Adolescents already spend 18.6 hours per week playing games
Children aged two to ten now spend more time on electronic devices than playing outside or indoors. This is the result of a current study by the toy manufacturer Melissa & Doug in collaboration with the polling institute Gallup .
Parents only want success
According to the researchers, children spend an average of 18.6 hours per week playing screen games. Only 14.6 hours are spent indoors playing traditional games. On average, only around 10.6 hours of outdoor play are played per week.
“Play is responsible for building all the skills that are most important for making us independent, self-reliant and problem-solving adults,”
warns Melissa Bernstein of Melissa & Doug.
Despite the known physical, cognitive, social and emotional benefits, play time is taking a back seat to academic, organized and structured activities. According to the researchers, this is particularly due to the fact that parents are increasingly concentrating on raising “successful” children.
Really live out creativity
While 80 percent of parents surveyed acknowledged that unstructured, child-led play helps promote creativity, only 22 percent cited creativity as one of the more important qualities for children as young as ten. The American Academy of Pediatrics, for example, recommends that parents organize playgroups that begin as early as the age of two or three. The idea is not to tell the children what to do, but rather just a few tools that they can play with together to let their own imaginations run wild.
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