I model busy without any effort. From the boy’s perspective, I’m busy doing all the time. The morning exit is a whirlwind of breakfast, tidying, dishes, conversation, lunches, lost things and moved things. It’s not until we’re standing in the playground do we get a sense of peace and calm. We finally catch breath. Our Sunday easily the same thing… View Post
Are you a lark or an owl? Maybe it’s easier to ask, when you get out of bed do you take a little while to warm up and mellow out? Are you sparkly and chipper? or something inbetween? Like it or not, I’ve always been an early night up early person. Having my three boys really messed around with my… View Post
Let’s get to what we really want simple parenting and play this year! No more promises to change let’s do this. Instead of making resolutions, feeling bad about not doing things and giving up- whatever the time of year our time is now to have the play we want in our families. Come listen to the show as we find… View Post
Before we say toddle do to 2013 here’s a chance to listen to the favourite shows of the year. This is a special top 10 show of the most popular episodes of Raising Playful Tots in 2013. Was your show here? Listen to this week’s show | subscribe through iTunes | on-the-go device Read the shownotes below
Imagine a less scheduled weekend. Sure there will be must attend and action events. Instead of going out activities to here and there ,we schedule a less scheduled weekend. Now this isn’t as easy as it sounds. We can’t just delete parts of our weekend and hope that the children will magically love all this time ( or us!) Many… View Post
The Advent calendars are out and I’m looking forward to opening door number two, three times tonight. We get a little bit of a story, maybe an activity and another part of Christmas story to form the picture. The Nativity Scene. It’ll be a time of stillness and quiet as they deftly open the tiny doors and pull out… View Post
Imagine listening to a story in the car or at home with your child. Not just any story but an advent story. Meet Charlie and Noel a new 25 part advent calendar story from Franziska of HomeNaturally.org. We talk about her new advent story available to download on the Kindle, as a pdf or the audio version. We also talk… View Post
One minute they love each other the next they can be like Tom and Jerry! Sibling relationships is our topic today with Dr Laura Markham of ahaparenting.com sharing scripts and diving deep into how we as parents can effectively deal with sibling rivalry and disagreements. We also focus on the positive of how to develop and encourage sibling relationships. Listen… View Post
I’m excited to have Annika Bourgogne of Be Bilingual sharing how to support different languages in the home,. We often think of bilingual homes but there are many multilingual families and friends who would love to feel confident sharing their language journey. Listen to this week’s show | subscribe through iTunes | on-the-go device Read the shownotes below
When you’re at home with young children your world can sometimes feel like it is shrinking. With the change of circumstances everything that used to happen is likely to be different. Different for a while and maybe even changed for good. It’s not always easy having a discussion, when you have a newly crawling baby or pushing toddler while you… View Post
With so many fantastic gifts and ideas to choose during this holiday season it’s getting even harder to choose the right gifts and not choose too many gifts. This time of year is really tricky as you see so many goodies it’s hard to not end up with a long list of gifts and toys for our kids. Then what… View Post
Craft your families holiday traditions with over 16 different simple playful examples of holiday traditions. This is part Two of the three part series- Crafting your simple holiday season Listen to this week’s show | subscribe through iTunes | on-the-go device Read the shownotes below
