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The Importance of Playing With Your Children

By Randi Morse

We all get exhausted at the end of the day, especially if we've had a long, complicated workday. One of the last things you might want to do when you get home is play with your children. Just watching your child jumping around the house expending so much energy can make you even more frustrated and annoyed. While it can seem like a huge hassle to play with your children, especially after you've had a long day, you might want to think twice about avoiding playtime.

Skill Sets

Children are born knowing only a few things, the rest of the things they learn are things that we teach them. Some parents rely on school to teach their children everything, but we need to remember that it is our first job as parents to help our children learn basic life skills. Play is an excellent way to do this as it helps create skill sets. Skill sets are like your child's toy box, and when you play with your child you're putting tools into their toolbox. Even the simplest of games can help create a new skill. 

Take rolling a ball on the ground back and forth with your child. It seems like such a simple game, but it is much more than that. In rolling the ball you are helping to work on your child's gross motor skills, teaching them how to roll the ball in the right direction, how to roll it with the right pressure, and how to "catch" it when it rolls to them. You're also teaching them patience and how to take turns. As they get older you can make it into even more of a game, counting off numbers as you roll it back and forth or doing the alphabet.

Enter Into Imagination

As adults we have forgotten how to use our imagination. Playing with children helps to build their imagination while reigniting our own. This can be helpful in so many ways, not only for the child but also for the parent. Children learn best when they're playing, and using imagination is a great way to help them learn. You can pretend to be at a store where your child is the cashier and you give them money, or you can pretend to be at a restaurant making food. All of these pretend interactions help your child learn how to behave in society. They can also help you to be more creative when it comes to your work. 

If your child is misbehaving constantly, it may be because they're looking for your attention. Make sure you allot some time each day to dedicate as playtime.

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