Podcasts as Programming: Reaching Busy Parents on Their Time

Abstract

During a two-year post-pandemic period (2021 to 2023), the Youth Services Department at the Patchogue-Medford Library in Suffolk County, NY, hosted fourteen parental education programs, both in-person and virtually. Despite offering evening sessions and partnering with the local school district, attendance averaged just five parents per program, and it became clear that the library’s efforts were not meeting the modern parenting moment.