Melissa over at Chasing Cheerios mentioned a Cultural Exchange just before the Summer. It sounded a great idea. The idea was to send a package out that represented your country to a group of people. Melissa coordinated the whole thing. We were in a group of 6 people. 6 packages- how difficult would that be? Naturally life gets busy during… View Post
Are you a rowdy parent? Giggles, wrestling, rolling, swinging and chase part of what you do? Physical play with our children has changed dramatically. Today’s guest is Dr Larry Cohen psychologist, consultant and author of the book The Art of Roughhousing . We unpack many of the misunderstandings around roughhousing, learn a few new moves and discuss the changes that… View Post
The kitchen is a goldmine for play activities especially process play and sensory play ideas. Janice Newell Bissex, is a registered dietitian and author of two healthy family cookbooks: No Whine with Dinner and The Moms’ Guide to Meal Makeovers: Improving the Way Your Family Eats, One Meal at a Time! She shares today ideas to encourage our use of… View Post
Each year school districts up and down the land produce a large long list of items for children to bring to school. It was stuff of legend to me. I’d heard about long prescriptive lists and not finding the exact thing and knew. I just knew they had to be exaggerations. urban myths gone too far. So I was a… View Post
Recess and playtime are under attack. Did you know that breaktime or recess isn’t available for all children in many countries? That was shocking news to me.There’s not enough time to do academics AND recess in many places. Is this really true? Meg Rosker share how to be an effective advocate for play by being informed and collaborating with others… View Post
Introducing the latest addition to the Raising Playful Tots family – Everyday sensory alphabet activities Crafts were not fun for my wiggle jiggly boys. But they loved sensory ideas . How we learned to embrace the sensory Listen:: You can download the MP3 file for this podcast here . Or directly by clicking subscribe through iTunes. Or hear via your… View Post
Today’s show features Ponn Sabra of American Muslim Mom . She’s the founder of the #1 community for American Muslim moms, and author of Empowering Women To Power Network: How to Save Time, Earn More Money, and Live a Life of Success by Building Quality Relationships Everywhere You Go. Sabra and her 3 young kid bloggers offer their homeschooling, green, natural, high-tech,… View Post
On a recent visit to an Art Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic. I was delighted to come up against these wonderful collages or sculpture by Shalom Tomas Neuman. Love how everyday toys, electronic items are used to create really zany pictures. You can see more about the work here, Art at home does not’ have to be about pen,… View Post
It’s probably something that most of us can relate to in the popular book, Too Many Toys by David Shannon, of the poor dad stepping on LEGO pieces. LEGO this summer has come into its own with all the boys. With our age span from 3 to 8 now we have many different types. On a recent visit… View Post
This is exactly what we’re doing this summer. Lots of impromptu activities and a few planned. But mostly our timetable looks blank. It’s how we like it. Just for fun I messed around with this type of video yesterday. Let me know your experiences 🙂 One Sunny day I did another one called One Afternoon Enjoy!
