Allie Ticktin

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 166: Dr. Allie Ticktin on the Power of Play in Supporting Differently Wired Kids · 15 Jul 2019 podcast

And I think the first piece is a parent drawing back and realizing play at that age is not so structured.

And so let's meet the child where they're at.

Oftentimes I'll have a kid come in and they'll be talking about an ice cream shop.

And I'll say, okay, let's build an ice cream shop and we're on a swing and the swing is the ice cream maker and we're swinging on it to grind the ice cream and kind of coming up with these fun things.

So I think it's following your own child's interests and leads and getting into their world really, really helps to

to then allow them to come back into your world.

And then you guys have this moment together where you're able to truly communicate.

unnatural.

And I think that's the power of for me, I bring parents into our session and I get them to be silly with me.

Because if they're silly with me and they see me doing it also as an adult, they can imitate me a little bit more and then go home and imitate that.

But it's completely unnatural.

And I'll give you an example.

I recently had a father in with me, and he, you know, I said, he's really into Star Wars.

Let's get him to work.

This child has a really hard time playing.

And I said, let's.

Build on the Star Wars.

There's so many things you can do.

And we had created this whole imaginary world within Star Wars.

And I had the dad come and join us.

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