Dr. Toy's Smart PLAY Smart Toys – Expanded & Updated 4th Edition. Stevanne Auerbach
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Название: Dr. Toy's Smart PLAY Smart Toys – Expanded & Updated 4th Edition
Автор: Stevanne Auerbach
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Педагогика
isbn: 9781587902765
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Listen to sounds: laughter, talking, music, traffic, planes overhead, birds singing.
And be aware of the smells! Take in the aroma of food cooking with spices, sniff a bouquet of flowers, inhale the scent of newly cut grass or freshly baked bread.
Listen. Smell. Touch. See the things around you as a child sees them.
Your child delights in each discovery from the simple to the complex. A baby absorbs information by reaching and touching, exploring the world with fingers and toes and mouth, and making contact with people and things.
If you observe your child playing, you’ll discover the learning processes he moves through at each stage of his development. If you are involved with these stages, you can experience the same magic your child is feeling.
As your little one grows, you want to provide toys and activities to enhance his or her play.
In this book I want to help you identify specifics that will bring good results and to find the right toy for the right stage of your child’s progress.
You will learn which kinds of toys improve observation and skills—and how to properly use these playthings so your child’s thinking, feeling, self-expression, and physical dexterity are each enhanced.
One of our primary roles as parents is to protect our children. I’ll point out basics of well-designed, sturdy, and safe products. You’ll learn what to look for when selecting a toy.
Another role is as your child’s first teacher and “Play Guide.” You’ll be provided with plenty of tips on how to best introduce a toy to your child, how to gain his interest, and how to keep it.
You will find out how to balance your world with your child’s play world and, most important of all, you’ll learn to respect and more fully understand the importance of play for children, parents, and other adults..
You are your child’s first “Big Toy.” So the more you know about yourself, your child’s development, and her play patterns, the more you’ll be able to use toys and yourself as learning and skill-building tools.
Although learning follows a sequence of gradual stages, each child learns at her own rate. Children cannot be pushed, pulled, rushed, or hurried. By absorbing, practicing, learning from mistakes, but most of all through discovery, each will advance as his individuality dictates. This natural drive to discover through play becomes the essence of a happy childhood.
You will find out how to encourage your child’s PQ, Play Quotient. As your child’s “Play Guide,” not only will you help your young one learn more, you’ll also teach the skills to be happier, more involved, and get along better with others.
You can easily enhance your son or daughter’s P.Q./Play Quotient as you choose toys carefully. And you’ll enjoy playing as well. A playful parent encourages a child to be playful—a more playful child is a more aware, smarter, and more resilient one. The benefits of play to the whole family are enormous.
And do I need to mention how your whole relationship with your child will be strengthened?
Let’s get started on your pathway as your child’s “Play Guide.”
Let’s play!
CHAPTER
ONE
Importance of Play and Toys
Children love toys. From the colorful mobile overhead that attracts a baby’s attention, to the tower of LEGOs built by your little architect; well-designed toys stimulate your child’s mind, enhance creativity, and encourage activity.
Young ones absorb messages from toys through all stages of their growth. The kinds of toys selected and how your youngster plays with them will influence how well she meets her optimal learning potential. Choosing the right toys for her play is not easy. It can be a real challenge to find the right product, at the right time, for the right price.
And once you’ve done the above, there’s the added challenge of getting the maximum value from a toy.
We’ve all heard about IQ (Intelligence Quotient). It is a classic predictor of your child’s mental ability. I believe that your child’s PQ, his Play Quotient, is an equally vital factor, which affects how well your young one will attain the best of his physical, creative, and intellectual potentials.
Play is your child’s work. Through play children practice the basic skills needed in the classroom—and in life. Guided play in the right environment will help your child gain the tools she needs to sharpen her thinking, and heighten her sensitivity.
To assist your child in succeeding with skill building, we will look at the different ways your child uses toys, and you’ll become informed about finding the right toys, and skilled at helping your child expand his or her PQ.
How Toys Work
Research conducted by child-development specialists, psychologists, educators and others point out that the first five years in the life of the child are of the greatest consequence.
Many studies confirm the essential aspects of early mental, social and neurological development. Genetic factors are linked to learning and memory. Researchers have found that children who do not play and are rarely touched have brains that are 20 to 30 percent smaller than normal for their age. Researchers have found that toys and play stimulate more brain synapses per neuron.
These early years are intensely formative and are the period when children gain knowledge about themselves and about others, gain awareness of their environment, develop basic motor skills, discover many of their unique abilities, and gain self image and security that lasts a lifetime.
Like little sponges, children begin observing and absorbing from infancy. They learn by using all of their senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. Through observation, mimicry, and experimentation, children learn about the world around them and begin to gain mastery of essential skills.
When a parent is involved with a baby—smiling at her, creating silly and different sounds, making the baby laugh—the parent becomes the baby’s first “Big Toy.” Fathers who enjoy close contact with their infants soon are distinguished from the mother by the different ways they play. The baby quickly learns to respond to different persons’ sounds and touches. Through such interchanges, the infant becomes conscious of individual people. Also, she becomes more aware of the environment around her.
The secondary motor stage of child development occurs during these first five years. It is the time when the most rapid physical, emotional, and mental growth takes place. And at each stage of this development, a child needs different kinds of stimulation, enhanced by different kinds of toys and different play strategies.
IMPORTANCE OF PLAY
Play Principles
Play СКАЧАТЬ