Play, Learning Arena For Kids

No day without playing for a child, the tap world is the world's children play. As we know, play is an activity that can bring pleasure. and it is said of these pleasures, children are stimulated to try out different abilities and new skills. Ago, since when kids can play and what the benefits of play for children's learning process?

Stages of Child's Play

Based on his age, there are several stages of playing children, namely:

infant period

• Ages 0-1 years old: The game is more sensorimotor, namely by exploring objects in the vicinity. more children to play with her mouth, hands, feet and fingers or eyes, for example by holding, insert objects into the mouth, developing eye coordination and hand.
• aged 1-2 years: motor skills to make children more familiar with the real world as well as the world's imagination. playing chase or hide and seek with his father and mother is his favorite. But he did not have the social ability to play creatively with peers.
• Age 2-3 year: a growing child's imagination makes a child starting to like playing the symbolic. He was pretending to be a father, mother, or create their own dialogue, or using puppets. He also played in parallel, as he played with other children in the same room, but they have not been able to coordinate their game. 

 Childhood Period

• ages 3-4 years old: children begin to develop kemamouan socialization. Berman parallel associative began to change into play, as he and other children involved in an activity together but each relative time spent on their own. each took the role and specific activities, toy lending exchange without feeling the need to coordinate the symbolic games are increasingly varied, for example by acting or dressing like their favorite cartoon character.
• aged 4-5 years: keampuan child growing social play, as he and other children playing together with a common goal. they love to play along with the atmosphere of joy, like singing as a circle, or simple competitive games, like playing quartets or snakes simple steps.
• aged 5-6 years: child started to like to socialize and better coordination of body movements. he was willing to follow the rules of the game and likes a challenging game with a clear goal.
   

Optimize Nutrition For Child Development

What nutrients that can support a child's development?

Gold during the development of children (0-2 years), nutrition plays an important role. In this age of nutrients such as iron, iodine, vitamin B12, essential fatty acids is very important because it can stimulate a child's development, especially brain development. eg iron deficiency, anemia can cause a child attacked, so it can affect the development of cognitive intelligence.

linoleic and linolenic fatty acids is the origin of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and AA (arachidonic acid). many sources of AA and DHA found in fish, squid, egg yolk, liver, soybeans and oils made from grains. DHA and AA need to mielinisasi many brain nerves and eyes, which plays a role in improving cognitive function and vision.

What causes child malnutrition?

child malnutrition, usually can be seen from the monitoring body weight, height and head circumference less developed when compared with the existing graphics standards. in addition, motor development and social contact is less well developed.

Diseases due to malnutrition what inhibits the development of children? 

Usually between diseases, malnutrition, and child development, are interrelated to one another. on diarrheal disease that prolonged or repeated each other, may cause absorption function is interrupted, so that children become malnourished. malnutrition causes reduced nutrients to the brain which can hamper a child's development. Endurance is reduced due to lack of nutrition can cause lung infection (TBC) or other infection, which aggravate malnutrition.

Tips to optimize nutrition to child development

do not underestimate the children, because nutrition is very mempenaruhi child development, especially in the golden period of development ...

• Optimize your child's nutrition, especially in the first 2 years of age. because in those days the gold     child's brain development.
• Inadequate intake of iron, iodine, vitamin B12, essential fatty acids (linoleic and linolenic fatty acids), DHA, AA, child development, especially brain development.