Play is a game that aims for a certain purpose, in which the child participates willingly and enjoyably in every situation, and is the basis of their physical, cognitive, language, emotional and social development. It is a part of real life and the most effective learning process for the child.
Play is the child's life, vitality, knowledge of the world, existence, in short, everything. Playing games is a phenomenon with psychological, physiological and social content specific to childhood. The child tries to perceive the world through the roles he assumes during play, establishes identification, and thus his personality begins to form and develop.
Play enables him to establish social relationships with his peers. It reduces tension, supports mental development, enables self-expression, and gives tips on how to deal with potentially dangerous and harmful situations. In addition, play enables the child to have experiences related to the role he will assume in adulthood.
Game helps the child cope with his own fears, anxiety and conflicts. It also allows him to discharge his physical energy.
BY AGE GROUPS:
The period from 6 months to 2 years of age is considered as playing practice. In this period, sensory-motor and exploratory games based on physical activity are seen. The child recognizes his body, his environment and the objects around him. He grabs everything he can touch, catches it, shakes it, moves it back and forth, throws it and learns to pick it up again.
When he first starts socializing at the age of 2-3 (in the Autonomy period), he plays with his friends in the same environment and continues his game independently of others. Children have very little social communication with each other. It does not go further than asking each other for a toy or expressing an opinion. After socialization takes place, 2-3 children use the same play material and take part in the same game, but everyone continues their own game.
3-6 year old children are at the stage where they can cooperate with others. When he arrives, he participates in group games. The game has a purpose, they share various roles in accordance with this purpose and carry out the game jointly. There is real social communication between children. The most distinctive feature of the game they play with their friends is that children accept that they are not the only person in their actions and thoughts, and they are committed to this fact. They stay connected and share their toys, feelings, thoughts and roles.
The child carries the events and objects he encounters in real life into his games. There is imitation. For example; He cooks like his mother and hammers nails like his father. During this period, when she cannot reach the real object, she can visualize it and replace it with another object.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE GAME TO THE CHILD'S SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; Sexual roles are reinforced when boys take the father or another man around them as a model, and by taking on the roles of family members, they learn family, relative and environmental relations. They reveal the duties, responsibilities and behaviors of these people,
–They learn the rules of that role by taking on the roles of different professional groups such as teachers and doctors.
–They learn how to communicate, observe and cooperate with other people. , they learn to cooperate,
–They can solve problems in solidarity with their friends,
–They learn verbal and non-verbal social rules,,
–They learn social skills such as talking on the phone and eating They learn the rules,
–They learn concepts such as right-wrong, good-bad, beautiful-ugly, right-unfair,
–Love and respect for others, protection, protection, the rights of others. They learn the rules required by social relations such as showing respect, being managed, taking responsibility, being able to trust oneself and others, being able to make and implement decisions, and being able to cooperate.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF PLAY TO THE CHILD'S EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT;
–They learn many situations and emotional reactions such as happiness, joy, pain, pity, fear, anxiety, friendship, anger, affection, trust,
–Mother, father, They learn the emotional relationships and reactions between individuals they observe in real life, such as sisters, brothers and teachers, by experiencing them in the game.
– They learn to control their emotional reactions.
– They experience emotional relief by reflecting their emotional problems into the game.
GAME IS A REAL NEED FOR THE CHILD.
GAME ALLOWS THE CHILD TO EXPRESS THEIR INNER WORLD.
&n bsp; GAME IS AN IMPORTANT EDUCATION TOOL.
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