The game: fun and creativity for children and adults

We often talk about the importance of play in the development of babies and children, but it is also a stimulating activity for adults. That's why we propose enjoy the benefits of playing with your children.

Because play means fun, and also parents like to have fun. If those moments are shared with children, the pleasure of the game reaches everyone, and although summer and vacations are an ideal time to play together, we should not forget about it the rest of the year.

The game is enjoyable in itself, entertaining and absorbing, defined by some authors as "what we do to have fun voluntarily." It is a challenge, an unexpected situation, and it comforts us. It is universal, and children do not understand languages ​​playing.

It is the basis of the second stage of child development according to Piaget, the preoperational phase that lasts up to seven years, where play is the center of life and the means of learning knowledge for children.

Doctor of Philosophy Scott G. Eberle, expert in studies of the culture and history and science of the game, editor of the "American Journal of Play" and author of several specialized books, notes the following game phases:

  • Anticipation, wait anxiously, asking what will happen, full of curiosity.
  • Surprise at a discovery, a new sensation or idea, or a change of perspective.
  • Pleasure in the face of this new situation that opens up different possibilities in the scheme of the game.
  • Understanding in acquiring a new knowledge of a new facet that perhaps we did not know.
  • Strength to experience the comforting feeling of having overcome the challenge or having faced it.

And although it seems that these phases and their results are mitigated in adults by force of habit, it is not so. Any "I see-see," any puzzle, any hiding place, will have fun, make our mind relax and enter a state of well-being. Are we going to deprive children of that, who play less and less?

So do not think more. As soon as you are with your family, we will enjoy the game with the children, even without the need for toys. Inventing stories, disguising ourselves, playing ball, catching, catching, seeing-seeing ... Putting body and mind into operation. Any time and place is suitable for different games. They and we will appreciate it.

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