Scaling Playful Parenting in National Health Systems in Bhutan

The impact brief captures the positive contribution of the Prescription to Play Project (Building Brains Common Approach) in creating early learning opportunities and promoting playful interactions between primary caregivers and their children. It highlights the the program’s positive impact on female caregiver knowledge of playful parenting as well as child development, particularly items relating to the role of parents being more than just feeding, cleaning, and clothing, the ability to play with children regardless of economic constraints, developmental processes, and norms and milestones, and positive views regarding discipline and gender.