Explain Why Is Play Important For Children

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1. Why is play important for children?
Play is important for children because playing is the process that essential to children’s developmental progress. Children need to go through each level of process to generate, develop and enhance their developmental progress and well being. In playing, children will need to use their physical ability, able to explore and apply their creativity and naturally started to think which is part of their cognitive development as well. Any involvement do contribute to language development as part of children’s developmental progress. When children developed ideas and creating playing terms, or toys that they are playing with and even the term used in the movement, by having the knowledge of the term, children will be able to name the toys, playing terms and movement accordingly. Also, by having a chance to discover new things and/or explore nature, will enhance their knowledge and opportunity to play. This will improve creativity and develop their thinking skills better, as they can experience things that will also helps building their problem solving skill too.
Physical involvement will help children develop their gross motor skill when
Children with a poor diet will easily get tired, lethargic and often sick. When the child’s body does not perform well, it will automatically affect the brain and slower their performance. Also, chances that children will lack of interest and potentially not participating enough into their development process. They tend to have poor concentration and lack of focus that will not helping them to progress. Due to poor diet, it will not helping children to progress well, instead it is giving poor impact of their development when it will lower down children’s developmental