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According to the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, play is a right of every child. Even though it is necessary to cultivate reading and math skills, have we lost the play's benefits? Without play, children have difficulty learning social skills like sharing, collaboration, cooperation, and taking turns. Play allows children to build cognitive, physical, social, and emotional skills. Free play and choice allow children to self-regulate, own, and control their learning. There are many forms of play. Play can include pretending to play with self or others, a risky play that includes jumping, running, playing with playground equipment, play that leads more to academic growth that can include puzzles, blocks, and reading books, and free choice play where children can choose how they would like to play. Every type of play is essential in the child's learning. It is the adult's job to make sure they advocate and support play in educational settings and home.

According to Erikson's stage of Human Development, Autonomy versus Shame and doubt best describes this stage of children. It occurs between the stage of one and a half to three years where. During this stage, a sense of personal control over physical skills and independence is developed. Also, children who successfully resolve this conflict develop a sense of purpose while those who do not face feelings of guilt. From research, play-based classrooms provide both the benefits of play and the teaching of needed skills to prepare for the first of their academic

The importance of play is that it helps childhood as it helps to develop social, emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being. There are several phases of child development that play improves, like building active, healthy bodies preventing obesity, healthy brain development, and promoting behavioral, problem-solving skills, and cognitive capacity. Also, play is seen to be essential to developing emotional and social bonds and relationship-building skills and educating children on how to share, negotiate, and self-advocate (Milteer). Recreational activities are confirmed to advance certain aspects of child development, typically inaccessible in
communities that cannot afford safe and supervised children's environments. Physically and emotionally healthy children would eventually become productive citizens whose contributions would contribute to society in the future. The play also allows children to create and explore a world they can be familiar with, conquering their fears whereas practicing their adult roles. It helps the children also be self-efficient problem-solvers because, during play, they create and get to solve their problems. For instance, when a child is asked to solve a real-life or academic problem, they would use the skills they practiced in the play to find a solution (Ginsburg,2013). Besides, play is a vital element in early childhood programs. It provides young children with an

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"Erikson’S 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development | Education, Society, & The K-12 Learner." Courses.lumenlearning.com. N.p., 2020. Web. 3 Dec. 2020

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Goldstein. (2012). Play in children's development, health and well-being. Retrieved from https://www.ornes.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Play-in-children-s-development-health-and-well-being-feb-2012.pdf

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