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| Children playing Stimulating Intelligence |
Age 0 to 6 years is a critical time for children to optimize your emotional and intellectual development. In this age range, little to develop approximately 75% capacity of his brain.
Bernard Devlin researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, United States, believes that the role of genetics on the optimization of the brain is 48%. The rest is influenced by environmental factors.
Play, recognized experts, as one of the stimulation from the environment that can help maximize a child's brain development. Through play, Little can optimize all abilities. Of course, parents have an important role in choosing appropriate play activities, according to stages of child development.
"Children who are physically active have better concentration levels and this strongly supports academic achievement in school," said Jack Kern, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Arkansas, United States.
Various studies show, playing an effective stimulation in supporting optimal growth and development of children. Two psychologists, Jerome Bruner and Brian Sutton-Smith, who studied human cognitive development, said playing produce relaxed atmosphere, so children easily learn various ways to overcome problems encountered when playing. According to both, at the time of play children often engage in problem-solving process.
Meanwhile D.G. Singer & J. Singer, senior researcher and professor in the field of developmental psychology from the United States, in their book The House of Make Believe, said that many preschool children spend time playing sociodrama, generally more prominent in the competence and intellectual development. These children also get a higher value on a test that measures the imagination and creativity.
Various other studies also support that the play makes children learn the strength and limits of his abilities. Little more able to interrogate a reality through pretend play. Ability of increasingly refined abstractions single child because he was familiar with various concepts, such as large-small, top-down, and full-empty.
Play also makes a child able to identify and classify (started to watch, sort, distinguish, make predictions, compare, to draw conclusions), and determine cause-effect relationships. A child's intellectual abilities gained through these fun activities, can be very useful provisions to address various problems in later life.
source:info-sehat.com
