Play is children rights

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Play is children rights. However, this right is often forgotten because they are not important. In fact, from playing the parents will see the development of children.

Unfortunately for most people, play activities are often considered not useful. Sometimes, as written in the book of Child and Adolescent Growth, natural instincts and the right of children to play is often overlooked. Many parents forbid their children to play with a variety of reasons. Fear of dirty clothes, afraid that the germs, black fear, to fear her not being smart because most of the play.

Citing Piaget and Vygotsky, play activities will provide opportunities for children to learn and practice life skills.

Playing is a fun activity to be the most important ways for children to learn various things. Besides fun, play has many benefits for child development, both in physical aspects of motor, cognitive, and social-emotional.

Playing Not Always Physical Activity

Making or sewing paraphernalia, a way to strengthen fine motor skills. Similarly, the coloring and craft lessons at school are a way to practice fine motor skills. Children with good fine motor skills will write well using hands.

It is different if the child playing chase, he was strengthening gross motor skills. These activities not only are a monopoly of boys. Girls also need to learn motor running for roughly trained.

When the child dropped the ball and eggs for example, they will discover new things. The ball will bounce when thrown to the floor, while the egg will break even. From this, the children learned something new to try.

By playing, children also learn to estimate, develop cognitive patterns, the concept in terms of lifestyle, tolerance, and know the rules, as well as tolerant. Play will make these values more in and soak in the child.

The principle should be spontaneous and fun to play and not make the child tired.