The kids would love to play. They enjoy play time so that they often forgot to eat, forget not even want to learn to do other activities if you are playing. Parents also have to pull the vein advance if ordered his son to stop playing and want to do homework (pr) or learning. This often causes parents assume that children learn to be lazy and just wants to play it. In this article will discuss why the play was considered important by some development experts and to the extent where the play is beneficial for children's development.
Play
Papalia (1995), an expert on human development in his book Human Development, said that children develop by playing. Child's world is a world of play. With children's play using a muscle in his body, stimulate his senses, exploring the world around them, discover what kind of environment he lived in and discover what their own. By playing, children discover and learn things or learn new skills and (learn) when to use these skills, as well as what the needs are satisfied (need). Through play, children will be trained physical, cognitive abilities and the ability to interact with others will flourish.
Play certainly is a different thing to learn and work. According to Hughes (1999), an expert on child development in his book Children, Play, and Development, said there should be 5 (five) elements in an activity called play. The five elements are
- Purpose of playing the game itself and the perpetrator gets the satisfaction of having done so (no target), not for example get the money.
- Freely chosen. Selected their own game, do the will of its own and no one asked or forced.
- Fun and enjoyable.
- There is a utopian element in its activities.
- Actively and consciously done. .
Outside the Hughes opinion, there are experts who defines play as any activity that is felt by her children a fun and enjoyable (pleasurable and enjoyable). Play can use the tools (toys) or not. Just running around in the room, felt that these activities enjoyable by children, activities and even then can be called play.
Benefits of Play
Read the description of the importance of play, a parent may think the things mentioned above can be obtained in a way children learn (study). Even with a clever child can learn, if you play all the time the child can not smarter. This argument is true as well, especially if the intelligence is only related to academic skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic. But in everyday life, intelligence is not just reading, writing and arithmetic, as well as academic ability is not the only thing that is important and necessary. There are other things that are important and necessary, such as the ability to communicate, to understand the perspectives of others and negotiate with people. These things can not be obtained simply by learning. Feeling happy, enjoy, free choice and free from any burden because they had no target, can not be obtained from the learning activities.
When playing, children imagine and coming up with ideas that are stored inside. Children express their knowledge he had about the world and then also at a time can acquire new knowledge, and all done in a joyous heart. Not only knowledge about the world that exists in the child's mind is expressed through play, but also things that he feels, fears and excitement. Parents will be able to get to know a child by watching when the kids play. Even the passing game (especially playing pura-pura/role-playing) parents may also find the impressions and expectations of parents and children to their families. Pretend play illustrates his understanding of the world where it is located.
Creativity of children is also growing through the game, because originallah ideas that came out of the minds of children, although sometimes it feels abstract for parents. Given that not only parents who are stressed, children can too. Stress in children can be caused by the burden of school lessons and daily routines are boring. Play can help children to escape from the stresses of everyday life.
Does the child need to play? Of course the obvious answer is that children need to play. Perhaps parents who feared that the child is too much play and not willing to learn. Back to the early illustrations, which need to be ascertained is whether the child still have time to play, after a solid learning activities. If it was in fact the child had time to play, and then continued to refuse to learn, then the problem is how do we motivate children to learn.
Some things are best done by parents to guide their children in a play that is really useful for the child, include the following:
- Make sure the child's busy schedule of everyday life, there is still enough time for children to play.
- Occasionally come into play with the children, know her, joy, fears and needs. Who knows after that is no longer a parent is too ambitious.
- Permainanan child support creativity, as far as what makes a child act in the game is not brash, not harm, do not hurt and do not endanger yourself and others.
- Guide and supervise children in the play, but not over-protective. The child may not know what it is doing in the game is wrong, therefore they need to be led. But do not be over-protective to inhibit freedom. For example, if a child running around playing run-and has been dropped is fair, so no need to forbid children to play run-away children for fear of falling. But if a child when playing a bicycle race, of course, need to be banned because of dangerous.
Even if the world is a world of playing children, but children need parental role for a world that can be safely and comfortably. By playing, not just the children feel happy and happy while doing it; but with proper guidance from parents, potential child may also develop, children can become smarter by means of the game. Happy children and happy parents.
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