Monday, 9 June 2014

The Role Of Adult in Children Play

         The first role is to provide a safe environment for the children to play , to avoid any injury. Play area must have this rules because it is for the safety of the children and it have to be clean always to avoid the germs as well, this is the adult responsibility in order to make the play area really safe and clean for the children to play, for instance,if you want a play slide in the play area you have to provide a mat to avoid the children from falling down and hurt themselves. Furthermore, the parents have to be a good example for the children, if you want your own children to be active in play you must be active first, your child  will  follow your footstep to be active.
             Play is vital for the children especially to develop their cognitive, physical, emotional and social development and it have to be in a holistic view, for the physical development, it can help them to refine their gross and fine motor skills and it can also help them to be healthy and physically active, research shown that children who are physically active as child will be active in the future. Cognitive development it can help the to express the imagination and creativity and through play they can explore a lot of things such as the value of the nature and they will care for the nature, imagination will lead them to creativity such as, when the child is playing a horse rocker he will imagined that as if he was riding a horse. Social development,will lead them to interact with their friends and learn to cooperate and work in team in order to finish the  game for instance and from here they can learn to make friends.Emotional development, it can lead them to express themselves  as a child, as we know that children is an active participants so in order for the children  to be emotionally fit they must have this sort of play for them to learn to express themselves in a healthy way, by playing as well will help them to be happy and always smile because when the child play they will not only be active but also will affect their mood as well.
         Providing a big space for them to play also is important for the children to play, you should a big area for the child to explore and learn a lot of things when you have big area you can provide a lot of activity for them to play. The parents and the teachers have to participate and learn together with the children during the activity because one of the role as an adult is you have to suit yourself  in the child's life, means that you have to act like a child when you are playing with and let them to be a master at their house, this is according to Maria Montessori (1870) and you can give them  encouragement and praise them if they are to do it or to play very but if the child can't finish or not able to play, the parents must give them a lot of encouragement for them to win.
                    The adults should also encourage children to solve the problems by themselves and at an early age they should know how to think critically, for example to solve the game or play activity. Finally in the play area should consist of various type of play for the children to explore and really enjoys the benefits of play as a child.

3 comments:

  1. please state specifically the role of adult instead of giving an explanation on the domains. the role of the adult, you can separate between indoor and outdoor settings. for example you can put adults as a facilitator, then you elaborate what facilitator do in children's settings (outdoor or indoor).

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  2. very in depth explanations! Very informative!

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  3. haha, Yasmin, got shock when i open this cause it looks so 'squeezy'... but as what ms. hidayah said, need to touch about the setting part ya... =)

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