CHILD, TEEN, AND FAMILY THERAPEUTIC SERVICES IN DALLAS, TX.

Unstructured Play Time and Healthy Brain Development Using play to help your child reach optimal development. Children are born with an innate desire to expand and explore their environment. Play is a child’s natural language and is medium for which the child assimilates new information from the environment to his or her knowledge of how the world works. Children use play to explore, learn, develop skills, gain insight, and make sense of their experiences. Unstructured play t

More Recess Time Leads to Better Focus and Academic Performance at School As a play therapist, I am constantly talking to parents and teachers about the importance of unstructured playtime for children. In an era of less recess and more instructional time in the classroom, it’s often a very difficult sell. More playtime and recess time may seem counterintuitive, but we now have the research and the programs to back it up. New article by Today Parents regarding the benefits of