Episode 74 - Play & playfulness for connection & cooperation

<p>During this Top Tip Tuesday on Instagram Live we focussed on the value of play and playfulness for fostering connection and cooperation with our children. &nbsp;</p> <p>We discussed the following key points: &nbsp;</p> <p>👣 All play is valuable, vital in fact, children learn through play in the early years. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>✨ Amongst many other benefits, children practise their social skills, process their emotions, problem solve, and have fun - all in the name of play. &nbsp;&nbsp;😍 Really playing with our children fully engaging in fun, nonsense and often silly behaviour is healing, connecting and joyful. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>🙈 For the most part, parenting should be us enjoying spending time with our children, absorbing their uninhibited joy for life and their limitless capacity for fun and mischief. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>💖 Play and playfulness as a beautiful way to connect to our Toddlers (and all our children!), whilst supporting collaboration. &nbsp;Playfulness dissolves power struggles and helps us move through tricky moments in the day with a greater ease (and less stress!). &nbsp;We become detectives to find out what type of playfulness is most effective with our child (silly, walk, voices, dances etc). &nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Thank you so much for joining me everyone! &nbsp;Visit enrichingenvironments.com/SHOP for my online Montessori Parenting Programmes, Workshops and Meditations for children. &nbsp;I’ll see you there! &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;*All podcast sessions originally recorded on Instagram Live, see my IGTV @enrichingenvironments for the video with captions, or or listen on Spotify, ITunes &amp; enrichingenvironments.com&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;😍🙏🏽💐&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;#montessoriparenting #Montessoriuae #montessoriathome #parentingmentor #leadfromlove #playfulparenting</p>