Games in Early Child Development

In this article I cover a topic about the importance of games in early child development.
It is known that people distribute all their energy conventionally among such areas of life as:

• work (direct action);

• contact with the surrounding world (friendship, communication, love);

• interests (hobbies);

• and the body (aimed at maintaining the beauty of the body).


A game is the dominant activity of a child, in which all the described above areas of activity overlap. In other words, life and play are almost inseparable for the child, but namely a play provides his development.

In this sense, all games for children are developmental, and a primitive rattle has a much more powerful effect on a 2 month old baby than any fancy computer game affects a schoolboy.

However, it is necessary to allocate a whole group of games that develop a little person most of all. For this reason they are called, respectively, educational games.

Educational games stimulate the development of such mental functions as thinking, language, memory, imagination, visual and auditory perception, sensation.


Role plays have a particular importance in the development of a little child. We all know how children like to play family, hospital, school, etc. Playing this kind of games children imitate the behavior of adults, act out the situations they saw and peeped out of the adult life. This is extremely important, because the child is not always able to tell an adult how he understands the situation and what feelings he experiences, but when playing role plays he shows his emotions freely, and even gets rid of his own worries in an acceptable to society way.

It’s also worth noting that educational games teach children to solve complex problems of interpersonal relationships (not to clash but to understand each other), teach children to communicate, reach agreement and resolve issues of relationships between them. And if some time before the children played role-plays using just symbolic objects so today the whole range of such games is widely represented in the shops along with attributes and characters.

And in both a game and real life there are certain rules. It is well known that when playing, the child has to follow the rules by himself and watch the way others follow them, thus preparing himself for life in the adult world. Every child knows that he must follow the rules of the game, otherwise no one will play with him anymore, and he can even be banished out of the participants of a play. When following the rules, children, thus respect their partners, and show that even if the children compete.


What games does your child or baby loves to play? What do you notice him expressing when playing? Share your story with other parents!