Our Point of View
A manifesto for parents
The House of Play exists to support parents who are tender, tired, multi-dimensional humans — the kind who carry both dreams and doubts, both longing and love.
We believe family life is not about perfection, but about presence. Not about control, but about connection. Parenting is not a performance; it’s a nervous system story, shaping how safety and joy pulse through your home.
We bridge science and soul, offering language for what you’ve felt but couldn’t name: the way your body responds before your mind decides, the way your tone sets the rhythm of your home, the way healing in you creates safety for them.
This is not about adding more rules, or another chart on the fridge. It’s about becoming more attuned, more grounded, more free. Parenting as devotion. Parenting as repair. Parenting as play.
We are not chasing ideals; we are honouring the real work of becoming, alongside your children, not above them.
At our core, The House of Play is not just about parenting. It’s about reclaiming wonder, rewriting patterns, and building homes where laughter has room to live.
The House of Play isn’t just a place.
It’s a way of being together.
Why the name?
Because every parent parents from a “House” — a nervous system state that colors the way you respond, speak, and lead your family.
Some live in the House of Chaos, where everything feels loud and overwhelming.
Some live in the House of Control, where tight rules mask a longing for safety.
Some live in the House of Silence, where shutdowns hide what feels too much to carry.
And some live in the House of Play, where presence and joy come alive in the everyday.
The House of Play is not about choosing the “right” house, it’s about recognising the one you’ve been living in, and finding the path home.
Because parenting isn’t about erasing your nervous system.
It’s about listening to it, honoring it, and learning to lead from a place of regulation, repair, and play.
About Me
I am not here as a parent.
I am here as a witness.
As a mental health nurse, I have sat with adults carrying wounds they never asked for, wounds that began in childhood and calcified into patterns of shame, fear, and disconnection. I have seen how the echoes of childhood reverberate into adulthood in the harshest ways possible.
And through my work in child play therapy, I have learned something else: parents today are more reactive than ever. Our nervous systems are frayed, our patience thinned, and our capacity to play — to be with rather than manage our children — has been lost.
We have forgotten what parenting was meant to feel like.
We have forgotten that play is not frivolous; it is how humans connect, regulate, and heal. We have forgotten that cycles are not broken by willpower, but by presence.
The House of Play was born out of this remembering. Out of the belief that parenting is not about perfection or performance, but about returning to safety, rhythm, and joy.
I am here to stand beside you, not as someone with all the answers, but as someone who has seen what happens when we don’t change, and who knows what becomes possible when we do.
Because when we reclaim play, we don’t just raise children differently.
We change the trajectory of generations.
