Screen free week 2010! So hands up! Did it creep up on you this year? Now you’re wondering if you can do it but you’ve not planned for it. Screen free week used to be known as TV turnoff week but we have more screens in our lives now and with a changeover in organization it seems more apt to… View Post
6 boredom busters when waiting for food to arrive
When you go out to eat what do you do between ordering and food arriving? Here are our top 6 boredom busters when waiting for food to arrive when we’re eating out. Stack the packet condiments Dump and fill the sugar/salt packets container ( Who can be the fastest?) Count the packets ( sort the colours/size/ shape etc) Kim’s game-… View Post
Raising Playful Tots show #21 Tessy and Tab + Screen free week
Today Judy Johnston CEO & Co-founder talks about the ad free preschool magazine: Tessy and Tab. She talks about this brilliant Early childhood magazine that my boys loved and is still very well used. I wrote a review about Tessy & Tab but today Judy explains the reason behind being ad free, paper choice and how the illustrations are upto… View Post
Lighting their fires
Back in January I outlined a few books I wanted to read this year because I wanted to parent more intentionally. How? By seeking out information as I would for anything I’m learning. As usual I’ve been sidetracked and have read lots of others things but I will get back to my list. Since I read a lot of books… View Post
Discussion starters for young children
When you ask your child, ” How was your day?” We don’t always get the type of [tag]conversation[/tag] we bargained on. This type of direct conversation certainly doesn’t seem to work with mine, for sure. However if we’re doing a side by side activity together or next to each other we seem to get a better result. Maybe it’s boys?… View Post
Making marks by writing numbers with glue
Do you find that your preschooler is reluctant to use a pencil to write? Sometimes we have to take a step backwards and enjoy the fun of writing and playing with writing before we get to the more serious writing with a pencil. I have boys and considering recent evidence about how boys writing lags behind girls I wanted to… View Post
New Play Activities ebook
I’m excited to share my second ebook: Play Activities for the newbie players What? This is a downloadable ebook of play activities and discussions collated from the Play Activities blog for the last 3 years. Why? The Play Activities network has many resources. With the newsletter of 5 free play activities that arrives weekly, posts and podcasts .I’ve been asked… View Post
Make your own puppet and storytelling
********** Contest: Win 4 books from Books by Tara*********** https://raisingplayfultots.com/podcast/raising-playful-tots-show-20-books-by-tara Have you listened, I mean really listened, to the long and convoluted stories our preschoolers tell? You know the ones that seem to go on forever and sometimes, it seems optional to have an end point? The MO has a lot of these and I don’t think he’s alone. They… View Post
Embracing mess
Yesterday I shared a familiar pose in my house for Wordless Wednesday. This is a classic picture at our house of the LO emptying the crafting area. With two older brothers who love to craft the fun stuff is in a cupboard that they can reach………so the LO can reach as well. We usually safeguard most things with boxes inside… View Post
Raising Playful Tots show #20 Books by Tara
I’m excited to welcome Tara McClintick of Books by Tara.com She’s an author, Early Childhood Special Education teacher and mother to two boys. Tara is “…passionate about all children, and I have total respect for the miraculous development process and the challenges today’s kids face in our fast-moving, stimulus-bombarding world”. In today’s interview Tara talks about her special books and… View Post
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