Play
What children say about their parents
17 June 2024 UNICEF recently released this very powerful video. They asked children to act like their parents and they videoed them. Their parents then watched the videos and for many it was a very confronting experience. https://fb.watch/sLwSyJDuBq/ If this was your child, how would they be imitating you? In South Africa it’s the…
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Quizz time!
The Winter holidays are here! You have some ideal opportunities to play and connect with the children in your life. Enjoy!! The Winter holidays are upon us – happy holidays all!! I like to share some connection ideas for all ages for these times as a way to inspire and encourage family connection, play and…
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A week in the life of play therapy
Hello! Just thought I would share some snippets of work from this past week! Loryn and I at the Midlands Schools Expo. We had fun – see pic below! Our ‘stress balloon’ making at the Expo. Thanks for coming kids! Sand tray work is AMAZING!!! Whiteboards are great for all sorts of things! Incomplete sentences…
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The Zebra
“My mom is like this zebra. The black part reminds me of her computer keyboard she works on all the time”, said a 7 year old to me recently. I wasn’t sure how I felt about hearing this perception. It brought up a whole lot of questions and thoughts in my mind, especially about the…
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Potjie Pot Poems
“I want people to identify with characters in the poems, and to laugh at themselves, to not beat themselves up about things but have a good laugh. I want people to know they’re not alone.” This week I was gifted a book called “Potjie Pot Poems” and I was delighted to see it was written…
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What is Play Therapy?
How does it work? Why would I need to pay for my child to play? Why would a child need therapy to play? These are some of the questions I have been asked over the years. To be honest, it’s always a difficult question to answer simply and without using jargon. So, here is my…
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The Great Loadshedding Debate
Enjoy the learning as you think about a topic from a different perspective! We started something new a little while ago, during a loadshedding peak (for us every evening between 6 and 8pm!) and not having quite enough light for boardgames. It was my husband’s idea of brilliance to hold a …debate! The organised, respectful,…
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Choosing Play
Play, joy and enjoyment can lift us out of where we are into new possibilities. I wonder if you feel as if you’ve been carrying a lot for a long time? I wonder if you know your children feel it too, whether at home as a parent or in the classroom as a teacher or…
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Hurry
To talk about what you enjoy about them is to talk about what you see in them as a person, and what makes you like them as a person. I invite you to take some time over the weekend to not hurry. Maybe to not hurry feels to some like a luxury, or to some…
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PLAY for the sheer joy of it
Children will follow the fun almost anywhere! Children find fun, silliness, laughter and play utterly compelling. They will follow the fun almost anywhere. They know that they need it, it is life-giving for them. Of all the things play brings, children know that the experience of joy is most important! In my play therapy practice,…
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