Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth. Play also offers an ideal opportunity for parents to engage fully with their children. Despite the benefits derived from play for both children and parents, time for free play has been markedly reduced for some children. This lecture addresses a variety of factors that have reduced play, including a hurried lifestyle, changes in family structure, and increased attention to academics and enrichment activities at the expense of recess or free child-centered play. This lecture offers guidelines on how pediatricians can advocate for children by helping families, school systems, and communities consider how best to ensure that play is protected as they seek the balance in children’s lives to create the optimal developmental milieu.
The following topics will be included in lecture on Importance of Play for Children by the Purple Centre :
- Social and Emotional Development
- Learning Through Play – a Child’s Job
- The Serious Need for Play
- Why is Play important?
- Improving Confidence Through Play
- Individual Play Patterns
- A Balanced Diet of Play
- Top Tips To Boost Your Child’s Confidence Through Play
- The importance of play for children
- Some of the reasons we play:
- The lifelong benefits of play
- Playing at work: The key to productivity and innovation
- Play, creativity, and flow
- Learning how to play again
- Let the Children Play, It’s Good for Them!
- Different types of play
- How play develops with your child
- 10 reasons play makes babies smarter
- Importance of play in a child’s life
- Finding Balance is Key