by Lynn Wonders | Health & Wellbeing, play therapy
With the whizzing and whirling of clock and calendar in today’s crazy-paced lifestyle, cultivating mindfulness in children becomes an increasingly important focus for parents, teachers, and child and family therapists. Mindfulness practices have many benefits as...
by Lynn Wonders | play therapy, Professionals
Play therapy is an effective way in helping tweens through the struggles of transitioning from childhood to adolescence. Although there are different schools of thought, for the purposes of this article, we will consider tweens to be ages 10-12 (give or take a year...
by Lynn Wonders | Parenting, play therapy, Relationships
Luci’s Yellow Butterfly is a children’s book about adoption from a puppy’s perspective written by Cindy Hammonds who participated in my 2022 Children’s Book Writing Circle! This is a heart-warming, lilting, rhyming book about a sweet pup who is...
by Lynn Wonders | Parenting, play therapy
When things happen in life like divorce, moving to a new house, changing schools, death of a loved one or times of emergency, having children’s books about big changes can come in handy for helping children not feel so alone. In this post, I am providing some of...
by Lynn Wonders | play therapy
Dora Henderson’s playful books are well worth exploring. Dora is on a mission – and a playful one at that. The best way for children to learn, grow and heal is through playful and creative activities and that’s what these books are all about. Dora...
by Lynn Wonders | Parenting, play therapy, Professionals
Having provided psychotherapy services for children and families since 2001, I have had the opportunity to observe how technology has creeped into the lives of children and families to the point it often eclipses the much-needed experiences of 3-dimensional play.I...
