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The Power of Pretend You peak into your seven-year-old’s room to see how he and his best friend are going with their playti
The Power of Pretend You peak into your seven-year-old’s room to see how he and his best friend are going with their playti
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The Power of Pretend
You peak into your seven-year-old’s room to see how he and his best friend are going with their playtime. They are deep in a make-believe game in which the superhero fights a monster. "watch out, Superman!" you call out. The kids giggle, then return to their epic struggle.
Do you and your family embrace make-believe? Experts say that pretend play, besides being so much fun, deserves a central place in kids’ lives.
From a baby’s first game to a teen’s starring role in the school play, the imaginative process calls on all the skills your child has and takes them one step further. Consider just a few of the ways it helps our young ones grow and develop.
Emotional Awareness and Social Skills. "I’ll be the mummy, and you be the baby," three- year-old Abbie koschik directs a friend. "Then I’ll be the baby and you be the mummy. Don’t cry, baby. Mummy has a bottle for you."
This is a fairly common scene among young children. Take some time to deconstruct it, though, and we see the brilliance of the play. Abbie is showing some of the qualities necessary for lifelong process: leadership, initiative, self-control, cooperation ,and the remarkable capacity for empathy (移情)--she’s imagining and representing the perspectives of both the mother and the baby. That’s an awesome feat (成绩), and it’s one no other creature in the animal kingdom can match. Not bad for a little girl who still needs her nap every day.
In very practical terms, pretend play also helps kids practice social customs. During a game of a house, for example, a child might rehearse saying "please" and "thank you" or welcoming guests into the home and making them feel comfortable. It’s also a safe way for young children to handle new and difficult situations which is why school or visit-to-the-doctor themes are so common. On top of this, pretending does wonders for confidence and self-esteem.
Language, Reading, Maths and Science. Two-year-old Gracie Callahan is playing tea party with her mother. She pretends to sip from her cup, and then says, "More," encouraging her mum to continue the game with her. Grade and other toddlers are at the adorable (可爱的)and significant age when symbolic thought begins. "All of a sudden, babies can ’make believe,’" says educational psychologist Doffs Bergen of Miami university in Ohio. Bergen, a former kindergarten teacher, explains that reading and maths involve a similar abstract process: a child has to know that squiggles (花体,图形) on paper are symbols representing a word or a number. Gracie’s tea party is thus setting the stage for later learning.
As children grow, pretend play continues to go hand-in-hand with academic readiness: Kids enjoy pretending so much that they’ll stretch their vocabularies and knowledge to be better at it. A Year One student might pick up the word "stethoscope" (听诊器)when playing doctor. Year Four students setting up an elaborate space adventure will soak up information about astronomy and astrophysics, and hone their reading skills as they develop their reading skills as they develop their story line. At every age and stage, pretend play speeds learning.
Thinking and planning. When toddlers like Gracie experience their first creative thoughts, many areas of. the mind, says Doris Bergen, are engaged: emotion, intelligence, language, the senses, motor skills (运动技巧). Using these facilities simultaneously creates dense synaptic (染色体联会的) connections, building a multidimensional architecture in the brain. "A more elaborate play life may mean the brain is more elaborate in terms of the thinking process," she says.
What a perfect plan that the areas of the brain involved in thinking and planning develop so early and strengthen with use. How, for example, could a young child solve the simplest problem without the ability to imagine an answer? Or why would a teenager plan and set goals if she couldn’t envision (想像) the outcome of all her efforts? Advanced intellectual functioning--the ability to think hypothetically (假设地), and logically carry out a plan--is an outgrowth of pretend play. The imagination it requires keeps the mind sharp, flexible and open to new opportunities.
All of the people in a child’s life--parents, grandparents, teachers and family friends--have a role in perpetuating (使持续,使永存) the wonder and delight of pretend play. Children really need three things from us, says Cagle McDonald, who has been a creativity specialist for children for 12 years.
1. Deep Background. Fantasy stories such as Peter Pan feed the imagination. "As you read, be funny and expressive," suggests McDonald. "on a second reading, be the narrator and encourage your child to act out the parts." Kids are also enchanted (对……着迷) with the real world, and there are hundreds of realistic roles to make use of in your own community. Help your child notice folks who work at the grocery store, bank, restaurant, construction site, zoo or library. What special clothes are they wearing? What tools are they using? Try re-creating the scene at home.
2. Fun Props (道具). Hold onto those fancy-dress costumes, and pick up extras when they’re on sale. Other good choices for the pretend shelf: hand and finger puppets, dolls, hats, toy animals, necklaces, doctor’s kits, toy phones, shopping bags and cardboard boxes.
3. Real Respect. Adults show that they value pretend play in several important ways. Your child may want you to be the attentive audience for some part of her play. Or she may be stuck and need a suggestion or two--"Maybe the baby would like a bath now," or "What about using these hat in your costume?"
Be especially careful to enhance, not control, the action. Mostly, your child needs your girl of space and time to play. That’s especially important in an era when structured play, organized sports, TV and video games have been encroaching (侵蚀) on imaginative territory.
"There’s nothing quite like the power of pretend," sums up Paul Harris, author of The Work of the imagination and a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "Imagination," he says, "is the distinctive ability of human beings." Now that’s thought to play with.
Adults should tell children about what to do and how to play in the pretend play.
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B、N
C、NG
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文章倒数第二段指出:Be especially careful to enhance,not control,the action. Mostly,your child needs your girl of space and time to play.该部分指出家长应该给孩子充分的空间和时间,不应控制孩子“过家家”的过程。 而本题中说:Adults should tell Children about what to do and how to play in the pretend play,与文章内容不符,故不正确。
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