The Best Tips for Keeping Your Toddler Busy and Happy – Podcast Ep 83
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The Best Tips for Keeping Your Toddler Busy and Happy – Podcast Ep 83

We're chatting with Susie Allison from Busy Toddler and she is sharing her best tips for keeping your toddler busy and happy!

Published April 12, 2022

by Nina Spears

The Baby Chick® | Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, Baby Planner
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With neverending to-do lists, parents sometimes want their little ones entertained and content without always resorting to screen time. This is especially true when bringing home a new baby. You don’t want your older child to be left out, but it’s helpful if you have fun and easy activities to keep them busy while you care for your newborn. This is actually what inspired our guest today!

Susie Allison, from Busy Toddler, is an early childhood education expert and advocate. She has a degree in Elementary Education, taught Kindergarten and First Grade, and was a math and reading curriculum specialist. Once Susie had children, she found her true passion for simple kids’ activities that didn’t involve screen time. And so, Busy Toddler was born! It has evolved into a million-follower Instagram account and a play-based internet haven.

Today we enjoyed chatting with Susie about the best tips for keeping your toddler busy and happy. Susie knows firsthand that being a parent is tough, and being a kid can be even tougher. She is answering our questions about hands-on learning and tips on making it to nap time a little easier!

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Nina Spears is The Baby Chick® and the Founder and CEO of Baby Chick®. She began her career supporting families in 2011 after earning her baby planning certification and attending her first births that same year. Since then, she has earned her birth and postpartum doula certifications from DONA International, her childbirth educator certification from ICEA, her perinatal nutrition expert certification through The Professional Perinatal Nutrition Program, and her infant massage instructor certification from Loving Touch, among others.

Early in her career, one of Nina’s birth doula clients affectionately referred to her as “the baby chick — the ‘chick’ who works with moms and babies.” The nickname stuck and later inspired the creation of Baby Chick, which has grown…

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