Sunday Pick: The science of raising kids (Part 2): How to raise healthy kids with Dr. Shari Barkin | from TED Health
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
From negotiating food choices to limiting screen time, raising healthy kids is complicated—but it doesn’t have to be, says pediatrician Dr. Shari Barkin. Dr. Barkin joins Shoshana to talk about the ways caregivers can carve out 10 minutes of their day to model a healthy lifestyle and help everyone in the family thrive.
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Inside the mind of a newborn baby - Claudia Passos Ferreira
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| 0:00.0 | Hey TED Talks Daily listeners, I'm Elise Hugh. |
| 0:09.4 | Today we have an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective |
| 0:12.9 | handpicked by us for you. |
| 0:15.0 | Are you a parent or caregiver to young people? |
| 0:17.8 | With everything from negotiating food choices to managing screen time to figuring out |
| 0:22.4 | the right way to approach heavy topics about the world, it can feel more and more complicated |
| 0:27.4 | to raise healthy and grounded kids. But pediatrician, Dr. Sherry Barkin, says it doesn't have to be. |
| 0:34.7 | On this episode of Ted Health, as part of a mini-series |
| 0:37.8 | exploring the science of raising kids, host Shoshana Ungerlider speaks with Sherry about how |
| 0:43.4 | to manage parental overwhelm and the importance of carving out 10 minutes of the day to model |
| 0:48.5 | a healthy lifestyle and help everyone in the family thrive. You'll also hear snippets of a talk from bioethicist |
| 0:55.7 | and clinical psychologist Claudia Pazos Ferreira, |
| 0:59.0 | which was published on this feed late last year. |
| 1:01.8 | You can listen to more of this special series on TED Health |
| 1:05.1 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:07.2 | Learn more about the TED Audio Collective |
| 1:09.0 | at audiocollective.com. |
| 1:12.0 | Now on to the episode. |
| 1:13.6 | Enjoy. |
| 1:17.7 | This is TED Health, a podcast from TED, and I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter. |
| 1:26.9 | It's our second episode in a special |
| 1:28.6 | mini-series called The Science of Growing Up, Exploring the Health and Science of Parenting and Raising |
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