Raising Playful Tots is a weekly show for Mums which offers practical play ideas & shares resources on raising playful tots. This show is not designed to provide a one size fits all type of play idea but instead give a different direction to your play activities with your baby, toddler, preschooler or Kindergartner.( Under 5yrs child). By taking the focus off toys that do everything to learning how to experience and encourage playful moments with your child using natural, simple and appropriate materials.
Preschool & Outdoor play with Forest schools or Kindergartens
Posted: February 2012Is a Forest School or Forest Kindergarten right for my child? Today Juliet Robertson of Creative Star Co. gives us the scoop on the benefits of Forest schools, Outdoor education and preschools who operate outdoors. This was a whole new world for us and we explore it together in this 63 minute podcast.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Sensory Play Activities
Posted: February 2012Today I’m talking to Sue Gascoyne , Author, speaker, consultant and owner of PlaytoZ about Sensory play activities; one of our favourite topics.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Family mission statement
Posted: January 2012Transmitting your values and goals via a mission statement is one of the most effective ways of ensuring a direction for your playtime. You can overcome many obstacles to good play experiences that recur daily.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Simple steps to cultivating a read aloud habit
Posted: January 2012We all start doing it and gradually we do it less and less. There are many reasons why we should be reading aloud. Today in the show I share some Simple steps to cultivating a read aloud habit. We get past the humps in the road and find solutions in this 29 minute show.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Flexibility and problem solving through drama
Posted: January 2012Hands up if you have a flexible and able problem solver at home? In today’s interview we talk about how we can raise flexible and problem solving children. We also talk about a new series and some updates behind the scenes.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Favourite bits of 2011
Posted: December 2011Listen to our favourite bits of 2011 in our end of year show.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Intentional international living with BabycinnoKids
Posted: December 2011Three 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.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Make and Takes for Kids with Marie LeBaron
Posted: December 2011Marie 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.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Christmas traditions and activities
Posted: December 2011Water, 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.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Choosing an early years school or when to change to another
Posted: November 2011How 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 the Infant Language
Laboratory. She written numerous books including my favourite Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn–and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less
An audio podcast in MP3 format.TRUCE your first stop to choosing toys
Posted: November 2011What 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
An audio podcast in MP3 format.74. What’s the big deal about blocks?
Posted: November 2011Blocks 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 seven-year-old twin boys. Geralyn became a play advocate in response to her classroom observations of children who were forced to grow up too quickly in the current commercialized, plugged-in culture. She is also a contributing writer to So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids
by Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne. An audio podcast in MP3 format.
Whilst all the podcasts listed in this directory are selected in line with our criteria, we do strongly recommend educators that the contents of all podcasts, podcast feeds and channels are regularly auditioned to ensure that they are suitable and appropriate for the age range of the children and young people.
Friday, 10th February 2012
