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7 ways to support your child at school move towards independence
Tools and ideas about moving from guided homework to independent homework with school-age kids. Homework demands change. As kids get older, there ar...
Dr Michele Borba on Empathy and how to succeed in an all about me world
Our guest today Dr Michele Borba talks about how to help our kids tap into empathy. We talk about social and emotional learning and its value both n...
3 Ways To Make Sure Your Back To School Season Is Not Crazy
How about a different run-up to the start of back to school time? With a little planning and a little sharing, there’s a better way to have a succes...
Rethinking learning, motivation and grades for kids that are 11+
Middle and secondary school kids have a lot of new things to handle. We’ve talked about managing projects and how to study in previous episodes. Tod...
How do you help support and gently direct your child in choosing a career path
Jobs are disappearing and lots of new types of jobs appear all the time. The path towards school age kids future career and job ideas doesn’t have to...
Getting on with the changing school age kid without losing your mind
Anyone else experiencing a new normal with the kids? Things are different. There’s more of things happening that didn’t use to happen like arguments o...
Awesome Emotionally Healthy Kids
As school age kids mature they bump up against a few truths. They are not perfect or the best. There are others who are better. They have to work hard...
Rituals for Parents
This episode we are looking for the good in the stage we are in. We love to look back and remember fondly especially when times are tough in our cur...
How to completely change how school kids study for quizzes and tests
Did you know there are six scientifically better ways to study and prepare for tests and quizzes that will help kids learn? As kids are starting back...
Mindfulness practices for families to have peaceful homes
School age kids have a lot of big feelings. Dr Carla Naumburg from Carla Naumburg shares mindfulness practices families can do that help develop sk...
Positive Phrases all kids should hear
May is the season of testing. With testing comes stress and anxiety. And that’s just the parents! Just kidding. Well not really. There’s a different t...
Kids and project work not a breeze? Try these
Project work can really test the limits of modern families. We all tackle projects differently and each child is no different. Do you have a cram it...
Big changes
There are some big changes for RaisingPlayfulTots and Play-Activities. Tune in and hear what’s up! Would welcome your feedback WHAT TO DO NEXT:...
How to protect without being overprotective
That gap between loving them in a protective cocoon and letting them experience the struggles and hardships of life is so hard for parents. Even a...
Nurturing Whole Family Systems
Routines and Rhythms become more important as our lifestyles change. In the early years there were a lot individual milestones like walking, reading...
Building Family Culture during the school age years
We know about Early Childhood, Tweens and Teens but what is that time between Early Childhood and Tweens all about? We discuss that school aged time...
Start with teaching kindness online with Galit Breen
If you’ve not seen,Raising a digital kid without having been one by Galit Breen of theselittlewaves.net you are missing out. It’s a really good TE...
Tackling Ten Tricky Social Life Skills
Today we’re continuing the theme of Life Skills but not the practical hands on life skills of mowing the lawn or following a system like learning how...
How to thrive more with your partner and there’s kids about
Tony and Alisa DiLorenzo, who are best selling authors and hosts of the world’s #1 Marriage Podcast, One extraordinary marriage. share their tips o...
Developing your family meal ritual
Part two of creating a family meal ritual that lasts for families. Listen to part one Now we’re at the table and beginning to eat. Listen in to...
How to prepare for the school year as a parent
New choices to make with the new school year for everyone. What will happen in your family this year? It’s really easy to just fall into a routine...
Start your family meal ritual
Families should gather together over a meal. Yeah yeah yeah! We’ve heard that before. Tried it before and it didn’t really work out. This week we we...
Progress as a better measure for children
We only know what we know. This episode is a little different, perhaps in mindset as different education systems are shared. But the theme is simp...
When they make mistakes and fail-practical ways to help parents and children learn how to navigate this undertalked about topic during childhood
Do you get stuck in the loop of nag, complain, wait, nag, complain and wait? We know that learning from our mistakes and failures makes us a better...
Developing habits, Goal setting, Unity and cooperation Character Conversation Audio
Character Conversation Cards are available in two formats: task cards (pdf) and an audio file. The audio file is a downloadable .mp3 file of the 25 co...
Simple Summer Traditions for Families
Summer is coming! What memories do you have of childhood? Often they are around summer. If you want to create lasting memories why not try some si...
Three things we don’t rotate in our parenting but maybe we should
There are so many things that we are juggling with parenting. If this is you then this episode might be just what you’re looking for because if we...
Why losing sleep is a big deal for kids
Who doesn’t love sleep? When I cut my sleep time I know what will happen and often we assume the same thing will happen to our children. We’ll just...
Solving Screen time woes and suggestions
Screens are a magnet in some homes and not in others. Lisa Weiner from Handmade Parenting in this episode talks about what types of things childre...
5 easy ways to close the “Word Gap” and have quality verbal interactions
If I want to have quality verbal interactions, what are 5 ways that I can improve that? The famous Hart/Risley study showed us the massive ( 30 mill...