How does physical play help childrens development?
Physical play is critical for a childs’ development of hand/eye coordination. The human brain learns from every new experience and gets better each time. For instance, a right handed person would feel extremely uncomfortable trying to throw a ball left-handed. But do it a couple thousand times and it becomes quite natural. Every thing we do creates a new wrinkle in the brain. We are most susceptible to learning and retention during our early childhood years. we can easily learn more than one language or learn to play a musical instrument. So when children play any physical activity, their brain is learning to calculate and anticipate many things on different levels simultaneously such as balance, speed, reflex, etc. Over time, this helps to fine-tune the senses.
