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Hello and welcome to another episode of Happy Mum, Happy Baby, the podcast.

Now this is a special bonus episode.

As our Vid listeners will know, the podcast has been sponsored by Fisher Price

for the last two series, Go Fisher Price.

So today we thought we would do an extra special episode,

which is all around the emphasis of letting kids be kids through play.

Nice, simple, makes sense.

I've got to say, when BuzzFest arrived, I literally thought I had to stimulate him in every single way.

We went to four classes from 10 weeks old.

It was literally a case of four classes a week,

because I thought that was the right thing to do.

Drove myself, absolutely bonkers, thinking that this is what he needed to be the best person he could be.

And then I don't know when it's switched, I think I heard in the radio or read something

about actually just taking a step back and letting them play was probably a little bit better for them,

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