This podcast is all about play and why it's crucial not just for kids, but for adults as well. Most of the podcast was derived from the book, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, by Stuart Brown MD and Christopher Vaughn.

  Topics include:

• Why we play at all. what is the purpose of play.
• The cognitive advantages of play.
• Why we stop playing as adults. 
• The 8 different play personalities.
• The 3 subtypes of social play: friendship and belonging, rough and tumble play, and celebratory and ritual play.
• I do a deep dive into the rough and tumble play and explain why it's important and why parents need to let it happen.
• Then we talk about how play is the lubrication that allows societies to function.
• And in this week's Call-to-Action we play. That's it. plain and simple. Play for the pure joy of it and have fun because you deserve to. 
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