How the child's game works
Play is a vast and varied area of development, and one of the child's main ac vities. Playing enables children to discover the world, experiment with new things, learn, concretize their knowledge, develop their iden tity, socialize and enjoy themselves.
Maria Montessori1 said that playing is the child's job, and games are the child's tools. Through its practice, play enables the child to move from one discovery to the next, to confront and tame unknown things, to exercise and perfect his or her abilities on various levels: motor, linguistic, cognitive, emotional and social. Play will help cultivate the child's crea vity and bring out his or her personality. When a child is engaged in play, the brain is stimulated, with inter-cerebral neuronal connections. In short, the more a child plays, the more he develops his learning potential. By playing, they work on and promote their cognitive, motor, social and language development, self-awareness, creativity, problem-solving skills and memory.