Messy Play
Messy play can help your child to learn about the world, it can have a soothing effect, and it is great fun. In this article, we’ll show you how to set up messy play without it getting out of control.
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Scaling Emotions Helps Children Control Feelings
In this article, we are going to learn how to use Scaling to help your child understand and get control of their feelings. If your child can recognise and scale feelings they are more likely to gain a sense of control and less likely to be overwhelmed by their feelings.
Playdough Wonders
Playdough is a fabulous material to help children's sensory development. And as a sensory activity, playdough can help children manage their feelings. It’s very soothing to just play with the dough and squidge it around. Making things is a distracting activity that can have a calming effect. And sometimes, pummeling the dough can help to get those strong feelings out.
Movement Play
Movement play is about enjoying our physical existence in the world. It has benefits in terms of health and fitness, and is an important factor in brain development, but also has implications for emotional health.
Make-Believe Play
Like all kinds of play, make-believe play is important for development. Through it, your child can learn social and emotional skills, language and thinking skills. Make-believe play allows your child to explore characters, emotions and roles, in a safe way. They can use make-believe to make sense of their world, processing difficult emotions and learning about themselves and others. At challenging times it really comes into its own.
Three Ways To Play
I am sure you’ve read those articles about the different types of play. Sixteen types of play. Twelve types of play. Pick a number. Well, I’ll make it simple for you. Three. That’s all you need. Three types of play to help your child develop, and become the boss of their feelings.
Magical Language
Reflective language is a method used to help draw out blocked or unlabelled feelings. Using reflective language Will help you understand your child. It will help them understand themselves. And it will give them the skills to communicate with confidence.
Independent Play
Creating a Quiet Time for your child will have benefits for both of you. Read more to learn how to help them be more independent.
Sensory Toys
Fidget and sensory toys can help your child with moments of anxiety. They can also help them maintain focus too. Sensory toys provide a distraction from negative feelings, shifting attention from thoughts to pleasant sensations.
Free Play
We must all remember at some point in our lives when we were so engrossed in an activity we lost track of time and were just in the moment. Well, when children are in free-flow play, that’s exactly how it is for them.