I'm sure the answer will be yes!
I went on some fascinating training about the importance of play. The final session of 3 led by an amazing woman with a huge wealth of knowledge around psychotherapy, the brain, energy in the body, behaviour, healing, trauma, the list goes on. She practices equine psychotherapy with horses for traumatised kids and young people and runs a school for kids who have no other help available... Anyway, I digress!
Basically a report in the uk recently commented that 1 in 6 parents here don't play or don't know how to play with their children.
We discussed the purposes of play.... Learning, mimicking, preparing, experimenting, risk assessing, finding boundaries, attachment, making sense of the world, stress release etc etc...
And we applied that to our society today... Kids who aren't being played with are...
Not learning to prepare.
Not learning to experiment.
Not learning to attach.
Not learning about relationships.
Not learning to release stress.
And so on.
I found this quite profound, as this is something I'm constantly battling against with many of the children I work with... I have a huge thing about quality time, and the fact that most parents I work with (not the general population!!) don't understand what that actually means. I've started making worksheets about it to really give practical tips to my parents and carers.
But given a report saying one in six uk parents aren't playing with their children..... Well that's staggering. And link that hand in hand to social problems we encounter in the modern world....
Computer games, mobile phones, busy jobs, no time to sit at a table and talk, or go places...... We don't see what we are doing to the next generation.
I'm huge on attachment. I live and breathe it.... I just felt like sharing my thoughts of the week, because its interesting
I know parents here tend to be very attachment focused I've seen the chats so reassuring. But makes me so sad for the rest of society
I went on some fascinating training about the importance of play. The final session of 3 led by an amazing woman with a huge wealth of knowledge around psychotherapy, the brain, energy in the body, behaviour, healing, trauma, the list goes on. She practices equine psychotherapy with horses for traumatised kids and young people and runs a school for kids who have no other help available... Anyway, I digress!
Basically a report in the uk recently commented that 1 in 6 parents here don't play or don't know how to play with their children.
We discussed the purposes of play.... Learning, mimicking, preparing, experimenting, risk assessing, finding boundaries, attachment, making sense of the world, stress release etc etc...
And we applied that to our society today... Kids who aren't being played with are...
Not learning to prepare.
Not learning to experiment.
Not learning to attach.
Not learning about relationships.
Not learning to release stress.
And so on.
I found this quite profound, as this is something I'm constantly battling against with many of the children I work with... I have a huge thing about quality time, and the fact that most parents I work with (not the general population!!) don't understand what that actually means. I've started making worksheets about it to really give practical tips to my parents and carers.
But given a report saying one in six uk parents aren't playing with their children..... Well that's staggering. And link that hand in hand to social problems we encounter in the modern world....
Computer games, mobile phones, busy jobs, no time to sit at a table and talk, or go places...... We don't see what we are doing to the next generation.
I'm huge on attachment. I live and breathe it.... I just felt like sharing my thoughts of the week, because its interesting
I know parents here tend to be very attachment focused I've seen the chats so reassuring. But makes me so sad for the rest of society