Mamatoto Radio
Mamatoto Radio is brought to you by the founder of Mamatoto.info Hanna Schaer.
We talk all things motherhood, sharing stories and talking to professionals who work with mothers through pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 95
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
Learning to follow instructions
Learning to follow instructions. I know what it sounds like, I can hear it too, but stay with me and hear me out. If we do not teach our kids to know how to follow instructions, all the things they d…
Leading with compassion
As parents we are leaders in our family, and whether we are good or bad leaders, we are the people the smaller people in our group follow, and playing that role comes with a lot of responsibility as …
Teaching generosity
Generosity is a very close relative of empathy, I will explain why. When I think of generosity I think of being open to sharing what you have. Whether that is material things, your time, your attenti…
Our pods and networks
Before the pandemic happened I think most of us thought of dolphins when we said pod. Or EarPods maybe. Now our pods are the people we include in our safe zone, the people we pod with are an extensio…
Giving our kids community
You know the saying it takes a village to raise a child? Today I wanted to take a moment and think about that village, that community and how we can intentionally build that community around our kids…
Controversy and Creativity
I imagine we think we are doing our kids a favor shielding them from controversy, but are we really?
Gifts
Gifts have always had a bot precious and a conflicted place in my mind. There can be different intentions, purposes and outcomes of gift giving and receiving. I thought we would unpack some of it her…
Creativity as a Superpower
When I say I think creativity is a super power I mean it. It’s the foundation of problem solving, of innovation, of communication and any kind of artistic expression. And what better and safer way to…
Creativity in our day to day life.
During the past year, it’s almost a year now, we have been sheltering at home and our kids have been doing distance learning for their school. One of the most anchoring and grounding parts of our rou…
Your daily, weekly, monthly and yearly routines.
Have you every thought about the different cycles of routines you have? The things you do every day, the things you do every week, every month, every year? I thought we could think a little bit about…
Using creativity in home learning
Distance, or home learning is a great opportunity to use and foster creativity in our kids. Today I share some of the ways we nurture a creative mindset in our kids, while learning from home.
Scheduling creative time
How can making space and time for creative projects help you get things done and increase your overall creativity? Listen to today's episode to find out :)
Starting to break the patterns from our childhood.
Recently I was talking to my daughter about values. She has some kids in her class with very questionable values, and she said, “well, they get it from their parents.” And I think for the most part t…
Parenting the kids we have
I want to ask you a question, and I would like for you to answer it to yourself and really think about it. When you became a parent, did you have an idea of what you wanted your kids to be like. What…
What have I learned from homeschoolers this year?
Do you know who I have learned a lot from this year? Homeschoolers. Honestly, I have learned a lot about education this year, some that in encouraging and good, and some that makes me a bit worried f…
Saying No
Teaching our kids to say and hear no is the foundation for teaching them consent. When no is no longer aggressive and confrontational to us we can use it as part of our structure of integrity, and te…
A different kind of neglect
When I was doing my certification for becoming a safeguarding officer I learned a lot about abuse and neglect. Levels of it that you don’t want to imagine. We mostly think of the most extreme cases b…
When we are bullies.
If we are bullies it is much more likely that our kids will be bullies.
As I was writing the notes to this episode something reminded me of another in person experience that both rattled me and showe…
How much of school is babysitting?
The pandemic has revealed so much of the flaws in our systems that most of us probably didn’t know were there. Like for example, How much of school is babysitting?
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Do kids know what they don't like?
This topic might be controversial, it definitely goes against traditional parenting. Do you know things you don't like without trying them? I know I do. I know things don't go with me without trying …