How to set up a Playroom for your Valleys Kid

Calculate your child’s Environment Variable using my Bodygraph Calculator.

Ensuring your child’s (or children’s) play environment is set up to meet their needs is crucial to healthy development at home. It’s totally possible to create a space that is perfect for all your kids, so be sure to look up the other Environments if you have more than one child at home.

The playroom is a great space to expose your child to the natural elements they require in their environment. By taking great care in observing what works and doesn’t work for your child, you’ll be able to train your child to recognize what they resonate to through a natural osmosis.

From ages zero to 30, our bodies are in their energetic childhood. It’s important to expose our bodies to the space they resonate to, because the Environment becomes crucial in the second life phase during the 30s, 40s, and 50s. If you are not aware of what you do and do not resonate to at that time, life can become very challenging. Our wellbeing relies on our state and resonance within our Environment.

Set your children up by encouraging them through aligned practices that work for them, and creating a nurturing and supportive learning environment that fits their unique needs and learning style.

Create a ritual in the space

Maybe you start the day together with circle time and chatting about your dreams, or perhaps you wind down the day with Big Breaths and meditation after dinner — whatever works for you and your family, bring ritual into the playroom for your Valley’s child.

Create a communal space

In order to build rituals with others, so your child can look forward to the regularity of plugging in, ensure the space can accommodate coming together. If you come together to chat, ensure there is the appropriate seating. If you plug in for meditation, ensure you have your mats, music, or required privacy (like closing doors).

Bring in music

Whether it’s singing in the morning, filling the space with instruments, ensuring the keyboard is there for their Thursday night lessons, or if you create kid-friendly playlists on your Sonos, infuse the space with heart-warming sounds to fill your Valleys child with musical delight.

Create a Nature Project

Whether you are watching how mould grows on different organic items, are taking care of a caterpillar through it’s stages to becoming a butterfly, or germinating baby plants right from seed, bring in a natural project into your playroom. Encouraging your child to check in with it and notice shifting and changes over time.

Create a Quiet Corner

Lay out the pillows, blankets, beanbags, books, iPad and headphones, and create a quiet corner for your child to unplug or wind down through when they need it. Encourage them to use their quiet corner when they get overstimulated, taking great care to keep it a warm and feel-good space, rather than a place of punishment or time-outs.

Lots of stuffies, dolls or toy figures

Filling the space with a range of personalities helps fill the space with presence, making your child feel like there are a lot of people around. Whether that’s a basket of stuffies ready whenever for a quick tea party, or an impressive collection of action figures across a shelf that spans the length of the room, create presence in the space by showing numerous characters as it pertains to your child’s interests.

Uplifting and spacious messages

Consider uplifting phrases or power words strewn across the walls like art. Infuse the space with feel—good messaging. Create a post-it wall full of short poems, or order empowering phrases from a favourite artist. Put the energy in the walls.

Consider a “Plug-in Corner”

I’m a big advocate for encouraging safe and responsible relationships with our technology. For me, that means finding a balance with tech in our home. For Valleys kids, having a gaming area, Youtube zone, or big family theatre to watch shows or practice VR on is a great atmosphere to bring to your Valleys child. When there is an intentional “plug-in area” that creates more room to live more of life unplugged. Rather than being plugged in to their tech all the time, Valleys kids thrive with a spacious relationship to their tech. They’re vulnerable to becoming fried. Learning their limits through trial and error is really helpful to remember as they’re learning their dynamics with tech, or social media or the concept of plugging in.