Raising Playful Tots Show 25: Let’s explore with Amy Anderson

by melitsa on May 12, 2010
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Lets explore

In this 31 minute podcast, you’ll learn about Amy Anderson of Let’s explore. She’s a mom passionate about play with her two girls. Amy walks us through her play day and the tips and tricks that help their family enjoy play.

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Here are the show notes:

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:45 Extended playtime opportunities

01:50  How do you store masterpieces?

02:29 Question for listeners. Solutions to Lego pieces, Polly Pockets, Stickle bricks

03:16  recap of RPT: 24 Dawn Papandrea Khan and introduction to Amy Anderson: Let’s explore

04:07 Amy talks about Let’s explore and how she came to start writing about play activities.

04:50 Amy talk about running her retail play store and how important this was informing her play choices.

05:53  Pitfalls of ‘eye candy’ craft blogs and how to choose appropriate play activities without feeling pressured.

06:41  Valuing  the experience of play rather than what it looks like.

07:25 Using the materials you have for activities.

08:09  Improvisation is good and buying every specialist piece of equipment is just not practical or necessary.

08: 29 Repurposing and reusing play activities

08:50  Benefits of having a Junk Box. Junk boxes and Playdates .

09:36  Bubble wrap, candle holder, vase and other ideas

10:50 Open ended play vs one time things.

11:03  Cardboard box and creativity. How do you get unstructured play in?

12:06 Keeping things low key and one activity a week

12:22 Unstructured playtime is crucial especially as our children get older.

12:46 Scheduling unstructured play

13:00 Coping with the “I’m bored!” whine

14:00 Rotating art supplies keep ideas fresh.

15:24 Sticker fun for the younger ones to put off the whining moments

16:42 Social and emotional pointers- take time to get involved in their play

17:01 Kids are happy to engage with each other but we still have to engage with them

17:15 Sneaking in learning opportunities with examples

19:14  What is your process for accepting or rejecting a play activity in your family?

20:50 what do they need, what do they love,what do I want and what do we have around the house

21:38 Media marketing ,impulsing buying and implementing a play philosophy that influences your play.

22:40 limit going to the toy store. Things look so good but there is  (often) a price to pay in creativity.

23:08  Limiting TV with commercials and pester power.

23:53 Benefits of carrying a notebook for the “I wants and I needs”  becomes a wishlist.

25:00 Silly question

26:00 Weekly find: Growing an In-Sync Child: Simple, Fun Activities to Help Every Child Develop, Learn, and Grow
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Raising Playful Tots show #23 Positive Parenting with Sue Atkins

by melitsa on April 28, 2010
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Positive Parents interview

“There’s no such thing as failure, just feedback.”

“No point driving forward and looking in the rear view mirror! If you’ve made a few mistakes let them go!”

“Hang out with happy parents!”

Sue Atkins.

We love the under 5s! Some days all that energy can get us down. How do you keep positive with your Under 5s?

Today I talk to Sue Atkins, Parenting coach and Author of Raising Happy Children for Dummies about being a positive parent.

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Sue offers expert advice on Common struggles with the Under 5 parents.

How do you get out the house with toddler tantrums?

Behaviour diary

How to change the situation to be more positive parents?

Parenting toolkits and Sue talks about how being a positive parent impacts kids life.

Positive-Parents.com

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