Chasing Fireflies Podcasts
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Sinopse
Creating family legacy moments that encourage children to communicate with confidence and view their world with a sense of wonder.
Episódios
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Write, "Publish" & Celebrate Family Moments
23/02/2020 Duração: 17minLet’s say you’re not a writer. But there are stories about your youth, parents and grandparents you want to share with your offspring. Could you create a small booklet of important family stories? Yes you could, and we will tell you how on our next Chasing Fireflies featuring author Dean Merrill.
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Holiday Family Storytelling
06/12/2019 Duração: 12minAre there any cousin conversations coming up during this festive Christmas season? Could we remind you of the benefits to your children and grandchildren of using those occasions to collect a few more family heritage stories? Here is an example of how that type of conversation might sound.
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Stories Cousins Tell...
24/11/2019 Duração: 14minWhat difference does it make if we keep the bond tight with extended family members? For many of us, our cousins and nieces and nephews, uncles and aunts and grandparents are spread across the country. Is it even practical to try to stay close? We tackle those questions in a Chasing Fireflies podcast called Stories Cousins Tell: Holiday Family Storytelling Ideas The holiday season is upon us, a time to reconnect with grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and the cousins. Why not take the occasion to use the audio record app on your smartphone and capture some family stories for future generations? Here are a few conversation starters you might ask the relatives: 1. How many stories do we know about how the couples in our extended family met? 2. Who remembers a special family reunion? 3. What are the top three values we share as an extended family and where did they come from? 4. How many generations are we from a family elder who immigrated to this country? 5. What have individual members of ou
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Bonnie Fite: The Twelve New Days of Christmas
12/10/2019 Duração: 11minWe all know the whimsical holiday song that begins “on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree.” We’ve never pictured French hens and maids a’ milking as ideal Christmas gifts. But the song always adds to the holiday cheer. Now we like it even more because Bonnie Johnson Fite has rewritten the lyrics to reflect the actual reason for the season. On this Chasing Fireflies Podcast you will hear the story of her beautiful children’s book The Twelve New Days of Christmas. "
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Lynette Meintjes: Author of The Wise Men Journey
08/10/2019 Duração: 13minWhen you’re a parent or grandparent, there is nothing quite like the look of Christmas morning amazement in your children’s eyes. But what if we could distribute a little of that intense anticipation and joy across the rest of December? That’s where we are headed on the next Chasing Fireflies Podcast.
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Don Marsh: Do I Have to Practice Piano?
21/09/2019 Duração: 17minDo I Have to Practice Piano Today? How do we strike a balance between a strong push in the back, knowing they will love the rewards, while also making their musical experience enjoyable? A legend in the field weighs in on this Chasing Fireflies podcast.
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Raising Confident Communicators: Part 1
21/09/2019 Duração: 15minJoin Chasing Fireflies Podcast contributor Gil Moegerle for Part 1 of Raising Confident Communicators. As Gil explains, helping our children develop conversational skills is the first step toward building the communication skills required of adults, relationally and professionally. And, while talking might come naturally to our kids, effectively connecting with others requires some coaching. We can help.
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A Lit-Comm Experience: Be a Friend!
27/07/2019 Duração: 15minWe invite you to join us in "purposeful practice" - activities that create confident communicators. The theme? Be a Friend!
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Janet Stevens: A conversation with the award-winning author of Tops & Bottoms!
06/07/2019 Duração: 18minHere comes a conversation with a woman who says, as a youngster, she was a poor student and the least gifted among her siblings. we refer Janet Stevens, who became the author and illustrator of best-selling children’s books that have received the Parents Choice Award, the Notable Children's Trade Book award, the Caldecott Honor book citation, among others. How we encourage the child whose gifts blossom late, next on the Chasing Fireflies Podcast.
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Andrea Nasfell: Every Other Holiday [Lifetime Christmas Movie]
05/11/2018 Duração: 14minDo you love those special holiday movies about heart-warming family experiences as much as we do? You know the type presented this time of year by Hallmark or the Lifetime Movie Network. You are about to hear about one such movie airing the day after Thanksgiving that should be on your must-watch list – Every Other Holiday. We talk to its award-winning screenwriter, Andrea Nasfell, on this Chasing Fireflies podcast.
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Andrea Nasfell, screenwriter: Tips for Family Storytellers
05/11/2018 Duração: 21minThanksgiving alert. Our newest H2L podcast contains a simple tip for great family storytelling that is one of the best suggestions we’ve heard. It is built around your upcoming Thanksgiving family gathering. Heritage2Legacy.com
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David Gyertson: Painful childhood memories? You can still tell stories.
21/09/2018 Duração: 23minThe Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. Let’s say you have listened to our podcasts about the importance of capturing and retelling important family stories. And you agree – storytelling helps create a child’s sense of identity and can pass along key family values. But maybe this is a painful subject for you because the story of your childhood contains few positive memories you want to tell your children and grandchildren. What then? Allow Dr. David Gyertson to tell you his story."
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Bill Moore: Tales of Family Story Keepers
11/09/2018 Duração: 22minAre you identifying and preserving your family memories? A family's story keeper seems to remember in delightful detail, key moments in their clan's history and they tell cherished tales again and again without losing our interest. On this edition of Chasing Fireflies you will hear the epic tale of one such keeper.
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Favorite Family Sayings
23/08/2018 Duração: 10minThe Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. What were your Mom and Dad’s favorite parenting sayings? You know, the ones that sounded like, “Put that stick down or you’ll poke your eye out.” We’ve assembled a few of our favorites for this edition of the H2L podcast. Join us, and stop crossing your eyes or they’ll stay that way. Heritage2Legacy.com
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Cherished Family Reunions
09/05/2018 Duração: 10min“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people – no mere father and mother – as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.” – Pearl S. Buck This H2L memory? Cherished Family Reunion Memories.
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The Greatest Family Story We Tell Our Kids
02/03/2018 Duração: 10minOur new Heritage2Legacy short story is a two-fer. We tell a story in tribute to Billy Graham’s historic ministry. And we suggest one of your family tales deserves the label – greatest of all. Two stories for the price of one (free).
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Childhood Career Dreams and First Mentors
12/02/2018 Duração: 10minThe Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. Our newest Heritage2Legacy short story is a tale of a common family experience – childhood fantasies of growing up and becoming…whatever. We describe a children’s book on the subject about superstar Michael Jordan, then illustrate how you could tell related family stories. Childhood dreams coming true, or not, this H2L podcast.
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Family Holiday Gatherings, Surprises, & Approved Lying
11/12/2017 Duração: 09minThe Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. Tis the season for shimmering Christmas trees and lustrous decorations, colorfully wrapped gifts and joyous family reunions. Our next Heritage2Legacy short story is about several of our reunions, many unapologetically quirky. Join us for Family Holiday Gatherings, Surprises, and Approved Lying. Do you have a Christmas memory that involves a surprise?
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Homemade Crusty Bread & Apple Butter
07/11/2017 Duração: 11minThe Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. Our next Heritage2Legacy short story takes us back to our small childhood home in Western PA, to cold wintry evenings and to four kids opening the front door to the smell of mother’s baking fresh out of the oven. And there are recipes. Homemade Crusty Bread and Apple Butter, next at H2L.
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Family Faith Stories
28/10/2017 Duração: 11minThe Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. Our new Heritage2Legacy short tale is full of family faith stories – a barren couple who bore four children, a father of littles who lost his job on a Friday and went back to work on Monday. A hearty dose of inspiration - on this H2L podcast.