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How to Play With Your Child Without Overstimulation or Pressure

Most parents want to play effectively with their children but sometimes feel unsure whether they are doing enough, whether their play is educational e...

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Why Playing With a Parent Matters

The developmental value of a parent playing with their child is often underestimated because it looks ordinary. It's not. The parent in a joint play s...

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Games That Encourage Shared Attention

Before a baby can say a word, they can do something quietly remarkable: look at something, then look at you, then look back at the thing — to make sur...

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Parent–Child Games to Strengthen Connection

The "quality time" idea has been turned into a guilt-trip about elaborate craft projects, themed dinners, and "intentional parenting." It needn't be....

7 min read

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Best Apps for Parent–Child Interactive Play

Most app stores sell parents on the idea that the right app will teach the child something. The research, repeatedly, says that's not where the develo...

5 min read

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Connecting With Your Child Through Play

Play looks like the optional part of the day, the thing that happens between the necessary stuff. It isn't. For young children, play is the work — it'...

6 min read

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Parent-Child Games That Strengthen Connection and Development

A surprisingly small thing — a parent on the floor at the child's eye level, not on a phone, doing whatever the child is already doing — is the active...

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