The 5-minute daily playtime ritual that can get your kids to listen better

Life Kit: Parenting

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Kids & Family

4.4 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Called 'special time,' the strategy is widely recommended by children's health professionals to help reduce behavioral issues in young children. Here's a guide on how to do it with your kids at home.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
0:05.4	RWJF is a national philanthropy working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.
0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:15.5	This is NPR's Life Kit.
0:17.3	I'm your host, Mariel Segarra, and I have Beck Harlan, Life Kit's visuals editor with us.
0:23.0	Hi, Miriel. Hey. I have something I really want you to listen to. Ooh, let's hear it.
0:30.0	That is so tall, Gus. That is so tall. That must be one of the tallest Lego airplanes I've ever seen. Wow. Wow.
0:43.2	Oh my God. Okay, this is really, really sweet. I just, what am I actually listening to? You don't just want to like listen to me and my two-year-old play with Legos?
0:53.2	Kind of do, though, all day.
0:55.1	But yeah.
0:55.7	I know.
0:56.1	It's really cute, right?
0:57.7	But what if I told you that we're actually engaging in a research-backed practice that's
1:02.5	proven to strengthen a caregiver's relationship with their child?
1:06.1	Well, that sounds very official.
1:07.9	I know, right?
1:08.6	I'm excited to share this tool with you.
1:10.3	I've been nerding out over this behavior management technique all week. It's called special time.
1:17.7	That's it? That's it. Special time. A more formal way of describing it would be child directed
1:23.9	interaction or child directed therapeutic play, but commonly, it's known as Special Time.
1:29.9	Okay, so what is it?
1:31.1	Special Time is one of the foundational components of parent-child interaction therapy,
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