How much it is important that a child should play in childhood:
It is true that education is like a basic building block for a child's future. All parents dream for a better career for their children life. Everybody wants their child to be engineer, doctor and wants to see them in high posts. In this cuse throat competition children get pressurize with their activities to the extent that they don't get extra time for their own entertainment. Teachers also keep the children busy during the holidays by giving them assignments and homework. Therefore, children used to play with their siblings. So, the children easily got a play environment at home. However, now the time spent by child in playing was very less as compared to the past decades. Parents should understand that play is an important activity for children and they should not deprive their child from this opportunity.
Group games allows children to learn the values of team work. It also teaches them to cooperate with members of the team and develop self discipline. This also enables them to face negative situations in life and make them strong when they get defeated. Many studies have proved that children are playing games which have lots of violence are likely to be more short tempered and aggressive.
It is the duty of the parents to find out whether the children knows the difference between reality and fantasy. When this problem is not uprooted in the initial stages then it can take very ugly turn in child's life and they will start presuming that real life is also like the games and sports which they play. It will have a negative impact on child's mind because inappropriate games will impart wrong set of values in them. Through play children develop basic life skills; they also learn how to interact with their parents and adults. It is through play that children develop basic life skills; they learn how to interact with their peers and with adults.
There are certain benefits that children get after playing. These benefits are given below:
1. Reduces fear, stress, anxiety, irritability
2. Generate joy, intimacy, self-esteem and mastery not based on other's loss of esteem
3. Improves emotional flexibility and openness
4. Increases calmness, resilience and adaptability and ability to deal with surprise and change
5. Decreases tactile defensiveness
6. Healing process for hurts
7. Enhances feelings of acceptance of difference
8. Increases empathy, compassion, and sharing
9. Creates options and choices
10. Models relationships based on inclusion rather than exclusion
11. Alternative to aggressor-victim model of relationships
12. Decreases revenge and need for self defense
13. Improves touch and nonverbal socialization skills
14. Increases attention and attachment capacities
15. Positive emotions increase the efficiency of immune, endocrine, and cardiovascular systems
16. Decreases stress, fatigue, injury, and depression
17. Integrates sensor motor, kinesthetic and emotional responses
In conclusion every child should be allowed to play as they learn so many skills from playing, and from defeating. Play is essential for every child's development as it make them well balanced grown up and prepare with all the essential life skills needed.
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