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Chasing Fireflies: Conversations
by Gil Moegerle & Deni Corbett
The Chasing Fireflies Podcast is for parents of young children. Its goal is to create family legacy moments that encourage children to communicate with confidence and view their world with a sense of wonder.
Episodes
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Write, "Publish" & Celebrate Family Moments
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.
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Holiday Family Storytelling
Are 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...
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...
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Bonnie Fite: The Twelve New Days of Christmas
We 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...
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Lynette Meintjes: Author of The Wise Men Journey
When 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...
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Don Marsh: Do I Have to Practice Piano?
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.
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Raising Confident Communicators: Part 1
Join 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...
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A Lit-Comm Experience: Be a Friend!
We 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!
Here 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...
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Andrea Nasfell: Every Other Holiday [Lifetime Christmas Movie]
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...
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Andrea Nasfell, screenwriter: Tips for Family Storytellers
Thanksgiving 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.
The 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...
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Bill Moore: Tales of Family Story Keepers
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…
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Favorite Family Sayings
The 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…
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Cherished Family Reunions
"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…
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The Greatest Family Story We Tell Our Kids
Our 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
The 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...
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Family Holiday Gatherings, Surprises, & Approved Lying
The 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...
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Homemade Crusty Bread & Apple Butter
The 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...
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Family Faith Stories
The 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…
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Favorite Childhood Books and Enchanted Attics
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. Our next Heritage2Legacy short story calls out a favorite childhood book and an enchanting childhood experience. Lions and wardrobes and attics, next at Heritage2Legacy.com
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My First Favorite Teacher
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we encourage you to think of a favorite teacher. This Heritage2Legacy short story calls out a favorite childhood teacher and one particular…
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Our Wildly Out of Character Family Vacations
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we encourage you to think of your family vacations. By today's standards, my three siblings and I grew up in a strict, old-school, by-the-book…
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It's Spring - Play Ball!
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we encourage you to think of a baseball story. Did you play baseball? Did you go to baseball games; to spring training? Who was your favorite team?...
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Childhood Pets and Family Peccadillos
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we encourage you to think of treasured family pets (real & unreal). Check out the page tab, Heritage2Legacy, on our website for all the information...
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A Perfect Wintry PA Day!
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we give you examples Christmas memories. Check out the page tab, Heritage2Legacy, on our website for all the information you need to join us in...
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Christmas Trains, Torments, and Treasures
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we give you examples Christmas memories. Check out the page tab, Heritage2Legacy, on our website for all the information you need to join us in...
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Introducing the Heritage 2 Legacy Project
We are calling these new tools Heritage2Legacy because stories are a way to influence future generations. Storytelling helps take the family heritage given to you, or which you began, and pushes that heritage forward toward legacy. We wanted to help make it easier for your family to create and...
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Paper Routes & Jelly Donuts
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we give you examples of two stories your children and grandchildren will love to hear from you. What was your parent's first job and what was…
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Please Pass the Stuffing
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. For most of us, Thanksgiving is one of those special family legacy moments. And planning our next Thanksgiving is another example of how we all try to take the family heritage given us and try every year to push it...
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To Everything a Season
The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories. Have you ever spread homemade apple butter across a slice of bread just out of the oven on a brisk fall morning? Now that's an experience you can't buy at a store. Here is the story of an extended family tradition -...
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The Magical Basement
The Heritage2Legacy Project Identifying, Publishing, Preserving your family memories Whether it means chasing fireflies on a summer evening, enjoying a fire in the fireplace, or sharing the porch swing and small talk with your grandparent, each of us has a vision of home. Memories are what create...
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This is a Girlfriend: Episode #2
Imagine teenage girls becoming the best of friends in high school, then that special bond lasting 20 years. What difference can such friendships make when a young woman encounters life's joys and heartbreaks? This is part 2 of their story.
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This is a Girlfriend
Do you remember the childhood song, "Make new friends but keep the old; one is silver and the other's gold"? Listen to the story of six young girls becoming the best of friends in middle school, and then that special bond lasting 20 years. You'll hear part 1 of their story on this Chasing…
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Carol Heyer: Author and Illustrator of Humphrey's First Christmas
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Mike Glenn: Millennials - Marriage & Parenting
What is it like to be twenty- or thirty-something and trying to build a lifelong marriage when your parents couldn't? How does it feel to begin parenting when you have a broken relationship with your own parents? In this new Chasing Fireflies Podcast we talk about these challenging family issues...
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Andrea Nasfell: Screenwriter for Mom's Night Out - an update!
Listen to the return podcast visit of motion picture screenwriter Andrea Nasfell who talks about the sometimes surprising response to her family comedy about three stressed-out young mothers – Mom's Night Out.
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Mark Labberton: Talking to Our Children about Talking to God
Talking to Our Children about Talking to God What is the best way to introduce our children to prayer? This year we plan to ask that question of several spiritual development specialists because passing along an exciting prayer life is one of a parent's greatest contributions. The first of these...
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Sandy Gray: Preparing Your Child to Launch
It's commencement season. Our children are taking the next step in their school experience. For some, that step is a big one…to first grade, or junior or senior high school or maybe even bigger…off to college. So we thought you might find it interesting to hear the head of a university talk about...
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Andrea Nasfell: Encouraging the creative potential of your child
Part two of our special conversation with the screenwriter of the Mother's Day movie Mom's Night Out - Andrea Nasfell – is now available. This time we talk to this successful creative writer about how we spot creative potential in our children and what to do when we see it. At the end of the...
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Andrea Nasfell: Screenwriter for "Mom's Night Out"
There is a great new family movie comedy coming for Mother's Day – Mom's Night Out. And the Chasing Fireflies Podcast has recorded for you a special conversation with the film's screenwriter – Andrea Nasfell. Listen to this dream-come-true story of a little girl who loved making up stories who is...
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Larry Taylor: Running with the Horses
As a father of four boys and a 25-year veteran of school administration, Larry understands the busyness of daily life—how days merge into weeks as hurried lifestyles spin out of control, leaving us wondering how our toddlers became teenagers. Dr. Taylor just authored a book, Running with the...
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Mary Kline: Why I Love Reading to Children
Mary Kline shares her passion for reading aloud to children. Why must we read aloud to our children? Why is it so important for children to develop a sense of wonder? You will be inspired as you enjoy this delightful conversation between master storyteller Mary Kline and Gil Moegerle. Be sure to...
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Linda Werner: Raising Thanksgiving Children
Linda Werner stops by our Chasing Fireflies Podcast for a conversation about three life-changing passions – family, homeschooling and raising thanksgiving children. Werner heads the women’s ministry Legacy Principles and, along with her husband Jim, leads the large homeschooling organization…
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Linda Werner: A Passion for Family
Linda Werner stops by our Chasing Fireflies Podcast for a conversation about three life-changing passions – family, homeschooling and raising thanksgiving children. Werner heads the women’s ministry Legacy Principles and, along with her husband Jim, leads the large homeschooling organization…
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A Conversation with Ron Mazellan
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.
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Part 1: Raising Confident Communicators
Join 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...
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Dr. Steve Brown talks legacy moments and more.
Gil Moegerle discusses with Steve Brown, what it means to create family legacy moments that encourage children to communicate with confidence and view the world with a sense of wonder.
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Amanda Hampton: Developing a Heart of Gratitude
Meet Amanda Hampton, the newest member of the FirefliesBlog.com team. Her focus in the coming months will be inspiring parents to intentionally develop a heart of gratitude in their children. Listen as she shares with Gil Moegerle, her own journey to teach her five children to live a life of...
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"Tell My a Story" Box: "Birds of a Feather"
Gil and Deni discuss the importance of providing oral language experiences for young children, and explain the Fireflies' "Tell Me a Story" Box. Listen as Deni and 5-year-old Davis share a "Tell Me a Story" moment. http://firefliesblog.com/2013/03/27/create-tell-me-story-box/
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The Chasing Fireflies Podcast is for parents of young children. Its goal is to create family legacy moments that encourage children to communicate with confidence and view their world with a sense of wonder.
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Chasing Fireflies: Conversations is created and hosted by Gil Moegerle & Deni Corbett.
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