M. has spent her morning in the children centre, playing with water and the dolls house. When I attended the course about play and communication, the tutor was giving an example on how to play with your child following the 5 rules (describe, describe, describe,describe, ask) showing M. how to play with a doll and a doll house. It was fantastic! At first he asked her many questions, like we parents usually do when we play with our children, like:"where shall we put the doll?" "what does she do?" "shall we put her here?". M. was looking at him like he came from Mars. She wasn't moving, she wasn't answering any of the questions, waiting for him to do everything. And then he played following the rules: "look this dolly wants to have a bath, she turns the tap on...oh dear it's too hot! She turns the cold tap on...now it's better. She is having a bath, and now she is trying up with a towel." M. was observing carefully, and when he finished playing, she took the dolly up and she started copying exactly what he had done early! Amazing.
Of course this was an eye opening experience, and I started communicating with her in the describing way rather than in the questioning way.
She grew so much since then, now she can play with lots of toys alone when before she didn't know what to do with them.
When we came back home from the children centre, she got some animals and characters out and started playing alone, making sounds, moving them around and talking to them.
We had a great time at the children centre; there are lots of different activities troughtout the week and they are all free. They also organize some adult courses, as the one I attended, play and communication, first aid, cook for a fiver and many more. More over you are able to meet other parents with the same age child as yours and they can play together and you can have a chat. You can find information on your local children centres on your council web site.
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