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When the News is Scary: Talking to Kids with Tracy Kaplan of The 10 News
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July 24, 2026
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24:28Now PlayingKids who are anxious about the news might not need to hear less — they might need to know more. Tracy Kaplan is the creator and executive producer of The 10 News, a podcast for kids and families ages 8 to 12 that has been helping kids make sense of the world since 2020. In six years, she's covered everything from the Russia-Ukraine war to gun violence to banned books to screen time — always through the lens of what a kid hearing this headline would actually be thinking.
What Tracy has learned is genuinely useful for parents: kids' anxiety about the news is often rooted in a knowledge gap, not the news itself. Give them enough context to ask a real question, and you change the whole conversation.
Sarah talks with Tracy about how The 10 News approaches scary topics, why vagueness can actually be worse than directness, what kids are asking for more of (more politics, not less), and what six years of watching a generation of kids grow up through the news looks like.
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