11/21/2025
The power of PLAY!
In this picture, I see:
🧠 Problem-solving; “How do I balance the tunnel?, What if I move the chair?”
💪 Gross-motor challenges; climbing, crawling, testing strength and coordination.
💛 Emotional resilience; trying, stumbling, adjusting, and trying again.
🎯 Executive functioning; planning, sequencing, shifting ideas so it works how they want it to.
🗣️ Communication skills; asking for help, explaining their idea, creating a game or atoryline.
🛡️ Safety + empowerment; building a world they can control, explore, and make mistakes in.
Play is not a break from the work…
Play is the work!
When a child builds, knocks down, rearranges, climbs, hides, invents, and experiments…
They’re doing the deep nervous-system wiring that talk alone can’t reach.
🧘♂️This is where regulation grows.
💪This is where confidence grows.
👥This is where connection grows.
& this is where healing happens;
one hideout and one brave new idea at a time.
