Category Parenting

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.

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.

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.

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.