Hunger for Play
"This is a great hunger in our culture as a real game." This is a quote from Stuart L. Brown, MD, who play for years has studied in children. He is among a growing number of physicians, psychologists, child development specialists and other professionals who speak the apparent lack of real children play today. Are they right? Our children are hungry to play?
Play to be defined, researchers agree that the activities must meet five of the childrenCriteria
1. Play should be enjoyable and fun.
2. It must be spontaneous and voluntary.
3. A piece of work contains an element of make believe.
4. The player must be actively recruited in the game.
5. Games, not external goals. *
While the children most likely to engage in play activities, some of these criteria, is an activity that, together, for all five to play as true. Lack of activities for the children of today seem to be twoMain areas: numbers four and five.
Encourage many toys on the market, rather than passive active play. In this era of high-tech toys, children push a button and speak often we play to watch. The construction toy set to play the activity and determines how it will be done with the will. The same goes for many other typical activities for children will be told today – television, cinema, computer and video games. The problem with these activities is that the childis nothing new about his imagination. The child has lived an active participant in creating the game.
Number five criteria that should be done to play with all the external goals. Much of what "play" with the children of today have a secret agenda and it teaches a skill. Many toys today are "educational" and Clever marketing has parents who need them for baby's brain, he said that with the flash cards with their child to stimulate,Teach reading to their children in preschool. Some of the most popular games of today have names like Einstein, the genius, Mozart, and scholar. While there is nothing wrong with playing with children know, the point is that learning occurs naturally in the course of the game's true. All children are exploring with the desire to discover and learn, was born. The most effective means of achieving this is through their play.
When you play with the water, children learn about the weight to hold the sale of food in one,storing the learning of numbers, symbols with toys, are abstract thought – a prerequisite for reading. All these activities lay the foundation for learning the course.
And 'interesting to note that even though children seem to be free of gaming experience true that most parents agree that the game is too important for the development of their children. In fact, research has shown that parents know what types of games that are more advantageous for the children! * If parents feel thatthe game is important and knowing what types of games are good, why are children not to play in this type of unstructured free play? Evolutionary psychologist Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, PhD and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, PhD, the parents, "we know what to do, but we can not bring ourselves to do so. We fear that if we trust our instincts, our children are gone for learning some critical skills. "Her book, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards showsotherwise.
My hope is that we will once again play for real childhood is like that door is. How many of us to resume the process of birth, as we trust our instinct for investment, we value our children need to play, creativity and respect for the importance of things in their lives.
So we can begin to do this:
• Make play a part of everyday life of the child. Set a time for free play, play, indirect, uninterrupted by adults, each of whichDay.
• Let your child for the sake of playing. They have a 'hidden agenda "to" teach "or" learning "during the game.
• Provision of non-structured, multi-purpose games. Toys, which are not detailed and encourage active participation by the child. The child must use their imaginations "to" the toy. This also fosters creativity and gives the child the chance to pretend that an infinite number of possibilities. In addition, there is some evidence that this type of gameDevelop materials out-of-the-box "thinking and problem solving .*
• eliminate or limit the television. Television is a passive activity. It may also ask to perform a number of other challenges to true: children reenacting television instead of playing our own imagination to have fun, exposure to violence and contribute to business and marketing needs.
• Pay attention to images and sensations of your children take on young children are only awareTop of the world around them to know, try to give them a good image of their world. Toys that are made of natural materials like wood and cotton, mainly because it's nice to kind of warmth and quality that the synthetic counterparts should not be matched. The images that reflect the beauty of nature is preferable, characterizations and cartoon-like reproductions.
• Giving children a life worthy of emulation. Children learn by imitation. Watch yourself with the penaltymake their daily tasks a lot of things, and play the role.
• Select a play based preschool. Children learn best through play too. Research shows that children who enter kindergarten academic guidance, do not attend school with more skills or attitudes towards learning .*
• Discover. Do some reading on child development and the importance of play and play materials. Question marketing of toys claim based on brain research. For example, it might surpriseMozart effect you know, has done a study on children and college kids?
• be involved. There are many organizations that pressure to play free to join and encourage many parents to do so. The Alliance for Childhood (www.allianceforchildhood.org) is a large. They provide information for parents and their free, you can e-mail newsletter.
Play promotes healthy growth of children in every aspect of development – physically, intellectually, socially and emotionally. Itis truly food for the children's bodies, mind and soul. We entertain with a wonderful "real" game experience.
* Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D. and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, PhD. Einstein did not used Flash Cards. (Rodale, 2003)
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