subject: How To Prepare Your Child For Social Interaction In The Future [print this page] Cooperative games require the group to play together as a whole. Cooperative games help children to form a cohesive group, teach cooperation skills, turn taking and sharing, decrease aggressiveness, and a non-threatening context for modeling and rehearsing social skills.
A basic competence required for successful peer-group interaction is turn-taking. This very important skill can be developed through consistent exposure to activities which require the toddler to wait while another is engaged in an intriguing activity. Throughout life, the turn-taking skill is required for successful social interaction.
Imitation is the first stage of pretend play. As imitation evolves it becomes more imaginative. The complexity of pretend play can be seen when the child re-examines life experiences by adding or changing the happening. Benefits of pretend play:
- Develop a larger vocabulary
- Build social skills
- Differentiate between reality and fantasy
- Provide emotional support
Mirror Play for Baby invites pleasant responses such as laughing, babbling and pure delight with little or no recognition that the child in the mirror is a reflection of himself. Development of self-recognition starts to occur around 1 1/2 months and continues throughout the toddler years. The child begins to recognize himself in the mirror and starts to experience objectively the relationship between an 'outer look" and an "inner feeling." At this stage of self-awareness, the child becomes more interested in his own appearance, such as what he wears and how he looks.
Children's humour is limited by their experience and their cognitive development, so what they perceive as funny is altogether too obvious for adults. Humour is social and children laugh longer when in a group setting. The most common element in children's humor is incongruity; when arrangement of ideas, social expectations or objects is incompatible with the normal or expected pattern of events. A child may use an object in a known inappropriate way such as a shoe for a telephone or give a name to an object or event that they know is incorrect.
The relationship between a caring adult and child can be built and strengthened through activities that provide a balance between the need for attachment and the need for exploration. As a secure base, the adult becomes the point from which the toddler moves away from while exploring and discovering his world. At the time of needing reassurance, comfort and security, the child then returns to the adult.
by: Cheow Yu Yuan
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