126 Your Child Has Imaginary Friends? Deborah Greenhut Tells A Parent’s Story To Using These Friends For Healing And Learning

Hey Friends~  Does your child have Imaginary Friends?  Are you concerned?  Today's guest shows how to create and use those friends for a purpose - to bring about health and healing. This episode shares a delightful story of an insightful doctor with amazingly superb advice for this particular child.  This episode is a feel good story that will inspire your creativity in helping your child.  It is an episode you will love.  Always cheering you on!  Dinalynn   CONTACT the Host, Dinalynn:  hello@thelanguageofplay.com CONTACT THE GUEST: Deborah.greenhut@gmail.com ABOUT THE GUEST: Speaker, Author, Educator and three-time family caregiver, Deborah S. Greenhut, PhD is passionate about sharing her experiences to help other family caregivers consider carefully the boundaries they need for effective family caregiving. Deborah's recently published book, "The Rational Caregiver," an Amazon Best Seller and Top New Release this year, shares her framework for approaching caregiving with rational awareness, acceptance, and responsibility to achieve do-able results in your caregiving assignment. In 2022, Deborah published a novel based on her own experience, "The Hoarder's Wife," about a struggling relationship that imploded after 35 years due to a mental health crisis.  Deborah teaches memoir writing to seniors at the Rutgers University Osher Lifelong Learning Program. Dr. Greenhut graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College, and holds a PhD from Rutgers University. Her professional life has alternated between university teaching and corporate training for more than 50. years.   RESOURCES from The Language Of Play Join the FREE Interactive Webinar! May 13, 2024  10 AM CST   https://dinalynnr.systeme.io/workshop-free-2ddd5182 Sign up for my newsletter! https://tinyurl.com/vkvspbx4 Sign up for FREE 21 Days of Encouragement in your inbox ! https://tinyurl.com/5n8f4att Join my new FREE Facebook Community : https://tinyurl.com/4pe8m9za Have Questions about Working together?  Sign up for a 15 min "Let's Meet Session" on zoom!  https://tinyurl.com/5xbhkr6x For Speaking Engagements or For 1:1 or Group Parent Coaching (virtual or live), contact me at hello@thelanguageofplay.com   If You Liked This Episode, You Will Want To Listen To These Episodes: 88 Why Is Imaginary Play So Important? 91 Using Play Dress Up To Teach Life Skills! 105 Building Language Through Imagination And The Christmas Story, part 1 106 Building Language Through Imagination And The Christmas Story, part 2        

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Getting Kids to Listen, Happy Home, Speech Therapy, Family Connection, Communication with Kids, Coaching Are you tired of repeating yourself with your children or wonder why they don’t listen? Are you frustrated that your kids argue, whine or debate with you? Are you afraid you are doing the wrong thing to manage behavior but you are not sure what to do? Hey parents, you don’t need to stay overwhelmed, exhausted, and triggered by the fuss. In this podcast, you will find solutions to …get kids to listen better with clear communication and boundaries that benefit kids. All while enhancing your relationships! My mission is to help puzzled, busy, worried parents read their child’s behavior as communication. When we understand what they are communicating, WE start to communicate differently. This is true of children with normal language development, children in dual language homes, and children with language delay. When your Language is Playful, you use words that allow for discovery, creativity, curiosity and exploration, which empowers and encourages. Connection is born. Connected kids are courageous and listen better. Connected kids have fewer meltdowns. Listen in to learn strategies for teaching and listening so that your child feels seen and heard and you build resiliency. Hello, my name is Dinalynn Rosenbush, mom, grandma, Speech Language Pathologist of over 25 years. I’ve worked with hundreds of children with speech & language delays and personally, navigated divorce and single parenting. Through training and my own struggles, I learned to use specific language in specific ways to build connection. I learned to teach AND USE better communication. Our communication is not only our words, but it is the feeling our children have when we speak with them. Let’s create a home where exploration is welcomed, mistakes are stepping stones, and practice is expected. Your kids know you are on their team. And, eventually, they will join your team! Because, what works for speech and language disabled children, simply works! I believe all parents should have access to these skills, not just specialists. It is my hope to give small nuggets of information in each episode to build your communication toolbox. So, if you are ready to build deep, meaningful connection AND create a more peaceful, productive and happy home. Listen in! Let’s interrupt the way you have been parenting. so that you CAN BECOME THE PARENT you WANT to be. I’m glad you are here! Dinalynn CONTACT: hello@thelanguageofplay.com