How did YOU play?
What would you trade from your childhood for more screen time? Probably nothing. Learn how you can help your child rediscover the joy of screen-free play by sharing the games you used to play.
Play with Purpose
Play heritage: the hidden foundation of childhood your child is missing
Your own childhood is a living library of play, an apprenticeship in being young. Does your own child have the same rich play vocabulary as you did? Perhaps you could teach her?
The Play Tools: A reset button for play
Does your child ever get distracted? Is she sometimes too agitated to settle? Are there days when you feel like you’re constantly putting out fires, that it’s all tears and no play?
The Play Circle
Do you spend much time at home, alone with the children or by yourself?
For me, working from home means I can get stuck in a rut. I get tunnel vision, focusing on the task at hand. I forget to put on the washing. The dishes remain in the sink.
Introducing Screen-Free Saturdays
I’m a hypocrite.
As I write this, my children are on screens. Which is ironic because my new project is about going screen-free.
I had the best of intentions. But sometimes you have to bend in order not to break. One of the four is having a meltdown. My