Amazing Benefits Of Play
Play stimulates brain growth and enhances early development
Psychologist Edward Fisher analyzed 46 studies done on children’s play and found that play can enhance children’s early development. Such improvements ranging from 33% to 67% result from increase in children’s adjustment and language and decrease in their social and emotional problems.
Play improves intelligence, learning and memory
Living in a stimulating environment makes rats smarter. A larger cerebral cortex in their brains allow them to learn faster and have better memory. They find their way through mazes or swim to safety faster.
Play sparks creative thinking
Many studies have found significant relationships between play and divergent thinking, the type of thinking that generates creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions.
Link to communication, vocabulary, language learning and visual spatial skills
Link between early social play and later communication skills is evident in research, too.
For instance, one research found that if an infant initiated a toy play and if the mother responded by manipulating and naming the toys, the baby had better language development measured 3 months later.
University of Georgia scholars conducted a study by observing 65 kindergartners in the classrooms over a four-week period. The presence of play, especially pretend play, was found to predict these children’s performance in pre-reading, language and writing.
Pretend play can improve preschoolers’ expressive vocabulary (speaking) and receptive vocabulary (understanding). Children learn these by listening to each other when they play. Through social play children learn to reach agreement and to reciprocate words and actions.
Playing with blocks and objects has also been found to enhance children’s visual spatial skills, which are linked to better performance in STEM learning.
Pretend Play Facilitates Impulse Control And Emotion Regulation
Self-control is one of the most important skills for school readiness. Well-regulated children can wait for a turn, resist the temptation to grab a desired object from another child, control negative emotion and persist at a challenging activity.
Original Source: Facts for Life Global
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