Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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So this week on the podcast, we've been doing a mini series on three ways to keep your marriage good with children at home because parenting is a

huge task and a huge endeavor, but it's so important to make sure we're keeping our marriage good

while we do that. So today is way number three, the final way, which is introduced independent

play. So Dr. Kim, which is introduced independent play.

So Dr. Kim, what is independent play?

What are we talking about here?

To me, I think it's letting your kids know that they can be okay by themselves, playing

by themselves, in the room by themselves, with their toys, with reading, with being creative,

drawing, that they can do that just by

themselves without a parent hovering over them, with a parent guiding them, having to entertain

them, those kind of things, to teach our kids that's okay to be alone and for them to feel

comfortable in their own skin.

Yeah.

They don't have to always have someone there.

Yeah, definitely, which is like the key component of independent play is that means no,

you.

You're not involved in your kids independent play.

You can't be or also would not be independent play.

It would be mommy and daddy play or daddy play or mommy play.

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