Summer Meteor Showers, Kid-Friendly Activities in NYC, Living in your Quarterlife, Teaching Your Kid About Smartphones

It's almost time for the summer season's Perseid meteor showers. Bart Fried, executive VP of the NYC-based Amateur Astronomers Association, joins with tips on the best times and places to catch the falling stars, and more advice on stargazing in and around the light-polluted city.

A new guidebook, 111 Places for Kids in New York That You Must Not Miss, spotlights 111 places to take the kiddos around the city in all boroughs for all budgets. Co-author Rachel Mazor joins and we take listener calls.

The years between adolescence and middle age can be some of the trickiest to navigate, especially in a modern world filled with uncertainty about the stability of the future. Psychotherapist and author Satya Doyle Byock has written a new book about this stage, which she defines as the "quarterlife" period from ages 16 to 36. She joins us to discuss the book, titled Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood, and take calls from listeners.

With smartphones being a common tool of everyday life for many people today, it can be hard as parents to navigate when to buy your child their first smartphone, if you can afford it. What are the ground rules you should set? How should you teach your kid about the right ways to engage on the internet? Catherine Pearlman, social worker and creator of the website, The Family Coach, has a new book called, First Phone: A Child's Guide to Digital Responsibility, Safety, and Etiquette, and she joins us to talk about how to teach children to use smartphones responsibly, and take your calls.