Play Based Activities for Social Development in Toddlers
Nov 19, 2021, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Your toddler has just learned that he is capable of anything – whether it is climbing atop the table mountain, or crawling through the laundry tunnel. Give him opportunities to explore freely without too much interference and too many "No's."
Benefits Of Play In Social And Language Development
Now, let's look at the other benefits of play in the areas of language and social development, and the enormous amount of contribution it makes towards overall personality.
- Social development: Play encourages your child to interact with peers and make friends. It directly teaches her to be with other people, develop habits of sharing,and caring for others
- Teaches your child to be a problem solver: Your child learns to control impulses, follow rules and naturally devise plans to solve problems and deal with situations
- Teaches your child to express himself:Play creates a non-threatening atmosphere for your child to freely express his emotions, desires, feelings and moods, and at the same time practice empathy and compassion for others around
- Language development:Your child's language development happens during both structured and free play. When he comes up with stories, and enacts make believe characters and situations, his thinking and imagination skills expand. He will be able to verbalize dialogues on his own, using already learnt language from his existing environment at home, school, market or any other familiar place. The design of play includes use of lot of vocabulary like up, down, swing, roll, join hands, turn around, click fingers, run faster, jump higher, and kneel down
- Other benefits: Play can also have a therapeutic effect, through the means of "Play therapy." Here, both verbal and nonverbal play based activities are used to treat children who are either ill or are under some form of depression or prolonged sadness. The activities are designed and conducted by trained therapists in order to help a child vent out her suppressed feelings
Join this workshop with Child Psychologist Sreevidya Iyer and learn about various Play Based Activities for Social Development in Toddlers .
Sreevidya Iyer, Psychologist/ counsellor/ REBT therapist.
Psychologist/ counsellor/ REBT therapist.
| Nov 18, 2021
Hi vidya Mam ! My son is 21 months old and can show body parts with name and in picture book he can name and show various things .He tries to imitate whatever i speak .I want to know what else he can learn through playway method at this age. He loves to scribble with crayons also.
| Nov 18, 2021
Hello Mam Please suggest ways to encourage Kid speak more. l am already engaging in story telling, Singing Rhymes, Joint Play, least Screentime. My daughter understands everything but not interested in speaking more. I stay in a nuclear family and the social environment is restricted because of covid Situation. Please advise What else can be tried? She just turned 2.
| Nov 19, 2021
Hello Ma'am ! We are working parents and we reach home only by 8 pm from office. I have my mother-in-law and a househelp to look after my 3. 5 years old son. His language hasn't been upto his age level and my hosuehelp makes him sit in front of TV to feed him. How can we enhance his language skills within the limited time that we get to spend with him? Also how can playway method be used to do the same? Please give your valuable inputs.
| Nov 19, 2021
Hello Ma'am ! Hope you are doing well! Thank you so much Ma'am for all your valuable inputs. Just wanted to know how can a 5 year child be made socially active. My daughter takes a lot of time to open up everytime in front of people whom she meets after a long time even though they are close relatives. In front of strangers also she would not come out of her room. What can be done to make her social? Can play based activities be adopted here as well to boost her confidence ?
| Nov 19, 2021
Greetings Ma'am ! My 6 year old son gets really scared when told to do something out of the box. For instance, go downstairs and give something to neighborhood Aunty or just hand over money to a delivery guy or just take the parcel. He starts to mumble and is not able to communicate what he has been told to. However, at home he is very fluent and communicates very clearly. Why does his mind freeze at that point in time and what is the right way to help him improve his communication skills with people other than family members? Thanks in advance!
| Nov 19, 2021
Madam which activities are appropriate for a child who is elegible to go to playschool. But We plan to not send him up until the next session. What are some of the pre-reading and writing skills that would help him when he joins play school? His age is 2 years and 7 months.
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Hello Mam, My son is 3 years old and speaks very few words. Suggest some activities that will help in developing his vocabulary.