How to play with children
Tips for teaching how to play and have a fun time with your children
As our children grow, so do their needs and demands. For example, a one-year-old child will find a little rattle, but he will not enjoy it as much as a baby. For this reason, we have selected some guiding tips on the different ways of playing with your children according to their age.
The beginning of the game with children
During the first eighteen months, the child relates to the world through his senses. Just act. There is only the here and now. His first game is to repeat movements of his body (put his hand in his mouth, for example). His next game is to try to reproduce reactions in objects outside him (move a rattle, etc.). Little by little, it will vary these movements in what supposes an authentic experimentation. Later, it will relate the movements of the different senses, which will allow it to solve new "problems".
In this period there is an essential toy: the person who is with him, who takes care of him, who speaks to him, who sings to him, caresses him and plays with him. That gives him 20 times the pacifier that the baby has thrown. The relationship with this person is an important necessity for the good development of the baby. The pacifier and rattle are the next best toys, as well as all the things that can be sucked, moved, and rattled. In short, babies want toys that respond to their actions.
From crawling to tricycle
Around the year, the child begins to move, crawls, stands up, walks, runs, jumps ... Each of these stages is necessary. For it to run it is necessary that it has walked, and to walk it is essential to crawl. Having security in your body will help you have security in the rest of things. His body is a privileged toy to learn to think (how do I have to put my legs to swing on my own?). Any place that encourages your movement safely will be a good place to play: the field, the park in your neighborhood, safe stairs. The first toy will undoubtedly be a mat for crawling and then toys to push while walking: ride-on, balls, tricycles, skates, bicycles, etc.
Play to represent
During his second year of life, the child acquires a new capacity of transcendental importance for his development: the capacity to represent, which allows him to leave the here and now. Now you can say what you have done or what you are going to do, imitate something you have seen that is not present, draw it and, especially important for the amount of time you spend on it, "play do what". In this game, he develops a fundamental intellectual capacity of the human being: that of giving an object a different meaning from its own in terms of less and fewer similarities.
Furthermore, this type of game will introduce you to society; through it, you will discover realities, some very distant (the hospital, the jungle ...) and hence the importance of being free of sexist stereotypes or antisocial values.
The best toys are his friends. With them and a few other things, you will invent your best adventures and train in cooperation and negotiation skills. Anything can be converted into anything else, but there are some toys that should not be missing. A telephone, things to cook, fabrics to dress up, dolls and stuffed animals, toys for crafts, among many others.
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