Kids’ podcasts are a great alternative to screen time — if you can find them. nwquah and kvanaren discuss
, and it takes the form of a six-episode series all about the natural world. Creatures like octopi and tsetse flies take center stage as subjects, their features and quirks magnified as gambits to elicit wonder from the 8-to-12 crowd.: the sensation of discovery, and the awe that comes after it. “There’s energy in being ripped away from reality and your humdrum sense of how life is supposed to work but then be gifted with an oasis of quiet,” she said.
Another interesting note about the production: The team assembled a listening panel of kids and parents, sourced from an ask posted through thefeed. They did test screenings at schools, visiting classrooms of different grades — fourth, fifth, sixth — and playing them cuts of episodes. They say that feedback went a long way in helping them cut segments and lean into weirder directions. In one session, they learned that a lot of kids simply didn’t know what a radio was.
“The great thing about kids is that no one’s mincing words: ‘This is cringe!’” Miller, a mother herself, told me of the feedback exercises. “You could watch in the classrooms and just see when they’re bored or when they’re squirming.” “But we’re okay being cringe-forward,” she added. “I mean, my name is Lulu, I sing, I’m a hokey, cringey person, and I’m okay with that. But I didn’t want it to only be that note.”
The hope, she maintained, is to reach kids who are at that transitional age when they’re leaving childhood and, along with it, a particular belief in fantastical kinds of wonder. “It’s that liminal space where they’re realizing there might not be magic or fairy tales — which might’ve made them depressed, as I was at that age,” she said. “And to show them that there’s still maybe beauty, strangeness, and wonder in things you maybe don’t realize is right here in the real world.
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