Playing for Childreen

Playing is the most influential factor in the development period of the child, including the physical , social, and communication.

Childreen Play Ground

Playing activities affect six aspects of child development: 

1. aspects of cognition
2. social
3. emotional
4. communication
5. self-awareness
6. motor skills 

Playing is an activity that is essential for the growth and development of children. Play should be done with a sense of fun, so all fun play activities that will generate the learning process for children.
Play will affect the development of children through three ways  that play can create a potential ability of children to the ability of real-time, facilitating separation (separation) thoughts of objects and actions, and develop self-control.

Goal play from the aspect of development can be optimized

A. Playing for the Development of the Child Cognition.

1. Playing helps children to build concepts and knowledge;  Children do not build a concept or knowledge in conditions of isolation, but through interaction with others 
2. Play helps children develop the ability to think abstractly;  This process occurs when children play roles and pretend play.Explains that children actually do not think abstractly. Meaning and the objects they blend into one. When children play phone, children learn how to understand another person's perspective, finding strategies to play with other people and solve problems.
3. Play encourages children to think creatively; Playing supporting the growth of the creative mind, because in the play children choose activities they enjoy learning to make the identification of many things, learn to enjoy the process of an activity, learn to control themselves and learn to recognize the social meaning and existence among peers.

B. Playing for Social-Emotional Development

1. Play helps children develop the ability to organize and solve problems. Children who play have to think about how to organize the material in accordance with the purpose of their play. Children who play "doctor". For example, should think where the doctor's office, what is used as a stethoscope child will also think about the task of the doctor and consider certain material, such as color, size, and shape to fit the characteristics of the doctor. During play, children discover new experiences, manipulation of objects and tools, interact with other children, and began compiling knowledge about the world.
2. Playing increase the social competence of children;  playing supporting the development of socialization, such as social interaction, cooperation, resource saving and caring terhdap others.
3. Playing helps children to express and reduce fear; A study reported their reaction after watching a group of children in a playground accident and described how the pressure vent through play, Children in different groups, but each group expressed their fears and try to free through the game "hospital" or other games that tell people in pain.

C. Playing for Motor Development

1. Playing helps children to control motor movement children. Through play, can control the motor. At the time of play that they can practice all gross motor movements such as running, jumping, jumping. Children are encouraged to lifting, carrying, running or jumping, turning, and turning response to rhythm.
2. Play helps children master fine motor skills. Through play children can practice their motor skills such as sewing, arranging puzzle, nailing nails into boards, paint.

D. Playing for the Development of Language / Communication.

1. Playing helps children improve communication skills. Play provides space and time for children to interact with others, they talk to each other, opinions, negotiate and find a middle ground for any issues that arise. Even more so in playing a role has a huge benefit especially to support children's language development and language. Even playing the role has a large contribution to the development of cognitive, emotional, and social development.
2. Play provides a safe context and motivate children to learn a second language. Play also provides a safe context and motivating children to learn a second language, because at the time of play, children practice the splinters of another language, such as "Hello, how are you? (Hello, how are you) "Therefore splinters language giving effect pride, children are more motivated to add the second language vocabulary.