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Speaker 1: Seven o two weekend Breakfast and Parenting with Nicki Bush.

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Speaker 2: It's ten minutes after eight o'clock. Time for us to

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Speaker 2: talk parenting. It is the festive season. It is well

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Speaker 2: festive season, school holidays. Parents are with kids for the

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Speaker 2: next at least I think it's five weeks. And so

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Speaker 2: maybe you are thinking about what to do with your kids,

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Speaker 2: things you can do together, maybe you're looking to create

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Speaker 2: new family traditions. This morning, we are looking at things

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Speaker 2: that you can do with your kids this festive season,

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Speaker 2: the best toys and games for December. Fun and as always,

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Speaker 2: we are joined by a resident human potential and parenting expert.

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Speaker 2: Nicki Bush joins us fire Zoom. Nikki A very good

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Speaker 2: morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Good morning girks, and welcome to all our listeners.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so it is that time of the year. Kids

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Speaker 2: are at home for a number of weeks. I think

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Speaker 2: it's about five weeks that the kids are going to

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Speaker 2: be at home. Parents those who are getting a bit

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Speaker 2: of time off will also be at home. So there

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Speaker 2: is a need to keep kids entertained, but also things

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Speaker 2: to do together. Now that there is a little bit

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Speaker 2: of time for some families to actually spend time together,

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Speaker 2: after a busyear.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so the holidays are looming and kids have been

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Speaker 3: scheduled and timetabled all year and now parents have got

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Speaker 3: them all to themselves, which is so exciting but also

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Speaker 3: daunting for some parents. So there are lots and lots

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Speaker 3: of things one can do with children. This is the

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Speaker 3: time to get them out and about to make some

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Speaker 3: dates with your kids.

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Speaker 1: To go and do some special things. And you don't

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Speaker 1: have to do a special.

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Speaker 3: Thing every single day, but it is nice for kids

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Speaker 3: to know that in three days time or on Sunday

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Speaker 3: we're going to say the Museum of Illusions in the

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Speaker 3: middle of Rosebank or the upside down house at hardibus

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Speaker 3: Port Dam, for example. It's good for kids to have

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Speaker 3: something to.

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Speaker 1: Wait for.

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Speaker 3: And I noted what you said about one of the

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Speaker 3: people you interviewed a little earlier about movement, that frustration

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Speaker 3: tolerance is so so important.

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Speaker 1: And in between taking them to.

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Speaker 3: The movies or taking them to the Festival of Lights

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Speaker 3: at the zoo or whatever it is, kids need to

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Speaker 3: learn how to play by themselves or interactively play with you,

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Speaker 3: and how to keep themselves busy. Now, the reality is this,

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Speaker 3: they only have about a minute's concentration for every year

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Speaker 3: of their life. So let that sink in the year

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Speaker 3: of a minute, a concentration for every year of their life.

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Speaker 3: That means a three year old will only concentrate by

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Speaker 3: themselves for about three minutes.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: So when parents say to me, I'm sure that my

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Speaker 3: two year old has got EIGHTHD my three or four

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Speaker 3: can't concentrate, I say no. The reality is that their

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Speaker 3: concentration grows as they age, and you also teach them

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Speaker 3: how to concentrate by actually engaging in playing with your child.

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Speaker 3: Because for as long as you are in the play equation,

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Speaker 3: they generally keep going. So if you want to push

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Speaker 3: that concentration a little bit, a little bit, a little bit,

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Speaker 3: you've got to get down on the floor with your kids.

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Speaker 3: You've got to engage in the play, whether it is

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Speaker 3: rough and tumble, whether it's building a fort with sheets

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Speaker 3: with your children or having a conversation. So this is

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Speaker 3: why parents are so very much a part of the

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Speaker 3: that we actually live with and there is absolutely nothing

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Speaker 3: wrong with your children. But you can get a three

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Speaker 3: You can get a four year old to play a

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Speaker 3: because you're engaged in the whole experience. Why do children

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Speaker 3: So I think that that is key when we talk

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Speaker 3: well in ten to fifteen minutes of engage to play

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Speaker 3: But we do need to fill their cup, and so

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Speaker 3: I talk about two different kinds of toys and games,

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Speaker 3: especially in the younger age group. There are those toys

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Speaker 3: without your involvement. Those are toys and games they've mastered

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Speaker 3: because you have played with them often. And those are

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Speaker 3: the kinds of things that if you've got young children,

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Speaker 3: floor engaged with them. I talk about mummy daddy toys.

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Speaker 3: These are the games and toys you keep in the

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Speaker 3: top of the cupboard. These are not the games and

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Speaker 3: toys that your child has access to unless you are

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Speaker 3: part of the process. And so the minute you open

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Speaker 3: that cupboard and pull something out, they know you mean business.

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Speaker 3: They know this is a signal that mom or dad

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Speaker 3: time and attention. And so this is a nice practical

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Speaker 2: So the idea that kids must also during this time

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Speaker 2: when kids are at home over a long period of time,

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Speaker 2: this idea that parents should be filling every moment, every

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Speaker 2: You are now responsible for your kids all the time.

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Speaker 2: Whereas here it sounds as though, you know, both for

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Speaker 2: they will be time with their parents at some point

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Speaker 2: in the day. But it sounds like it's good for

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Speaker 2: day sounds like quite a stressful thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally exhausting actually.

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Speaker 3: So you know, if you set yourself up as the

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Speaker 3: And what we need to do is have very casual,

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Speaker 3: confident conversations with children.

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Speaker 1: Children like.

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Speaker 3: They like to know what's ahead, so you can you

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Speaker 3: You know, Mum or Dad has got to do some

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Speaker 3: work this morning, and while I'm doing my work. These

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Speaker 3: that can include things like, here's Plato on the kitchen counter.

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Speaker 3: you'll watch children go back again and again to revisit

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Speaker 3: And then you know, you sketch out that these are

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Speaker 3: some of the things that you can do while I'm busy,

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Speaker 3: now you've given them boundaries, You've given them a routine,

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Speaker 3: a lot less nagging for your attention. And the other

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Speaker 3: to be in charge of the kids, which means it's

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Speaker 3: not all on you every single day. There are also

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Speaker 3: some fantastic ideas on toy talk dot co dot z,

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Speaker 3: which is one of my websites where parents can go

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Speaker 3: and look up activities to make fun out of nothing,

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Speaker 3: either cooking activities, science activities, or craft activities, and you're

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Speaker 3: going to find at least thirty activities there. So I've

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Speaker 3: taken all the stress off you. The ideas are all there,

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Speaker 3: and children absolutely love retro ideas and how to make

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Speaker 3: fun out of nothing. And then the last thing is

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Speaker 3: I'd like to talk about some of the toy ideas,

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Speaker 3: some of the things I've seen in the shops that

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Speaker 3: I'd like to share with parents, things they can either

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Speaker 3: buy to keep their children busy the season or perhaps

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Speaker 3: add to gifting under the Christmas tree.

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Speaker 2: So what are some of those toys that you've seen.

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Speaker 3: Nickli So googs, I have what's apped you some images

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Speaker 3: so that you can play along with me. So if

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Speaker 3: you wouldn't mind opening your WhatsApp, then you can see

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Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. Right, I'm on it, Right, you're

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Speaker 3: right order. I think I've sent them to you in

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Speaker 3: the right order. So let's start with the zero to

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Speaker 3: two age group. And here we have the Opus Stack

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Speaker 3: and Stream by Ocean Explorers. And this is a gorgeous stacking, filling,

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Speaker 3: Ghosts gives our parents some fun things to go out

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Speaker 2: Great NICKI always a great pleasure having you on the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Ghoks and I hope all our families start having

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Speaker 2: That's our resident human potential and parenting expert Nikki Bosh.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, we have a look at what's happening in

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Speaker 2: seven o two Land. We start with the Markelona Festival

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Speaker 2: Right now, though quite a busy sporting weekend. Let's check

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