Play plays a fundamental part of learning how to communicate as well as cognitive development. Many parents do not realize the significance of intertwining play with learning and what it can accomplish as far as the child’s natural development is concerned. So this article will be an attempt to emphasize the all important role of play in the natural development of a child’s life.
All work and no play & you know how the rest of this old saying goes. It ends with Jack becoming a dull boy. But the truth of the matter is this may have been meant literally and figuratively. As in dulling the senses and destroying Jack’s interest in learning itself.
Not allowing for play can become a serious problem which causes all kinds of social and developmental delays.
During the first few years of a child’s life the brain is growing and in a much more impressionable state than it will ever be in again. It is when the little being of life, the person behind the brain is experiencing everything for the first time and without any previous information to compare anything. It has a clean slate.
