DAD-Chronicals : Role playing with children - much more than just theater

Role playing with children - much more than just theater

Even our little ones are practicing being very tall. Role play can be observed in children from the age of three. The children slip into different roles and become fairy-tale characters, real existing persons or animals. What looks like a normal children's game for adults, offers important learning opportunities for children.

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In role-playing, the little ones interpret everyday scenes as well as stories from books and films in a completely new way. Often such topics are to be found, which are current in the life of the child. In the role-playing game, parents can read what their child is doing, but often also what fears it has inside. Therefore, a second look at what appears to us to be a funny or even annoying theater at first glance is worthwhile.

The first role-playing games

Role-playing games accompany the children from toddler through elementary school. The first games, which can be observed at the age of about three years, revolve around simple topics, even the stories themselves are very simple and not very complex - age appropriate. The children still do a lot, because they have to come up with an action and corresponding roles, communicate with one another, and finally take and play the roles themselves. In the first years of life the parent-child-relationship as well as the "existence assurance" play an important role. Correspondingly often, mother-father-child scenes can be found in a variety of adaptations or it is about the search for food or housing.

It gets more complicated

The older the children become, the more complex the role-plays become. Before a game begins, there are often long discussions in which children exchange and often argue about the plot and role allocation. By the way, the argument promotes conflict and communication skills. Satisfying results activate the reward system and have a great learning effect: talking to each other makes sense and works.

The meaning of role-plays

The experiences children make in role-playing are often as important and valuable as "real" experiences. The little ones play the world in which they live. By taking on different roles, you increasingly develop understanding for yourself and others. Role-playing games are therefore ideally suited to training empathy and getting to know different perspectives. By re-enacting everyday situations, the child tests new and already familiar behaviors and learns to understand the processes. It can be seen in the game, which role he is particularly fun and where it tends to develop aversion or disinterest. In role play, social behavior can develop; the same applies, as already mentioned, for the ability to communicate and conflict behavior. As in any game with others, there are rules in role play that need to be considered. The child learns the value of rules and appointments while playing, and also that observing can advance the plot and the game. After all, the games are also suitable for processing experiences or solving internal conflicts. In a safe (game) framework, for example, it is possible for the child to approach his fears, look at them and, at best, reduce them. For example, it may be that a child who is afraid of the doctor likes to play doctor's games with his stuffed animals.

If you want to support your child in role-playing, you should not interfere too much. If you're allowed to play, let your kid do the directing and play the role assigned to you as best he can. You might even enjoy it and become an evil monster, a cuddly pet or a spoiled mama's son. Many children find it easier to roleplay when they have props and disguises at their disposal. Here you can offer and provide your child with various things.

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