Many parents, worried about their children's health, always keep their children with them. There are also parents who are afraid that playing with bad friends will affect their personality, so they forbid them. Is it true that when children are "away from their parents' arms, there is a storm"? In fact, letting children play with friends will help them connect and integrate with people around them. This is an important turning point marking the child's development from physical to mental. So what are the benefits of letting children play with you? Let's find out in the article below:
What is letting children play with you?
If they are the first child or only child, they can only play alone or with their parents or family members. When children reach the age of going to kindergarten, they will have the opportunity to play with friends, teachers and people around them. The transition from the child being the center of family attention to social integration marks an important turning point in the child's development. Children not only get out of their comfort zone but also have the opportunity to interact and expand social relationships.
Activities when parents let children play with friends such as sharing gifts, toys, playing physical or intellectual games with friends... Although simple, all of these activities will help children grow up. improve day by day while developing more necessary skills.
When should parents let children play with friends?
There is no age limit for children to play with friends. Because at each age and stage of child development, children have different approaches and interactions. For example, for children aged 1.5-2 years old, children can observe other children playing and imitate them. At the age of 3-4 years old, children will need to interact and connect with friends and people around them.
The benefits of letting children play with friends
Feeling joyful and happy
When letting children play with friends, parents will notice that their children become happy and excited. This will help children release negative energy and develop an optimistic and healthy mentality every day.
Limit the time children spend playing with electronic devices
Another benefit of letting children play with friends is that it helps limit the time children spend exposed to electronic devices such as TV, phones, iPads... Because children's interaction with electronic devices is one-way. The two-way interaction between children and friends will bring many benefits in developing skills. Furthermore, when children sit in front of electronic screens for too long, it will negatively affect their health and spirit.
Develop gross motor skills
Letting children play with friends will encourage them to play, run, jump, roll, crawl, crawl... These are all activities that are beneficial for training and developing children's gross motor skills.
Develop language skills
When children play with friends or observe their peers playing, they will learn a lot of new vocabulary as well as many different expressions. For example, when someone screams because a ball is flying towards the child, the child will react by looking at that person and trying to look around to find the ball. This is also how children acquire words and styles of expressing a particular language.
Express your own thoughts
Playing activities with friends will motivate children to express their own desires and thoughts. For example, the desire to play seesaw or assembly games with friends. Or happy or sad situations like falling, being confused, or being awkward all help children express their thoughts and feelings naturally. This is also a way for parents to better understand their children's emotional behavior to gradually shape their child's personality.
Learn to share with others
Teaching children to share is also one of the great benefits of letting children play with friends. Because any child is highly possessive of their own favorite toys and gadgets. But for children who regularly play with friends, they will learn how to share with each other and feel happy because of it. This action will help parents recognize their child's personality, whether they easily connect or are distant, and do not like to play with anyone.
Some of the things shared above will hopefully help parents understand more about the benefits of letting children play with friends. When children connect and interact with friends and people around them, they will have many friends, learn many new things and comprehensively develop necessary skills. Don't forget to follow the articles in Mykingdom's Handbook section for more useful information.
