The Importance of Play in Early Childhood
Latacha Daviston
Professor: Kristen Davidson
CCT 101
January 19, 2015

The Importance of Play in Early Childhood
There are different types of play, play allows children to experiment with their emotions and things around them. Allowing children to play helps with a child’s imagination as they enter into the pretend stages of their life, this kind of play is considered fantasy play. Play also helps children with social skills, children began to share their toys and ideas with other. In social play children began not only to share their ideas and talk to one another but they also share their belonging. Social play is good for children because it teaches them how to interact with one another and not become stingy as they get other. Play allows children to determine what is right and wrong in their behavior and that there are rules in life and that they can’t just get away with certain behaviors.
Playing to children is like going to work for us, they look forward to different types of play. Toys and other child friendly objects are the tools for children. Play is also good for children so that they can stay active. Children figure out how things work by playing and using certain toys. I agree that work is the play of children, the reason being is because at this age children don’t have anything to do but play and learn. If a child doesn’t play how will he learn anything about certain objects and the way the world around the work. Children consider play as being fun, Play is very educational for children because this is the way they learn. In play children not only learn about themselves, they learn about others, the world and the environment they live in.
Play helps children with a lot of things such as reading, writing, reaching, grabbing, crawling, running, climbing, and balance. As children play with other children