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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I-Hart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to rally your family or roommates for toad

time. That is, time to gather, outside, after dinner. This spring, my family set the norm of at least

trying to go outside most nights after dinner.

My little boys in particular, that's my three-year-old and eight-year-old,

love playing in the yard until it gets dark.

It's a good way to pass the time before bedtime.

When I started talking about time outside after dinner, my 11-year-old

daughter gave this routine a delightful name, Toad Time, because that's what you get with the

first letters of each word. After thinking about it for a while and realizing that we are repeating the word time in this

acronym, I think we might modify it to together outside after dinner, because honestly, being

out there with others is part of the appeal.

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