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
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
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
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
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
********** 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
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
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
For more Wordless Wednesday posts visit : Wordless Wednesday and 5 minutes for mom. Find out more about this photo tomorrow with Tell me Thursday _____________________________ Raising Playful Tots is an Internet radio or Podcast available 24hrs a day . Host: Melitsa Avila of Play Activities. Download each episode yourself visit each show notes to do this or have iTunes… View Post
Drowning in empty [tag]Plastic Easter Eggs[/tag]? Don’t throw them away. Recycle them into part of an imaginary show. As we they sat eating Easter Eggs today. We were making funny faces with them a bit like the Muppets and trying to make them talk. ( Too much chocolate) We had altogether too much fun. Since we had a few this… View Post
There are all sorts of things your 18month old free spirit can be doing but what are they doing? Here are some everyday play activities to keep you going that have the heart of an 18month old Fun Open ended and BY MYSELF What activities do yours do that are fun, open ended and BY MYSELF? Would love to hear… View Post
The problem with posting today is would you believe it if I did? lol origins Follow the fun April Fools 2010: The Definitive List
