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Teach your kids mindfulness without boring them to bits. Use these great mindfulness exercises for kids to get you started. 
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Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how. Via Jennifer Hoffmaster Christian
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July 9, 2013 4:51 PM
Video gamers are developing skills of working together, flexibility, and trust that may one day solve challenges of the 21st century!
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The sense of play is a sense in every sense of the word. It is a sense, like sight is a sense, like hearing, like touch. If we tried to make a list of all the things we play and play with, the list...
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Eric Maisel: “When we fear that we do not matter or that our efforts do not matter, we get depressed. Via Douglas Eby
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This is summary of findings from a gallop poll of school principals and their feelings on play. Very interesting findings... "A new, first-of-its-kind Gallup poll reveals that elementary
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It is estimated that children from newborn age through seventeen years spend between 3% and 20% of the day playing, and all children play, with the exception of those who are severely deprived, mal...
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Tons of fun summer activities to do with kids
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All sorts of awesome lists of great things to do in the summer with Kids! Super cool!
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This is our second post in a series where we explore daily practices that nurture and encourage healing. Our last post discussed the "Healing Power of Beautiful Spaces." Daily habits can contribute...
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This is one of my favorite articles detailing the way play heals us and enhances well-being by my colleage Jennifer Christian.
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New research shows that listening to music can lift (or reinforce) your mood and ultimately lead to a greater quality of life.
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Learn about the lifelong benefits of play, including greater creativity, happiness, and productivity. Via Jennifer Hoffmaster Christian
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"Play is one of the most effective tools for keeping relationships fresh and exciting. Playing together for the fun of it brings joy, vitality, and resilience to relationships. Play can also heal resentments, disagreements, and hurts. Through regular play, we learn to trust one another and feel safe. Trust enables us to work together, open ourselves to intimacy, and try new things. By making a conscious effort to incorporate more humor and play into your daily interactions, you can improve the quality of your love relationships- as well as your connections with co-workers, family members, and friends."
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July 9, 2013 3:56 PM
Play builds connection, intimacy, flexibity, and problem solving. It isn't just for kids anymore!
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Benefits of Laughter: Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. (G.K. Chesterton) Via Happiness Blueprint
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This article sumarizes "laughter therapy" research and outlines the many benfits of laughter. "William Fry, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School and expert on health and laughter, reports the average kindergarten student laughs 300 times a day. Yet, adults average just 17 laughs a day. Why the difference? Are we too uptight, too tense? Do we take life too seriously? Isn't it time we learned how to relax? We don't stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing. So, if we want to fly like the angels and share in their happiness, we'll have to follow their example and take ourselves lightly." Ha! Ha! Amy Fuller, www.amyfullerphd.com, www.fullerlifefamilytherapy.org
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July 2, 2013 9:07 AM
I love this , Angels fly because they take themselves lightly..
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Former Thailand Premier League footballer Maruyama Yoshiaki helped Right To Play commemorate World Refugee Day in the country’s Umpium Refugee Camp on Thursday. Right To Play believes in the power of play as a catalyst for change and as a positive force in the lives of at-risk children and youth. In 2012, we reached about 43,000 children in refugee-focused programs. Events like the one held today in Umpium help Right To Play make positive change in refugee camps around the world.
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Very cool story about the "Right to Play's" commitment to take the right to play to refugees in Thailand.
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This site has lots of great games to enhance brain function. It costs a small monthly fee and is lots of fun. You can track your improvment over time.
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An increasing amount of research continues to support play in early childhood development, and there are five primary forms or types of play in which children engage: locomotive, social, object, la...
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In her article Playing Around, Leanne Ogasawara notes that "one of Japan's greatest linguistic scholars, Shirakawa Shizuka...was fascinated by the concept of 'play.' After an impressively long care...
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http://www.ted.com A pioneer in research on play, Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play...
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Great ideas to playfully engage children in mindulness...stoking the dog, roaring in the wind, watching ants. Although I find myself learning to be mindful from my children!
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