Creating Home Environments for Independent Play

Welcome to the Voice of Change and the Week-end Edition, devoted to the ART of Being with Children.  Today's topic is one of my favorites and that is about creating a home environment/s where children LOVE to play independently. I learned this skill out of necessity.  I have three wonderful children and have always loved being MOTHER, however, I did need/require times throughout the day, times when the children and I were together but in silence for the most part.  We could even be in the same room, but each person was playing/ working independently.  As I reflect on this topic today, I'm realizing that creating this atmosphere was a process.  Change does not happen overnight usually, and yet there is always that possibility that it can.  Today, I'll share about having focal points of interest in the home, how to educate children about a 'change' in the household dynamic and also, ways of fostering independent and self-sufficiency. And tomorrow I'll do a follow up program on the self-enquiry this  process entails for the adult/s involved.