Raising Good Humans
The Transformative Power of Play
Apr 5, 2024
Professor Peter Gray discusses the essence of play, emphasizing intrinsic enjoyment over rewards. He explores the evolving role of parents in play supervision and the benefits of structured play. The podcast also touches on skincare benefits, roughhousing, and the evolutionary significance of play in child development and adult life.
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- Children learn important life skills through self-directed play with peers and creativity.
- Parents should facilitate unstructured play for children to enhance their self-directed executive processing skills.
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Defining Play in Children
Play in children involves self-directed and self-chosen activities that are intrinsically motivated, structured by the players themselves, and characterized by imagination and an alert yet stress-free frame of mind. Children learn important life skills through play, including taking charge of their own lives, solving problems, getting along with peers, and engaging in creative and hypothetical reasoning.
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