Podcasts for 6-Year-Olds
These five episodes are the best place to start a six-year-old. They were picked for the year when fairness starts to matter and a story can get harder without getting any less silly.
Where a six-year-old should start
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🦖👑 The King and Queen of Dino Beach 👸🏝️
Nathan is feeling nervous about an upcoming class presentation and worries about standing in front of everyone to speak.
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⚾😖 The Baseball Bruise Blues 🥒🥐
Nathan gets hit by a baseball during his little league game, and even though the bruise will heal, it leaves him feeling unsure if he wants to keep playing at all.
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🎭🌽 The Big Act 🐞🕷️
Nathan is cast as a tree in his school play, and he cannot help but feel disappointed that he did not get a bigger part.
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🌙🎢 The Grand Reopening of Lunar Landing 🚀🧀
Nathan is feeling nervous about jumping off a high diving board at a friend's pool party.
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😴🦇 The Spookylooper of Monster Valley 👹🔍
Nathan wakes up from a spooky dream and has trouble falling back asleep.
What changes at six
Six-year-olds care about fairness, about being good at things, and about what other people think of them, often for the first time. These episodes are about exactly that: a class presentation Nathan is dreading, a baseball bruise that makes him wonder if he wants to keep playing, a school play where he’s cast as a tree, and a diving board he can’t make himself climb.
Long enough to be a real story
By six, most kids can follow a full 15 to 20 minute story where things get worse before they get better, and that’s when this show is at its best. The two-part Marshfellowship of the Spoon is worth saving for a long car ride around this age.
Still silly
None of this comes at the cost of the jokes. The worlds are still made of breakfast and run by worms, and a six-year-old is exactly the right age to find a queen named Lactose the Tolerant funny for the right reason.