Why Play is Beneficial for Your Child’s Health?

Play is considered an important exercise for the physical well-being and mental health of the child. Play not only provides your child enjoyment and entertainment, but playing is also essential for good health and overall development of your child. Play helps in keeping the children active, happy, and healthy. To ensure good physical as well as mental health for your child, make sure to encourage them to get engaged in different kinds of play.

Play helps in stimulating the brain development of your child and enhances early development. By reducing the emotional as well as social problems in a child, play helps in the early development of the brain. According to researchers, outside play helps in decreasing the chances of your child suffering from short-sightedness or myopia.

Play also helps in developing fine motor skills of children. It helps in strengthening the different muscles of your child. Playing helps to improve memory, learning, and intellectual abilities of the children.

Physical play like running, riding a bicycle, or skipping helps in maintaining the proper weight of your child, thereby preventing them from risks of different diseases. By maintaining a healthy weight, play aids in eliminating the chances of obesity. It also helps in developing balance, agility, coordination, as well as stamina among the children. 

Play is also an important activity for the development of self-control in your child. It offers them an opportunity to regulate and gain control over their emotions and feelings. The ability to regulate emotions is important for good mental health and resilience of the child. Attaining self-control at a young age will help your child to achieve better success in the later period of life. 

Along with good physical health, play also provides strength as well as endurance to children. Play helps in keeping the minds of children happier and healthier. For the overall growth and development of your child, playing is important. 

At Childventures Early Learning Academy, we understand the importance of play for children and offer a mix of many extracurricular activities in our blended curriculum and education programs.

Take a look at our winter break camp programs for children. For more information or to enrol your child, visit www.childventures.ca or call us at 905-332-7539.