Play

摘要

1 Children will play whether they live in a suburb or a war zone. The urge is so strong that children even played in concentration camps during the Holocaust. 2 Play reflects a child's surroundings. In the Confederate South, black children held mock slave auctions, a psychological means of coping with extreme anxiety. 3 Essential to the growing brain, play stimulates development of the cerebellum, which coordinates movement, and the frontal lobe, which regulates decision-making and impulse control. 4 Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp believes diminishing classroom playtime could be responsible for the recent rise of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 5 And then there are communication skills.