Character Education Through Play

Play is not a frivolous pastime of childhood. It is absolutely vital to a child’s personal, social, emotional, and physical health. In fact, the most natural way children learn is through play. Children have, overtime, spent less time playing with each other and instead become passive consumers of entertainment sitting solitarily in front of electronic devices.

Because of this, many have lost the ability to focus on academics, get along with each other, organize their thinking well, be kind or compassionate; self-regulate their behaviors, express delayed gratification, or demonstrate traits of good character. This negative shift harmfully impacts school culture and poses challenges to parents, teachers, staff who want to teach and to those students who want to learn. Classroom and playground management behavior problems such as bullying, aggression, non-cooperation and lack of focus have become serious barriers to academic learning.