The combo of content material makes for a podcast that ought to fulfill even the pickiest of listeners. New episodes arrive each different week. There are additionally transcripts accessible so your children can learn alongside whereas listening to enhance literacy.
Story Seeds
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Story Seeds is a comparatively new podcast, and it is a bit totally different from the others; somewhat than a narrative, it is a meta view of the way to create a narrative.
Every episode pairs a child (age 6-12) with a kids’s e-book creator. They meet up in particular person and collaborate to write down unique tales that begin out with the child’s thought (the “seed” within the identify). It isn’t up to date as often as a number of the remainder of these, however there’s over two dozen episodes accessible.
Fierce Ladies
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This Australian podcast is dedicated to showcasing true tales of Australian girls. From athletes to spies, Fierce Girls typically promotes a unifying theme of adventurous ladies with “guts and spirit.” Whereas the tales are all acceptable for teenagers and never graphic, the hosts do not draw back from telling tales as they occur. In some instances, you may wish to pay attention first to ensure a narrative is suitable on your kids’s maturity degree. That mentioned, our 9-year-old twins love them.
Lights Out Bedtime Tales for Youngsters
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This podcast is episodic readings of traditional kids’s books, making it someplace between a podcast and an audiobook. It covers a wide range of books from shorter, single-episode tales for youthful children to longer-form, multi-episode readings. The great factor about this one is there’s one thing for almost everybody. My solely grievance is that a few of these are very quick, most of them are underneath 5 minutes. All episodes are ad-free, however you will want a Spotify account to pay attention.
Planet Storytime
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Providing a mixture of traditional tales like these of Beatrix Potter and lesser-known content material, Planet Storytime goals for that blend of leisure and training Fred Rogers perfected. It releases new episodes each Thursday.
One very nice function that units this podcast aside is that on the finish of every month, there’s one lengthy episode with a complete month’s price of content material—good for getting an hour or so to your self.
Brains On
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This science podcast is geared toward children, although I will be trustworthy, I’ve discovered a lot from it as properly. Brains On is academic—simply do not inform your children that. They will love studying how bugs stroll on partitions, the way to discover their method with out a compass, and even the place poo and pee go while you flush the bathroom.
There is a sequence referred to as “Smash Growth Finest” during which two issues are pitted towards one another, and your child can choose their favourite. For instance, Loki was recently pitted against Athena. This podcast might be greatest fitted to barely older children.
Warrior Child Podcast
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The Warrior Kid Podcast shouldn’t be for everybody, however my children actually just like the question-and-answer format of this podcast, which is predicated on the books of the identical identify. The creator of the books and host of the present is Jocko Willink, a embellished, retired Navy SEAL officer and management guru. Right here Willink stands in for the character of Uncle Jake in Willink’s Warrior Child e-book sequence, answering children’ questions on all the things from the way to keep away from consuming sweet to what it takes to be a Navy Seal.
Willink locations a worthwhile emphasis on bodily exercise, psychological sharpness, eating regimen (encouraging children to develop wholesome consuming habits), and exhausting work. The latter kinds the core of the message on this podcast: Work exhausting, prepare in jiujitsu, and you’ll ultimately succeed. This one is concentrating on barely older children, most likely greatest for ages 8 and up. One particular be aware: Willink has one other podcast, Jocko Podcast, that’s most positively not for youngsters.
Anorak: The Comfortable Podcast for Children
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A manufacturing of Anorak Children Journal, The Comfortable Podcast for Children is academic and entertaining, and it really works properly for the entire household, since there are many tales that can entertain adults as properly children. A lot of the content material explores themes much like Anorak’s magazines, so if one thing actually catches your kid’s curiosity, you’ll be able to order the related situation. Themes embody all the things from sea life to creativeness to linguistics. Friends cowl a equally wide-ranging spectrum with all the things from scuba divers to ice cream makers. Whereas this one is okay for the entire household, given the extent of element and episode size (round half-hour), you might need to take breaks with youthful kids with shorter consideration spans.
However Why
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One other NPR podcast, However Why goals to reply child questions on all the things from nature, politics, tradition, science, even the top of the world. Your children can submit their very own questions too; directions are on the website.
As a result of But Why covers a variety of matters, I have a tendency to assist out extra with it. Many episodes are greatest suited to barely older children. My children (7 and 5) weren’t about to sit down by way of an episode on what occurs when a president is impeached, for instance, however they did take pleasure in an episode on how we style meals.
Aaron’s World
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One of many few podcasts on this listing that was created by a child, Aaron’s World is a 50-episode audio-drama following the adventures of a boy (Aaron) and his trusty pc sidekick (INO) exploring the prehistoric world of dinosaurs. The episodes concentrate on single matters—e.g., iguanodon, microraptor, sharks—however over the five-year run, some enjoyable bigger story arcs emerged that create a operating plot. All got here from the thoughts of initially 6-year-old Aaron, who saved at it for 5 years. Extremely really useful for any child who’s all in favour of dinosaurs.
Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl
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OK, this is not actually a podcast, extra of a radio present, however lengthy earlier than my children received into storytelling podcasts, they beloved this weekly two-hour music present launched each, ahem, Saturday. And I do know what you are considering: children’ music. But it surely’s actually not children’ music, it is simply music children will take pleasure in. That is additionally an effective way to find music your children love that will not drive you loopy. Do you know Walkmen co-songwriter Walter Martin has a fantastic album for children? How about The Verve Pipe? Johnny Cash? All these and extra I’ve found by way of Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl.
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Different Nice Podcasts and Audio Reveals
The web is awash in podcasts, with far too many to say intimately. That mentioned, listed below are some others your children could like.
- Earth Rangers: This podcast has a biology slant however makes a very good pay attention for any children all in favour of digging within the dust, studying about animals, or listening to tales of the ecosystems in far-off lands. There are episodes on the jungle, the Arctic, and practically all the things between. Episodes are usually about quarter-hour every and often deal with a single animal or surroundings. Earth Ranger might be greatest suited to children who’re just a little extra mature.
- Molly of Denali: This eight-episode podcast units the backstory for the PBS cartoon of the identical identify. Every episode is about 10 minutes lengthy, they usually’re sequential, telling the backstory of Molly Mabray, an Alaska native rising up together with her dad and mom, household, and mates in Alaska.
- Eleanor Amplified: This long-running journey sequence options an intrepid reporter named Eleanor Amplified. She makes a speciality of foiling the devious plots of villains. It’s kind of pro-journalist at instances, in a rah-rah sort of method that is not for everybody, however the tales are fast-paced, entertaining, and within the spirit of old-time radio reveals.
- Live From Mount Olympus: My children had been working their method by way of the Percy Jackson e-book sequence when this arrived, so this Olympian-focused podcast was an on the spot hit. It follows the adventures of a younger Perseus, who’s on a quest to save lots of his mom from an evil king. Dwell From Mount Olympus principally sticks to the Greek tales as you could bear in mind them, although there are some further characters. Dwell From Mount Olympus is a part of the Trax community, which hosts different children podcasts as properly.
