The role of the toy in children's education

Toys not only serve to entertain and entertain children. The toy also educates and trains children.

The game is an activity, in addition to pleasant, necessary for the cognitive (intellectual) and emotional (emotional) development of the child. Spontaneous and free play favors the creativity of the child and encourages their maturation. Children have few opportunities to play freely. Sometimes, we consider that "play for play" is a waste of time and that it would be more profitable to take advantage of every occasion to learn something useful.

However, through play, children begin to understand how things work, what may or may not be done with them, discover that there are rules of causality, probability and behavior that must be accepted if they want others to play with them . Children's games should be considered as their most serious acts.

The Game and the child's personality

Sometimes, certain difficulties, which may seem insurmountable for the child, can be addressed through games, provided that they are approached in their own way and posing the aspects of the problem one by one.

Jealousy for the birth of a new brother, for example, is a common type of conflict, which usually appears masked in games as a reaction to internal processes that the same child does not know, but that will help him accept that reality, by representing the problem in a new and pleasant way for him, such as when he treats his doll the same way he wants to be treated or when he reacts in his game as he would have done in reality. In the game there is an adaptation between the imaginable (everything is possible) and the allowed (rules of conduct), in which the child has time to learn what is feasible and correct while allowing an airy exit to his impulses.

Children's play is an essential activity

• The game is necessary for intellectual, emotional and social development.

• It allows three basic functions of psychic maturation: the assimilation, understanding and adaptation of external reality.

• It requires offering the child the favorable time and means so that he can do it in his own way.

• Promotes early social acquisitions, social communication skills. It is a preparation for adult life.

• As an exploratory behavior, it promotes the creation of fields of action and creativity.

• It makes sense to the child. When any game is interrupted, it is deprived of the outcome of an argument created by itself for a purpose that we do not always understand.