Before we had cameras, we found ways to enhance our memory for events that we wanted to remember forever. There is no better example of this than a wedding since many parts of a wedding celebration were created long ago. For a wedding, we don costumes, write or read scripts, read poetry, create sets, add food, music and dancing. For a wedding, we create moments unlike any ordinary moments and regardless of whether we think of ourselves as performers, on our wedding day we are stars. Everyone who loves us, conspires to make our wedding play a memorable performance, playing their role as perfectly as they possibly can. It is not a fictional story we tell with this play, it is a moment in our life story that we want to savor. I thought about all of this as my daughter married her chosen co-star in life this last month. Theater is a wonderful strategy for telling a story, creating meaning, exploring and enjoying shared emotion, and making large the things we need to think about and remember.
Hey there! Thanks for your comment on my blog dearie! I was wondering if you got my email? What do you think about being a guest blogger on my blog and writing something about Joint Attention, Autism and the iPad? I'm attempting to start a non-profit and soon I will be going to sponsors in order to get funding and donations. I think the way you worded things about JA was absolutely brilliant and perfectly describes why the iPad is so great for autistic kids. Just let me know what you think! :o) It doesn't have to be very long! I just want something about JA!! :o)
Why Games? is a discussion about why playing with your child is important and how structured games can make your play times more successful. Creating Common Ground is a discussion of how to get started with children who are not yet talking and often move away, ignore you, or protest when you try to play.
Not Too Easy, Not Too Hard is a discussion about how to find games that are at the right level of difficulty for your child.
You Need To Play....
Playing is like breathing, hugging, prayer--you need to play. Everyone needs to play.Playing is a means of growing attraction between any two souls. You suspect two people are falling in love if they start to play together.If you want a child to love you, learn from you, imitate you, communicate with you, enjoy you--then play with that child. Both of you will experience joy.
It sometimes helps, when one is trying to understand the meaning of a phenomenon , to see that phenomenon in a different context. Watch here as a Husky and a Polar Bear come together in play. Although not as dramatic, I recently saw a rabbit and a squirrel play together in my back yard. Who knew this even happened? Watching them, I felt they provided me with a confirmation, yet again, of the importance of play to the well-being of all beings who are capable of playing. Dr. Stuart Brown Director of the National Institute of Play, speaking in 2007 on Speaking of Faith, describes how play promotes trust, empathy, and adaptability to life's complications. I see the capacity to communicate and enjoy social interaction grow every day with children who have Autism Spectrum Disorders as they play with family and friends at the clinic where I practice. This blog and the companion web site, Autism Games are dedicated to inspiring you, fellow lover of a child with autism, to play in a thousand different ways and for a thousand different reasons with your child.
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Is that your last wedding for a while?
What a busy year for you.
Happy New year
All my children are now married and it is my sincere desire that I will never do this much wedding planning again in my life.
Now for the grand children!
Hey there! Thanks for your comment on my blog dearie! I was wondering if you got my email? What do you think about being a guest blogger on my blog and writing something about Joint Attention, Autism and the iPad? I'm attempting to start a non-profit and soon I will be going to sponsors in order to get funding and donations. I think the way you worded things about JA was absolutely brilliant and perfectly describes why the iPad is so great for autistic kids. Just let me know what you think! :o) It doesn't have to be very long! I just want something about JA!! :o)
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