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Get stuck in but let them lead: an expert’s guide to playing with your children The Lego Professor of Play explains how to explore, interact and enjoy time with your young children as they learn about the world around them

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Try setting aside 10 minutes a day for your child (or more if you have time). Just 10 minutes where you listen to them talk, colour a picture, ride your bikes together, play a game, or make a meal together. It is in these moments where a child feels seen and heard, and the true dance of attachment unfolds.

A beautiful reminder to find little ways to connect with our children ❤️❤️❤️

via Parenting From The Heart

A great lesson for kids to help keep them safe. Many times perpetrators will tell children they need to keep what happened (the abuse) a secret. Teach your child secrets are not allowed.

"If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow."
—Alfie Kohn

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Free play should be a huge part of your child’s life. It contributes to , physical, social, and emotional development. But importantly for this conversation, self-directed increases creativity. A study of 5-6 year olds showed that preschoolers who participated in a simple 75-minute play session per week had higher verbal and graphic creativity scores at the end of the school year, and they also had better-developed creative personality traits and behaviors.

Not only is play related to greater and , but also to higher reading levels and IQ scores. Based on the evidence, the equation consistently comes out as play = learning. In 1974, scientist Art Fry dreamed up the idea of Post-It notes during a non-traditional work setup at 3M. 3M’s 15 percent program, launched in 1948 and extended to every employee on the technical team, allowed 3M employees to daily take a chunk of their own workday to follow whatever they are interested in. Google and Hewlett Packard also offer personal creative time—these methods seem most effective in a creative culture, where employees can present their work to each other and aim to impress.

Since free play is the natural way that children the world, the time devote to daily creative play should be much, much higher. Along these same lines, don't over schedule your child. If every moment is spent in a directed activity, there’s no time to simply free play, no time to try things out on their own terms, and therefore no time to make their own new connections.

Brought to you by one of Neurochild’s BrainTrust members, Dr. Erin Clabough at https://linktr.ee/ErinClabough. Dr Erin Clabough is a scientist, author, mother of four and part of Neurochild’s Brain Trust. She is a professor at the University of Virginia, where she researches basic brain development and teaches neuroscience. Erin is also the author of the book Second Nature: How Parents Can Use Neuroscience to Help Kids Develop Empathy, Creativity, and Self-Control.

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[ID: children running in grass with arms extended. The words "Free play is a childhood space that should be held sacred. They will never pretend with such abandon again. And it will never be as important a learning tool.” Dr. Erin Clabough is written on top of the image.] Erin Clabough

We cannot embed self-love into our children ❤️ but we can give them the space to do it independently, because thats how strong they are!

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