IMPORTANCE OF OUT DOOR PLAY





IMPORTANCE OF OUTDOOR PLAY


Outdoor Play is now up to an utmost extinct stage and outdoor Play is now very silently replaced by technology and gadgets. We as parents should encourage outdoor Play in our kid’s day-to-day life, as only kids who have the best childhood turn into satisfied adults of tomorrow. Here satisfied means, emotionally balanced. The kids of this generation are emotionally broken. Why is outdoor Play so very important?


Through outdoor activities kids' energy is channelized positively, they get to explore nature, and they come closer to nature, not only this but children even learn many skills like team building, team spirit, strategy making, concentration, communication, being patient, waiting for ones turn, sharing and most importantly they learn self-discipline.



 In any outdoor game if we analyze, when the kids are playing, we find kids learning many skills, for example, if the kids are playing hide and seek, the kid who is giving the Dan has to figure out the places where the other kids must have hidden, whereas the kids who have to hide will have to find a place which the danner is not able to find them. Now see, how much the brain is put to work and that too in a  constructive way, this will help them to be efficient individuals who can be problem solvers or I must say, path makers.

 

This is just one simple game, if we think of games like stop and party, kho-kho, dog and the bone, etc., apart from physical exercise, the amount of mental exercise and mental storming done, will result to build them into a complete, confident and emotionally balanced person. Why emotionally balanced because playing games is a recreational activity. Kids have their own set of tensions, fears, frustrations, and mental turbulence which needs to be released, and playing outdoors is the best option.

 

Mind is a devil if idle, it can lead us to disaster. If the mind is kept engaged in constructive work it can create wonders. I believe outdoor Play controls this devil and puts it in the construction zone.

 

It’s high time we realize that outdoor Play is the right of a child and we should not link it with his capacity to study or grasp. I have often heard parents say that as their child is weak in studies, he needs to cut down his Play time and study more, do you think any child clever or weak in studies can study for longer hours? Infarct it will be a bore dome for the child, I think this attitude of parents will definitely put the child off studies and gradually he will lose interest in academics.

 

It’s not about whether the child is clever or average in studies, Playtime should be equated properly because some kids learn in class with books and some on the ground. In my thoughts, kids should never be rated clever or average on their academic performance as there are ample examples where people are academically zero and otherwise a hero and role models for society.  Equal opportunity for Play and study should be given to all the kids, I strongly believe Play to be an important form of lesson.   




We should condition our minds in such a way that when a child is playing, he is in his learning session, so it will be easy for us to digest, as we are so-called "concerned moms" we are very learning-oriented, we always want our kids to learn, and we believe Play is a waste of time.

Set a daily Play routine for your child and if the child doesn’t get time to Play parents should feel guilty about it and efforts should be made to avail their Playtime.

Encourage outdoor Play more and more to up-bring a mentally, socially, and emotionally balanced generation ahead…


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