War Play Dilemma Analysis

These days’ kids have a plenty of different wishes and sadly they have a different ways of playing. Going through the readings from the book called "The War Play Dilemma" by Diane E. Levin and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, I realized that today games are very dangerous, especially war play among children. While reading chapters, we can clearly see how parents and teachers are getting more concern and they are trying to explore what is the reason of that kind of play and they try to find a solution connected to war play.
For example, if we take a look on video games, which can be very dangerous; but still children still likes them, and in some cases, parents are spending a lot of money on those video-games and actually they are making a big mistake, …show more content…
The second part of the module about children and war was especially motivating for me because I had an opportunity to write about how I observed three little children; and express my feelings through writing about that moment in my life; position where I am babysitting and that was one delightful experience and knowledge in my life. While babysitting and observing those kids I learned a lot about all sorts of play, and I can say that babysitting kids and a kid with special needs expanded my horizons. Taking care of those kids is one of the best experiences I have ever had. When I started working for the family the infant was three months old, the toddler was three years old, and the oldest one was six years old. Thinking back about their development and the different stages and kinds of play, those three kids are a perfect example of each of the different plays (motor, object, cognitive and social play). Observing the youngest one, infant baby boy I noticed how he was developing his motor play and later on object play skills. When I started working for them he was grabbing my finger, sucking his thumb, also his feet. At the present day he is ten months old and he holds his bottle himself, he plays …show more content…
I hear him making all sorts of noises while playing with those objects, once a banana was a train, and a strawberry was a car, and a car strawberry crashed into a banana. When I asked him what happened and why he chooses the banana to be a train, he said it is because it is way longer than the strawberry. From that example I can see that he developed cognitive and object play. He also has a photogenic memory. He does not know how to write or spell, but if you show him a paper that has 20 words written down for just three seconds, he can copy all those words in the same order, without any mistake. I find that amazing. I love children and I can be surrounded by them my whole life and taking care of those kids is one of the best experiences I have ever had. People say that autistic kids have a lack of social play but my boy loves playing with other kids, even if he actually does not play with them, he likes to be surrounded by other kids. I guess that is how he feels included. He does not usually look people in the eyes, but when he wants to play with other kid he would go up to him,