Community Connections for Families

How do we connect with each other meaningfully? In this celebratory 50th episode of the Learn With Less podcast AND the two year anniversary of the Learn With Less, Ayelet reflects upon the origins of why she created Learn With Less, why she sees the role of community playing so centrally in the resources created here, and what you can do to be part of that community! She shares one thing we do to support the notion of shared experiences and shared insights inside the member area of the Learn With Less® Curriculum Online Family Program, which is a member feature called “Community Connect,” and answers all the questions we ask of our community members when we feature them. If you’ve been inspired by Learn With Less resources, we can continue to build community by sharing images, stories, and ideas through the #strengthinwords or #learnwithless hashtag! Share your stories on social media, or directly with Ayelet by emailing her at [email protected]. Connect with us! Use #learnwithless when you’re inspired by one of our resources or play activities, or when you have a new idea to share! Instagram – tag us at @learnwithless for a repost! Facebook  – tag us at @learnwithless for a repost! Inspire your community of friends, family and colleagues with infants and toddlers to engage in simple play activities that support early development (with little to no materials) – just as we’ve inspired you – by using the hashtag #learnwithless and help us spread the word, transform the world (and the baby industry!), building a worldwide community of families who can feel more assured they have what they need when it matters most! Text transcript of this episode Hi, everybody, it’s Ayelet from Learn With Less! Welcome back to the Learn With Less podcast. This is episode number 50, and I’m going to do something a little bit different today. Usually I have a set topic and a whole lot of stuff to present to you guys, specifically. But, today I am going to just reflect. It’s been a crazy year, it’s been a crazy two years! I wanted to, first of all, acknowledge that this is essentially the two year anniversary of Learn With Less and the Learn With Less podcast, and I think it’s really amazing that we are 50 episodes in. What started as just the need to communicate and share my experience of early learning, early parenthood, and knowledge that I know as a professional as well as a parent… it has become such an amazing, amazing project. That’s really all I can call it! It’s also a business for me, because now, two years in, I’ve created something that is very near and dear to my heart, which is the Learn With Less® Curriculum Online Family Program. That is a place that is really, what’s become something that’s gone full circle. Learn With Less, for me, was something that started when I became a mom, when my son, who’s now four years old, was born. I was living across the ocean in a place that was not familiar to me with my husband, and I was 10 weeks pregnant when we moved. When my son was born, I really wanted to create community, to connect with other new moms, and to find a way to do that in a place where I didn’t have any built-in support.