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Speaker 1: Seven o two week Game Breakfast and Parenting with Nikki Bush.

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

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Speaker 2: talk parenting. It is the first of seasons. School holidays

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Speaker 2: have started at which means kids are at home for

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Speaker 2: just under around four to five weeks, and that means

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Speaker 2: even if you have a little bit of time off,

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Speaker 2: you need to be thinking about kind of keeping kids engaged, entertained,

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Speaker 2: hopefully not spending too much time looking at screens. It's

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Speaker 2: also that time of the year where some families go

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Speaker 2: on a road trip. There's some travel, maybe you're going

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Speaker 2: to the coast, or maybe you're going to maybe your

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Speaker 2: rural home if you have a rural home, or going

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Speaker 2: to visit family. That means time spent in the car

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Speaker 2: and that can be boring for adults, never mind kids.

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Speaker 2: So this morning we're talking about how to keep kids

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Speaker 2: engaged this Christmas looking at toys, games as well as travel.

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Speaker 2: As always, we're joined by our resident human potential and

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Speaker 2: parenting experts, Nikki Bush. Nikki, a very good morning to

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Speaker 2: you or is a pleasure having you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Good morning girgs.

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Speaker 2: So it is that time of the year kids are

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Speaker 2: at home. In addition to be at home, there is

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Speaker 2: likely for some families there's often travel, so kids spending

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Speaker 2: hours cooped up in the car, which can be difficult

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Speaker 2: for everyone, Difficult for the children and the car who

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Speaker 2: are bored, Difficult for the parents who have to listen

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Speaker 2: to their board kids in the back seat.

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Speaker 3: Yes they're board kids saying when are we going to

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Speaker 3: get there? And Mum or Dad going if I hear

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Speaker 3: that one more time. So let's talk about traveling with kids.

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Speaker 3: Because kids are born to move. I say this all

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Speaker 3: the time. They are busy. They're born to move. That

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Speaker 3: is natural. They are not born to be restrained in

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Speaker 3: car seats and seat belts. However, that's our reality. So

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Speaker 3: we have to do things on long trips that help

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Speaker 3: to distract our children from their discomfort and to really

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Speaker 3: focus their attention on something else. So there are lots

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Speaker 3: of things we can do with our children from playing

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Speaker 3: word games in the car, and we'll talk about a

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Speaker 3: few of those, as well as buying some appropriate games

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Speaker 3: and toys to take in the car. So let's talk

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Speaker 3: about word games. And it sounds really old fashioned, but

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Speaker 3: the idea behind playing word games is number one, they

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Speaker 3: cost you nothing but a little bit of your time

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Speaker 3: and your attention. Number two, they actually teach children a

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Speaker 3: hell of a lot. And number three, when you play

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Speaker 3: a word game with your children in the car, they

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Speaker 3: know they have your one hundred percent attention. And the

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Speaker 3: fascinating thing with kids is that they're always looking for

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Speaker 3: your attention. Now, if you have siblings, you're probably going

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Speaker 3: to have some sibling rivalry in the backseat of the car,

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Speaker 3: and occasionally that may require a mom or dad, if

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Speaker 3: there are two adults in the car, to go and

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Speaker 3: sit between the two children for a while and give

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Speaker 3: them some one on one attention. It's really amazing how

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Speaker 3: attention really fills a child's cup. And once a child's

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Speaker 3: So much of sibling rivalry is about competing for a

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Speaker 3: parent's attention. So let's look at some word games that

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Speaker 3: you can play. And these are appropriate from kind of

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Speaker 3: And I can tell you that even my kids and

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Speaker 3: if we're in the car, we will lapse into playing

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Speaker 3: car games just for the hell of it. Because they're fun,

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Speaker 3: they're bonding, and of course they remind my kids of

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Speaker 3: all the happy memories of many many long distance trips.

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Speaker 3: And I'm talking twelve thirteen hour trips. We didn't do

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Speaker 3: So say we're going to the beach. So now we're

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Speaker 2: So I went to the shop and we packed beach

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Speaker 1: Went to the beach. We're going to the beach.

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Speaker 2: And we packed beach tiles and hats.

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Speaker 3: We're going to the beach, and we pack beach towels,

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Speaker 3: And then we can add things like spades and buckets

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Speaker 3: This is an auditory memory game, so it's requiring your

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Speaker 3: or four things. If you've got older children in the car,

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Speaker 3: get there. Then we can play some thing like spot

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Speaker 3: And there we're talking about middle sounds. So give me

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Speaker 3: And then we've got big bad and Matt which one

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Speaker 3: Okay, But you could have said big bad and Matt.

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Speaker 3: because they've been on iPads, because they've been on screens

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Speaker 3: how to create fun. Here's a really really lovely one

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Speaker 3: poor joe Burghers being in Cape Town in traffic jams,

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Speaker 3: when you're out shopping with your kids. So this one

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Speaker 3: the word association game. And this is really fun. And

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Speaker 3: So as your children get older, they shout out a

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Speaker 1: Tea? Ah?

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Speaker 3: And then we continue playing. So I then say coffee.

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Speaker 1: And then I say a cake.

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Speaker 2: And then maybe a scone, and then I say jam.

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Speaker 1: Cream cow um hmm. And I'm going on the farm cangents,

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay grass, And then I could say lawn mower

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Speaker 3: We've moved from a cup of a kettle to a

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Speaker 1: And this game can go on.

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Speaker 3: We're looking at at say five to ten minutes per game,

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Speaker 3: because we're just getting our kids a few more kilometers

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Speaker 3: word games in the car. Then the good old fashioned

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Speaker 3: played from time immemorial. So I spy with my little

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Speaker 3: whoever it is sees something beginning with F. They might

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Speaker 3: get it right or wrong. And then whoever gets it right,

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Speaker 3: then it's their turn to pick ice spy with my

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Speaker 3: little eye. Now for smaller children, for younger children under

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Speaker 3: the age of about five, we have to play junior

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Speaker 3: ice spy, where we actually give them the clue. So

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Speaker 1: Point to the car.

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Speaker 3: Or you could for a slightly older child, you know,

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Speaker 3: my little eye something beginning with car that makes milk.

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Speaker 3: So you give them a clue, right, So these are

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Speaker 3: levels of difficulty, whereas the older children you're never going

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Speaker 3: to give them a clue.

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Speaker 1: And then let's think about music in the car.

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Speaker 3: What were your favorite songs when you were driving wherever

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Speaker 3: you were driving as a child, did you have favorite songs?

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Speaker 2: Do you know that's such a hm. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't really remember music. We generally listened to the radio.

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Speaker 1: As we got that just shows your age.

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Speaker 2: I think as I got older, we'd take some CDs

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Speaker 2: it had a CD player. But I can't think of

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Speaker 1: And it's well.

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Speaker 3: Packaged for travel, so anything I'm talking about here you

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Speaker 3: And there's a Dino version, and there's a Hippo version

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Speaker 3: and Stickerwaw is fabulous because it has got three hundred

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Speaker 3: So those are going for about I think they're about

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean those last two games, I think I

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Speaker 1: But Nicki, I think.

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Speaker 3: We underestimate how much how relaxing it is to do

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Speaker 2: Nicky has always a great pleasure having me on the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Googs, and I won't be on again until January.

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Speaker 3: So to all of our listeners, have a really happy Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Have a wonderful, happy, happy and safe festive season. That's

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Speaker 2: our residence human potential and parenting expert Nicki Bosh. Coming up,

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