Children
NZ Post Book Awards 2014 - Junior Fiction
Pupils from Wellington's Te Aro school review this year's finalists in the junior fiction category. 'A Winter's Day in 1939' by Melinda Szymanik, Scholastic New Zealand. Reviewed by Jasper and Issi… Audio
Rose Blackett: gifted children
President of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children who will speak at events during the upcoming Gifted Awareness Week. Audio
NZ Post Book Awards 2014 - Picture Books
Pupils from Wellington's Te Aro school review this year's finalists in the picture books category: 'Machines and Me: Boats by Catherine Foreman', Scholastic New Zealand. Reviewed by Jasper and Amon… Audio
Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Kevin Henkes
Kim and Kate discuss three books for 8-11 year olds by American writer Kevin Henkes: Sun and Spoon, Olive's Ocean, and Junonia. Audio
How not to fly off the handle with children in stressful situations.
Mindful parenting and how not to fly off the handle with children in stressful situations. Audio
The Jam Bus
The Jam Bus is a new 'Play It Strange' initiative that sends a mobile recording studio - complete with an engineer and producer - to schools, where budding young musicians have the opportunity to… Audio
Parenting: helping children get enough sleep
Dee Muller is researcher at Massey University's Sleep Wake Centre. She has a background in occupational therapy and her research interests lie particularly in children's sleep, and is also about to… Audio
Childhood Amnesia
Harlene Hayne explains some of the novel experiments used in her Marsden funded studies of memory in infants Audio
How relationships with caregivers can effect children’s learning.
Joseph Driessen is an educational consultant and parenting commentator. Audio
Andrew Solomon - US psychiatry lecturer and writer
American psychiatry lecturer and writer. His latest book is called 'Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity'. Audio
Brain development in the first three years of life
Nathan Mikaere Wallis is part of the Brain Wave Trust, and X Factor Education, Christchurch. He has been a lecturer at the Christchurch College of Education, lecturing in human development, brain… Audio
How domestic violence affects parenting and children
Dr Jeffrey Edleson was a Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work for 29 years. He is now the Dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare. Audio
Asian Report for 4 June 2013 - Kids and Dumplings
Inspired by Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day, school children around our Capital turn into little foodies when they learn how to make homemade dumplings with Vicky Ha, Wellington's Queen of… Audio
What is the impact of large amounts of TV on children
With Phillippa Howden Chapman - Public Health Researcher from Otago University's Wellington School of Medicine. Maya Goetz - international researcher in the area of children and media, who is visiting… Audio
How Children Succeed
With Paul Tough - the bestselling US author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, published by Random House. Audio
Spectrum for 27 January 2013
Pre-schoolers Taylor, Samuel, Honor and Brayden may not know how lucky they area... yet. One of their classrooms is their own Wild Woods, complete with trees to climb, a balance log, eels-in-a-stream… Audio
Apple and Spinach with Feta and Fennel Crepes
Recipe by Chris Fortune
From Summer Report on Monday 31 December 2012
Dead Man’s Head
Recipe by Uncle Ted
From Children's Treasure Chest on Tuesday 25 December 2012
Feature Guests - Frans Baetens & Magda Van Gils
The passionate print-making couple behind the Muka art project, bringing affordable original art to thousands of children for decades. Audio
Ideas for 23 September 2012
Ideas explores the place of children in a democracy with: Jessica Palairet - a member of the Commissioner of Children's Young People's Reference Group; Caleb O'Fee - the president of Feilding High… Audio