Games to Play With Toddlers
Games to Play with Toddlers
We've all heard the term, "Oh, that's child's play." It implies a thing is easy, frivolous and unimportant in the overall scheme of things. But to a child, child's play is crucial to their psychological, social, mental, and physical development.
We all know that children like to have fun. But what we may not know is the significance of play in a child's life. Play is crucial to every area of a child's growth and development.
Play provides a means for power to be put to use. It helps build small and large motor skills. Sensory learning develops mainly through play. Play is important to physical achievement in that without it the body could not grow and develop normally.
Children have got a natural curiosity. They, explore, learn and make sense out of their surroundings by playing. Parents and teachers alike can assist this learning activity by supplying toys that are appropriate for the Childs age.
Play enables children to know details about the world and to discover information crucial to learning. Through play children learn fundamental concepts such as colors, counting, how to put blocks together, and how to solve problems. Thinking and reasoning abilities are at work every time a child engages in some type of play.
Children learn to relate to one another, role play, take turns, and follow directions through play. They also learn acceptable social behavior. A child makes and keeps friends through play.
Playing games and learning to take turns fulfills many needs including a sense of self worth and accomplishment, They find out about fairness, and through pretending learn alternate ways of expressing emotion such as feeling sad, fearful, distress, and discover ways of dealing with these feelings.
So encourage your child's play. Color pictures, play games, build buildings and imaginary cities with blocks, dressing up in different costumes or your old clothes stimulates their imagination. And as we all know, childhood passes by quickly, so let them have fun and find ways to stimulate their curiosity and always asking you the all important question why mommy.
We've all heard the term, "Oh, that's child's play." It implies a thing is easy, frivolous and unimportant in the overall scheme of things. But to a child, child's play is crucial to their psychological, social, mental, and physical development.
We all know that children like to have fun. But what we may not know is the significance of play in a child's life. Play is crucial to every area of a child's growth and development.
Play provides a means for power to be put to use. It helps build small and large motor skills. Sensory learning develops mainly through play. Play is important to physical achievement in that without it the body could not grow and develop normally.
Children have got a natural curiosity. They, explore, learn and make sense out of their surroundings by playing. Parents and teachers alike can assist this learning activity by supplying toys that are appropriate for the Childs age.
Play enables children to know details about the world and to discover information crucial to learning. Through play children learn fundamental concepts such as colors, counting, how to put blocks together, and how to solve problems. Thinking and reasoning abilities are at work every time a child engages in some type of play.
Children learn to relate to one another, role play, take turns, and follow directions through play. They also learn acceptable social behavior. A child makes and keeps friends through play.
Playing games and learning to take turns fulfills many needs including a sense of self worth and accomplishment, They find out about fairness, and through pretending learn alternate ways of expressing emotion such as feeling sad, fearful, distress, and discover ways of dealing with these feelings.
So encourage your child's play. Color pictures, play games, build buildings and imaginary cities with blocks, dressing up in different costumes or your old clothes stimulates their imagination. And as we all know, childhood passes by quickly, so let them have fun and find ways to stimulate their curiosity and always asking you the all important question why mommy.