Childhood Play: Enhancing Skills and Emotional Growth

I choose to research what I observed in the park. I noticed that many of the school age children were playing with each other even though they were making fun of each other faults. Playing games allow children to make decisions and to develop problem solving skills that they can use later on in life. Playing also affects the children emotionally. It allows them to control their emotional states, and thus they find joy and happiness during play. When they are interacting with their peers, whom they considered to be their equal counterparts. Socializing with each other helps children to improve their mental health. I was amazed to see how children that age can understand others’ emotions. They have empathy and sympathy toward each other.

I can atone to this. My son was the only child for seven years. He was not allowed to go outside to play because I did not know anyone living close by. He is delayed in speech and socially. He was diagnosed with Autism, but I am sure it is because of lack of interaction with his peers outside of the daycare he used to attend. According to Erickson’s psychosocial theory, “The environment in which a child grows in has a great influence on the personalities that they develop and this mainly because they learn mostly through

I would encourage my students to help each other if they are being bullied or being picked on. I know sometimes students have to fight their own battles. I would create scenarios in class to see how the other children would react. I would like to see who will help and who would just let it happen. The teacher from the book created a scenario by asking the last student who walked in to empty his pocket and to give him the candies the day after Halloween. The other students in the class caught on quickly and join in the fun to get the candy from the late