Creativity also fosters mental growth ... play fosters physical, mental, and social development. Play also helps children express and cope with their feelings. Play helps develop each child's ...

emotional and physical development, as well as their speech and language.” As your child reaches their developmental stages they will start to display some of these recognised types of play and ...

Play therapists pay special attention to the child’s choice of play objects, the types of play the child engages in, and well as the style of play. In addition, the therapist and child set up a ...

Parents, and the home environments they create, can also have an important influence on a child's development; in fact, a child's home environment can affect the ways that certain genetic traits ...

A child’s growth isn’t just measured in height and weight. Young kids also reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, act and move. Becoming familiar with both markers — physical size and ...

Psychotherapist and parent coach Nicole Runyon (LMSW) is excited to announce the release of her first book, Free to Fly: The Secret To Fostering Independence in the Next Generation, published today by ...