Post 12: Most Interesting Concept About the Importance of Play

In my opinion, the most interesting concept about the importance of play is that it develops people, specially infants, not only physically, but also mentally. Children can become the most curious, creative, and innovative living beings while developing if allowed by their parents. In today’s society, infants have nearly completely lost all of their freedom to play and develop necessary skills for their future. Parents are now providing their infants with technological advancements to entertain them; the consequence of this act is that kids are becoming extremely dependent on technology and lack social and professional skills obtained just by playing outside. As altercated by Doris Pronin Fromberg in her article “Play and social interaction in middle childhood: play is vital for a child's emotional and cognitive development. But social and technological forces threaten the kinds of play kids need most," parents are ignoring the importance of freely chosen play and the opportunities are now narrowed for infants. Children have lost most of their play time to dancing, music, and video games. Playing outside can influence infants enormously and contribute to their emotional, social, physical, and cognitive development; but it has often been ignored or addressed to the minimum by their guardians.