Podcasts about chasing fireflies

Let’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.

What 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 our extended family contributed to our understanding of how to live the best life?

Do 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.

Do 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.

Are 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.

How can we encourage a sense of artistic wonder and creativity in our young children? And how would we know if our child has been given a special artistic gift? Listen to this new Chasing Fireflies podcast as we put these questions to award-winning children’s book illustrator Ron Mazellan. 

Chasing Fireflies is a series of podcasts that expand on thoughts and ideas expressed on The Fireflies Blog. [FirefliesBlog.com] In our first episode, we begin the discussion of why we decided to create a blog and what beliefs inspired us to want to "create family legacy moments that encourage children to communicate with confidence and view the world with a sense of wonder."   Deni Corbett & Gil Moegerle