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Three women who share their experiences of intentional international living while raising playful tots( and a business). Join Courtney, Esther and Emilie of the boutique Babyccinokids.com as they tell their stories in this 38 minute podcast. Listen:: Listen to this week’s show | subscribe through iTunes | on-the-go device Show notes Country vs City? 5:42- Where we’ve lived- how differently we do things… View Post
Marie LeBaron talks today about her new craft books; Make and Takes for Kids. Marie is owner of the popular parenting blog Make and Takes and the author of the kids craft book Make and Takes for Kids. She’s the mother of 3 living in Seattle, with a degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education. Always having a love of crafts, she enjoys getting… View Post
Water,blueberries and hot tea is how we kick off this show. Catherine Oehlman, onscreen personality, speaker and writer of the popular website and blog Squigglemum and I talk about Christmas activities and keeping it special for the children and time to enjoy it ourselves. Catherine on Facebook:: Catherine on Twitter Listen:: Listen to this week’s show | subscribe through iTunes | on-the-go device … View Post
How to choose the right daycare, Nursery or preschool? and What do you do when your choice doesn’t work out? Should you stay or should you go? Plus Christmas play activities in this 27 minute show. Dr Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is the Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Professor in the Department of Psychology at Temple University where she serves as Director of… View Post
What if you there was a resource that helped you with your holiday gift buying that focused on play and not marketing? Written by Early childhood educators and parents and free. TRUCE have done exactly that and today’s interview is all about media, marketing, holiday gift guides with Dr Diane Levin Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston, author of… View Post
Blocks are just perfect in our digital age! They are more than a baby toy but a toy that grows with our under 5 children. Today I have an interview all about the big deal about blocks. Empowered by Play was founded in 2009 by teacher-turned-activist Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin, M.Ed. A classroom teacher for 19 years, she is also a mother of… View Post
Stay out of it or get involved? How will you look back on these playful years 0-5? Today I get into both these topics in this 30 minute show. Listen:: Listen to this week’s show | subscribe through iTunes | on-the-go device Show notes:: We learn about parent forums getting involved with our settings perspective Gems from author, Michael Morpugo… View Post
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
