Children's Play regains momentum Among Children and parents

Effort to Restore Children’s Play Gains Momentum

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Things like Playing develop a child's brain, help him or her to learn to better interact with adults later by interacting with the children he or she is playing with. In addition, learning to sing and play a musical instrument develops special parts of the brain, especially in children up to 12 years of age and beyond. Art of almost any kind also helps in brain and conceptual development.

Studies have shown playing helps people be better adjusted and better able to deal with all kinds of situations better as adults, especially interpersonal relationships at work, play, and in personal relationships with friends and spouses.

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The experts define play as a game or activity initiated and directed by children.

So video games don’t count, they say, except perhaps ones that involve creating something, and neither, really, do the many educational toys that do things like sing the A B C’s with the push of a button. end quote.