List the importance of play in growth and development.

-Intellectual/ mental Development

Play helps children to concentrate, explore reason and organize their thinking. Children learn to solve problems and make decisions as they play. Children acquire more concepts and ideas about space, objects, relationships and time as they play. It helps them to acquire new knowledge and skills of the environment. It helps them to understand themselves and the environment better. Play enhances learning skills

-Social development

Play provides excellent opportunities for children to learn to live harmoniously with others, and also experience a sense of achievement which boosts their self-esteem. Children learn to share materials, take turns, cooperate with others, listen to others and to respect what others do. Children develop empathy and concern for others as they play. Children learn negotiation skills and how to solve problems. Leaders emerge to decide the role-play to be done. These leaders assign role to other children. They also tell them what to do. It is a good opportunity for training for those being led as they learn to obey rules
These are very important social skills, which prepare children for a better life in other levels of schooling and in later life in society

-Emotional development

Children develop positive self-image as they play. They develop skills and abilities that make them feel good about themselves. Play provides opportunities for children to express their emotions of joy, anger, frustrations, guilt, insecurity and anxiety. If you watch a young child playing you will be able to identify emotions she expresses.
Play helps children to acquire knowledge, skills and positive attitudes about adult roles
Therefore, it is important that allow children to express their emotions during play as this helps to demonstrate what they feel. As children grow older they need to be trained on how to express these same emotions in socially acceptable way in order to maintain good social relations.

-physical Development

play is important for the development of strong and healthy bodies
Children acquire muscle strength and also learn to control and co-ordinate their bodies through play.
Children learn to use their bodies to express themselves and to communicate with others through body movements
Children also learn to use of their senses
Children learn to observe, talk about, investigate and experiment through the use of their hands, eyes, ears, nose, mouth and other parts of the body
They learn by touching, smelling, observing, discovering, imitating, identifying, exploring describing and experiencing.
By so doing they learn to understand things and the world better.

-Language Development

Children develop a lot of vocabulary. They learn to communicate with others, to listen and express themselves during play. This is because they talk as they play even when alone

-Aesthetic Development

Chridren learn to enjoy and have fun. Develop their talents. Adults can use this opportunity to nurture talents of children. Children also develop leadership skills and ability to lead.

-Understanding adult roles

Role-playing is one of the most frequent plays for young children. They like to play adult roles. They act ‘mother’ ‘father’ etc .As they engage in their role-plays they do what the person they are imitating does. Engaging in these role-plays helps children to start to understand and appreciate adult roles better.

-Knowledge and appreciation of self

As children play, they learn what they are able to do and what they cannot do. They also compare themselves with others which helps them to understand their potentials even better. Understanding of self is important for development of self identity, self-esteem and confidence

-Knowledge and appreciate of culture

Through indigenous and traditional toys, other They acquire values, beliefs and attitudes that are associated with culture and way of life of their people

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marto answered the question on April 23, 2019 at 08:43