If we change our language and say a child is seeking connection instead of attention, would it change our responses?

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Lisa Murphy joins me to intelligently gush about one of our favorite books, and why it’s such an important work for our field.

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Tiffany Pearsall is back and we talk about making the transition from working with preschool children to working with toddlers.

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Newly published children’s author David Cahn joins me to talk about his new book, Umar.

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Heather and Lisa unpack a quote from the play classic “The Play’s the Thing”

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Heather is joined by Lisa Murphy to discuss whether what we believe matches how we act, with some semi-weird Dan Hodgins fan girling.

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Has your attitude about making children clean up changed? Ours has.

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The Play Coach (Emma Tempest) joins the podcast as a new cohost and we get all riled up about, you guessed it, play.

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Have you heard of the work of Tina Bruce? She says that maybe play is too important to leave to chance. We wonder.

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Sam Balch is back on the podcast to discuss effective, and ineffective, responses to children’s mistakes

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