Games to Help Kids Write
Some inspired play-based tips on writing from an education consultant!
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Playful Parenting Hacks
8 Ways A Simple Puppet Can be the Best Parenting Hack
Playing with a puppet is more than just fun and games. Watch Child’s Play NY teachers use puppets to get kids communicating about emotions and using empathy. This is an essential tool in the parenting arsenal to help manage behavior and get in touch with our children’s rich emotional lives. Happy puppeteering!
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How to Talk to Kids with Humor and Fun (About the Big Stuff)
If you are hankering to talk to your kids about the big stuff, or help them process emotions, then you should play Taxi! This classic theater game is adaptable for all ages and provides kids with a safe and sweet space to share feelings with you. Use it to bond with your kids when you have a little down-time and know that they are also benefitting from the social-emotional learning (SEL) and Executive Function work-out that this game gives them. Watch the video to learn about the benefits and the ways to play.
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15 Ways to Play and Laugh More
It’s hard just to get through the requirements of parenting, let alone find time on top of that to play. However, here is the tip: inject stories into the mundane parenting tasks and you’ll get what you need to get done quicker, and bond with your kid in the process.
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Back to school is better when you play this game
Turn those back-to-school jitters into a creative game that gets kids silly and opens them up for meaning communication with you. Learn more from our PhD expert about what dramatic play does for social skills and emotional intelligence.
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How To Get Your Kids To Chill Out? Make An Obstacle Course!
Whether you are facing a long car trip, a rainy afternoon, or just need to release some wiggles – creating an obstacle course is a great way to get to get kids calm and happy. Research shows that when we change our physical state – through movement or relaxation, for example – we can change
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Afraid Of “Improv”? Simple Is The Best Way To “Silly”
Improv gets me through the winter with kids! All those long hours of hangin’ indoors, while fending off the inevitable requests for screen-time, can make a parent go bonkers. You guys who just had a snow day know what I’m talking about. But sometimes it’s best to take a break from structured games and
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Feelings and How to Help Kids Talk About Them
Give kids mastery over their emotions. Let them identify and communicate about their feelings by talking “to” them! If they give voice (literally) to parts of their brain, they gain mindfulness and perspective over their worry.
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Tips On Getting Cozy With Your Kids
It is a rainy-snowy weekend for us in New York and I have just learned a new word: Hygee It’s Danish, but I’d like to start working it into my English. Pronounced “hoo-ga” – it is more a feeling than a word and is purportedly impossible to translate. But let’s say it roughly means: “a feeling
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Freeing The Voice Through Play
To free the voice is to free the person – Kristin Linklater, Master Freeing Voice Teacher Since my casts of Jungle Book Kids and The Witches, have their shows this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about Baloo’s advice to Mowgli. “Go ahead, give me a big bear growl…Right from your toes. GRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.” (there are
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