Parks and Playgroups

Parks are a great place for kids to discover nature and exercise their imagination! Benefits Of Taking Your Children To The Park include:

1. Social Skills: Being around other children at a park or other outdoor setting is a great way for kids to practice their social skills. They have to wait their turn to use the slide or use the swing, teaching them a valuable lesson about sharing. Being around other children also helps them learn to play in a group setting.

2. Vitamin D: it is very important for children to be exposed to sunlight. Vitamin D deficiencies are one of the most frequently diagnosed vitamin deficiencies, and many doctors relate this directly to children being cooped up indoors.

3. Mental Health: its stressful being a kid. The demands of school, parents and friends can be a lot of young kids to handle. A trip to the park or outside is a great way for young ones to release some of this built up energy and reduce their stress levels.

4. Physical Fitness: Childhood obesity rates have more than doubled in the last 20 years. Getting kids outside is one of the easiest ways to combat this. Allowing kids to run free, jump, and climb is a great way for kids to get the exercise they need to stay healthy.

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The benefits of playgroup, Playgroups allow children to be introduced to a range of activities they may not do at home. It’s also a safe way to allow children to engage socially with other people and try new things. 

Here are some of the benefits playgroup offers:

1. It allows children to develop their social skills at their own pace.

2. Building a child’s emotional confidence, encouraging them to be independent from an early age.

3. Encouraging physical activity

Molding play dough, running, jumping, singing, twirling, children can get very active when at playgroup. They can also develop their fine motor skills through puzzles, craft and playing with toys

4. Supporting children’s imagination and creativity by allowing them to play in an unstructured way. At playgroup children can play dress-up or develop play scenarios with dolls, DUPLO and other toys.

5. Learning through role-play

Role play is a way for kids to engage with the world; it develops children’s imaginations and puts them in real-life situations where they need to solve problems and think of solutions. 

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