In today’s bonus episode, we invite you to join our Take Time to PLAY campaign and experience the transformative power of play!
At Great Kids Place (and beyond), we’re encouraging families to engage in Sensory Emotional PLAY for just 15 minutes a day. Whether through creative games, hands-on activities, or sensory motor experiences, play has the power to strengthen emotional connections and boost overall well-being.
Why play?
When we observe the play of children, we are invited into their world of experiences. Play provides a place for exploration—with the body and the mind. Play offers a place of safety and connection. Play allows for opportunities to practice regulation of emotion and regulation of action and behavior.
Here’s how you can get involved:
Log Your Playtime: Track your daily 15-minute sessions of play on a fun chart.
Print Fun Reminders: Print the Take Time to Play logo and display it to help you remember to play every day!
Access Play Ideas: Follow our social media for tips, inspiration, and ideas on how to incorporate Sensory Emotional Engagement into your playtime. Plus, explore our Sensory Emotional Center of Learning for more creative activities and resources.
Promote Play: Snap a picture of your sticker, magnet, no phone play zone sign, or your play activity and share it on social media using #TakeTimeToPlay, and tag @GreatKidsPlace and @TheSensoryEmotional_OT!
Discover more about PLAY, tune into episodes:
Download visual reminders:
Join our community!
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatKidsPlace/
Visit our Learning Center
We know that sensory-motor experiences play a significant role in a child’s daily life and emotional well-being. Using playful interactions, The Sensory Emotional Center of Learning is designed to bring our therapeutic model, the Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™, into your home or work. Throughout, you'll discover practical strategies and resources designed to enhance your understanding of sensory and emotional regulation in your children (and yourself). By understanding Sensory Emotional Personality Styles™, you'll better understand a child's strengths and weaknesses in sensory-motor and social-emotional development and, most importantly, ways to interact with them in both tricky and great times.
https://www.sensoryemotionalcenteroflearning.com
Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
andhttps://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
