Flipping your lid, meltdowns, losing it…sometimes perfectly normal people freak out. Why is that? How can my child be sweet and caring one minute, become a fire breathing dragon the next and then act like nothing happened?
Introduction to Play and Play Therapy
There is so much going on in play! It has tremendous power to heal, activate regions of the brain and show someone's worldview. Plato said “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation.” Fred Rogers said "Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood." This is what drew me to become a Play Therapist.