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Life Kit: Parenting

The 5-minute playtime ritual that can help your kids listen

Life Kit: Parenting

NPR

Kids & Family

4.4634 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Children's health professionals widely recommend a strategy known as 'special time' to help reduce behavioral issues in young children. This episode explains how to do it and why this simple and free tool is so powerful.

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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.

0:15.3

You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.

0:19.9

Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

0:22.0

And with us, I have Beck Harlan, Life Kit's visuals editor.

0:26.3

Hi, Mariel.

0:27.5

Hey.

0:28.4

I have something I really want you to listen to.

0:31.1

Ooh, let's hear it.

0:33.3

That is so tall, Gus.

0:35.6

That's so tall.

0:37.2

So tall. That must be's so tall. So tall.

0:38.8

That must be one of the tallest Lego airplanes I've ever seen.

0:43.3

Wow.

0:44.4

Wow.

0:46.5

Oh, my God.

0:47.6

Okay, this is really, really sweet.

0:50.0

I just, what am I actually listening to?

0:52.8

You don't just want to, like, listen to me and my two-year-old play with Legos?

0:56.5

Kind of do, though, all day, but yeah.

0:59.1

I know, it's really cute, right?

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