BENEFITS OF PLAYING!!!

**In Children **
We know the benefits of play in children to include: helping children develop language and reasoning skills, encouraging autonomous thinking and problem solving as well as helping to improve their ability to focus and control their behavior.

Play also aids children to learn discovery and develop verbal and manipulative skills, judgment and reasoning and creativity.

What about ADULTS???
Playing with your partner, friends, co-workers, pets, and children is a sure (and fun) way to fuel your imagination, creativity, problem-solving abilities, and emotional well-being.

Adult play is a time to forget about work and commitments, and to be social in an unstructured, creative way.

Play could be simply goofing off with friends, sharing jokes with a coworker, throwing a frisbee on the beach, building a snowman in the yard, playing fetch with a dog, acting out charades at a party, or going for a bike ride with your spouse with no destination in mind.

There doesn’t need to be any point to the activity beyond having fun and enjoying yourself. By giving yourself permission to play with the joyful abandon of childhood, you can reap oodles of health benefits throughout life.

So Dearest, make out time to play this holidays and joyfully so...
Normalize striking a balance, more like... Work hard, play harder.