Stages of Play For Children

Steps to children's play

Games for kids? What are the benefits.

It 's just a time filler. A few parents do not think so. And through play, children can master a variety of physical and social skills and can develop a healthy psychology and personality.

Many parents forget or do not know to play an important role in the life of a child, especially under five and school age. Common symptoms are visible mainly in the cities, the children themselves filled with a variety of activities, academic performance and nonacademic continuing.

Consequently, the time many children performed various tasks of the school and follow a series of lessons are not necessarily to their liking. The child may be forced to do to satisfy the ambitions of their parents. However, children should be an opportunity for play and creativity, with the goal as important as learning.

Playing for children is an activity pursued for pleasure or satisfaction. Playing for children is a work-related activity, because the game is a preparation for the job. When the first activity (reading) is just for fun, little by little with the age of responses and social learning process of children in more leisure activities and for other purposes such as awards, accomplishments, expertise or materials.

The transition from reading activities at work require a learning process. In the study, the process of acquiring new skills that are relatively constant to a person and Ahani be effective if done in a systematic, planned and accompanied by a strengthening repeated. Thus, games for children need guidance from parents / teachers / other adults who received the child in terms of emotional, cognitive and psychomotor, and more fun.

Phase of play for children

According to psychologists, the development of play in cognitive development of children will be followed so that there will be a new set of babies, children, adolescents and adults. In psychology, there are four stages in the development of games for children under age categories, namely:

The first phase, children aged 0-18 months or 24 months.

At this stage, we use the reflexes, sensory and motor functions that

controlled to acquire knowledge and new skills. Children need to be encouraged to observe the environment and take their own initiatives for themselves, please. Therefore, free play activities, spontaneous and without rules of play activities including training to use and improve the detection, catching, kicking, punching and climbing.

The second phase, children aged 2 to 6 or 7 years.

At this stage, children begin to be able to think symbolically and to talk to understand the surrounding environment. As

thinking is still centered around him and the child is still unable to use logic hukumhukum experiences and reflections. When children fantasy increases progressively from the mind of the child is no longer centered on ourselves to socialization can be developed. Through play, children train for better control of gross and fine motor or reflective activities such as grading. Tata way of life in communities such as discipline and rules that are already known.

The third phase, children aged 7 to 11 years or 12 years.

At this stage, the child's ability to think, remember and communicate better because the child has

think more logically. Playground is currently dominated by the social game. Children are becoming interested in playing with his friends and interested in toys that are using certain rules.

The fourth phase, children aged 12 and older.

At this stage, children are able to think abstractly, to make assumptions or guesses better, not too attached to things that are tangible. At age 15, young people begin paying attention to literary work and try to solve problems. Function plays mostly the same as the third stage.

The pros and cons

Many of the benefits of the activities to be performed, so the children can develop the various aspects that are needed to prepare for the future. among other games, contribute to the development of physical development, emotional and social, moral and cognitive development and personality and language. The game can also be used as a tool for the close relationship between the child or parents / teachers / other adults, to create effective communication.

Playing for children is practiced and applied among educators, with satisfactory results. But there are some limitations in the application of ways to learn while playing this, among other things, pressure from parents who think that the most important in kindergarten is reading, math and writing, while the game was not good.

There are also educators and teachers who are in doubt, play to learn in class, lest the children become unmanageable and the classroom becomes chaotic. In fact, there are trainers who know little or nothing on the level or growth of children, so do not know where the limits are acceptable for children to digest.

In rural and urban areas many children who are bad idea. They are mostly children who are separated from the arms of their parents or guardians so that the instinct of the child to explore, or explore the surroundings to be slow or stagnant.

Plenty of toys for your child is unsafe, because due to boredom. The idea was not inspired or intrigued. It is recommended that toys should be removed piece by piece, and the children are encouraged to develop a game that was.

Unforced

Do not limit your child's desire to play, just because sex is different. Do not worry about a young man who loves to play with dolls, not just the father of the child? In addition, children should not be willing to make choices later?

In the most basic things children play one parent / educator is to talk, encourage, demonstrate and find change. The main theme of the game in social skills, emotional, cognitive and motor skills of children. So in this game, children get five, namely: the affection (feeling loved), acceptance (be accepted) and attention (attention and care) and adoption (to make things throat) and evaluation (the correct valuation of assets and interests of the child).

Activities of the game is fun and also to promote growth in each child and the child's development. That reasonable action to play not only seen as a typical child in the world, but also the rights of children. Do not steal the right of the child and stuck with science simply because of the ambition of the parents. Do you agree?