Introduction: This article introduces the endless imagination that toys bring to children.
Have you ever seen a child pick up a stick in the yard and suddenly use it to wave a sword to fight against a group of pirate predators? Maybe you’ve seen a young man build an excellent plane with a box of colored plastic building blocks. It’s all role-playing games driven by imagination.
Children have the ability to create their own world, where they can be heroes, princesses, cowboys or ballet dancers. Imagination is the key to open the door of these worlds, let children out of reality into fantasy. But are all these fairy tale role playing and pretending behaviors good for children’s health? It’s not only healthy, it’s absolutely necessary. This is an important milestone for children to engage in imaginative and creative games. If your child has not played various kinds of play games, it may be a dangerous sign of his or her growth. If you are worried, please contact your child’s pediatrician, teacher or psychologist.
In addition to making their own game scenes, children can learn a lot by reading or asking their parents to read fairy tales. The plots and characters in fairy tales make them think. They will use their imagination to make themselves part of the story. They can play doctor role play, police role play, animal role play and other games to improve their imagination.
Most of these stories have one thing in common, that is, some kind of adversity. Life is not always good, there are challenges, and many times characters try to overcome these problems and overcome evil. Therefore, when children try to imitate or want to be heroes in fairy tales, parents can learn and progress together with their children.
So the next time you’re looking for a new toy for your young son or daughter, in addition to building blocks, racing cars, dolls and other ordinary toys, you can also use role play to stimulate their imagination. You can pretend to be a fun, natural and healthy way for children to explore their own world and others. It’s also a good way for them to learn and grow in the game. Also, if you are invited to take part in the performance, please don’t hesitate. You can follow your children to join imaginative games in a safe and healthy way!
This kind of game has many advantages:
1. Children can experience and understand the adult world through role play. In role-playing, children will play various social roles, such as mother, doctor, fireman, traffic police, etc., learn to imitate social behaviors in different situations and understand social rules.
2. It will also help children learn to understand others’ feelings from the perspective of others and cultivate empathy. In the game of taking care of the baby, the child will play the role of mother. From the perspective of “mother”, I will change diapers for my baby. When my baby is sick, I will take him to see a doctor. Among them, my child has learned empathy and empathy.
3. Such games help children accumulate social experience and exercise social ability. What children play in role-playing are all social scenes. Children learn to get along with others through repeating over and over again, gradually strengthen and improve their social ability, and become a social person.
Post time: Feb-23-2022