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It's on reading, where the guest shares interesting insights on how engaging with challenging texts benefits children. He also talks about how reading out loud has benefits, and how most parents will stop reading to their kids when they are in the second or third grade. He says that he has read books to his eighth-grade daughter that are beyond her current comprehension level, and he'll pause while reading and just look at her, and sometimes she'll ask questions or comment, saying things like 'she must be afraid,' etc. He says that he puts in long pauses at places where she might not understand things, but he actually does very little explaining unless she asks questions.
The main bit in the podcast I found interesting is that his second grade daughter was told by a teacher that "if you encounter more than five unfamiliar words on a single page, you should consider putting the book down" because it's too advanced for you". He thinks that making reading easy is the wrong way to foster a love of reading, and that struggling with challenging books is more beneficial than the typical easy reading assignments given to children.
He also has suggestions on how to get young kids to read non-fiction, which is to read them fiction containing terms they won't initially comprehend. He says a teacher his daughter had read them a book that involved blackout curtains and other concepts young kids today wouldn't have any context for, and then they'd read an article on blackout curtains, then for the rest of the book when they are mentioned, the kids would know what they are.
he's a teacher and someone who trains teachers, and he says his experience with non-fiction with kids is that it's usually this very formalistic approach that doesn't work for kids, so he thinks the best way to introduce non-fiction to kids is actually through fiction. Rather than having a conversation with your kid about something that's non-fiction purely to introduce them to non-fiction concepts, it's best to introduce them as ways for the kid to better understand the fiction they are reading.
I really like his approach, because it's not about handing your kid some hard book and telling them to figure it out, it's actually about reading books to them that they wouldn't be able to read independently, and showing them that even if they don't understand everything on the page that they are reading, that they can still derive value from the book.