The Teaching Your Toddler Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Melissa DiNapoli Vice President of Marketing for Party City joins us today for a mini episode filled with fun, not-too-scary ideas for costumes, decoration and all things Halloween-related - it's such a fun little episode and make sure you check out our YouTube channel to watch exactly what she's showing us too!

YouTube: https://youtu.be/TCJ0EjUx5Uo?si=ywHpHiIaokgJlACk

Visit partycity.com for more information and to get the products Melissa shows us on the show

How would you feel if your child WANTED to go to school over the summer or was sad when school was closed for a snow day?

Mimosa Jones Tunney speaks to the Teaching Your Toddler show about the curriculum that is inspiring kids across the country to WANT to learn, who love school and who get sad for snow days and summer break. Can you imagine?

Mimosa is a writer, researcher and the founder of both the American Emergent Curriculum and The School House, a private elementary school in New York. She’s also a former political speech and Hollywood television writer as well as an avid philanthropist.

 She's also our favorite kind of guest - an activated mom! She saw the deficiency in public education where schools "dumb down" kids and "teach to the test" instead of what she calls "smart up" the kids and teaching to their interests and passions that keeps them loving learning throughout their school life.

Over 300,000 teachers per year leave the profession, often out of frutration. The curriculum The School House offers can be used by homeschoolers, "micro-schools"/learning pods as well as brick and mortar schools. This curriculum is so inspiring for kids and so successful, it could inspire those teachers back to the classroom. 

So far, communities using this curriculum have appeared in Texas and Florida, and continue to spread across the country. The school is private and continues to beat the state test scores, without ever teaching to the test, because the kids LOVE learning.

Mimosa also noted that in their school, they do not allow politics or gossip from the teachers so that everyone feels welcomed and the school can concentrate on learning. It's truly a novel approach that addresses children's learning stages and their areas of interest. 

This approach also often alleviates or eliminates typicial learning challenges that children display due to the antiquated approach most typical public schools take for learning. 

To find out more about Mimosa, The School House and American Emergent Curriculum, visit the links below. 

https://www.instagram.com/mimosajonestunney/

https://www.tshanywhere.org/

https://www.americanemergentcurriculum.org/

https://www.theschoolhouse.org/

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Did you know crafting is actually teaching your brain engineering principles? You are designing, measuring, coordinating and putting things together. It's helping your brain!

Listen to our short episode with Leticia Barr, founder of savvytechmama.com as well as STEM teacher and parenting expert.

If you'd like to see the examples she's talking about, find this broadcast on our YouTube channel here. 

Leticia is an award-winning technology, education, and parenting blogger who founded TechSavvyMama.com in 2008. Her site combines her knowledge of child development, psychology, education, technology, and parenting to provide useful advice for families. Leticia has taught first grade, middle school computer science and engineering, and served as Technology Magnet Coordinator.

She spent most of her public-school career providing professional development to teachers, training them how to integrate technology into their classrooms. Leticia is passionate about STEM education and provides resources to parents encouraging them to foster a love of STEM in their kids at all ages through her blog.

In addition to blogging, Leticia currently provides education thought leadership to nonprofits, professional development to teachers, writes standards-aligned curriculum, and presents to PTAs about digital safety topics.

She also serves as a parenting expert for Brainly, providing advice about today’s technology tools for homework to parents. Leticia has been a columnist for Parents.com, has had her writing syndicated on Scholastic Parents and MSN.com, and written for Common Sense Media.

She advises YouTube as a member of the YouTube Kids Parents Panel, serves on the Education Advisory Board for Responsibility.org, and is a Mission Partner for the Center for Parent and Teen Communication. Leticia was awarded the 2020 Iris Award® for Mom Blog of the Year and is the 2018 Iris Awards® winner for Philanthropic Work of the Year for her work in Haiti.

She is also a St. Jude Hero, fundraising, training, and running half marathons benefitting St. Jude Children’s Hospital since 2016. Leticia is the mom of a college sophomore and a senior in high school, both of whom are pursuing degrees in engineering. She lives just outside Washington, D.C. and loves to unplug to ski, garden, and spend time hiking with her overly enthusiastic Labrador Rescue pups.

Find Leticia on her blog and connect with her on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. #parenting #stem #education #crafts #crafting

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Welcome to our show about Earth!

While the concept of earth as a planet might be a little advanced for a toddler, the idea of the earth - where they walk, run and play - will make sense to them.

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Nurses Episode

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Dr. Mom! If you are interested in learning more about how to use pure and natural solutions to treat common health challenges for your family, and detox your home, please contact me now and let's talk!

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April Fool's Day

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The Planets

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If you have a toddler, you are probably knee-deep in all things DINOSAUR-related!

All of the fun activities referred to in the show are available at our Dinosaur page here: DINOSAURS

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For more expert interviews, fun activities and story time podcasts, please visit our website at TeachingYourToddler.com

Check us out on Facebook at Teaching Your Toddler and on twitter at @TeachingToddler and on Instagram at @teachingyourtoddler 

To support great future content, please click here and help us out with a $5 gift: glow.fm/teachingyourtoddler

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Check out all the links at the Spring page on the Teaching Your Toddler website here

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For more expert interviews, fun activities and story time podcasts, please visit our website at TeachingYourToddler.com

Check us out on Facebook at Teaching Your Toddler and on twitter at @TeachingToddler and on Instagram at @teachingyourtoddler 

To support great future content, please click here and help us out with a $5 gift: glow.fm/teachingyourtoddler

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Please find all the show notes and links mentioned in the show at

http://www.teachingyourtoddler.com/Chinese-New-Year.html

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For more expert interviews, fun activities and story time podcasts, please visit our website at TeachingYourToddler.com

Check us out on Facebook at Teaching Your Toddler and on twitter at @TeachingToddler and on Instagram at @teachingyourtoddler 

To support great future content, please click here and help us out with a $5 gift: glow.fm/teachingyourtoddler

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