Provide children the freedom to play

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PROVERBS 22:6 Train a boy in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not swerve from it.

PROVERBS 4:3-5  When I was my father’s child, frail, yet the darling of my mother, he taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart hold fast my words: keep my command that you may live! Get wisdom, get understanding! Do not forget or turn aside from the words I utter. 

Combined with education and exposure than suppression, allowing the child’s freedom is a significant part of establishing their lives into their future world. Even with adults, it’s certainly difficult to acquire experience without getting hands a bit grimy, and so the same with children but their experiences gradually mold their initiatives. 

Acquiring knowledge through exposure than repression is not merely about having fun but a significant part of child development. The dirt/initiatives that the kid acquires, is a good brand of creativity with the hopes of future shared dynamism with mothers and acquisition of experience they analytically need through exposure that they enjoy most.

Remember the Breeze laundry soap endorsers Philippine Award-winning actress Dawn Zulueta, women and youth issues advocate now senator Sen. Pia Cayetano, socialite and columnist Tessa Prieto-Valdez, and trendy celebrity mom Carmina Villaroel who agree that kids will always be kids and part of it is getting literally dirty?

The “dirt is good” reality is designed to encourage children to play imaginatively as it is such a significant part of play and the development of the kids. 

Hence, if noticing children exploring their own world, give them their freedom than shouting at them and placing them in a corner which suppresses their creativity, initiative and learning process. Leave the stereo-types, visit a playground once in a while, play a game and along with kids get your hands a little dirty. It’s fun. Let the children play, explore and try things out as their outlet of comprehension for them to capture the importance of playing and be encouraged of something that matters to them until appreciation and progress while growing up.

As the essayist fondly says: Keep an eye on your thoughts for they turn out to be your words. Keep an eye on your words for they turn out to be your actions. Keep an eye on your actions for they turn out to be your habits. Keep an eye on your habits for they turn out to be your character. Keep an eye on your character for it turns to be your destiny. It’s challenging.