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Phobia of Giving Blood (0:00:00)
 
Are you afraid of needles, blood, or even fainting? Then you probably have never given blood: a combination of all of those fears. Many people are affected by this fear of giving blood and make up excuses as to why they cannot donate. However, there is a great need for blood donors throughout the U.S., and the fear is easily overcome. Joining us is Stephanie Sarkis, a therapist specializing in ADHD, anxiety and gaslighting. 
 
KaBOOM! (0:10:43)
 
Did you love playing on the playground as a kid? The woodchip souvenirs you would bring home in your tennis shoes, the calluses on your palms from the monkey bars, and the holes in your jeans from the plastic slides are all rites of passage for childhood. But there are a lot of children out there without access to a community playground. Only one in four kids in the US are getting the recommended amount of daily physical activity. KaBOOM! is changing that statistic one playplace at a time. They bring playgrounds to under-resourced communities. Here to talk about this business model is Amy Levner, the vice president of marketing and communications for KaBOOM! 
 
Kids’ Safety on Halloween (0:31:57)
 
Did you know that on average, children are more than twice as likely to be hit by a car and killed on Halloween than on any other day of the year? This heartbreaking statistic is more than enough motivation to prepare our kids for a safe trick or treating experience. Morag Mackay from Safe Kids Worldwide joins us to share how we can protect our young ones during the Halloween festivities.
 
Scary Story (0:50:34)
 
Sam Payne, host of The Apple Seed, tells us a scary story about Lisa and Richie.
 
Banning Early School Starts (1:06:54)
 
You see it every day – your kids are sleep deprived. They burn the candle at both ends, waking up early for school and staying up late with homework and extra-curricular activities. Well, California recently became the first state to push back start times for high schools. The bell can't ring before 8:30am – and middle schools will be banned from starting before 8:00am. Why? The legislation claims that teenagers, and their still-developing brains, need every extra minute of sleep possible. So, they seem to be on board with most of us. But is this the best way to get kids more sleep?  Teru Clavel is the author of the new book World Class: One Mother’s Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children. With her experience as an education consultant, we thought she might have the answers on this striking sleep issue. 
 
Halloween Activities (1:24:58)
 
What do you think of when you hear the words, “Halloween night”? The most obvious answer is trick-or-treating. But is that the only thing you can do on the spookiest night of the year? Maybe your kids have outgrown trick-or-treating or the weather doesn’t cooperate. Here to help us out with some alternative ideas of Halloween activities that don’t involve trick-or-treating is friend of the show, Gina James.