Reading With Your Kids Podcast

Reading With Your Kids is all about encouraging parents to read with their kids, and cook with their kids, and do activities with their kids, and experience tv, movies and music together. In other words, our podcast is all about helping parents build stronger relationships with their kids.

Drawing Our Difficulties: David Soren on Turning Pain into Characters

Sep 8, 2026

In this heartfelt episode, Jed welcomes back filmmaker and author David Soren to celebrate Visible: The Sort of True Story of a Not So Hidden Disease, the powerful follow-up to his middle grade novel Invisible. Drawing from his own experience growing up with Crohn’s disease, David shares how his fictional stand-in, JJ...

If Kids Are Having Fun They're Learning

Sep 6, 2026

In this heartfelt episode of the Reading With Your Kids podcast, Jed welcomes Daria, musician, teaching artist, and author of the joyful new picture book Cicada Sing Along. Drawing on decades of performing in schools, Daria and Jed celebrate the magic that happens when kids aren’t just sitting and listening, but...

Curiosity, Donuts, and Magic Shoes: Leah Wolf Hearst On Growing Brave, Present Kids

Sep 4, 2026

In this episode of the Reading With Your Kids podcast, Jed welcomes two inspiring picture book creators who are helping families nurture curiosity, confidence, and connection.

First, Jed chats with Leah Wolf Hurst, an occupational therapist, yoga teacher, personal trainer, ergonomist, and mindfulness coach known as...

Trees, Tales and Armadillos: Nuturing Cultural Curiosity And Courage

Sep 3, 2026

In this lively episode of the Reading With Your Kids Podcast, Jed welcomes two wonderful guests whose picture books help kids feel seen, brave, and deeply connected to the world around them.

First, Jed chats with Jalpa Vaidya Patel, licensed social worker and author of “Wizzy: The Worldly Tree: A Tale of Cultural...

Skeletor In Therapy! And Other Ways To Hook Reluctant Readers

Sep 1, 2026

In this fun, fast-moving episode of Reading With Your Kids, we’re heading to Eternia—by way of your family’s favorite reading chair. Jed welcomes syndicated cartoonists Stephan Pastis and Will Henry to celebrate their hilarious new illustrated middle grade novel, The Adventures of He‑Man and Porter #1: Skeletor...