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It’s easy! Sign up today. wqpt.org/sustainers 309/764-2400 SEPTEMBER 2021 HIGHLIGHTS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR The Supreme Court’s first female justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. A pioneer who both reflected and shaped an era, she was the deciding vote in cases on some of the 20th century’s most controversial issues—including race, gender and reproductive rights.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26 | 9:00PM

DRIVING WHILE BLACK RACE, SPACE AND MOBILITY IN AMERICA Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2 | 9:00PM

POWER OVER PARKINSON'S This upbeat and inspiring half-hour documentary profiles individuals who are taking control of the management of their disease in surprisingly easy ways. Showcasing powerful and positive portraits of patients and doctors who are focused on exercise research to improve the lives of people living with Parkinson's disease.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 | 8:00PM wqpt.org

MUHAMMAD ALI This Ken Burns documentary brings to life one of the most indelible figures of the 20th century, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion who captivated millions of fans across the world with his mesmerizing combination of speed, grace, and power in the ring, and charm and playful boasting outside of it.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30 | 8:00PM

GUILT ON MASTERPIECE A drunken drive home from a wedding lands two brothers in increasingly hot water, as they commit more and more serious crimes to hide their culpability in a hit-and-run. Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives star as the brothers, with Ruth Bradley as the victim’s niece, who falls for her uncle’s killer.

BEGINS MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13 | 8:00PM

TULSA RACE MASSACRE A look back at the explosion of violence when the once prosperous neighborhood known as “Black Wall Street” was destroyed by a mob of white residents. Hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes were burned to the ground, killing an estimated 100–300 Black residents and leaving thousands of residents homeless.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 12 | 9:00PM SEPTEMBER 2021 PRIMETIME 1 WEDNESDAY 3 FRIDAY 5 SUNDAY 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 7:00 River to River: Iowa’s Vintage Savannah: Travel back to Autumn Supper Forgotten Highway 6 2003 for remarkable finds, including 7:30 Cook’s Country A nostalgic classic car journey a wedding dress from about 1798, Regional Seafood Specialties through yesterday’s soda shops, a 1912 Ivan Khlebnikov jewelry item. filling stations, general stores, 8:00 Steven Raichlen’s 8:00 New Tricks drive-ins, and historic sites that Project Fire line Iowa’s U.S. Highway 6. The Girl Who Lived: The team’s Social Distance Tailgating feathers are ruffled when Steve 8:00 Bluebirds of Antietam McAndrew, a retired detective from 8:30 How She Rolls The story about one couple’s efforts Glasgow, descends on the office to save the Eastern Bluebird. like a bundle of Scottish energy. 8:30 Preserving Illinois 9:00 Inspector Morse Ghost Prairies Explore the natural forces that created the different types of prairies once found in Illinois. 9:00 Age of Nature Awakening: See how innovative actions are being taken to repair Recipe for Success man-made damage and restore 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s reefs, rivers, animal populations Milk Street Television and more. in the Machine: A vanished Secret Italian Recipes 10:00 Age of Nature baronet and the theft of some 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen of his collection of erotic art is Cooking with the Nuns investigated by Morse and Lewis. 10:00 Ask This Old House 11:00 Professor T Flickering Lights, Brick Stairs Homeless: A homeless man on the 10:30 This Old House verge of death after an accident Tommy’s in the Kitchen confides that he killed someone. 11:00 Austin City Limits Yola Understanding: From the Pacific 2 THURSDAY Northwest to Yellowstone to 7:00 The Cities SATURDAY Scotland, scientists, citizens 4 and activists are restoring the 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 7:00 Classic Gospel Stopping The Stigma environment, benefiting humans and animals alike. 8:00 Race is the Place The creative visions of a group of 11:00 Age of Nature multicultural actors, poets, visual Changing: From Borneo to artists and musicians on America’s Antarctica, the resilience of the most pressing social issues. planet is helping us find solutions to cope and even mitigate climate 9:00 Driving While Black: change, providing hope for a more Race, Space and Mobility positive future. in America Josh Turner 8:00 Austin City Limits The Best of Spoon: Jam to an 6 MONDAY exceptional hour of Austin's 7:00 New Tricks alternative rock band Spoon’s, who has appeared four times on ACL. 9:00 Song of the Mountains The Ham Family Band, Tim White & Friends Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new freedoms 10:00 Live From and new perils for African the Old Steeple Americans on the road. Pharis & Jason Romero The Girl Who Lived 11:00 Invisible History: 11:00 Polka Across America Middle Florida’s Hidden Members of a popular Ohio polka 8:00 Professor T Roots band spotlight entertaining polka Three Oak Campus: A student is The little-known history of musicians, with each performance assaulted on a university campus plantations and the enslaved serving as a musical postcard from in circumstances identical to an in North Florida. around the country. unsolved 10-year-old incident.

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9:00 Professor T 8:00 New Tricks A Fatal Mistake: Professor T is Body of Evidence: When the body FRIDAY summoned to help solve a double of a missing computer expert 10 poisoning case at the university. is found, the UCOS team find 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 10:00 Agatha and the themselves drawn into the Midnight Murders unfamiliar world of online hacktivism. As bombs fall on , writer 9:00 Inspector Morse Agatha Christie considers selling The Last Enemy: A headless, a manuscript that will kill off her armless, footless body of a most famous creation. murdered academic is found in 11:30 Variety Studio: Oxford Canal and his investigation Actors on Actors leads to petty hatred and jealousy Ewan McGregor, Kathryn Hahn, among the local academia. Simple Chicken Dinner with Jason Sudeikis. 11:00 Professor T 7:30 Cook’s Country Queen Olivia: When the body of Taste of Summer Professor T’s father is exhumed and TUESDAY examined, the troubled academic 8:00 Steven Raichlen’s 7 must try to recall painful memories Project Fire 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Little Italy The Majesty of Madrid he has been repressing for years. 8:30 How She Rolls 7:30 Outside: How She Road Trips Beyond the Lens 9 THURSDAY 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s 7:00 The Cities Milk Street Television Mexico City Favorites 7:30 9/11: Coming Together The Tabernacle Choir at Temple 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen Square take part in a broadcasted The Winter Vegetable Punch performance to remember how the 10:00 Ask This Old House world united following the tragedy. Rethinking a Garden 8:00 Objects and Memory 10:30 This Old House Generation Next Mt. Lassen National Park 11:00 Austin City Limits 8:00 Ireland with Michael The Best of Spoon: Savor the The Kilmore Carol best of Austin alternative rock 8:30 Passion Italy band Spoon’s four appearances Abruzzo on Austin City Limits. 9:00 Cycle Around Japan 9:30 Illinois Adventure SATURDAY 10:00 Shaw Rising Discover items recovered after, 11 The story of the oldest Historically or offered in response to, 9/11, 7:00 Classic Gospel Black College in the South. the Oklahoma City bombing Singing Contractors and the Vietnam War, along with 8:00 Austin City Limits 11:00 POV the stories of people who find these items important. 9:00 9/11 Inside the Pentagon Learn what occurred behind the walls of one of America’s most secretive buildings on 9/11. 10:00 Leaning Out

The Song of the Butterflies: Ray Wylie Hubbard: The roadhouse When indigenous painter Rember rock of legendary Texas songwriter. Yahuarcani finds himself in a 9:00 Song of the Mountains creative rut, he returns home The Burnett Sisters Band, to his Amazonian community. Alan Bibey & Grasstowne. 10:00 Live From The Old Steeple 8 WEDNESDAY The life and work of Leslie Robertson, Lindsay Lou 7:00 Antiques Roadshow a legendary engineer in high-rise 11:00 Race is the Place Vintage Portland: Revisit standout design, are highlighted. The creative visions of a group of Portland appraisals from 1998, 11:00 Dream in Doubt multicultural actors, poets, visual including one treasure that jumps The American dream amidst a artists and musicians on America’s dramatically in value. climate of xenophobia and fear. most pressing social issues.

STERLING/ROCK FALLS DANVILLE MOLINE BALDWIN 10:00 Downing of a Flag 10:00 Grantchester SUNDAY on Masterpiece 12 Season 4, Episode 1: 7:00 Invisible History: Sidney is swept up in the civil Middle Florida’s rights movement as a murder Hidden Roots sees racial tensions spike. The little-known history of plantations and the enslaved in North Florida. 14 TUESDAY 8:00 Shaw Rising 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe The story of the oldest Historically Part 1: How the Confederate flag Black College in the South. impacts the people, politics and 9:00 Tulsa Race Massacre: perceptions of South Carolina. 100 Years Later 11:00 Downing of a Flag Part 2 13 MONDAY 7:00 New Tricks Body of Evidence Highlights of Castile: Toledo and Salamanca 8:00 Guilt on Masterpiece Part 1: A drunken drive home from 7:30 Outside: a wedding lands two brothers in Beyond the Lens Historical accounts of the massacre, Valley of Fire and the art of local creatives, paint increasingly hot water, as they a full picture of the Greenwood commit more and more serious 8:00 Ireland with Michael District’s past and future. crimes to hide their culpability A walking tour of Dublin in a hit-and-run. DAYTIME SCHEDULE SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 6:00AM Autoline Dinosaur Train 6:30AM America’s Heartland Pinkalicious & Peterrific 7:00AM Hero Elementary Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 7:30AM Xavier Riddle Daniel Tiger 8:00AM Curious George Donkey Hodie 8:30AM Daniel Tiger Let's Go Luna 9:00AM Donkey Hodie Hero Elementary 9:30AM Arthur Elinor Wonders Why 10:00AM Woodsmith Shop Sesame Street 10:30AM American Woodshop Pinkalicious & Peterrific 11:00AM Ask This Old House Am. Test Kitchen To Dine In Milk Street How She Rolls 11:30AM This Old House Cook’s Country Pati’s Mexican Table How to Cook Well Lidia’s Kitchen 12:00PM Rick Steves Europe Motorweek Love of Quilting Garden Smart Paint This 12:30PM Illinois Adventure America’s Heartland It’s Sew Easy A Greener World Joy of Painting 1:00PM Milk Street Chicago Tonight Chicago Tonight 1:30PM Lidia’s Kitchen The Cities 2:00PM Am. Test Kitchen Sesame Street 2:30PM Cook’s Country Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 3:00PM Cookin’ Louisiana Odd Squad 3:30PM Sara’s Weeknight Wild Kratts 4:00PM The Cities Curious George 4:30PM Whitney Reynolds Nature Cat 5:00PM Arthur Antiques Roadshow 5:30PM Chicago Tonight Chicago Tonight 6:00PM The Cities Finding Your Roots 6:30PM BBC World News WQPT PBS KIDS PROGRAMS

MACOMB WEST LIBERTY OREGON SPRINGBROOK CARBON CLIFF COLUMBUS JUNCTION 8:30 Passion Italy Lazio 8:00 New Tricks 9:00 Cycle Around Japan Love Means Nothing in Tennis: THURSDAY The team investigates the case 16 9:30 Illinois Adventure of a 16-year-old tennis champion 7:00 The Cities 10:00 POV who fell to her death from a balcony Host Jim Mertens explores regional after losing a crucial match. issues and topics. 9:00 Inspector Morse 7:30 Whitney Reynolds Deceived By Flight: Lewis goes undercover to help discover the murderer of Morse’s old college roommate. 11:00 Professor T

Bisbee ’17: A town commemorates the 100th anniversary of the deportation of 1,200 immigrant Overcoming Obstacles miners. 8:00 Power Over Parkinson’s Powerful and positive portraits 15 WEDNESDAY of patients and doctors discuss 7:00 Antiques Roadshow The Reveal: When the body of Parkinson’s disease. Hotel Del Coronado, Hour 1: Professor T’s father is exhumed and 9:00 Making It in America A 1962 Baldessari oil Sign for examined, the troubled academic Follow the important contributions Rothko & Albers, a Fortuny Delphos must try to recall painful memories being made by immigrant gown, and a Kitchen Debate table he has been repressing for years. entrepreneurs to the economy with a signed Nixon photo. of Florida and the United States.

DAYTIME SCHEDULE THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Dinosaur Train Mister Rogers Pinkalicious & Peterrific Wild Kratts Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum Hero Elementary Daniel Tiger Xavier Riddle SATURDAYS 6:00AM Donkey Hodie Curious George Mister Rogers created

Let's Go Luna Daniel Tiger a relationship with Hero Elementary Donkey Hodie millions of children, Elinor Wonders Why Elinor each of whom felt Sesame Street It’s Sew Easy like they were visiting Pinkalicious & Peterrific Fons and Porter with a trusted friend. How She Rolls Cookin’ Louisiana Antiques Roadshow Lidia’s Kitchen Wild Harvest Paint This Ask This Old House Joy of Painting This Old House

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Sesame Street Masterpiece Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum & Mysteries Odd Squad Wild Kratts Curious George Nature Cat His radical kindness, acceptance, Arthur Lawrence Welk and empathy created a place that as TV Guide described: “… makes Chicago Tonight us, young and old alike, feel safe, Lawrence Welk BBC World News cared for and valued... Wherever Schedule subject to change without notice. Mister Rogers is, so is sanctuary.”

NEPONSET MAQUOKETA GOOD HOPE BETTENDORF 10:00 POV 8:30 Passion Italy 19 SUNDAY 9:00 Cycle Around Japan 7:00 Truly Texas Mexican 9:30 Illinois Adventure Explore the Native American roots 10:00 Finding Your Roots of Texas Mexican food, including insights from women chefs, artists and community leaders. 8:30 Land and Water Revisited The Infiltrators: Meet two young A recreation of the anthropological immigrants who get purposefully classic Land and Water. "Sometimes arrested by Border Patrol and you have to look back to move put in a shadowy for-profit ahead." detention center. 9:30 Cuba: The The Seedlings, Part 1: Follow 11:30 Re-Evolution: Forgotten Revolution thirteen young people using science The Embargo and research skills in a genetics Examine the ongoing impact of the and genealogy summer camp to U.S. embargo against Cuba, a long- uncover their family histories. standing prohibition on economic 10:30 Finding Your Roots exchange that is known The Seedlings, Part 2: The campers to Cubans as el bloqueo. dig into their DNA test results to find out the likelihood they have various individual genetic traits. FRIDAY 11:00 Tale of Granny Mochi: 17 Explore the complexities inherent 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen Kuwata Misao Simple and Elegant Dinner in revolutions and examine the Discover the life and work of Kuwata shaping (and reshaping) of the Misao, an artisan of traditional, 7:30 Cook’s Country final historical records. Beef Kebabs and Cheese Bread handmade Sasa-mochi rice cakes. 11:00 Making it in America 8:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire WEDNESDAY Cured and Smoked 22 20 MONDAY 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 8:30 How She Rolls 7:00 New Tricks Hotel Del Coronado Hour 3: Thanksgiving Love Means Nothing in Tennis A Dr. Seuss-illustrated program and 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s 8:00 Guilt on Masterpiece drawing, Seth Kinman’s Colt Model Milk Street Television Part 2: Jakes probes Max’s control 1851 presentation pistol, and a Middle Eastern Meets London of his finances, while Jake also 1920 John Fery oil. 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen grows suspicious of Angie and 8:00 New Tricks The Flavors of Northern Italy Roy tightens the screws on Max. Dead Poets 10:00 Ask This Old House 10:00 Grantchester 9:00 Inspector Morse Spring Projects: Paint, Prune, on Masterpiece The Secret of Bay 5B Spigots Season 4, Episode 2: When a 11:00 Professor T 10:30 This Old House professor dies at a cutting-edge Heir to the Throne, Part 1 computer laboratory, Geordie turns to Leonard for assistance. 11:00 Grantchester 23 THURSDAY on Masterpiece 7:00 The Cities Season 4, Episode 3: When a child from an isolated farming family is 7:30 Whitney Reynolds accused of murder, Will is the only Changing The Script/Narrative one able to reach him. 8:00 In Their Own Words

A Queen Anne Revival 11:00 Austin City Limits 21 TUESDAY Ray Wylie Hubbard 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Normandy: War-Torn Yet Full of Life 7:30 Outside: 18 SATURDAY Beyond the Lens 7:00 Classic Gospel David Phelps: Classics Muhammad Ali: Follow Ali’s path 8:00 Austin City Limits from a gym in Louisville to boxing Enjoy an hour-long set with song successes, conversion to Islam, writing legend John Prine. opposition to the draft, exile from 9:00 Song of the Mountains the ring, comeback fights, and Lonesome Pine Bluegrass Band Parkinson’s disease. 10:00 Live From 9:00 American Experience: The Old Steeple California North Coast Redwoods The Fight: The famous 1938 Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Hass heavyweight fight between 8:00 Crossing South American Joe Louis and 11:00 Meet Carl Jackson Tijuana: Tacos, Horses, Beer German Max Schmeling. and Soccer

GALESBURG STANWOOD JOSLIN FRUITLAND DAVENPORT WOODHAUL CLINTON 10:00 Positive All The Way The inspiring story of the Paralympic SUNDAY TUESDAY movement’s recent revolution. 26 28 6:30 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 10:30 Finding Traction Uncovering America /Best of Follow ultra-runner Nikki Kimball’s Courtney B. Vance hosts this 7:30 Outside: quest to become the fastest person celebration of the renowned, in history to run America’s oldest Beyond the Lens respected and popular historian, Death Valley National Park hiking trail, the 273-mile Long Trail. author and filmmaker. 8:00 Crossing South 11:30 4 Wheel Bob 8:00 Amazing Grace Follow the treatment of women in the legal industry from the late 1940’s through today. 8:30 Penny: Champion of the Marginalized A multi-dimensional portrait of Penny Cooper, a celebrated criminal defense attorney, art collector, An intrepid adventurer sets out to supporter of female artists, and A travel show exploring Northern become the first wheelchair hiker protector of the underdog. Baja California, Mexico. to cross the 11,845 foot Kearsarge 9:00 American Experience 8:30 Passion Italy Pass in California. 9:00 Cycle Around Japan 9:30 Illinois Adventure FRIDAY 10:00 Finding Your Roots 24 The Seedlings, Part 3 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen Breakfast Basics 10:30 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Uncovering America 7:30 Cook’s Country Fried Bites 8:00 Steven Raichlen’s Sandra Day O’Connor: The First: WEDNESDAY Project Fire Discover the story of the Supreme 29 Court’s first female justice. 7:00 Antiques Roadshow The Improbable Grill Philbrook Museum, Hour 2 8:30 How She Rolls 11:00 The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer 8:00 New Tricks You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Bakery Blue Flower 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s Conversations Ruth Bader Ginsburg 9:00 Inspector Morse Milk Street Television The Infernal Serpent: An Tuesday Night Bologna environmentalist professor 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen MONDAY is mugged and later dies Here I Come New York! 27 7:00 New Tricks after an attack on campus. 10:00 Ask This Old House Dead Poets 11:00 Professor T Ultimate Garage Workshop 8:00 Grantchester Heir to the Throne Part 2: 10:30 This Old House on Masterpiece Professor T meets an old friend Rebirth of Detroit Season 4, Episode 4: When Will who convinces him that a well- structured life has its advantages. 11:00 Austin City Limits asks for Geordie’s help with a family The Very Best of John Prine matter, Geordie is surprised to discover where Will really grew up. THURSDAY 9:00 Grantchester 30 25 SATURDAY on Masterpiece 7:00 The Cities 7:00 Classic Gospel Season 4, Episode 5: 8:00 Muhammad Ali Steven Curtis Chapman: Will struggles with a decision A Great Adventure that may determine his future. 8:00 Austin City Limits 10:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Season 5, Episode 1: Will and Geordie must infiltrate the murky world of university politics. 11:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Round One: The Greatest (1942–1964): The Ken Burns’ documentary brings to life the John Legend & The Roots: boxing champion who became Wake Up! an inspiration across the globe. 9:00 Song of the Mountains 10:30 Muhammad Ali Carson Peters & Iron Mountain Round One: The Greatest (1942–1964) Ali turns professional, 10:00 Live From sharpening his boxing skills and The Old Steeple Season 5, Episode 2: A hit-and- honing his genius for self-promotion. 11:00 Eliades Ochoa: run leads Will and Geordie to a In 1964, he upsets Sonny Liston to From Cuba to the World dysfunctional pair of brothers. become heavyweight champion.

DANVILLE ANNAWAN LOST NATION MIDDLETOWN WQPT PBS OUTREACH are ensuring children’s health and safety, THE POWER and helping children learn positive, OF ROUTINES responsible behavior. For example, children wash their hands before they This past school have snack, or must hold an adult’s hand year was when crossing the street. unusual—to say the least. But Routines help children with students cope with transitions. heading back to Depending on your child’s temperament, school, there's transitions between activities may be a lot we can easy or more difficult. Going from play do to bolster their feelings of confidence to lunch, lunch to the store, the store to and security as they head into a new year. home… and especially transitioning to Consistent routines provide comfort bed time, can be challenging. Routines and a sense of safety to young children. (like bedtime routines) can help make Following a schedule each day makes transitions easier. children feel safer and happier, which Routines are an important often leads to better behavior and opportunity for learning. cooperation. When they know what to Daily routines are often thought of as expect, and what's expected of them, just “maintenance” activities: meal time, kids feel more comfortable and confident running errands, getting ready for bed, about what lies ahead. taking baths. But these everyday actions Routines guide positive are rich opportunities to support your behavior and safety. child’s learning and development while Routines are like instructions—they having fun. Routines offer the chance guide children’s actions toward a specific to build self-confidence, curiosity, social goal. Routines can be used for many skills, self-control, communication skills, reasons, but two of the most important and more.

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after-school routine, including a snack HELPING and some downtime. And when your KIDS NAVIGATE child does have a meltdown, stay close and stay calm. The storm will pass, and HEADING BACK then we can help them work through the TO SCHOOL emotions behind it. Talk about what to Express your confidence expect in advance. in them. Fred Rogers once said, “When children Children read our emotions for cues know ahead of time what’s going to about how they should react. If we happen—and not happen—they can express our confidence in them, they prepare themselves for what’s coming. will pick up on this. When something They can think about it and get used to goes wrong, you can also use it as an their feelings about it.” opportunity to express your confidence Talk to your child about what school will in them, such as: look like in simple, practical terms. What n Thanks for telling me what happened. are the names of their teachers? What We will figure this out together. will the morning routine at home look n I know you were really nervous about like? What will they need to put in their ______, but you did it. You are so brave. backpack each day? How will they get to school? What will they eat for lunch? Reach out to the teacher. How will they get home? The parent-teacher relationship is key When you talk about what to expect, to helping kids thrive. If you notice your you can answer many of their unspoken child struggling academically, socially, questions—and better help your child or emotionally, reach out to your child’s navigate those unexpected moments teacher. If you have questions about the that arise. classroom or your child’s progress, reach out! You do not need to wait for the Prepare for big emotions. first parent-teacher conference. It takes a lot of energy to adjust to a new routine and get to know new teachers and classmates. As one of my favorite kindergarten teachers reminds families, it takes most children six weeks to adjust to a new school year. Those after-school tantrums are normal and don’t mean they are having a terrible time at school! Kids often hold in their emotions during the day. After all, you’ve spent years helping them develop strategies to manage their behavior and work well in groups. But undoubtedly, at least one thing happens every day that makes them feel worried, sad, or confused. Those feelings often come spilling out in the safety of home. Create a predictable OUR APPRECIATION & THANKS WQPT PBS Sponsors & Underwriters These valued businesses and organizations recognize and support the positive impact WQPT PBS creates for the region through our unique multimedia channels and events. wqpt.org/sponsors

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