Are You Selling Toys or Play?
The link between play and skill development
A significant body of research conducted over
the past generation has articulated a long list of specific benefits
that play provides for children.
Among the benefits noted in various publications
by Singer, Sara Smilansky, Ph.D., of Tel Aviv University; Edgar
Klugman, Ed.D., Professor Emeritus at Wheelock College and Co-Founder/Vice
President of Playing for Keeps, (and others) are the following:
- Development of motor skills
- Sharpening of the senses
- Development of empathy and the ability to express emotions
- Understanding and practice of sharing, turn taking, and other
peer cooperation skills
- Increasing control of compulsive actions and learning to accept
delayed gratification
- Building ordering and sequencing skills
- Increasing the size of the vocabulary and the ability to comprehend
language
- Increasing concentration skills
- Learning to navigate assigned roles
- Development of capacity to be flexible
- Expansion of imagination, creativity, and curiosity
- Reducing aggression
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