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Playful Wisdom

Parenting from the intersection of Play & Neuroscience: An Integrative Parenting Approach.
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12/03/2025

Reflection: What brought your family a dose of comfort today? 🤗☕️

12/01/2025

When emotions run high, repair doesn’t have to be complicated.

A gentle, genuine, “thanks for being patient with me” or, “thanks for sticking with me” teaches kids that relationships can bend without breaking.

✨ Gratitude is one of the simplest forms of repair and one of the most powerful.

11/29/2025

Gratitude for Today

11/24/2025

Sometimes, happiness isn’t a big moment - it’s the small, everyday ones we often overlook. ✨

Remember to slow down and savor the simple things.

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11/19/2025

Gratitude in parenting is rarely about big gestures.

It’s the tiny moments:

✨a shared laugh
✨a quiet morning together
✨a “thanks for trying again”

Kids learn from what we notice- not what we lecture.

🤍 What little moment warmed you today?

11/13/2025

Today is 🌎🤍

Here are some ways you can participate:

✨ Be a friend to someone who is lonely
✨ Leave a positive note for a family member or friend
✨ Help someone in need
✨ Donate to charity
✨ Volunteer your time
✨ Support local businesses
✨ Ask someone how they are doing & listen to them

What ideas would you add to this list? Comment below!

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+13602572370

Website

http://www.playfulwisdom.net/

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Why Playful Wisdom?

Over and over again the Power of Play is being demonstrated to be the key to healthy kids and adults. To help with this Cary Hamilton created Playful Wisdom: a Play-based Parenting Model to encourage parents to develop healthy families by being in Relationship Playfully with their children. The idea for Playful Wisdom arose out of my frustration as a skilled family therapist and play therapist. I work daily with children and families in distress and I became disillusioned with the “medical model” approach to children’s emotional and behavioral health. Why did parents gain access to the education, training, and support that professionals like me offer only after their child had a “mental health concern”? I heard parents’ feedback: If only I had known these things years ago… we might not need to be here. Everything in the “medical model” seemed backward.

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