67: Susie Allison from Busy Toddler: Independent Play and Tips for Littles Learning at Home

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Susie Allison, a former kindergarten and 1st grade teacher, now stay at home mom, is also the genius creator of the account busy toddler that has amassed almost a million followers on Instagram at the time of this recording. Susie shares tips on keeping toddlers happily busy with independent play based on projects that will cost $5 or less, using many things you probably have in your home already. Today Susie shares with us so much of her wisdom about getting kids to play independently, schedules, TV time, childhood development through play and learning, and what her advice is for parents who are trying to keep their littles busy during a quarantine or anytime you’re spending many hours at home. Susie has been featured on the today show, people, time magazine, and I’m super grateful to have her as a guest on mint arrow messages today too. BeachBody - get a special free trial membership when you text MINTARROW to 303030 Show Notes: Busy Toddler website https://busytoddler.com/ Get 25% off all Busy Toddler Playing Pre-school Programs with coupon code home25 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/busytoddler/?hl=en Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thebusytoddler/ Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/busytoddler123/busy-toddler/ Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Susan Allison, a former kindergarten and first grade teacher, now stay-at-home mom, is also the genius
0:06.7	creator of the account Busy Toddler that has amassed almost a million followers on
0:11.4	Instagram at the time of this recording.
0:13.6	Susie shares her tips on keeping toddlers happily busy with independent play
0:17.8	based on projects that will cost $5 or less
0:20.9	using many things you probably have in your home already.
0:24.5	And today Suzy shares with us so much of her wisdom about getting kids to play independently,
0:29.7	schedules, TV, time, childhood development through Play and Learning, and what her advice is for parents who are trying to keep their little
0:36.8	as busy during a quarantine or any time you're spending many hours at home.
0:40.8	Susie has been featured on the Today Show, People, Time magazine, and I'm
0:45.7	super grateful to have her as a guest on Mint Arrow messages today too.
0:51.6	All right, today my friends, I have someone I am so excited to talk to.
0:56.7	I met her in person just a few months ago and she's as delightful as you would hope
1:01.0	she is. Her name is Susie and she is the creator of
1:04.9	busy toddler. Say hi Susie. Hi and tell us just in general what you do and
1:10.7	what you're about. So I am all about fun, easy play. I run an
1:15.4	Instagram account called Busy toddler and I help parents make it to nap time each
1:19.8	day or right now help us through school closures.
1:23.0	Help us through life.
1:25.0	Help us through life. Help us through life because life's gotten a little weird right now.
1:28.0	Yes.
1:29.0	My mission is just to share play and to share fun activities to do with kids to help parents to help kids to help everybody
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