Sand therapy with children

Sandplay with children begins with the game.

Child can be offered: "Let's play in the smooth sand." Playing with sand is characterized by several parameters.

    1. Capturing the game: 1-1,5 years. The game allows you to delve into themselves. Subjects in this age - it is the images that are associated with close friends. At this age, yet there is no concept of time, so it should be structured by parents. If a child learns to master the space (through the emotional experience), he learns to master the time. It is important to consider such a thing as "linear time" - an event can be emotionally charged (for example, dreams, feeding, walking). And in this regard, the child can say this: "It is time for a walk" (instead of "Let's go for a walk"). And if you walked and the child began to cry - "It's time to sleep." Thus, the child will learn to perceive time.
    2. The playing space - it is always the internal space. A child gathers objects and phenomena from real world, placing them in the game, and then in the inner world. And in the game all the dreams are realized! Adults can play their children as dolls (I did not become a dancer, so my daughter will need it). Children do play with themselves.
    3. Culture Games - a culture built on the principle that, as children play with themselves. It is important that the rules of the game coincided with his inner world.
    4. The game involves trust. Confidence in the game means: 1) the fear game. 2) the loss of his "I". As adults, this manifests itself in sports (especially professional). On the one hand - sports coach of our psyche, and on the other - if only the physical development takes place, with growing alarm. And when this feeling is too great, people are throwing sports.