Parenting doesn't have to be hard.
Lately you’ve been feeling burnt-out on parenting. It feels like you’ve tried everything and you’ve just hit a wall. One day you visit the park with your child and you see a little one who is on the verge a major meltdown. You immediately feel for the parent as they kneel down trying to alleviate the situation, you have been there and you know the disaster that’s coming. But then with a touch, a look, and a short conversation the child is suddenly back, happily playing again. You are in shock. What is their secret?! What are you missing?
You love your child deeply, but you feel like you don’t enjoy parenting anymore, what happened? You've committed so much time and energy to finding the perfect tool or strategy for your child. You're exhausted. Now, you find yourself searching for the courage to find more to this parenting thing than frustration and struggle.
Because you love your child, you already...
- You know that the relationship with your child is valuable
- Are curious about what to do next, because you know there is more, you want to do the best you can
- Are ready to experience a play-filled parenting connection that is based on true knowledge.
However, right now, you have hit a wall and...
- Realized you cannot parent alone
- Started yelling, rather than talking
- Began correcting instantly, rather than connecting
- Found it hard to be authentic due to exhaustion
- Now you're overwhelmed and feel like giving up and know there has to be an easier way
You're ready for a change
You’re tired of feeling isolated, overwhelmed, inadequate, and ashamed that you can’t figure out how to parent your child. But you’re dedicated to learning about your child and their needs.
You need information that fits with your schedule, a researched-based framework, that is child-development focused, conscious about connection and relationship, and accounts for whole-child wellness from someone who lives it.
You crave connection with other like-minded parents. You recognize the importance of those relationships in helping you raise a resilient child while empowering you as a parent to find joy again. You’re looking for a professional who not only has the information you need, you know they have been in the trenches with you. Someone who can simplify, encourage, and help you bring joy to parenting.
You know now is the time.
- You are ready to learn to connect, bring joy back to your parenting.
- You are ready to decrease the power struggles.
- You are ready to learn to parent YOUR child.
- You are ready to feel more confident in your relationship with your child.
Playful Wisdom is an educational platform that helps parents go from confused and struggling to empowered with curiosity and connected in their parenting relationship.
Being a parent is no easy task, and it often feels thankless.
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Playful Wisdom offers real-world guidance to help you develop that inner know-how. So that you know what to do when you don’t know what to do. We have found that knowledge in a few areas (neuroscience, attachment, child development, & play) can make parenting easier and bring back the joy of being a parent!
Playful Wisdom isn't
- A typical parenting model of "do this or do that technique." Nor is it a consequence-based parenting or a behavior management model.
- A magic wand or a “quick fix” that will magically fix every problem or challenge you are facing with your child. (Building connections and relationships take work.)
- A place to shame other parent’s for their decisions, mistakes, or failures.
- A guide to parent survival, but seeks to help you thrive instead.
Playful Wisdom is
- A safe professional space to learn and grow as a parent and family unit
- Focused on the relationship and connectivity between the parent and child.
- Developed by a collective of highly-trained child and family therapists who are on the front lines of child mental health and have "seen it all." Every day we see how empowered parents are the greatest resource for helping children overcome difficulties. We also recognize the lack of sound resources and guidance available for parents when it comes to parenting the whole child- emotional, mental, social & physical.
- An on-demand program for parents to get the information they are curious about.
- A place where parents can find community and learn from others who have faced similar challenges.
When you join the Playful Wisdom Community you will:
- Learn how to parent playfully to increase connection and strengthen the parent-child relationship.
- Know the neuroscience behind your child's development and behaviors and learn what experts in the field are discovering about development.
- Learn how ALL behavior is communication and with connection, unwanted behaviors can improve.
- Learn how a human's sensory system directly impacts their behavior. Learn to identify and print to these primitive systems.
- Learn how your parenting blueprint is impacting the way you parent.
- Understand how your child's brain development changes over time, thus parenting strategies must shift!
- Gain access to our library of Parenting Seminars.
Knowledge
Founded in neuroscience research and child development from Licensed Mental Health clinicians. These clinicians are specially trained in child attachment, sensory regulation, and brain-based practices they speak your child’s language and translate this knowledge to you.
Connection
To know belonging, where you can come as you are, receive support, and develop connected relationships with your child by learning the power of play.
Curiosity
Learn how curiosity fosters connection, decreases conflicts, and strengthens your parent-child bond. These courses will challenge you to shift your thinking about parenting. We will give you resources and skills to develop a relationship that grows your child’s brain and regulates calm,increasing your resilience as a parent and increasing communication with your child.
Hope
There is more hope for you becoming the parent you have always wanted to be. These courses acknowledge the depth of learning and practice that parenting takes to raise healthy humans. This community acknowledges how incredibly difficult this parenting experience can be while at the same time believing struggle is a part of the journey, not the final destination.
Empowerment
This is where you can find reprieve, rising above the chaos of the day-to-day and gaining clarity on not only what might be going on for your child, but what is also going on with YOU and what you can do to bring balance for both of you.
Community
An intimate, heartfelt, and authentic community of parents who are learning to grow, feel supported, and give support to others who share their lived experience within the Playful Wisdom parenting community.
Hi, I'm Cary Hamilton
I am a therapist, play therapist, professor, international parenting consultant, wife, and mother of two.
Both my children have neurodiverse brains, and one has significant sensory challenges and sleep disorder resulting in constant bewilderment and struggles. After gaining knowledge of sensory systems and neuroscience from the STAR Institute and the work of Dr. Bruce Perry, it changed my career and parenting forever, it changed the way I see relationships and child behaviors. However, applying my knowledge in my career was much easier than being in the day-to-day parenting chaos at home. I found that things were still really hard and that it was challenging to stay regulated myself. I felt like I still needed to develop and grow my understanding of the neurodevelopmental relational model and support of others who “got it”. I have read parenting books, I teach graduates skills to heal and connect with children, yet I was alone in my own parenting. So I created Playful Wisdom with my highly skilled colleagues to pass on our knowledge and support to the greater community.
Foundations Sessions Include:
1. Whole Child Wellness & Why Play is Essential in Parenting
2. Body Before Brain-- Sensory Systems & the 4 Foundational Senses
3. Body Before Brain - 4 Functional Senses
4. Knowing the Brain is Key!
5. Our History is Passed On-Intergenerational Impacts on Parenting
6. Parenting Styles & Attachment
7. Shame Resilience & Guilt in Parenting
8. Connection Before Correction
9. Say Yes, to Failure & Repair
10. Showing Up & Being With- Bring it all together
Playful Wisdom is all about meeting your needs to have a healthy thriving family.
First is our Foundations course that introduces you to the basic knowledge of how to be a playful wisdom parent. The education and knowledge for you to gain perspective and learning on the brain, the body, connection, and play concepts as they apply to parenting. You can take this course at your pace as it is all online with short videos to cover the learning of each lesson. Including a Parenting Handbook with worksheets to apply your skills learned.
Second, you will gain access to our private Facebook community where you have Q &A sessions with one of our Playful Wisdom curators to apply the skills learned in each lesson to your specific child and parenting needs.
Third, you can join in on calls with a Playful Wisdom Curator to get your questions answered and relate to fellow parents who are often amazing teachers as well.
Fourth, you can have 1:1 sessions with our Playful Wisdom Curators to get even more in-depth parent coaching specific to your pain points, stuck moments, and managing your child’s and self-expectations to the changes as you implement the Playful Wisdom Parenting model. Sometimes as the parent you just need a fresh perspective to point you in the right direction.
Fifth, Gain access to our library of Parenting Seminars on more specialized topics & Connect with other Playful Wisdom parents to build your support community.
Our
Foundations Class!
As parents, we KNOW life is crazy right now &
burnout is feeling real.
We are here to support & help you to gain back some
resiliency by making parenting
JOY-filled again.