Teaching Life Skills Through Preschool Games

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Teaching Life Skills Through Preschool Games
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Games nurture respect, trust love
Children develop trust when their needs are met
positively and consistently. Being sensitive and
responsive to children strengthens this
relationship and influences their development. To
put it in a nutshell, Every child needs to be
loved in order to thrive. This is why it is
important for new moms dads to learn how their
child communicates or signals what she needs and
wants. Start by observing how your child
communicates when she is hungry, tired or
excited. Respond to these needs quickly and with
care.
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Games build imagination creativity
Free play in early childhood contributes to the
development of childrens creative thinking and
problem-solving skills which call for divergent
thinking including flexibility, fluency, and
originality. Learning through play provides
children with opportunities to develop their
creative thinking skills, such as allowing them
to view situations from different perspectives,
thinking of alternate strategies to resolve a
problem, and practising thinking in different
ways. The key to developing this ability is
through investment in time, the intensity of
engagement, the extent of exploration, and
discovery. These are also the means through which
preschoolers progress in their thinking and
reasoning skills.
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Games foster cognitive growth
Free play in early childhood is also important
for developing cognitive skills that is, your
childs ability to think, understand,
communicate, remember, imagine and work out what
might happen next. Playing games is essential to
fostering the growth of a healthy
brain. Unstructured play is the time when a child
feels in charge and decides how she plays. In
this form of play, your child is not bound by
schedules or activities. Structured play, on the
other hand, involves following rules or
instructions to ensure a particular outcome.
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Games ensure emotional behavioural stability
Just like when adults feel overwhelmed, they
retreat into activities to calm and reduce
anxiety, young children too feel the same way and
need to do the same thing. Play is more than a
distraction for them, it is an effective way to
connect and keep children grounded. Play is an
excellent teacher. A daily routine of involving
children in games is a must as it helps reduce
stress and irritability. It also helps boost the
sense of joy and increase self-esteem. Through
games, children learn how to navigate the world
in a way they can understand and process. Helps
them work in groups, share, negotiate, resolve
conflicts and be able to express themselves
freely.
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Games improve literacy
Children are born wired to learn a language.
Starting from birth, they build language and
literacy skills through play and interactions.
Babies and toddlers pick up new words when
parents describe what they see, hear and do.
Stories, songs and rhymes help a child develops
listening skills and learns about the sounds in
words. Research shows preschoolers tend to pay
more attention after an unstructured play break.
Play enhances curiosity and a curious mind is
always on and is ready to learn.
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Games encourage independence
Your child spends much of her day being told what
to do, when to do it and where she has to go. In
the world of play, however, she has the
opportunity to set the rules and be the one with
the power. She leads while adults listen and take
directions. Playing games allows young children
to experiment with creativity and their own
ideas. Practical life skills for toddlers allows
young children to find new and exciting ways to
stimulate their mind. As Albert Einstein said,
the monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulate the creative mind.
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Games promote physical fitness
Children have a very strong desire and a need for
physical activity, which is any type of play that
gets them moving. Its part of how they learn to
use their bodies and strengthen connections in
the brain. Its also a great form of physical
exercise, which promotes fitness. Regular, active
play throughout a childs life has a positive and
far-reaching impact. It sharpens reflexes, works
on movement control, strengthens and improves
gross fine motor skills, helps develop a
greater sense of balance and all the while, have
fun!
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Games that teach life skills
If youre like most parents, you want to ensure
that your child is in the best possible learning
environment at all times. This is what games that
teach life skills ensure and are more important
than you think. So while your child might seem
like she is just having fun playing, she is
actually learning life skills that can help her
in the future.
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Conclusion
My Gym has specially designed whole-child
development programs that lay a firm foundation
for personal, academic and future growth by
involving your child in age-appropriate
structured and unstructured physical activities
and developing thinking and problem-solving
skills.
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