Playing Helps Stimulate Children's Motor Ability

No need to worry if your kids love to play. Because, according to psychologist Anna Surti Ariani, SPSI, MSI, play is one way children learn. "By playing the kids can recognize a variety of environmental conditions in the vicinity, and also learn various things, including socialization," said Anna.
In addition to improving social skills and hone creativity, play also can hone motor nerve coordination and cognitive skills of children. In general, this ability can be honed by doing various activities carried out and the house. This makes children become more relaxed, and learn in a fun way.
Games and outdoor activities and indoor Anna recognized as important, only has the effect of different stimuli and function in children. Playing in the room will help stimulate the child's fine motor coordination of their nerves. Associated with fine motor skills involve the small muscles physical, and coordination between eye and hand.
"In the room, the movement to do something more definitely limited, so that the activities carried out are a bit quiet like puzzle games, or playing blocks," he said.
However, it does not mean a more active activity can not be done in the house. Typically, you will instantly angry when he saw the children run around the house. Instead, do not always forbid them to be active in the house. Anna revealed that physical activity is active as it would help train children to develop creative thinking skills, and train his balance so as not to solve a variety of home furnishings. However, the control and supervision of the child's activity remains to be done by parents.
Meanwhile, outside activities and its ability to help children practice gross motor coordination. Gross motor skills help children to practice the coordination between the legs with the body, the eye with the ear, and so forth. Gross motor coordination ability to make children become more agile in physical activity. Such as playing ball, climbing trees, or folk games such as hide and seek, hide and squat, or gobak Sodor. The development of good gross motor nerves will help children to be more active, stronger endurance, as well as having a flexible body.
"Playing hide and squat can help coordinate the child to run to avoid the 'enemy', or train her memory of who loses. Addition, it also helps train the cognitive abilities of children to think of ways and strategies to win, and help their social skills with other friends, "said Anna.