Gifts That Go The Distance: Episode 28
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Get our complete guide to gifts that your kids will still be playing with next year (and beyond!), PLUS enter to win one of TWO amazing scooters from Micro Kickboard!
Gifts for babies & toddlers
- Sarah loves Fisher-Price Little People – the Fun Sounds Farm, and Builders sets like this one are a great precursor to Duplo and LEGO
- Little Tikes Cozy Coupe
- A crawl-through play tunnel like this one from Melissa & Doug
- Play kitchen (Sarah has one from Step 2 similar to this)
- Standing easel (Meagan loves this one from One Step Ahead)
Gifts for preschool & little kids
- The expensive-but-so-worth-it Magna Tiles
- LEGO Duplo starter sets like this one
- Schleich plastic animals like these dragons
- Inexpensive knock-offs of more expensive brands, like Li’l Woodzeez and Our Generation
- Doll house (Sarah loves this one from Melissa & Doug)
- Play silks from Magic Cabin
- Puppet theater
Gifts for big kids & teens
Other great stuff we talked about
- 7 ways to survive playing board games with your kids (Meagan for The Happiest Home)
- Meagan’s interview with Sarah Mackenzie on the Read Aloud Revival podcast
- The Overdrive app that connects you to your local library for digital lending, and the Kindle Lending Library for Amazon Prime subscribers
- Rebrickable, the site for LEGO lovers that provides instructions for new creations based on the sets you already own
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| 0:00.0 | We are welcoming a new sponsor today, |
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| 0:07.2 | I know that this time of year, |
| 0:08.6 | a lot of us are looking for fun holiday media |
| 0:11.1 | that we can listen to with our kids in the room, but that's also fun for us. |
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| 0:37.9 | sour Grinchy frown upside down. Will they succeed or will he roast them like chestnuts on an open fire and make the |
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| 1:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah. I'm a mom of three kids ages two, five, and seven, and I live in Southern California. |
| 1:08.0 | And I'm Megan. I am the mom of five kids, ages six through 17 17 and I live in Michigan. This is the mom hour |
| 1:16.0 | part of the Life Listen to Network. |
| 1:20.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to episode 28 of the mom hour. I'm Megan Francis here as always |
| 1:27.4 | with my good friend Sarah Powers. Hey Sarah. |
| 1:29.7 | Megan, how are you? I'm great. We are gearing up for the holiday season. So this week we are talking about gifts that go the distance. |
| 1:39.4 | For kids, those things that you buy your kids, you know know and maybe they get passed down from |
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