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20 Epic Life Skills Your Child Learns Through Play

August 11, 2017 by Angela Pruess 7 Comments

Play is an underestimated but vastly powerful force on your child’s development, read more about the areas of development that are positively impacted by play. 

I was driving my 7-year-old daughter to summer camp, like real camp. The kind where you don’t get to talk to them on the phone at all and they sleep over night for the whole week (gasp!).

This is the stuff a mother’s nightmares are made of, but truth be told my girl was eager and ready for the adventure so I was feeling surprisingly calm. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Child Development, Childhood Mental Health Tagged With: child development, play

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Angela Pruess

I'm Angela, a licensed child therapist and mom of 3. I'm here to help you raise an emotionally healthy, resilient child who'll change the world through emotional intelligence, positive discipline, growth mindset, mindfulness, art/nature, childhood mental health and the therapeutic power of play. Let's help your child live their BEST life.

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