When i first came out with the idea to start blogging, i had one aim, set deep inside my mind. I had this vision to share about how important early education to human life. It is something to do with us, as an adult, and as a parents to thousand thousands of children in the world. But let me put that aside for a while and focus to what is exactly it means with the word play, which is very significant to the children.
There are a lot of article out there, telling us how much the terms play, is very important in learning process especially for early childhood skills development. I don't need to mention about how many research and observation had been done researching closely about how play in early childhood can really affect their development, yet many people still think that play, after all is nothing bigger than the terms itself.
Basically, when children play, what we see from our naked eye, they was doing nothing other than eating or biting something unfamiliar stuff to them with their mouth. But the fact is, in that very moment, they actually building and practicing certain skills and put them into their brain, or what Vygotsky calls it, the scheme. So this is the scheme which will develop like a scaffolding, stage by stage, level by level. And remember, the whole stories was started with the word, play.
What the parents should do?
We as an adult often came out with the phrase like "no, don't play with that marker" to our children when we saw them holding a permanent marker ink on their hand. It wouldn't be so extreme to say that such words will kill the kids creativity and to be worst, killing their cognitive development. Believe me, its the truth. Knowledgeable parents will provide them a space, like a plain wall in any out-of-sight corner for them to develop their inner Picasso skills.
There are a lots more article regarding the importance of play in learning process which you can find over the internet. This is just some brief extraction from what i had learn the past few years. May it will help you and myself, in any ways, to be a better adult and parents to our children.
There are a lot of article out there, telling us how much the terms play, is very important in learning process especially for early childhood skills development. I don't need to mention about how many research and observation had been done researching closely about how play in early childhood can really affect their development, yet many people still think that play, after all is nothing bigger than the terms itself.
Basically, when children play, what we see from our naked eye, they was doing nothing other than eating or biting something unfamiliar stuff to them with their mouth. But the fact is, in that very moment, they actually building and practicing certain skills and put them into their brain, or what Vygotsky calls it, the scheme. So this is the scheme which will develop like a scaffolding, stage by stage, level by level. And remember, the whole stories was started with the word, play.
What the parents should do?
We as an adult often came out with the phrase like "no, don't play with that marker" to our children when we saw them holding a permanent marker ink on their hand. It wouldn't be so extreme to say that such words will kill the kids creativity and to be worst, killing their cognitive development. Believe me, its the truth. Knowledgeable parents will provide them a space, like a plain wall in any out-of-sight corner for them to develop their inner Picasso skills.
There are a lots more article regarding the importance of play in learning process which you can find over the internet. This is just some brief extraction from what i had learn the past few years. May it will help you and myself, in any ways, to be a better adult and parents to our children.
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