Jill Vialet's Analysis

Play is the most influential, creative, productive activity for anyone including adults, children and animals leading them to explore, have fun, openness to change, and getting the ability to learn. Play also leads to an increase of productivity through sense of purpose and mastery. All this helps benefits our emotions, cognitions, maturity development, and ability to make decisions. Without play our correlation is affected, we get deprived, and depressed (Keil).

The remedy of being too serious causes depression (Keil) and we handicap ourselves from the lack of place and learning. Steve Keil mentions that we handicap ourselves within socialism, education, and work. The children are taught to be serious for the seriousness of life and the adulthood. Our education system has had minor change over the …show more content…
I thought the way she spoke about how play teaches us got my most interest because she went into depth about the physical activity, inner drive, and identifying our children. I was interested in how Vialet said we should be putting ourselves in the child’s shoes, learning what they like and dislike and how we should help challenge their learning through play, getting them involved in stuff they could be interested in. The play is rich for the children to learn about and we need to help break the ice for the children and get to their inner drive and ambition. The children learn best through empathy and teamwork experiences rather than assessing teaching and making them overwhelmed in social places alienating them.

A small step I would take would be increase the value of play for my son. He is at school most of the time with me and I feel like once I get home I don’t always get the chance to play with him because I am cooking, cleaning, and doing homework. I don’t always get the chance to read him every book he hands me usually only one or two before bed or I don’t always sit with him constantly to play everything that he wants to