Why Playing With Your Kids Actually Rewires Their Brain ft. Anna Housely Juster
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
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Dr. Anna Housley Juster is a licensed child and adolescent mental health clinician, education consultant, and award-winning author of "How to Train Your Amygdala" with over 25 years of experience supporting children and families. Her diverse career spans from directing content at Sesame Workshop to co-founding Pop-Up Adventure Play, while her current private practice combines expertise in mental health, developmental psychology, and education to support trauma-informed practices and self-regulation skills.
Today, Anna Housley Juster brings her decades of expertise in early childhood education and mental health to share powerful insights about child development. Drawing from her journey from Head Start teacher to mental health clinician, Anna combines her deep understanding of children's learning with practical strategies for emotional well-being.
The conversation explores the science behind play as a crucial tool for emotional regulation and family connection, offering parents four practical strategies for managing stress responses. Through her experience creating content across Sesame Street's platforms and her current work as an education consultant, Anna demonstrates how intentional play can strengthen parent-child relationships while fostering resilience and emotional development.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, |
| 0:07.7 | leaders of families, and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this generation of |
| 0:12.9 | fathers, but the next generation as well. The kids we are raising will have better chances and |
| 0:18.4 | odds stacked in their favor because of the amazing example |
| 0:21.2 | that their fathers emulated for them. We are here to change the world. We are here to change |
| 0:27.5 | relationships. We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their |
| 0:33.5 | grave with regret. We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused |
| 0:39.1 | intention, passion, |
| 0:41.4 | purpose, and direction. |
| 0:43.7 | We are the Dad Edge |
| 0:45.4 | and we're here to change |
| 0:47.3 | the game. |
| 0:47.8 | We're here to change the game. What's up, gentlemen? Welcome back to the Dad Edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. I am your host and founder of this podcast, this show, and movement. And listen, this is where we talk all about what it means to be a better |
| 1:12.1 | man, a better husband, a better father, better communication, better connection, better memories, |
| 1:17.0 | more patience, more resilience, more intimacy with your wife, more sex with your wife, |
| 1:21.2 | a better connection to your wife, better mindset for us, healthy body, healthy mind, wealth, |
| 1:26.7 | everything related to man, and father that's what |
| 1:30.2 | we talk about on this show for i introduce today's guest i just want to share with you a couple things |
| 1:34.8 | gents um and this is a thank you um i am knocking on the doorstep now of doing this podcast for a decade |
| 1:42.0 | and i have to tell you i just just want to be really, really authentic |
| 1:46.1 | here with you guys. Um, this work has been the most meaningful work in my life. It has been the thing |
| 1:52.3 | that I've been so passionate about. I started this podcast because I was headed down a really, |
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