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The Importance of Physical Play for Toddlers

• Preventing Decline in Physical Fitness: The lack of sports venues and opportunities for young children in our modern society has led to a decline in average physical fitness. Some traditional sports equipment and play styles are considered too dangerous, resulting in insufficient physical activity for young children. Young children lack the ability to cope with falls or danger.
• Social deficits: Modern toddlers generally lack energy, responsibility and endurance. Physical play can help children improve these qualities. Group physical play can promote children's social development.

How to read this book

1. This book is suitable for children's individual and group physical games, there are a variety of game content and types, so that teachers can choose the appropriate types of games, at the right time, for the right children to do physical games, the most important thing is to be able to let the children his own initiative to play.
2. For the motor level, teachers should not only ask children to do physical games, but also allow children to have the opportunity to think about what games they want to do, and at the right time with children, in a dialogical way, in a natural situation, so that children can take the initiative to play, to stimulate sensory-motor and intellectual development.
3. Physical games are not age-specific, and the rules of the games are not defined in detail. Teachers can choose the right kinds of games for the right children.
4. In order to facilitate the explanation, there is a classification of the equipment of the game. Teachers should have a full understanding of the elements of the various sports and should not be biased, and should try to expand the field and content of the game, so that the children can experience it by themselves.