Games and puzzles are important because they play an important role in developing problem-solving skills, rational thinking skills, social skills, communication skills, as well as patience, memory improvement, general knowledge, and concentration.
If a parent always plays games and puzzles with her child, it will become a sweet memory for the child when he grows up. For adults, playing games and puzzles can help them destress. Beside that, they can also have fun, enjoy and relax.
Games such as Chess which involve strategic planning will help the child to improve his problem-solving skills and rational thinking skills. When playing Chess, children have to use strategy and plan their next move.
Children can learn about strategic planning, problem-solving and rational thinking from books, but this is just theory. While it may help kids to pass exams, the information learnt will not be retained.
However, skills learnt from hands-on activities like playing games will usually remain in their memory.
Skills that children learn while playing games will be used in future when they face problems in life.
There are some children who do not like to study. These kids typically fall asleep when they open a book. To overcome this problem, parents can try to make learning fun by playing word games or math games with them. Word games like crossword puzzles help improve a child's curiosity, concentration, memory and general knowledge.
Beside games, playing with puzzles will also help enhance the brain. When children complete jigsaw puzzles, it enhances their brain, and strengthens their numeric and visual skills.
The jigsaw puzzles come in many sizes such as 300-piece, 500-piece, 750-piece, and 1,000-piece. The puzzles with more pieces take more time and require more patience to complete. The patience and concentration that a child practises while putting puzzles together can be applied when a child has to complete his homework. It will result in a child being able to complete a task in less time and with fewer mistakes.
Social and communication skills are very important to everybody to have a successful life. It is best that a child learns this from young. These skills can be learned through playing games. Mostly the games need two players, such as Chess and Chinese Checkers. From such games, it will help the child to build strong social and communication skills.
During the process of playing the games, the child needs to communicate with his opponent. This is where children learn how to communicate so that they can complete the game and have fun. After doing this many times, a child will have better social and communication skills.
Games and puzzles are important because they help to build positive behaviour in the young and old. As long as they enjoy it, they can benefit from playing games and solving puzzles.
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