Advantages of children's games

Children require ample time to play and grow as individuals. According to the findings of scientific research, children's play has a very significant value since it allows them to express all of their needs and desires as well as their creativity and imagination.

 

 

 

 

 Children can engage in physical activity, learn how to get along with their peers, and develop a positive outlook on life through play. create gender-neutral roles, expand vocabulary, and find ways to deal with despair. Play is very important for kids' total growth in addition to their physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development.

To spark fresh thinking, the following will go over each advantage of playing for kids. Enables you to utilize playtime activities while creating personalized development plans for kindergarten.

1. Play sparks creativity

In a safe and fun play environment, playing encourages children to find ideas and use their imagination. The results of the study support the notion that play and creativity are interrelated because both play and creativity rely on children's ability to use symbols (Spodek & Sarcho, 1988).

Creativity can be seen as an aspect of problem-solving that has its roots in play when children use their imagination to play with or without tools, they are more creative.

You pay close attention when some children play freely in the family area, for example, playing with doctors, the toy blocks can be a telephone to call the doctor to come to treat their sick child, and their conversation is very creative.

The doctor's composition came with a stethoscope from a beam which looks like a stethoscope according to the child, the doctor examined it with comforting words and some advice accompanied by a thank you by the mother, then the mother paid with money from the previously torn newspaper for real money and The doctor also gave me a prescription. Do you think this children's game doesn't trigger creativity?

2. Playing is Beneficial to Educate the Brain

Play is a very important medium for the thinking process of children playing. To help cognitive development, children's play contributes to the intellectual development or intelligence of thinking by opening the way to various experiences, which of course enriches their way of thinking. try to pay attention when the children play.

3. Playing is Useful in Resolving Conflict

In kindergarten-age children, the behavior that often comes to the surface is the behavior of refusing, competing, being aggressive, fighting, imitating cooperation, being selfish, sympathetic, angry, cranky, and wanting to be accepted by their social environment. if we look closely, more asocial behavior appears in social behavior, it is understandable in this period conflict is unavoidable. social.

Kindergarten provides opportunities for children through playing in large groups and small groups to resolve conflicts that occur. puppet plays, free dramatization, and storytelling with various methods are some of the play activities referred to.

4. Play is Useful To Train Empathy

Do you know what empathy is? Empathy is the recognition of feelings, thoughts, and attitudes of others, it can also be said that the recognition of other people's souls in other words empathy is a mental state that makes a person identify or feel himself in the same state of feelings or thoughts and attitudes as another person or group. other.

Empathy is a factor that plays a role in children's social development because with empathy children can feel the suffering of others. By developing empathy, children will be good at placing themselves and their feelings on themselves and the feelings of others and will develop tolerance. Through puppet play or guided dramatization, empathy can be developed in kindergarten

5. Playing is useful for sharpening the five senses

The five senses, namely sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are tools that need to be honed since children are still babies. The goal is of course so that children become more responsive and more sensitive to what is happening around them.

Visual acuity and hearing are very important and urgently needed by kindergarten-age children so they need to be developed immediately because it will help children learn to recognize and remember the forms of written symbols more easily, which will help children learn to read and write in elementary school.

There are many types of kindergarten games that support the development of the five senses, such as the aroma box game to practice the sense of smell, what sound game to practice the sense of hearing, pictures in books to practice the sense of sight, singing what tastes and games to taste various food flavors with eyes closed to train the senses tasting and more.

6. Playing as a Therapy Media (Treatment)

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, suggested that children use play as a way to deal with conflict and anxiety problems. Starting from this theory, psychiatrists got the inspiration to use play as a diagnostic tool to treat problem children who are known among experts with play therapy.

But not everyone can do it because it requires special skills from those who have received special education and training for it.

So if you find symptoms such as aggressive children who have behavioral disorders such as pulling hair until they are injured, afraid of going to school, always wet the bed in class or having difficulty getting along, don't want to talk to people at school, you should refer to an expert.

7. Playing Is Making Discoveries

This means that any child of any age at play is creating something new, something that has never been created before. The child will ask if there is something he needs or understands while playing. for experienced teachers children at play are often seen as making discoveries all the time.

This discovery could be coincidental as in playing in a tub of water when the child first discovers that the same amount of water can fill three equally large containers, or a large container and a small container when water is poured into a container such as a bottle. hands will splash everywhere, other with sand this discovery is very fun for children.

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