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Today's episode is with Lizzie Aisa, who's a Masters in Education from the Bank Street School of Education. and she has this beautiful online platform that helps families

create and cultivate play spaces and an Instagram called workspace for children that is just super inspiring.

I asked her to be a guest on the podcast to talk about cultivating independent play in young children from as early as babies

all the way up until school age.

And right now, I think we all are looking for ways

to set up the environment in our homes

to promote more independence.

And that gives us a little bit more space in this context where we don't really have very much space.

So I think it's a really interesting conversation and there are just small ways that you can make changes in your

household to set things up for a little bit more parent independence because our kids getting

more autonomy and independence helps us.

What I wanted to focus on today is independent play

and fostering independent play

because you've really carved out a great way of guiding parents to help kids from very

young ages start to have new habits so you can cultivate independent play, which is so important, even if we weren't in a pandemic

where we really needed to have some space within not having space, but especially right now.

So let's just dive right into that.

Sounds good, I love that.

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