Thursday, September 16, 2010

Playing is Learning



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Who can deny that the world is the world's children playing and playing is learning.
This opinion was reinforced by child development experts, among them:
  • Papalia (1995) in the book "Human Development", saying that children develop in a way to play.
  • Jackie Silberg, speaker, teacher and coach known about the development of infants and children in his book "Brain Games" (2004) mentions that the play is a builder units from the boy's future learning.

By playing, children will:
  • Many discover and learn things or new skills
  • A great way to learn, when to use this / these skills
  • Fulfillment and satisfaction of what the needs of the children themselves.
  • Make a child's physical will be trained
  • The development of cognitive skills and the ability to interact.
  • Creativity of children growing
  • Helping children to escape from the stresses of everyday life.

In the play, not just knowledge about the world that there is in the minds of children who expressed, but also things he felt, such as: fear, sadness and joy.

For that there is no other word to guide their children in play, it is very necessary role of the parents! With such guidance, will make it worthwhile, so really useful for these children, which are as follows:

1. With a busy schedule of daily child, make sure there are enough free time for children to play.
2. Play with your child, understand themselves as children feel the excitement, fears and needs.
3. Encourage creativity of children in play, so far no harm, no harm and not endanger themselves and others.
4. Guide and supervise children in play, with not too much protection to inhibit freedom.
5. Together and accompany the child so that they can exist in a world that is safe and comfortable.

Well ... from the description above, we can conclude the world is the world's children are playing. With guidance from the parents of the child's play is also going to learn everything. Therefore we can say that for the world of children, play is learning!