Attitude of mothers towards influence of outdoors games on physical, mental, social and emotional development

Introduction

Play is an important part of the childhood development. Through play children learn about shapes, colors, cause and effect, and themselves. Besides cognitive thinking, play helps the child learn social and psychomotor skills. It is a way of communicating joy, fear, sorrow, and anxiety. In the early 2000s, children of all ages and from every socioeconomic background often prefer television, computers, and battery-operated toys to self-directed, imaginative, and creative play. This tendency leaves children developmentally deprived, because imaginative and fantasy play allows children to explore their world and express their innermost thoughts and feelings, hopes and fears, likes and dislikes. Through play, decisions are made without penalty or fear of failure. Play allows children to gain control of their thoughts, feelings, actions, and helps them achieve self-confidence. Play takes different forms for different children, and its definition entails many aspects. Play is the direct opposite of work; it is frivolous. It provides freedom and invites the impulse to engage in foolishness. Yet it provides a means for ego development and a process by which social skills and physical skills develop as well. Play with imagination and fantasy is the child's natural medium of self-expression and one that gives cues about the child's conscious and unconscious states. In play therapy, clinicians employ various techniques designed to reveal the child's psychological and social development. Clinician-directed play therapy is, therefore, not naturally self-directed play, but play designed by a professional to facilitate understanding of the child and the child's healing process. It is a good idea to encourage child to play outside several times a day. There are two fundamental reasons why outdoor play is critical for young children in our early childhood programs and schools. First, many of the developmental tasks that children must achieve-exploring, risk-taking, fine and gross motor development and the absorption of vast amounts of basic knowledge-can be most effectively learned through outdoor play. Second, our culture is taking outdoor play away from young children through excessive TV and computer use, unsafe neighbor hoods, busy and tired parents, educational accountability, elimination of school recess, and academic standards that push more and more developmentally inappropriate academics into our early childhood programs, thus taking time away from play. This study helpful to the educationalist for planning outdoor activities and its beneficial goals for children. This study also helpful to the teachers for improving out door activities and equipment. This study also helpful to the parents for to knowing importance of outdoor play for overall development of their children. This study also helpful to the Home Science -Human Development students for improving their skill regarding to plan outdoor activities for pre-scholar. www.extensionjournal.com

Methodology

The present investigation was carried out in Gandhinagar and Ahmadabad city at Gujarat state in India. Gandhinagar. The present study was confined to -EX -post facto -research design. For this study, the multi stage random sampling techniques was used for the selection of the school and respondents from Gandhinagar and Ahmadabad city of the west-central India was selected for the study. the random sampling method was applied for the selection of preschooler. A list of children was prepared for each selected class in consultation with respective principal and class teachers. From these lists 100 pre schooler (in junior and senior class) were randomly selected for taking information regarding health status by anthropometric measurement and observing common health problems. The data collected by personal interview of 100 respondents from Gandhinagar and Ahmadabad city frequency, percentage, Mean percent score, t test and SD were used to analyze data.

Objective

To study Attitude of mothers towards levels of influence of outdoors games on physical, mental, social and emotional development of their children

Results and Discussion

Information regarding attitudes of mothers towards outdoor games in relation with different development of their preschool children. The study is in line with Taylor and Kuo (2009) [3] found that outdoor activity as simple as a-walk in the park‖ has benefits for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by increasing their concentration levels and generally easing ADHD symptoms. www.extensionjournal.com Table: 3 Indicates the Distribution of respondents according to their attitudes towards outdoor games in relation with social developments of their preschooler children. The data presented in table shows that majority 100% respondents like and agree that child playing with unity in outside game, playing outside with their friends and child playing outside with their same age friends, 99% respondents like and agree that their child learn role playing of different character by outdoor game and exchange things with their friends during outdoor playing and 98% respondents agree that outdoor game is also responsible for social development of their child. So, data concluded that majority 100% respondents like and agree that child playing with unity in outside game, playing outside with their friends and child playing outside with their same age friends, 99% respondents like and agree that their child learn role playing of different character by outdoor game and exchange things with their friends during outdoor playing and 98% respondents agree that outdoor game is also responsible for social development of their child. Table: 4 Indicates the distribution of respondents according to their attitudes towards outdoor games in relation with emotional developments of their preschooler children. The data presented in table shows that majority 100% respondents agree that their child is present enthusiasm for outdoor game, 90% respondents agree that their child present positive emotions during outdoor game playing time and 84% respondents disagree about their child does feel bored with outdoor game. So, data concluded that majority 100% respondents agree that their child is present enthusiasm for outdoor game, 90% respondents agree that their child present positive emotions during outdoor game playing time and 84% respondents disagree about their child does feel bored with outdoor game.

Conclusion

It can be concluded from the study that all the respondents (100%) agree that child playing with unity in outside game playing outside with their friends and child playing outside with their same age friends, 99% respondents like and agree that their child learn role playing of different character by outdoor game and exchange things with their friends during outdoor playing and 98% respondents agree that outdoor www.extensionjournal.com game is also responsible for social development of their child. Majority 96% respondents agree that their child is present enthusiasm for outdoor game, 89% respondents agree that their child present positive emotions during outdoor game playing time and 78% respondents disagree about their child does feel bored with outdoor game. Majority 90% respondents agree that overall development is occur in their child by outdoor game and 86% respondents agree that Sensory development is occur in their child by outdoor game.

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