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ParentData with Emily Oster

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Parenting is full of decisions — starting the moment you learn you’re pregnant (sometimes before) and continuing indefinitely. For the past decade, Emily Oster has been a guide through the challenges of pregnancy and parenthood using data. She translates the latest scientific research into answers to the questions people have in their day-to-day lives. ParentData brings Emily together with other experts in areas of pregnancy and parenting to talk about some of the most complicated of these issues, from labor induction to food allergies to parenting through a divorce. Each conversation brings us closer to Emily’s mission: to create the most informed generation of parents by providing high-quality data that they can trust, whenever they need it.

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Parenting is full of decisions — starting the moment you learn you’re pregnant (sometimes before) and continuing indefinitely. For the past decade, Emily Oster has been a guide through the challenges of pregnancy and parenthood using data. She translates the latest scientific research into answers to the questions people have in their day-to-day lives. ParentData brings Emily together with other experts in areas of pregnancy and parenting to talk about some of the most complicated of these issues, from labor induction to food allergies to parenting through a divorce. Each conversation brings us closer to Emily’s mission: to create the most informed generation of parents by providing high-quality data that they can trust, whenever they need it.

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31hr 47min
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May 16, 202410min 43sec
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May 9, 202445min 15sec
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April 9, 202450min 46sec
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March 14, 202452min 6sec
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February 29, 202439min 11sec
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Household Division of Labor: Making the invisible work fair, if not equal
February 15, 202453min 36sec
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Let’s Talk About Sex (After) Baby: Staying connected over the long term
February 1, 202449min 47sec
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Staying Active, Starting Again: Exercise in pregnancy and postpartum
January 18, 202444min 34sec
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Learning to Speak: Understanding the babbling black box
January 4, 202439min 55sec
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December 25, 202335min 53sec
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December 21, 202337min 15sec
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December 14, 202350min 1sec
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November 30, 202341min 4sec
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November 16, 202333min 32sec
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November 2, 202350min 4sec
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October 19, 202341min 10sec
Thumbnail for "Introducing Allergens: What we've been getting precisely wrong".
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October 5, 202346min 47sec
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September 21, 202339min 54sec
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September 14, 20232min 12sec
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July 31, 202349min 47sec
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Random Acts of Data with Dr. Anupam Jena
July 13, 202336min 34sec
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Representation in Children’s Books with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
June 12, 202335min 23sec
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May 25, 202339min 17sec
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April 24, 202329min 11sec
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April 17, 202326min 58sec
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April 14, 202331min 14sec
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April 5, 202322min 47sec
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March 22, 202322min 38sec
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March 15, 202344min 8sec
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March 6, 202326min 34sec
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January 25, 202320min 54sec
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January 9, 202333min 37sec
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December 20, 202217min 49sec
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December 8, 202229min 41sec
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October 24, 202228min 32sec
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September 28, 202226min 19sec
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September 21, 202245min 27sec
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August 29, 202226min 13sec
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July 11, 202225min 55sec
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April 12, 202221min 38sec

Every Kid is a Math Kid: Debunking the myths around learning math

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August 1, 202446min 13sec

Many of us grew up dividing the world into "math kids"... and the rest of us. It can be just as scary when our kids present us with their math homework as it was when we were assigned our own. So how do we get our kids excited about math?

Today on ParentData, we're joined by Shalinee Sharma, who runs an online math platform called Zearn. She is a math zealot — a person who really, truly believes that all kids can not only succeed in math but love it. We talk about putting those beliefs on the page in her new book "Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math". It’s a guide to how we can make all kids “math kids.” We talk about why she wrote it, what she hopes people will get from it, and how schools can do math better.

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