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Hopefully, you tuned into Tuesday's episode where we spoke about gratitude journaling and the benefits we can reap from putting this practice into our routines. So this weekend we want to share how you can encourage your kids to participate.

Gratitude should be practiced at a consistent time of day depending on your family schedule and can be done in different ways.

Here are some examples:

1. Gratitude walks
2. Speaking gratitude (i.e. go around the table at breakfast or dinner time, calling someone when you receive a gift in the mail)
3. Writing gratitude (i.e. gratitude journal, gratitude jar, gratitude tree, writing thank you cards and sending them in the mail)

Amma has 10 advantages of practicing gratitude on a regular basis

1. Fosters positive relationships and connection
2. Decreases stress
3. Increases sense of emotional well being
4. Builds self-esteem
5. Improves physical well being
6. Lessens anxiety and depression
7. Lowers aggressive tendencies
8. Enhances empathy
9. Improves sleep
10. Increases ability to overcome adversity- builds resilience

SONG

-Thank You Song
-Grateful For My Day by © Lisa K Sigurgeirson 

BOOKS

-The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein 

-We Are Grateful Otsaliheliga By Traci Sorell

ACTIVITY- Creating a Gratitude Journal or a Gratitude Jar

-Blank Journal Books
-Tissue paper
-Cardstock
-Coloured paper
-Modge podge
-Mason jars
-Twine

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Happy New Year!
Are you ready to bring in 2023 with open arms? We are, and we are excited to share this week's episode about practicing gratitude consistently this year and all the benefits you can reap from incorporating this into your family routine!

Amma has 10 advantages of practicing gratitude on a regular basis

1. Fosters positive relationships and connection
2. Decreases stress
3. Increases sense of emotional well being
4. Builds self-esteem
5. Improves physical well being
6. Lessens anxiety and depression
7. Lowers aggressive tendencies
8. Enhances empathy
9. Improves sleep
10. Increases ability to overcome adversity- builds resilience

Amma would journal 5 things every night when she was really struggling and noticed that maintaining this practice truly turned her emotional and physical health around! Mama Sareena writes down her top 3 every morning and is a much nicer wife when she is constantly journaling as well. 

But do not forget you need to “feel it to heal it” as amma says. This is not to encourage toxic positivity but to build the ability to overcome adversity once it is acknowledged and felt.

Gratitude should be practiced at a consistent time of day depending on your family schedule and can be done in different ways.

Here are some examples:

1. Gratitude walks
2. Speaking gratitude (i.e. go around the table at breakfast or dinner time, calling someone when you receive a gift in the mail)
3. Writing gratitude (i.e. gratitude journal, gratitude jar, gratitude tree, writing thank you cards and sending them in the mail)

 This family fun Friday we will share some creative ways you can practice as a family!

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Well, 2022 flew by. As we get older I think we start saying this at the end of every year!
Time flies, our babies grow up too fast, and we just keep getting older and older!

But each year brings us so many beautiful new memories! So before this year ends, we encourage you to reminisce through 2022 with your kids. Go through your pictures, print them out and create a photo album with your little ones and show them how they started the year off. Show them how tiny they were and how much they have grown, reminisce through all the trips you've taken or all their 'firsts.'  Enjoy and let's bring in the new year with our arms open wide to welcome all the new memories and laughs that it will bring us!  

SONG

-Wallaby Wollaby Woo

BOOKS

-My Family, Your Family by  Lisa Bullard  Illustrated by Renée Kurilla 

ACTIVITY

-Create a Photo album for this past year
-Grandparents - write little stories or captions for time spent together with your grandkids

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How were your holidays?

If they were anything like mine, they were exhausting! Beautiful but exhausting so we want to give you mamas sometime to cooperate while your kids entertain themselves for a little. This too is helpful for our work-from-home moms just trying to get a little work in while their little ones can stay busy.

This week Amma Lisa shares why independent play is so beneficial to our little ones and how to set it up for success in our own homes!   

Join this week's conversation and learn all the benefits our kids reap from practicing independent play and the different ways we can set it up for our kids. 

Amma teaches us how to set up water play, sensory bins, and homemade playdough! So much fun!

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Waterplay
-Water in a bin/or at the sink
-Sponge
-Soap
-Different size cups/plates
-Car wash
-Eye dropper
-Water toys

Sensory Bins
-Sand/Beans/Flour/Corn Starch/Cotton Balls/Snow
-Hide toys in it
-Magnet

Amma’s Favourite Play-dough Recipe

•2 Cups all-purpose flour

•3/4 Cups salt

•4 teaspoons Cream of Tartar

•2 Cups water

•2 Tablespoons vegetable oil 

•Food colouring

•Quart-sized bags

In a large pot, stir together the flour, salt and cream of tartar. 

Add oil to water in a measuring cup. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and add the oil and water mixture to it, stirring it in. 

Cook over medium heat - 

** stirring constantly!** 

Continue stirring with your wooden spoon until the dough thickens and begins to form into a ball. 

Remove from the heat and spoon it out onto parchment paper on the countertop. 

Allow it to cool slightly and then knead it until it’s smooth. 

Divide the dough into as many balls as you’d like in different colours. 

Add just a few (5-7) drops of food colouring to start and knead it into the still-warm dough. Add more drops to deepen the colour as desired, but knead between each addition as the colour will deepen as it merges into the dough with kneading. 

Alternatively, if you are concerned about staining, you can put the dough balls into separate quart-sized freezer bags to add the colouring to each one in the bags. Then knead the dough IN the bag until the colour is fully merged. 

There are also amazing colours you can make using natural ingredients like coffee, purple cabbage, matcha green tea powder and turmeric! But I recommend looking up recipes for these as there are some cautionary (potential mess!) details! But they’re fun and super cool, too, so I strongly recommend them. Just do a little research first for “natural play dough dyes.” 

Store your awesome play-dough in the zip lock bags (

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Did you tune into this Tuesday's episode where we talk about bedtime routines for your littles?

If so, here we have a classic lullaby, book, and some fun art your littles can do this weekend to keep them entertained!

Song

Hush little baby 

Book

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Dark time drawings

-Black construction paper

-chalk

Lyrics
Hush, little baby don't you
Hush, little baby don't say a word
Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird

And if that mocking bird don't sing
Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring

And if that diamond ring is brass
Mama's gonna buy you a looking glass

And if that looking glass gets broke
Mama's gonna buy you a billy goat

And if that billy goat don't pull
Mama's gonna buy you a cart and bull

And if that cart and bull turn over
Mama's gonna buy you a dog called Rover

And if that dog called Rover don't bark
Mama's gonna buy you a horse and cart

And if that horse and cart turn round
You'll still be the sweetest little babe in town (be the sweetest litte babe)
Still be the sweetest little babe in town

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Need some consistency in this time of chaos or maybe we are on break so we are letting loose a little. This week we discuss 

1. Why bedtime routines are important
2. What a bedtime routine looks like
3. How to implement it

Mama Sareena shares what bedtime looks like in her home and the lack of a routine. Now that her littles are growing and she is seeing how the lack of routines affects her ability to get things done at night or even spend quality time with her partner, it's time to put something in place!

Amma Lisa shares how long this should take, what's included in a bedtime routine, and some tips and tricks to make it go a little smoother. We wish you luck and send you a lot of patience mamas!

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This Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 marks winter solstice. We celebrate the "rebirth of the sun" on this day!

So we want to share with you some ways to enjoy this family fun Friday! We have a classic song, two book recommendations, and an activity your kids will love!

You can sing this song to encourage play, just sit and sing or sing as you do your activity! It's a fun song and I have also just actually understood it now that I've learned why we celebrate.
You will also find two book recommendations. Taking a trip to your local library with your littles is a fun adventure for them, and you can also save a few bucks! Cuddle up on the couch or in bed and get in some bonding time with a story!
Then, we have a fun craft that your littles will definitely enjoy. We have some links below if you wanted to order the supplies. Your kids can use this craft and place it wherever they would like in the house and I am sure it will leave them feeling proud of themselves!

So tune in and we hope you enjoy it!

We love what she is doing and encourage you to sign up for her subscription or create an open space for diversity at home with these activities!

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Song
"This Little Light of Mine"

Books
This Little Light Of Mine Written By E.B. Lewis
This Little Light Of Mine: A Lift the Flap Children's Book Written By Darcy Pattison

Craft
-Mason Jars
-String Lights
-Evergreen bows
-Wrapping paper

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It can be so tempting to fall into this trap of threatening our kids to get them to behave or do something. We all say "Santa is watching or else you will be put on the nauhgty list." 

I saw myself falling into this but knew I wanted to be a better parent. I knew threatening her is not what I want for our relationship, I didn't know why but I knew it couldn't healthy.     

This week we share some more tools to add to your toolbelt to encourage our kid's cooperation and stop ourselves from reacting with an "empty threat."

This holiday season, with grace, let's practice teaching our kids what Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, Kwanzaa, or whatever you celebrate is about and not that the gifts they receive are based on their behavior.  

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Did you tune in to this Tuesday's episode?

We interviewed the creator of Travel Outside the Box. Param believes "that cultural diversity is something to be celebrated and that the best way to achieve this, is by educating our children about different cultures and teaching them to be sensitive and inclusive."

We love what she is doing and encourage you to sign up for her subscription or create an open space for diversity at home with these activities!

Song
"Hello to all the children of the world" (Click for the link to the lyrics)

Book Recommendation
Lights of Winter: Winter Celebrations around the World by Heather Conrad

Activity
Cook a traditional dish or explore another culture's traditional dish, and have fun in the kitchen as a family! You can drop your creation off as a gift to someone or just enjoy it at the family table together!

We hope you have fun this holiday season!

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Today we are excited to introduce you to our next guest on the podcast! 

Param Kaur-Kingston is coming to us today from the United Kingdom. Born and raised in Ipswich, England, Param is the daughter of Indian parents. 

Growing up in a Sihk family in Britain had its many challenges. Param, as a girl, had to beg to go on to get a higher education. Which she did and in university she studied and became a police officer. Working as a detective she saw that change comes in a society that is educated about differences.

As a young woman, Param married a man who is British caucasian and, although it took a while, her family eventually accepted her husband and welcomed him in.

Since becoming a mum, Param wants her children to feel proud of their dual heritage, to know that we are all different, and that diversity is something to be treasured.

Because of her varied experiences, and her own mixed heritage marriage and children, a beautiful creation has emerged: a multicultural subscription box program - Travel Outside the Box. 

Website 

HOME | TRAVEL OUTSIDE (traveloutsidethebox.co.uk)

With Travel Outside the Box, you’ll get everything you need to create an immersive cultural experience for your family, with facts sheets, Role models from India, props such a bands customary for festivals and traditions, Bhindis for dress up and Mehendi tattoos and much more. 

Instagram
Traveoutsidethebox_uk (@traveloutsidethebox_uk) • Instagram photos and videos

Facebook
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