75. TRUCE your first stop to choosing toys
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 several books and hard working play activist and founder of CCFC and TRUCE
Diane .E. Levin
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- about TRUCE- teachers resisting unhealthy children’s entertainment
- Toy and holiday guide { resource}
- how to counteract the harmful impact of marketing and media on children with examples{ resource} Read more..
Raising Playful Tots show 30: Steiner Waldorf play with Janni Nicol
Janni Nicol Consultant specialising in Steiner Waldorf, Core tutor at the University of Plymouth , and author of Creative play for your toddler Steiner Waldorf Expertise and toy projects 2-4 talks about Steiner- Waldorf play a play concept that is becoming more popular. She gives background on the movement, activity ideas and information about how important this style of play concept impacts our 21st Century children in this 29 minute podcast. 
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00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:35 Moving with kids. How do you do with play inmind? Pizza bites
03:00 Love hearing about what play is happening with you. Email me. or Voice mail 512 827 0505 x 3998
04:16 Last week Talking Tots. This week Janni Nicol.
05:15 Introduction to Janni Nicol, tutor, consultant and International author of Creative Play for Your Toddler: Steiner Waldorf Expertise and Toy Projects for 2 – 4s
05:45: How would you recognise Steiner Waldorf play? What is it?
08:35 What type of play activities and toys would you expect to see in a Steiner home for your baby?
11:15 Examples of games you would play with your child
11:50 Treasure basket play: Learn how to set up your own
14:00 When do you start formal schooling?
14:30 Different play at different ages.It is important how children play with each other at different ages. Very different when child and adult plays together and child to child plays.
17:25 Imitation is important. Adults need to be worthy of imitation.
18:48 Whatever you do. Do it properly. Start and all the way to the end to see it completed and accurately.
20:39 Collecting the materials with your child and making it together is part of the fun of play in the Steiner-Waldorf approach
22:00 Educational toys have a very different effect on children.
22:31 Judy Johnston: Tessy and Tab
Weekly find: KaBoom playdays
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Raising Playful Tots show 28: Just ask Baby
In this 21 minute podcast Mark Hamilton from Just ask Baby talks about toys for babies and toddlers through their new ebook.
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00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:45 Moving from the car to stream
01:40 What do you bring with you to the beach/stream or waterpark for the kids?
02:10 Start your own Outdoor playgroup and Small Fry fun
02:35 Love hearing about what play is happening with you. Email me. or Voice mail 512 827 0505 x 3998
03:30 Last week it was Josh Golin of CCFC and this week it’s Mark Hamilton of Just ask baby.com
04:27 Introduction to Mark Hamilton of Just ask baby
04:55 Do babies need toys to learn? If they do what toys would you suggest?
07:25 Book recommendation : Dr Elkind- The Hurried Child
07:55 No evidence that your child who speaks earlier will go on to be great at literature.
08:45 What is the problem with having too many toys as an infant?
08:50 focus and relationship
09:20 When do babies start interacting with toys and how can we support them during that time?
10:45 Hi tech toys. How useful are they and will a child miss out by not using them?
12:05 Learn frustration early they keep this all their life.
12:45 AAP suggests limits for screen time for under2s.
12:58 Comment on the Einstein DVD refund of 2009
13:40 There are huge amounts of independent scientific information about what is right and not right for your child. Seek them out.
13:55 Get away from peer group and social pressure about what is right for your child.
15:55 What would you encourage parents to look for in a toy?
17:00 JustAskBaby.com Aim is to show the world from a childs perspective. Child led. Get the free report on “Too many Toys” They are independent science.
10month baby is the talk show host.
18:45 Pink and Green Mama
@JustAskBaby | JustAskBaby.com
Weekly find: The Madhouse
Fabric placemat
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Fitting it all in and Play
Dawn is a new mother of 4 ( Congratulations on your newborn Dawn! She was pregnant during our interview.) little ones under 5 living in a small space; running multiple businesses both on and offline. She shares some of her strategies for being present and making sure play activities are done. Listen to today’s show about a busy working moms journey to keep play activities going.
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RPT: 2 Mara Kaplan 50 toys in 50 days
Mara Kaplan is the driving force behind Let Kids Play, a consulting firm working to ensure that all children have excellent play opportunities. She is an educator, a parent of a child with disabilities and a season advocate for inclusive play. She founded an indoor playspace for children with and without disabilities and was its executive director for over 13 years. Mara has an elementary education degree Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. She received her MBA, with a concentration in nonprofit management, from Boston University.
Today Mara shared her passion for toys. Not just any old toys but toys that we should seek out to help raise our playful tots.
Especially at this time of year we hear a lot about toys through advertising. We take a step back and evaluate toys and find ones that create value- our kids will want to use them over again.
Mara talks about many things including,
What do I look for when choosing a toy?
I look for toys that are open ended, children can play with them in multiple different ways. Also toys that grow with the child. So that it’s not something I’m just going to play with today or the next month………..Listen to the show to find out Mara’s examples.
Links, transcript and downloads
Letkidsplay.com for the email newsletter
Links mentioned in the podcast download the transcript
Download Alternative Play Activities Holiday Gift Guide
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