The amount of skills you pick up from all the interacting and bonding with your child(ren) during infancy and their preschool years is the mapping of development. A huge reason playing is important is because that is the start of learning and having your parents teach you simple things that you will eventually use for you’r entire life. Simple things such as your baby smiling and how you give a positive response or later on when you’r child hit and how you give a negative response; these are both examples of engaging in play. Your child(ren) will learn cognitive thinking, motor and social skills along with playing with others. Playing develops connections between the brian and nerve cells specifically your fine and gross motor skills. When you start to try to eat by your self and you can pick of a single cherrio that is you using your fine motor skills, and when you are running and jumping your using your gross motor skills. Playing also teaches your child …show more content…
This is when your child is just watching and observing other children playing or other people interacting. This is where your child(ren) is learning how to interact and communicate. Associative play is when your child(ren) is 3-4 years old and they are more interested in socializing then playing with toys or being alone; this is when they start to learn the do’s and do not 's of what expectable and not expectable with getting along with others. This is also the way of play where they start to get into doing similar things like girls playing house and boys playing trucks. This is where you are taught to solve problems, communicate, and sharing are