April 20, 2026 • 13 mins
In Unicorn Blue and the Caradoodle Quest, Former Tech Executive Carrol Titus, delivers a striking, dreamlike, stimulating, children’s narrative. The book and software promote critical thinking - navigating learning pathways, interpreting data along them and applying it. The book helps make her STEM software even more accessible and purposeful, engaging both sides of the brain: reason and emotion, intensifies learning engagement, deepening memory, and quickening recall.
“Science education is needed to stimulate children’s intellect and imagination and motivate them to consider science to identify opportunities and solve pressing problems. Our children need scientific literacy to apply critical thinking in their everyday activities and to make sense of information. They also need to be able to evaluate evidence and distinguish between poorly supported claims, and best elements of deductive logic. The scientific method is one of the key methods for grounding decision-making in evidence. When children lack exposure to high-quality science curriculum, they miss the opportunity to develop these valuable critical thinking skills.”
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“Science education is needed to stimulate children’s intellect and imagination and motivate them to consider science to identify opportunities and solve pressing problems. Our children need scientific literacy to apply critical thinking in their everyday activities and to make sense of information. They also need to be able to evaluate evidence and distinguish between poorly supported claims, and best elements of deductive logic. The scientific method is one of the key methods for grounding decision-making in evidence. When children lack exposure to high-quality science curriculum, they miss the opportunity to develop these valuable critical thinking skills.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's more than just a podcast. It is a podcast network.
Ero dot net, a r r oe dot net, twenty
different podcasts to choose from, and one of the biggest
ones right now is one that's going to take you
a little bit to the side, make you think, oh
my god, this is really going on. It's called street
Speak with Alexa and Clarence. Imagine what it's like that
(00:21):
you've lived everything in life and an AI gadget is
telling you what really happened, but yet you experienced it.
It's AI meeting reality street Speak with Alexa and Clarence.
Only on Ero dot net, aar r o e dot net.
Enjoy your exploration. Hello, and good morning everybody. Hello, how
(00:45):
are you?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm awesome? How are you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I love that word. Anybody who uses that word in
a sentence that means you actually live it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I certainly try. I certainly try. What I'm really excited
to be talking with you this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, thank you so much, because it's going to be
very exciting to share a conversation. Because I love the
way that you are reaching out to all readers, because
you know so bad and so weird that that people
always think why A means it's got to be for
why A readers only, I'm not thinking that's true. There's
a lot of adults that are diving into these stories
as well.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Absolutely, absolutely, this kind of a story is for everybody,
it is, right, yeah, And I wanted to and I
wanted to reach everybody because it can have great impact
on how children think about bravery and it's just a
great way to connect with kids.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It is. And to have that bridge going in that direction.
How did you know where to make that turn on
the highway because so many times people will go with
their writing and they get this idea, this is who
I want to be, but then it's not the way
that it ended up. How did you stay straight on it?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's a great question, Shan Arrow. So I had help.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I definitely had help from my team, very creative type people,
and that's what kept me going really And of course
I pull I pull stories so that it resonates with
the way that I.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Interact with my children.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And they always love these kinds of fun fantasies that
allow them to play another role like a unicorn or
a dragon or fire bird, something something that is unique
and they connect with and can dive into as their personality.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, isn't that who we are as children anyway? Because
I remember playing those roles where I pretended to be
something as far as I was concerned, I was a
superhero on my little bicycle with the banana seed and
the and the robar in the back. It was like,
nobody can touch me. I I am the unicorn. I'm
gonna go wherever I want to go.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Absolutely, And this is this is how they connect. And
what we do in the story is we we bring
that that dialogue that children's thought process uh into into light,
but from the perspective of the pet.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So it's a little it's extra.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
In niz and innocent and playful because it's a unicorn.
And symbolically we we use the unicorn because it represents innocence, uh,
you know, deep in in uh in Old English literature.
So it's a beautiful way to connect with the child
(03:54):
because they live it. They're learning how to navigate the world,
just like the unicorn in this story. So should connect
with the character straight off, and they love her.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Please do not move. There's more with Carol Titus coming
up next. The name of the book Unicorn Blue and
the Cara Doodle Quest. We are back with author Carol Titus.
My wife is a former she's a retired school teacher,
and Diana cross the street with her two kids, she
is a school teacher. And we all sat here and
(04:30):
we were just so amazed with this because you've got
this creative way of inviting science and thought, and especially
with little Hannah across the street, even though she is
beneath her brother when it comes to where she is
on the map of the family tree, She's still a champion.
And that's what I love about this is that no
matter where you are in the family, you are a champion.
(04:50):
You are whatever you do, you are a champion.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
This is all about empowering kids to use they're they're thinking,
like following her on her path, Where is she how
is she interpreting information she's given to solve her class
and what outcomes does she have available?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It really does.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's a beautiful way to teach kids critical thinking in
a positive, playful way that they can connect with very
very easily. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yes, And it's so funny that that. One of the
things that I really tapped into immediately was how I
felt like that there was a presence with Celtic law
and legend because there what is it about that era
of storytelling that really draws everybody into it. We think
of law and we're going, oh, yes, oh, I'm going
let me sit down and give me ten minutes, let
(05:50):
me just get into this.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah. Yeah, no, the Celtic law.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I pulled that in because that's my background and it's
always the it's always it's been I think the English lit.
Just that's always been my love and I love connecting
with my kids through that and so yeah, So it's
(06:14):
symbolic in Celtic lore to have a unicorn as a
symbol of innocence and untamable strength. It was adopted a
Scotland's national animal.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In the fifteenth century.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So it represents a longstanding crowd and resilient heritage. And
that's what I want to give our kids. Confidence, resilience,
the ability to think through problems we need and know
that they can think through them objectively and a form
rational judgment and make informed decisions.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
See, I love that because so many times, what have
we learned the art of delegation. There's times also there
to say I don't need you to delegate this. What
you need to do right now is the work. You
need to figure out what it is that you're delegating
before you can hand.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It off exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
No, So that's a lot of times I think could
struggle with their emotions because they don't understand them.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And they're just overloaded with them.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
But if you can sit down with them and say, hey,
you know, let's let's try and connect what we're doing
right now to a higher purpose.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And this works with adults, do right.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You need a higher purpose to keep you going through
the hard times and build up your resilience to like, well,
if there's a little blip in the road, I know,
if I continue to do this number one, I'll reach
my goal.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But you know, we suggest that people sit.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Down with their kids write down what their you know,
higher goals are, what communities they want to serve, yes,
And then you know, you can chart out a little
action plan for where they can take steps either daily
or week or monthly.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But then they can track.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It and see how little actions have big impacts.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Right, I mean we all do that, and it it
just that's what gives you the persistence right to get
through the hard times, Like, well, I'm working towards this
larger goal and I can see we're making.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Impact and I can totally relate with that because I'm
a daily writer. I'm also a defrag writer, and so
when people, you know, they'll talk to me about, well,
when did you start thinking about doing this? And I'll go,
you know, it's right over there in my writing. I mean,
it has been so planned out. And that's the one
thing that I've been trying to get to these young
adults is that I've got to figure out a way
to get them to plan things out and to let
(08:44):
the process of slowness become that journey. And Carol, I
swear to God, you nail it. You are like the
needle in my haystack.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh I wish I had said that. That's very kind.
I am very honored to have you say that. Yeah,
because I know you're a beautiful writer and creative artists,
so that means a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But yeah, it's it's so important to I think, encourage
and inspire the youth to through literature and history, how
you can connect to ancient civilizations, let alone other people.
And it's it's important to have that, and it's I
(09:27):
feel it's lacking in a current curriculum and you know,
it's been shown by National Socialist Association of school Boards
that it's very important not to focus on rote skills
like reading a math shorn of any connection to history, literature,
(09:50):
or science, because those are the things that I give
you purpose and inspire people.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So we make sure that we.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Connect those things because that's how we operate right just
in the real world.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's not just there's not a disconnect.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And again that's that's how we get our resilience and
persistence through the ups and downs that we face day
to day.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Now, for parents and young adults, we have to know
what a Cara doodle quest is because my imagination when
I saw that title, I was like, going, we all
doodle do we make them into characters? Yeah? Yeah, Now
let's write about it. Let's do a paragraph. If we
can do a paragraph, we can do a page. Let's
build upon this exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
So this is the fun part.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I mean, kara in in Celtic means friend and dueling
is every child's favorite passion. So we created this Cara
doodal concept, which is a kindred spirit child of a unicorn.
So unicorns will cease to exist if they reveal themselves
(10:54):
to the wrong child. Yeah, so at first unicorn Blue
gets full by a couple of potential care doodles, but
eventually she learns how to focus on character and substance
to find her best best friend.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So are you gonna mark at any of this with
any merchandise or anything like that, because I can totally
see little coffee cups and pencils and T shirts and
hats and things like that, because I mean, you really
do have a product here.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Kids love it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
When we go to booth, I swear arrow, the kids
just come up because we have stuffies, we have a
game kit that goes along with and we have a
whole software.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So kids come right.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Up to the booth, They mom me, I want these pets,
and they just start playing naturally. It's they just know
and the mom's like, Okay, I'll buy the book, I'll
buy the game, I'll download the software. So it's it's
the kids self directing and it's through play and they
(11:56):
can self direct their learning through all our offerings and
they're all integrated. So we see that kids love discovering
how Unicorn Blue loves to fly up and down the
majestic peaks and waterfalls of Yosemite in the book, and
they also learn loving how to fly in three D
(12:19):
with their favorite unicorn in the wild world of Unitopia
on our software. And then they love finding fairy charms
that the fairies have left for them in the natural
world with our deluxe price kit and you can find
all that at www dot Goldenpoppy dot net.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Carol Man, ten minutes with you is just not enough.
You've got to come back to this show many more
times because I love where your imagination is. You are
a teacher's tool, and I mean it's just one of
those things where and you know, you're an everyday tool.
You're allowing us to believe in the so many different
things because as adults we tend to hang things up,
we forget to be a kid, and you're giving us
(12:57):
the opportunity to be that young adult again. You just
happen to have adult choose on.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Exactly exactly uh, and I and I want that that
it's that spirit that comes through that playfulness that uh
just relieves all the limiting thoughts that you have and
let you be successful and your endeavors. So I I
(13:24):
so appreciate your time and love everything you're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And I would love, love love to be your guest again.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Excellent. Will you be brilliant today? Okay okay YouTube
It's more than just a podcast. It is a podcast network.
Ero dot net, a r r oe dot net, twenty
different podcasts to choose from, and one of the biggest
ones right now is one that's going to take you
a little bit to the side, make you think, oh
my god, this is really going on. It's called street
Speak with Alexa and Clarence. Imagine what it's like that
(00:21):
you've lived everything in life and an AI gadget is
telling you what really happened, but yet you experienced it.
It's AI meeting reality street Speak with Alexa and Clarence.
Only on Ero dot net, aar r o e dot net.
Enjoy your exploration. Hello, and good morning everybody. Hello, how
(00:45):
are you?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm awesome? How are you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I love that word. Anybody who uses that word in
a sentence that means you actually live it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I certainly try. I certainly try. What I'm really excited
to be talking with you this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, thank you so much, because it's going to be
very exciting to share a conversation. Because I love the
way that you are reaching out to all readers, because
you know so bad and so weird that that people
always think why A means it's got to be for
why A readers only, I'm not thinking that's true. There's
a lot of adults that are diving into these stories
as well.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Absolutely, absolutely, this kind of a story is for everybody,
it is, right, yeah, And I wanted to and I
wanted to reach everybody because it can have great impact
on how children think about bravery and it's just a
great way to connect with kids.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It is. And to have that bridge going in that direction.
How did you know where to make that turn on
the highway because so many times people will go with
their writing and they get this idea, this is who
I want to be, but then it's not the way
that it ended up. How did you stay straight on it?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's a great question, Shan Arrow. So I had help.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I definitely had help from my team, very creative type people,
and that's what kept me going really And of course
I pull I pull stories so that it resonates with
the way that I.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Interact with my children.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And they always love these kinds of fun fantasies that
allow them to play another role like a unicorn or
a dragon or fire bird, something something that is unique
and they connect with and can dive into as their personality.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, isn't that who we are as children anyway? Because
I remember playing those roles where I pretended to be
something as far as I was concerned, I was a
superhero on my little bicycle with the banana seed and
the and the robar in the back. It was like,
nobody can touch me. I I am the unicorn. I'm
gonna go wherever I want to go.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Absolutely, And this is this is how they connect. And
what we do in the story is we we bring
that that dialogue that children's thought process uh into into light,
but from the perspective of the pet.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So it's a little it's extra.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
In niz and innocent and playful because it's a unicorn.
And symbolically we we use the unicorn because it represents innocence, uh,
you know, deep in in uh in Old English literature.
So it's a beautiful way to connect with the child
(03:54):
because they live it. They're learning how to navigate the world,
just like the unicorn in this story. So should connect
with the character straight off, and they love her.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Please do not move. There's more with Carol Titus coming
up next. The name of the book Unicorn Blue and
the Cara Doodle Quest. We are back with author Carol Titus.
My wife is a former she's a retired school teacher,
and Diana cross the street with her two kids, she
is a school teacher. And we all sat here and
(04:30):
we were just so amazed with this because you've got
this creative way of inviting science and thought, and especially
with little Hannah across the street, even though she is
beneath her brother when it comes to where she is
on the map of the family tree, She's still a champion.
And that's what I love about this is that no
matter where you are in the family, you are a champion.
(04:50):
You are whatever you do, you are a champion.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
This is all about empowering kids to use they're they're thinking,
like following her on her path, Where is she how
is she interpreting information she's given to solve her class
and what outcomes does she have available?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It really does.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's a beautiful way to teach kids critical thinking in
a positive, playful way that they can connect with very
very easily. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yes, And it's so funny that that. One of the
things that I really tapped into immediately was how I
felt like that there was a presence with Celtic law
and legend because there what is it about that era
of storytelling that really draws everybody into it. We think
of law and we're going, oh, yes, oh, I'm going
let me sit down and give me ten minutes, let
(05:50):
me just get into this.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah. Yeah, no, the Celtic law.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I pulled that in because that's my background and it's
always the it's always it's been I think the English lit.
Just that's always been my love and I love connecting
with my kids through that and so yeah, So it's
(06:14):
symbolic in Celtic lore to have a unicorn as a
symbol of innocence and untamable strength. It was adopted a
Scotland's national animal.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In the fifteenth century.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So it represents a longstanding crowd and resilient heritage. And
that's what I want to give our kids. Confidence, resilience,
the ability to think through problems we need and know
that they can think through them objectively and a form
rational judgment and make informed decisions.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
See, I love that because so many times, what have
we learned the art of delegation. There's times also there
to say I don't need you to delegate this. What
you need to do right now is the work. You
need to figure out what it is that you're delegating
before you can hand.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It off exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
No, So that's a lot of times I think could
struggle with their emotions because they don't understand them.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And they're just overloaded with them.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
But if you can sit down with them and say, hey,
you know, let's let's try and connect what we're doing
right now to a higher purpose.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And this works with adults, do right.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You need a higher purpose to keep you going through
the hard times and build up your resilience to like, well,
if there's a little blip in the road, I know,
if I continue to do this number one, I'll reach
my goal.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But you know, we suggest that people sit.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Down with their kids write down what their you know,
higher goals are, what communities they want to serve, yes,
And then you know, you can chart out a little
action plan for where they can take steps either daily
or week or monthly.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But then they can track.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It and see how little actions have big impacts.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Right, I mean we all do that, and it it
just that's what gives you the persistence right to get
through the hard times, Like, well, I'm working towards this
larger goal and I can see we're making.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Impact and I can totally relate with that because I'm
a daily writer. I'm also a defrag writer, and so
when people, you know, they'll talk to me about, well,
when did you start thinking about doing this? And I'll go,
you know, it's right over there in my writing. I mean,
it has been so planned out. And that's the one
thing that I've been trying to get to these young
adults is that I've got to figure out a way
to get them to plan things out and to let
(08:44):
the process of slowness become that journey. And Carol, I
swear to God, you nail it. You are like the
needle in my haystack.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh I wish I had said that. That's very kind.
I am very honored to have you say that. Yeah,
because I know you're a beautiful writer and creative artists,
so that means a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But yeah, it's it's so important to I think, encourage
and inspire the youth to through literature and history, how
you can connect to ancient civilizations, let alone other people.
And it's it's important to have that, and it's I
(09:27):
feel it's lacking in a current curriculum and you know,
it's been shown by National Socialist Association of school Boards
that it's very important not to focus on rote skills
like reading a math shorn of any connection to history, literature,
(09:50):
or science, because those are the things that I give
you purpose and inspire people.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So we make sure that we.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Connect those things because that's how we operate right just
in the real world.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's not just there's not a disconnect.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And again that's that's how we get our resilience and
persistence through the ups and downs that we face day
to day.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Now, for parents and young adults, we have to know
what a Cara doodle quest is because my imagination when
I saw that title, I was like, going, we all
doodle do we make them into characters? Yeah? Yeah, Now
let's write about it. Let's do a paragraph. If we
can do a paragraph, we can do a page. Let's
build upon this exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
So this is the fun part.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I mean, kara in in Celtic means friend and dueling
is every child's favorite passion. So we created this Cara
doodal concept, which is a kindred spirit child of a unicorn.
So unicorns will cease to exist if they reveal themselves
(10:54):
to the wrong child. Yeah, so at first unicorn Blue
gets full by a couple of potential care doodles, but
eventually she learns how to focus on character and substance
to find her best best friend.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So are you gonna mark at any of this with
any merchandise or anything like that, because I can totally
see little coffee cups and pencils and T shirts and
hats and things like that, because I mean, you really
do have a product here.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Kids love it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
When we go to booth, I swear arrow, the kids
just come up because we have stuffies, we have a
game kit that goes along with and we have a
whole software.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So kids come right.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Up to the booth, They mom me, I want these pets,
and they just start playing naturally. It's they just know
and the mom's like, Okay, I'll buy the book, I'll
buy the game, I'll download the software. So it's it's
the kids self directing and it's through play and they
(11:56):
can self direct their learning through all our offerings and
they're all integrated. So we see that kids love discovering
how Unicorn Blue loves to fly up and down the
majestic peaks and waterfalls of Yosemite in the book, and
they also learn loving how to fly in three D
(12:19):
with their favorite unicorn in the wild world of Unitopia
on our software. And then they love finding fairy charms
that the fairies have left for them in the natural
world with our deluxe price kit and you can find
all that at www dot Goldenpoppy dot net.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Carol Man, ten minutes with you is just not enough.
You've got to come back to this show many more
times because I love where your imagination is. You are
a teacher's tool, and I mean it's just one of
those things where and you know, you're an everyday tool.
You're allowing us to believe in the so many different
things because as adults we tend to hang things up,
we forget to be a kid, and you're giving us
(12:57):
the opportunity to be that young adult again. You just
happen to have adult choose on.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Exactly exactly uh, and I and I want that that
it's that spirit that comes through that playfulness that uh
just relieves all the limiting thoughts that you have and
let you be successful and your endeavors. So I I
(13:24):
so appreciate your time and love everything you're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And I would love, love love to be your guest again.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Excellent. Will you be brilliant today? Okay okay YouTube
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