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Hi, this is Janet Lansbury. Welcome to Unruffled. So today I want to talk about some of the common

misconceptions that we can have about independent play. Most of us have heard by now that play is such an important aspect of a child's development.

It's a tool for learning, it's a tool for developing creativity, motor skills, social skills, and one of the things that children are naturally geared to do. They have an innate desire to do is invent their play.

That's an experience that's very rich and therapeutic for a child.

And also, once it's developed, offers parents much needed breaks in their day when they don't

have to be attentive to that child.

So it's a gift that keeps giving that we can start with our children as infants actually.

A lot of people these days that I'm hearing from, they didn't start it early, but they want to do it now. They want their child to be able to do it.

And they're finding that it's challenging for different reasons that I'll be getting into as I describe these

common myths. Hopefully this podcast will help clear some things up and help you to

get over any humps that you might have in terms of helping your child develop this incredible lifelong habit of enjoying being in their own company and

inventing their own play, taking it as far as they want to go with it,

uninterrupted, and all the various gifts that come with that.

Some of these myths I'm going to be talking about actually are part of a piece that I wrote over a decade ago,

but there are several new ones that are coming up in my world lately that I wanted to add to this.

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