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Mary Alice Long, PhD
Mary Alice Long, PhD is creator of Play=Peace. She is a Jungian therapist who emphasizes the importance of play and play's benefits in all areas of living, for all ages and abilities no matter where you live, what you do, who you love, play is the way! Mary Alice enjoys playing outdoors with her children, grandchildren, friends, and those she works with in her work as a therapist and play consultant. Say YES to Play!
Website URL: http://playequalspeace.com
Are you playing outdoors ?
Are you playing outdoors ? Hope so. Research finds that play outdoors helps us re-set emotionally (ever wonder why you feel better at the beach or in the mountains on a hike?) See you outdoors playing! http://playequalspeace.com
This is me
I am a Nana (Nana Banana), the youngest of my grandchildren are 19 months old twins, Chase & Jenny. I want more time to play with them outdoors and also want to create more time for others parents, grandparents, babies and young children to #playoutdoors together and create new experiences in community.
Drip, Drop & Plop!
that it was raining. My youngest son who just started walking wanted t
o get into the action. He walked around the playground with me holding him - feet touching the sand for the first time. He kept falling down and each time made it into a opportunity to grab and eat sand. Mucky, drippy fun.
I got a great idea from a post on Active Kids Club about making fairy houses so I put the kids to work gathering sticks and other stuff that they deemed suitable. I am not going to lie to you - there was some outrage over stealing of sticks etc. The boys all seemed to have various melt downs over sticks, buckets etc. but we rebounded with a game of hide the bucket.
We put in an hour and half in total and were wet, cold and muddy by the time we left. The hot chocolate tasted so good when we were warm and cosy inside our house afterwards. Isn't that the best? Our kids I am sure thought we were rock star parents for playing in the rain.
Natural Hikers & OutdoorPlay
Our Shoreline, WA group is for 0-5, all-season play group, cancels with heavy rain or significant amounts of snow preventing easy travel in our area. We meet at a variety of parks on Mondays from 3:30-4:30pm
Please contact Mary Alice Long if you are interested in joining us
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or 206/200-4542
Also visit Play=Peace @ http://playequalspeace.com