I had the pleasure of sitting down with Michele, who is the owner of a child care center in Illinois. Michele has been a childcare professional for over twenty years and has been a advocate for the quality care children receive while in the child care setting. I begin to introduce my topic for my research paper to Michele about the importance of play for children and their development. Michele has strong views that children should have the opportunity to explore their environment. Through play children are able to solve small problems, build their vocabularies, and learn to respect others and themselves.
One insight that I gained from Michele is her understanding of how children learn differently and how important it is that professionals create an environment for children to express ideas and learn from the people around them. Another insight that I gained from Michele was the importance of making the activities child directed and helping them learn from knowledge they already have.
Children need to have interactions with others in order to understand feelings, language, and cognitive thinking. Play allows a child to understand the different roles that people take on while talking, which helps in understanding words and their meaning. This is a skill that is needed to help children gain the skills of reading and writing, Through play children are capable of building life long skills to help them be productive members of society.
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