79. Intentional international living with BabyccinoKids
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.
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Country vs City?
5:42- Where we’ve lived- how differently we do things like celebrating birthdays
9:06 What is a playdate like where you live? + school hours
11:50 What’s the best thing about raising a family in Europe?
13:35: regional differences :: Languages ::food :: cultural variety and diversity
15:32 What toy,book or activity do the children love to do?
16:58 What happens in daily life for these three families
18:36 Spontaneous or planned activities?
20:00 Tips when you’re moving with kids what to do?
22:20 How did Babycinno get started?
24:58: Perils of blogging and travelling
26:08 explaining blogging and friendships to your offline friends
28: 00 What they really wish they could take with them wherever they live?
30:30 What type of playdough- homemade or storebought?
31:57 Toys shops and negotiations
Stories about moving country :: Simplemom- living abroad ::Manic mommies- moving to Czech Republic
Podcast question of the week: If you could live anywhere in the world with your family , where would that be?
Audioboo: One way of limiting gifts for the kids.
Favourite bits of 2011 survey
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78. Make and Takes for Kids with Marie LeBaron
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 messy with glue and glitter. There’s always some sort of project going on, her kitchen table is often cluttered with crafts. When she’s not crafting and creating with her kids, she loves to read, run, and blog!
If you’re looking for inspiration then have a listen to Marie.
Listen to the show for details of how to enter to win the book.
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Audio review and interview with Marie about her craft book Make and takes for kids
Win the book!
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77. Christmas traditions and activities
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. 
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We learn
- some typical Christmas traditions ( 5:26)
- Joining and melding of family traditions ( 7:58)
- cookie exchanges ( 10:10 )
- Carols by candlelight (12:27)
- Christmas crafts ( 14:12)
- Truth in the Tinsel ebook
- Simple Advent calendar ( 14:55)
- Toilet rolls and the nativity (15:17)
- Christmas angels via muminthemadhouse.com ( 15:56 )
- Making a nativity set ( 16:23)
- balancing out Christmas and Santa ( 19:09)
- Our crazy Advent calendar schedule ( 20:06 )
- using photographs to jog memory and provide prompts (22:20)
- wrapping gifts and handmade gifts and writing cards (23:01)
- stress free and reason for the season (24:34)
- Good givers and receive gratefully (25:49 )
- Worldvision & Compassion (26:53)
- Buying for charity giving (27:05)
- Grocery store questions ( 31:05)
- Buying handmade online(33:10)
- Dealing with pressure ( 37:10)
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72. Active play: The art of roughhousing with Dr Cohen
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 have happened in our society where no hitting and no touch has lead to parents being worried about roughhousing and rough and tumble play with their children.
It’s one of those topics where you do what’s best for your children and your family. I’m sure you have an opinion. Listen to the show and share your thoughts here or on Facebook
The art of roughhousing the website| Follow Dr Cohen on Twitter | Find them on Facebook
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We learn
- about the modern definition of roughhousing.
- the importance of physical touch in development for the 2-5 year old.
- about changing the way we tackle physical play and the labels we use.
- girls,women, mothers and roughhousing plus fathers roughhousing girls
- ideas and advice to help mother headed households without fathers present due to absence, work, deployment , temporary or otherwise etc
- about bedtime roughhousing
- what to do about the no hitting/no touching rule that’s popular in settings
- about the problems with tickling and I learn a better way of handing a problem.
- how to approach sensitive children who don’t like to be touched or overactive parents who push too much
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69. Everyday sensory alphabet activities
Introducing the latest addition to the Raising Playful Tots family – Everyday sensory alphabet activities
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