Founder of Dare to Care, Canada's leading anti-bullying organization.
Bullying is as old as the human race itself. Social media, however, has amplified this age-old scourge beyond anything we've ever witnessed — especially for our youth.
With Lisa's help, we explore the definition and roots of bullying; the impact of social media; bullying in schools and in sports; and most impor...
Imagine a world without kids – or at least one with far fewer of them.
Darrell Bricker, co-author of Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, joins the podcast to discuss the profound demographic shift sweeping the globe — a seismic change that will leave us with a much greyer world populated by significantly less children.
Fifty years ago, 3.5 billion humans populated the planet; and there was enormous concern that pe...
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A full transcript of today’s episode can be found at riskofkids.substack.com
Having kids is awesome, but raising them is challenging and filled with ups and downs. Sometimes the downs threaten to drown out the ups. In short, having kids is risky. We get it: we're parents too; but we're also pediatric emergency doctors. We have unique insight into risks, and how to keep them in perspective.
Welcome to Cloudy With A Risk Of Children. Join Dr. Ed — that's me! — and my co-host Dr. Phil, as we explore the challe...
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