Practical Magic for Kids: Raising Little Mystics, Imagination Creators & Garden Fairies

This week, we're bringing the magic home to the kids.

In this heartwarming episode, we explore simple and meaningful ways to weave wonder, creativity, and intention into your children's everyday lives. From magical morning rituals that help set the tone for the day to creating homemade "magic sprays" with essential oils (and yes... a little Tito's vodka because that's how spray bottles work and apparently we're those moms now), we're sharing practical ways to make summer feel a little more enchanted.

We also dive into creating fairy gardens, themed vegetable gardens, nature-based play, arts and crafts, and all the ways imagination becomes a form of magic when kids are given the space to explore it.

This episode isn't about perfection or Pinterest-worthy projects. It's about helping children connect with creativity, nature, confidence, and joy while making memories that last far beyond summer.

Grab your gardening gloves, your craft supplies, and your sense of wonder. Magic is already everywhere—we're just helping the kids notice it.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Can I tell you about the email I got this week? This episode's all about kids, so why not? I opened up my email and I have from the principal the subject line just says Evie is awesome. It's like, yes. Wow. Okay, I'm here for this. And I guess they selected a small pool of students. They took one girl and one boy from each grade, and they had a meeting and sat down with the current superintendent and the incoming superintendent to talk about what they think North Allegheny does well, what they do poorly. Oh, Evie would be so good at that. Apparently, she was fantastic because she was like just talking about how articulate and thoughtful and conscious she was and like all the things that she had to share. And she was like, Thank you so much for sharing her with us.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

Yes. No, that was a good pick for that.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Yeah. They a hundred percent that they thought they were just gonna get a higher achiever that wasn't gonna go in there and say shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

And while she's like, I was respectful, but I also told them that I want to go to a different school district and and why.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

So today, okay, I'm so excited for this episode. Practical Magic is coming out in September. Practical Magic 2. Practical Magic 1 is one of my favorite movies in the entire world. And they're finally making a second one.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Yeah. And it has all the original people in it. I gotta be honest, I'm glad some of them are still alive because all four of the main women in the movie are iconic in their own right. They bring forth an energy with them as a eunuch. They're two sets of sisters, basically. One, of course, is the ants. Right. If you haven't seen Practical Magic, it stars Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as the main characters. And then Diane West and Channing? No. Yeah. Channing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Um Stockard.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Stalker Channing. Stalker Channing. Woo! Good job. Look at me coming out. Interesting name, too. It is really cool. Yeah. Stockard. That's gotta be a family name. But yeah, the movie is basically setting the stage for this episode, which Practical Magic's based on a series of books. Correct. So we are going to incorporate the books into the book clubs later in the year here as we get closer to the launch of the movie. This episode that we're talking about now is practical magic for kids. Correct. This episode I'm excited about because we wanted to do something. Kids are going to be home for the summer. So this is how to make summer fun and exciting and getting the fuck away from technology.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Well, I think it's about living closer to intuition and like capturing that magic. Yes. There are easy ways that we can all live closer to our intuition. This is some entry-level things that you can do with your kids.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Well, and kids, they don't have as many boundaries, they don't have as many experiences that downplay creativity and imagination. And kids are so good at seeing the beauty in every day. This allows them to put that energy that they have naturally, and you can absorb it when you're around them. And this is all these are also like hands-on activities. So these are things you do with your kids, and also they can do independently because I'm a big supporter and promoter of boredom is not a threat. Boredom is something that you have to deal with. I don't like to fill my children's schedule when they're home from school every moment of the day. There is structure, but it's there's a lot of room for exploration.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

My daughter does that on her own. She fills her own schedule. Shocked. Yeah, shocked. While I would love for this episode to be about raising tiny witches in the woods, it is not. It is about feeling connected and safe and empowered and to your point, seeing the magic in every day. Yep. Shall we welcome everybody?

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Oh, yeah. Let's do it. I'm just like, let's go. Welcome to Two Mystic Mamas. All right. I have a question for you. Yes. Growing up out in Maryland by the ocean, do you have not necessarily a summer routine, but did you have a connection to something in your yard or a routine that when you think back about it, it brings up those feelings of imagination and magic and oh, a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

One house that we lived in, we actually ended up moving to a piece of land that had like 18 acres. In the woods, there were these huge boulders. And I would love my my friend Kim and I would go out into the woods and we would just like explore. And there was this giant, like eight-foot-long black snake that would lay across the driveway and just sun itself every day. And so I was always loving just like going through the woods and exploring on the boulders. I remember we would call them eye rocks because people would come in like graffiti on the boulders. And the other one is just around always going to the ocean and collecting seashells and like that first rush of running towards the wave and diving in. That feeling. I can feel that it lives in me, that feeling. I love that. Me too.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

We've been watching Muana 2 on repeat. I feel very connected to the ocean right now. Even though I haven't been to the ocean in a minute. Love Muana. We were talking, the girls and I were talking about our favorite princesses. And Muana, like hands down, wins it. She's so great. I was like, nope, that's that's my girl. What about you? Yes. So you've been to my parents' property. Naturally, things have changed, and there used to be two giant lines of pine trees in the front of the house where there is now basically like a fairy garden that my mom has planted. There was also a tree to the right of the front door that was an amazing climbing tree. Like my whole connection was with trees. I had a wishing well tree, and I had another tree that was a maple, like a miniature maple. Wasn't a Japanese maple because you could climb it, but it was just beautiful. And then one summer it got some sort of bug infestation, and that was the end of that tree. All good things come to an end. Plus, we had the stream that runs next to our property. So I would always be jacking around in the stream, catching crayfish, doing fun things. We never ate them though. Jacking around. We're moving on.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

Okay, let's talk about some tiny rituals. So little easy magical routines that kids can do. I like the idea of doing a morning affirmation card. Okay. Now, if you have a whiteboard or a chalkboard in your house, this would be a really great place to write an affirmation every single morning. But you could also have cards, you could do popsicle sticks where you could write the affirmation on the popsicle stick and put it in a mason jar, and every day you pull one out.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

Yes. We have a book. Okay. 365-day book that has a quote of the day. And do you pull it out every day? No. No. But we have it. I just have to get it out. You know what I mean? Right. But that's another thing too. Like if you're like, I don't have time to like do a craft or do whatever. There's so many books out there that you could do that's just you flip to the day of the week, you read it. Yeah, you just have to get it out in the space where they will see it and they'll pick it up and they'll they'll do it. I do love that.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Or if you do have kids that are older and have phones, you can set reminders. There's lots of apps that you can do affirmations with. So fitch. Finch. Finch. Words. Yep. Fitch. Finch. It's a bird.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

I know. What the fuck? Look at the fitch. Look at the finch. Drinking the cabels.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

A yellow crested warbler.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Bless. Where do we go from here?

SPEAKER_00 8:49

I don't know. Okay. Other magical little routines that they can do. This is one of my favorites as somebody who's been practicing witchcraft. Stirring your intentions into your drinks, your hot cocoa, your food, your chocolate milk, your hydration packets. Cereal. Hydrate. Drink your water.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Um that's for you, Evie.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

That was a direct message for you. Serious mom moment. But stirring your intentions. So when we stir clockwise, we are stirring that into our life. When we're going counterclockwise or windershins, we are banishing something or releasing something. Okay. This is something I do all the time. And it's super easy. Yeah. You know?

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Well, it's easy once you incorporate it.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

Well, another one I want to talk about, and you guys do this in your house too, and you have a whole routine, is birthday wish rituals. And you guys have a crown and you have a whole thing that you do, and you can make birthdays super special. Yes. By just having a little bit of routine and ritual around it.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

Well, celebrating it, right? I think a lot of times, and this is true for adults, but we do such a good job of celebrating kids' birthdays, and then we reach a point where it's like, oh, we don't have to celebrate my birthday. I've gotten out of that, especially with the next episode we'll be recording, which is Kristen's birthday episode. Ever since we've started the podcast, I have been way more intentional with celebrating my birthday, but also Jeff's birthday. And I think it's important.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

I do too. Bedtime gratitude is another one. Super easy way to bring magic into your life is just at bedtime talking about what you're grateful for. Yes. And that can be first thing in the morning or at night. One of my very, very favorite things that I did. Now, if you have little kids or you just want to do this for yourself, I think it's so cool. Full moon dance parties. When Evie was little and she would take tubs all the time, we would have Friday night disco tubs. And I would turn out all the lights and I would fill the bathtub with glow sticks. And we would put dance music on and we would just have an absolute ball. Yes. She loved it so much.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

Doesn't seem magical, but let me tell you, the memories that you create and the intention that you create when you're moving energy around like that is so magical.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

No, it is. And I was just gonna say one of the things that I have really come to understand about myself because for a long time it's been why don't I get up earlier in the morning? I watch some of these people that are like, I'm up at four, so I can work out and move my body. And while that is great for them, I, on the other hand, love slow mornings. And I have come to really acknowledge this that sometimes I love to get up when the alarm goes off and being more intentional about like getting myself up at a reasonable time. But just like the intention of let's get up, let's light a candle, light some incense. Before I physically get out of bed, I do a visualization of what I'd like to see happen in the day. Like I see my day playing out, which is like a newer exercise I've been doing. Also, gratitude, just waking up and feeling grateful. But with the kids too, moving into summer, I want to have more of a routine. Now I love to let my kids sleep in, but I do have a full-on teenager that if I let her sleep in, she will sleep till noon. Which once twice a week, fine. But we will be getting up no later than 10 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

Strong messages coming right at our kids here.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

I like having those lazy mornings where they're allowed to sleep in until their body tells them to get up and not be on such a routine like they are during the school week. I just like having slow mornings where we're not rushed. Right. We don't have to fly out the door and we don't have to do like 19 different things. It's like we get up when our body says it's time to get up.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

I think this is an important conversation because not everybody's life energy routines look the same.

SPEAKER_01 13:21

No, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Or even feel the same. For my own personal routine, I used to like that, that exact thing. Getting up, lighting a candle. We've talked about my morning routine with journaling and tarot and all of that. I still do it. However, as perimenopause has been coming in and kicking my butt, my energy levels really start to dwindle throughout the day. So I have found that getting up, having a certain level of things that I do first, like I'll say my gratitudes and I light a candle, but I get things done first, and then I have a block of time, like an hour to an hour and a half, that is like my slow time where I get to sit and I get to reflect. And that feels way better for me because if I wait too long to get to the productive, quote unquote, part of my day, my energy levels are terrible.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

No, and I think that's fair. Yeah, I think that's fair. And I think that acknowledging that your seasons also change, right? Right. Because if you're a listener and you're in your 20s and you don't have kids and you have a job that you have to be at by like 8 a.m., then you having slow mornings with your kids is this doesn't really pertain to you. Right.

SPEAKER_00 14:38

But you can build in some sort of ritual or routine into your morning. Sure. It feels good for you. Yes. And also for any other swim families out there, you know that that is a sport that, first of all, it goes year round. And second of all, it's an early morning sport. And right now, these kids are training for 5 a.m. practices in two years. For Evie, her schedule will look like getting up Monday through Friday and having practice start at 7 a.m. And that's something she loves. Yep. Right. We try to build in for her that like lazy time at the pool in the afternoon where she can just hang with her friends and rest and relax. Right.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Yeah. Okay. Well, moving kind of from a morning routine, do you have any more little tiny things to incorporate?

SPEAKER_00 15:24

I was thinking about if we go back to an episode where we talked about energy clearing, my lovely partner in crime over here had this fantastic idea of sending your children to school with vodka as an She's taking it out of context. I know I am. So we were talking about creating an energy spray for your kids when they go to school to help cleanse the air. And she had made this lovely suggestion of if you don't have another alternative, you can just use some Tito's and throw some essential oils in it. Now, I like the idea of creating an intentional magic spray for whatever they're trying to call towards them. So that can be courage, that can be creativity, right? Like anything that they want to call towards them. Yep. And creating a magic spray using oil spray. And vodka.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

And Tito's is way too good quality. We're talking like Bankers Club vodka.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

I know. I made a funny about sold at Tito's, and that's why the Tito's.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

Yeah, I was like, I am definitely not putting fucking Tito's in any of their magic sprays. Go get some bankers.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

You can use water too.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

Or rubbing alcohol too. Use water or alcohol. Yeah. No, but alcohol actually it blends more. Yeah. Even with like perfume.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

So I love that. Yeah. So creating little magical sprays. And you can sit down and have like a two-minute conversation about it. Write down the intention of what they want to do. You can send it off into the ether or burn it or put it in a water to float it away, whatever you want to do. And I was thinking that we could come up with some magic sprays and we'll put them up on our socials.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

Oh, like recipes. Yeah. Yeah. No, I love that. That's good. That lends itself well to some of the activities. Most of the activities I have are things that they can do outside and they can do independently and they can create and then add to throughout the summer. And the one at the top of my list, and this is this is true for any age, the littler, the more creative they'll get, and the more they'll visit it and talk and use their imagination, but they're fairy gardens. I love my fairy garden. You can create a fairy garden pretty much anywhere on your property. If you live in the city, you can create a fairy garden with a plant, the base of the plant. I know that the Dollar Tree sells little doors and little windows and different things that you can push into a tree, trunk, but you also can just utilize moss and sticks and rocks, and you can create your own little hobbit fairy garden area that you can incorporate, also like talking with the squirrels and the chipmunks and the different things where the kids can be outside. They can create this space and then they can revisit it throughout the week, throughout the months, where they can add to it. If Mother Nature blows through and there's a storm, they can repair it. There's just so much magic. And there's a lot of movies that cater to fairies and different, what are they called? Faye. Faye. Yeah. Yeah. So there's Faye magic that you can incorporate. I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I do know that that was something that I felt very drawn to as a child was creating little bases and talking to nature in general. So that is a really fun exercise that doesn't matter what age you are that you can create and that you can do.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

Did you feel that magic when you were driving up the driveway today? Next time you drive up my driveway, either be like, just go slow, put your windows down. They have all the little umbrella plants. No, I saw them. Have popped up in the ferns and the moss all through the trees. Every time I drive home, it feels so magical.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

I might, I might steal a couple ferns to replant at my house. My rhododendrons, I want to plant ferns under them. And I have one that I need to actually like dig up and separate because it's I should do that under my rhododendrons.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

Yeah. Okay. So yeah. So fairy gardens, little tiny worlds, gnomes, woodland creatures.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

I think what you what you said though is like so important. Talking to the trees is one of the most magical things that you can do. And another thing I did as a kid was cloud divination. I have that down here too. Where I would lay on the ground and I would stare at the clouds as they were passing by. It was like I could feel the universe speaking to me. It's so funny because I didn't think about that until this moment. But it was such an important part of my childhood. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

And all of these have a storytelling component. Now, I did put down about journaling. And as your kids age, I think journaling, I've had a lot of reflection on this because I've been burning a lot of journals because I was under the impression that journaling needed to be about a how I was feeling. But then I would also put all this stuff around losing weight. And it was more of like a who could I tell my secrets to rather than journaling about imagination and telling stories and capturing my summers because no one taught me how to journal. It was just, okay, right. So I would write like, I mean, not that it was dumb, but it was like hurtful and like self-deprecating instead of like journaling about what went on in the day and how I felt and what I ate and different things. It was, I don't know, it was really wild. So a lot of these activities are really great to journal about too, because cloud divination and laying there in the different types of clouds, which also has to do with like storms rolling in and like that energy that comes and that can be really electric and magnetic, and allowing the kids to not be fearful. Like Graham is terrified of thunderstorms. Now, as a child, I fucking love them.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

I love thunderstorms still.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

My kids and my best friends, like Danielle, Renee, Nicole, they all make fun of me because they're like, oh, the meteorologist over here. Cause I'd be like, there's a storm coming. I can feel it. Like I could feel the atmospheric pressure change. Yeah. A lot of people can. And it always had a level of excitement. Now, there's also a level of fucking respect. Like you respect Mother Nature. Like that storm last May that blew through this area and like basically fucked everybody. That storm, we were in our basement. We were not like, let's be out and enjoy this. It was like, no, we knew she was coming in hot. And that was not an energy that I wanted to disrespect. So there is a level of playfulness that you can do with thunderstorms and with that energy that comes along with storms, which has to do with clouds and also dancing and singing and dinging and dinging.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Make sure you're singing. I've done portering, make sure you ding. Ding, ding, ding.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Singing and playing and walking in the rain. Well, it's a good nervous system reset. All of these are really good nervous system resets, which is why, as adults, that is a system that gets overlooked all the time.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Well, it's funny. I was doing some research this morning on trending Pinterest searches right now for some social media stuff. One of the top trending searches is low cortisol levels. Oh, yeah. Now, unfortunately, social media has attached belly fat to cortisol levels. So people are searching cortisol levels just because they want to get rid of belly fat, but it's so much deeper than that.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

So much deeper.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

So much deeper.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

I do feel though that belly fat is a form of protection.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

Oh, oh yes. Ha ha.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

We're gonna talk like that the rest of the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

We'll have a whole episode on that, shall we?

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Yes. Because I also am just like your bodies change and they morph and they do all these things. And regardless of whether or not you've had children or carried life, it is still a part of being a woman, of being a human.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

My point is, all of these things that we're talking about are ways to lower your cortisol levels. They are ways to regulate your nervous system. They also are magical little gifts from the universe. Fucking free.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

They're all free. Right. You can go out. No one's gonna tell you you can't watch some clouds and lay in some grass. No, if you go to the White House, you might have an issue. Okay, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

But somebody tells you that you can't lay and watch some clouds, you send them our way. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Now, this next section that I I have to highlight, I'm very excited about. We're making a lot of great noises. I mean, anyways, this whole next section, I want you to also partake in this this summer. In doing our gardens, okay, so this next section is all about planting seeds, which is growing life, which kids get real excited about. I can't tell you how excited Isla has been watching some of our flower seeds sprout inside still. But she is like, oh my god, oh my god, we have oh my god, like she gets very excited about it.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

I was working in a elementary school this week for doing string fittings for violin, and the teacher had a monster aloe plant like I have, and then all these babies that were potted, and she was like, The kids love I give them out as prizes.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Yeah. No, it's so great. It's so great. Planting a garden, and again, if you don't live in a place where you have a bunch of land, you can do this inside. This is a very doable, affordable activity, and centering it around pizza or butterflies or tea. What would you plant in a pizza garden? You would plant some tomatoes and some oregano and some basil and centering it around food. And kids can get down with that. Like you could have a cheeseburger garden where it's like lettuce and tomatoes and onions and different things that you're gonna take to the next level with your kids and then create food, which naturally we talk about all the time. Like, I was just talking to Sam the other day about the fact that honest to God, my girls would survive if something happened to me and they needed to like make their own food. Both of them.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

Graham, he's a snacker. He would need fruit and vegetables, but like my girls, they're always wanting to get in the kitchen, do things. And it's not because I'm like, you need to be a domestic bitch at all. They enjoy it, they enjoy the magic behind it because I like to feed. Same. That is a love language for me. But I love this idea of like the kids each have a box, Emily's caprace all day long. That bitch can eat caprace every meal, every day.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

Domestic bitch.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Oh my god. Like she just freaking loves it, which is great because it's like basic. It's so delaying.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

Now she's real salty about it.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Yeah, I know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:04

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

So I really love that because like anything that you can incorporate that teaches them how to be practical, but also how to be self-reliant, like and capable. Like I'm always telling my kids, you're capable. Even if it's something like, hey, can you get me a glass of orange juice? No, you're capable. It's not that I don't want to, but if I'm in the middle of cooking or if I'm in the middle of doing some other activity, I'm not gonna drop my stuff to go do something just because you asked me. You're capable. And the same thing is true with the garden. You're capable of maintaining it, you're capable of watering it and giving it fertilizer and nutrients and then harvesting it too. It teaches responsibility and it teaches accountability, which are two different things, though they're can they are connected.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

They are, and I love this because we do our garden as a family and Eevee plants tons and tons of stuff, and we go out every day and we tend to it. And her and Charlie do a lot of work together out there, which I love so much. But this takes the garden witchery side of things and brings it right into the kitchen witchery side of things and marries them together. Yes. Yep. So excited for socials.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

It is, it is. This is this is gonna be a good one. Now, the next thing we can kind of just touch on this and then you can move on. But sidewalk chalk, I had talked about putting this together because Isla's still very much into her chalk and creating like little cities that you can do on the sidewalk. We also have patio stones, so like creating different designs on the patio stones, and then the rain comes, it washes it away. It starts a clean slate. And I just think this is very helpful for children when they're dealing with emotions that can feel big at times. And it's like, listen, you draw what you want and then you wash it away, and then you can start fresh, which is true every single morning when you wake up, right? You can have a really bad day. Like I had a really hard day earlier this week. And even though there were glimmers in the day, my eyes were swollen from crying so much. I couldn't wait to go to bed. And the next day I woke up and I was so grateful for that day and grateful that it was a fresh start. So I think sidewalk chalk is like a great thing to just have at all times because it's it's just an easy go-to. I love that. Bubble magic is another one that I think is really fun. We used to have these bubbles where it was like a big stick that had like a thick cord, and you would dip the whole thing in the bubble, and then you would open the cord, and then you'd kind of flow the the wand through the air, and it would create these like giant bubbles.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

I remember that very distinctly from my childhood and just like how the bubble would move. Because they weren't just like little circle bubbles, they were like these oblong, like crazy creatures. That's really fun.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

So there's homemade bubble recipes, giant bubble wands you can do, bubble photography, like the light reflection, and uh you know what's always been on my radar to do, and I haven't done it yet, is on one of these sub-zero, super, super, super cold days in the winter to do the bubble photography.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Yes, where they freeze.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

Where they freeze. Ah, it's so cool. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Yeah, it's I that is really cool, and that's a good way too, where just like with dandelions, with bubbles too, like if you're having a strong day or if you're having a hard day, or if you just want to manifest and have magic, you can put intentions behind the bubbles and then like wish them away.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

And then have you ever seen a dandelion on fire? That kind of no photography? Oh, that's really cool. I think it's important to note that these are all things we're getting ideas we're giving you for summer, but you can create seasonal magical things all year long. Oh, for sure. And a lot of these can translate into seasons.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

I mean, we're highlighting this because I think this is a period of time where, like a lot of parents, yes, you have camps and you have things to, but as your children age, keeping them home out of camps or when they're no longer able to go to camps because they're too old, these are still activities and things that keep them engaged, keep them involved that allow their creativity to be used, which honestly, as a society, we are getting so far away from, and they're cutting arts programs in college and liberal arts all over the place. And even in our schools, it's test, test, test and not create, create, create. Yeah. I think that it's part of our responsibility to keep that alive. Because while technology is great, creativity and imagination and allowing us to be human in the rawest forms is really fucking important. That's not something that can be rushed. You have to just let it flow. I mean, how many times you just had this experience with a woman that came over to do an art project for fun, and it was stressing her the fuck out because she like couldn't, she couldn't remember how to like get back to that groove of just letting it go and seeing what you know what I mean? Like we just become so hard into the idea of crafts and art and flow.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

TV actually has quite a bit of friends that go away to a two-week camp every year that is no technology, no phones. They've been doing it for years, and these kids love it, they thrive on it. I've always wanted to like get her into it, and previously I couldn't because of circumstances, but I'm not on the list and it just like it books so early, right? Yes, but yes, they do exist. Yes, these camps that like, and you don't have to do two weeks. Some kids do a week, some kids go for multiple T-week sessions, yes, and then they go on to become counselors at these camps, and they're just exploring nature.

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No, but July and August will be the practical magic series. Yes, yeah. So get in on that action as well. And we're just doing the first two of that series, not the third. There are three in the practical magic books series. Oh, yeah. But we're not, I think, maybe four. I don't know.

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So practical magic for kids is just remembering how to have fun, how to be grounded, not overthink things, and just be until next time, ponies. Bye-bye.