On the significance of games to children's physical and mental development

Games are of great significance in children's lives. In human society, from ancient times to the present, children of any region and any nationality like games. It can be said that there are children in games, and children develop and grow in games. However, the good promotion of games to children's psychological development can not be achieved naturally, but can not be separated from the correct organization and guidance of adults, especially teachers. Therefore, organizing children to carry out various game activities can promote the further realization of the psychological education function of games.

Keyword game; Guide; intelligence

"Happy learning" is the goal of education, and the purpose of preschool education is to enable every child to grow and develop in a happy environment. Games are children's favorite activities and an important part of one-day activities in kindergartens. Through games, children feel happy, free and satisfied, and promote their spiritual development. Froebel, the father of early childhood education, believes that games can stimulate children's creativity and imagination, make them healthy, learn social cooperation from them and promote their spiritual growth. Games not only bring happiness to children, but also are valuable activities to help children develop according to their own unique patterns. Games play a positive role in promoting children's physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. So what key role will games play in children's psychological development? The following is my summary based on years of work experience.

First, help children form a good self-awareness.

Self-consciousness is the subject's self-consciousness, including self-cognition, self-evaluation and self-regulation. Early childhood is the initial development period of self-awareness. With the growth of age, children gradually realize their own behavior and inner activities, and evaluate and adjust them, and gradually form self-satisfaction, self-esteem and self-confidence. In role games, children should distinguish themselves from others from the beginning, put themselves aside and play others, which can enhance their self-awareness. In the game, children show their ability to influence and control the environment and build their self-confidence. When children complete some topics and tasks involved in game activities, they will get the joy of success. In the game evaluation often held after the game, children learn self-objective evaluation, which can promote the development of children's self-awareness, get the affirmation of others' evaluation and gain self-confidence.

Second, establish positive emotions and adjust negative emotions.

Emotional health is an important symbol of mental health. Emotionally healthy children can properly control and express their emotions, and happy emotions are more than negative emotions. On the contrary, it will lead to self-isolation, evasive behavior, aggressive behavior and various deviated abnormal personalities, which will hinder the healthy development of children's psychology. A good game is a relaxed, enjoyable and interesting activity, which not only brings happiness to children, but also enriches and deepens their emotions, thus cultivating their temperament. Children can cultivate self-esteem, self-confidence, leadership and group life ability in sports games, realize self-recognition of my value, enhance trust and closeness to others, cultivate the spirit of loving and willing to cooperate with others, and make them know their own characteristics, interests and advantages, so as to get satisfaction from sports games. In regular games, such as strategy rules and venue restrictions. Equipment use and sports etiquette, etc. Children help to form self-identity and increase self-concept through game experience. Some children are aggressive and love to express themselves, while others are passive and don't like to associate with others. In the process of regular games, judge each child's personality, give appropriate corrections and help, and let each child have positive personal characteristics.

Third, ensure that children form a correct moral outlook.

From role-playing games, such as playing house, playing doctors, nurses, patients, customers and other roles, let children understand the moral concepts of different roles in society. When playing house, imitate the roles of parents, brothers and sisters and experience the different responsibilities and obligations of each role. Thus, children will think of their parents' teaching in daily life, understand the respective roles and responsibilities of family members, enhance their ability to distinguish right from wrong, and deepen their memory of morality and ethics. Through the formulation of the rules of the game, let children understand the concepts of success and failure in participating in the game. The results of the game must be displayed under other peers, so children will care about other people's eyes and opinions, and they can learn and abide by the rules through the content of the game. Regular competitions can also cultivate athletes' spirit-for example, obeying the referee's decision, "Don't be arrogant in winning, don't be complacent in losing." Share joy from games, enhance internal motivation, learn to grow from failures, learn to accept setbacks, and make unremitting efforts in the direction of work. In addition, constructive games encourage children to share their creative ideas, respect each individual's creative spirit, prevent copying others' ideas, break away from the traditional cramming teaching mode, and inspire children's individual thinking and creativity from an early age.

Fourth, cultivate children's sense of cooperation and interpersonal skills.

The requirement for talents in the future society is to be able to unite and cooperate and have strong self-discipline ability. In order to avoid wearing clothes and reduce children's role dislocation after entering the society in the future, and thus reduce their inadaptability to society, it is necessary to cultivate children's sense of cooperation and skills in getting along with others. The game has rules, and players must control their behavior according to the rules. For example, in game activities, teachers can teach children how to participate in groups, how to be accepted by peers, how to discuss, cooperate and cooperate with each other, and how to solve disputes and different opinions fairly, so as to cultivate children's ability to better consider others and overcome self-centeredness. Regular group games allow children to interact in groups, learn communication skills and the order of taking turns to participate in games, and learn social skills in conflict and cooperative games, which is helpful to children's peer social status cognition. Interacting with others in the game can cultivate their abilities of teamwork, distinguishing right from wrong, decision-making and self-discipline; Role-playing can help them understand the expectations and norms of specific roles, improve their social skills and cultivate positive values and attitudes. In order to play the game well, children are often willing to restrain their will, consciously abide by the rules and make their behavior obey the requirements of the game. Therefore, through games, children can learn to share, learn to be modest, learn to cooperate and learn to help. After repeated practice and practice, they gradually form conscious and stable good behavior habits.

Fifth, stimulate children's imagination and creativity.

Many games need to be done by children themselves, so that children can understand the relationship between the body and the external environment, know how to move, where to move, and when to move, so as to achieve the purpose of brainstorming, satisfy children's desire for exploration and curiosity, and gain rich knowledge and wisdom from games. Such as folding wood games, origami games, knotting games (knitting various objects with fingers), jigsaw puzzles and so on. In the process of children's game construction, on the one hand, children's independent thinking ability can be strengthened, on the other hand, children's organizational logical reasoning ability can be developed. The construction of each object is helpful to children's personalized creation and thinking, and improves their language learning and text arrangement ability. Enhance their ability to think independently, create and innovate logical organization, cast their personality, cultivate their moral quality and enhance their social value in an all-round way. Role-playing games also have a positive effect on children's imagination and creativity. It guides children to enter the game state through the scenes designed by the game, and guides them to integrate into different situations. Through various situations, children can act as observers or demonstrators, imitate appropriate actions and behavior norms in this situation with their usual experience and imagination, and inspire children to think freely and develop their language skills.

To sum up, games are the most effective form of activities to promote children's mental health. Through various interesting games, children can prepare for their future life and learn important skills they must have in their future life. Get satisfaction from different types of games, make your body grow healthily, enrich your spirit and reconcile your emotions. Playing games is an important part of children's life. Children can reflect on the knowledge gained in real activities and learn from trial and error in playing games. The richer the content of the game, the more active the imagination will be. At the same time, it will stimulate children's curiosity about themselves and the environment, help children's brain development during their growth, and then improve their reading ability, logical ability and personality development.

Expanding knowledge: discussing the factors that affect children's psychological development

Having a healthy psychology is our ultimate goal of cultivating children, and there are many factors that restrict children's psychological development. Controlling the influence of various factors on children's healthy psychology is a magic weapon to scientifically guide children to establish healthy psychology. In the cultivation of children's healthy psychology, these seven factors can not be ignored.

1, genetic factors. The characteristics of human brain and physiological nerves are the material basis of psychological phenomena, which provides the possibility for our human psychological development. This genetic factor provides an objective reference for us to cultivate children's healthy psychology in real life, but it does not play a decisive role.

2. Social, cultural and environmental factors. With the improvement of cognitive ability, children have a certain ability to take care of their social environment, especially the influence of mainstream social and cultural thoughts, which seriously affects their psychological growth.

3. Socio-economic and environmental factors. Just as social and cultural factors affect children's psychological growth, social and economic environment also objectively affects children's psychological growth.

4. Natural environmental factors. "One side of water and soil nurtures one side of people" not only refers to people's living habits in different regions, but also includes people's psychological cultivation in some regions.

5. School cultural environment factors. Without the influence of family and society, school has the most direct and powerful influence on children's psychological growth. No wonder parents will try their best to choose a school for their children.

6. Family culture and environmental factors. The influence of family culture on children's psychological development is self-evident, and economic structure, parents' parenting attitude and value orientation, parent-child relationship and so on have a direct and important influence on children's psychological development. Creating a harmonious family life environment can better promote the growth of children's healthy psychology.

7. Subjective factors. This main factor mainly refers to the spontaneity of children, who actively change their psychological growth route during their growth.

Children with mental health may not develop well, but children with mental health will certainly not develop well. In order to guide children to shape healthy psychology, we need objective analysis, comprehensive measurement and active guidance. Under the premise of considering various complex factors, we should integrate various influencing factors to create the most suitable psychological growth environment for children.