Game: How it affects the brain and the psychology of the child

The game is a basic activity in the life of the child. Plays an important role in… physical, psycho-emotional, social and cognitive development, as well as the child through the game has the ability to act freely, to develop their physical skills (balance, coordination of movements), the crisis of the, to investigate the material world, to express feelings, gain confidence in abilities and to learn to socialize and to cooperate.
Cretan Marina, a Health Psychologist/ Systemic-Family Counselor by the scientific team of nutritionist Evangelos Zoumpanea diatrofi.gr
Who is it that puts the “must” in what they can and can’t play our kids? Who has so arbitrarily set that the girls only play with dolls, kitchen sets, ironing boards, etc., while the boys only with the cars, balls, robots, etc.? At first glance, the above are recognized as normal in the eyes of an adult and that’s why you will never get a doll as a gift for a boy or a drone as a gift for a girl. Social stereotypes and unwritten social rules make people shocked at seeing a boy in infancy or childhood playing with dolls and kitchenware. It looks like you have kids to play with specific games, otherwise you risk to overturn their sexual identity.
Apply it the above or are social structures and social stereotypes? The sexual orientation of a person is determined by completely different factors. The games with which we played in childhood any more than they affect the if will be drawn from the same or from a different gender. In essence, what really matters is the meaning that we give to the representations of us. What we understand when we see a boy to take care of a doll? The most likely is that the father of this boy is a very loving, caring, and giving dad, the child has internalized this model in it, and may, therefore, reproduce it, and to his children. Therefore, only pride and emotion we can feel in front of such a picture.
The pleasant experiences such as the game, affecting the chemical balance and neurological structure of the brain. The game of imagination and creativity (as is the symbolic game, with simple ingredients), it lowers stress levels and helps children to better cope with situations that cause. In addition, the game helps in the development of language skills, but also skills of listening and observation, the ability to follow complex instructions, the development of skills of cooperation and problem-solving, and self-image and awareness of the body.
Why would we need to schedule and push our children towards a certain social direction? Does this eventually have to change, is the way we interpret things? Maybe finally the time has come to change some of the social stereotypes!