What is play to you??

Watch the video upload to understand what is play?

This week we discussed the important topic of play and the role in children’s learning and development. For this week’s discussion board, you will interview four different adults in your life and ask the following: 

• What is your definition of play?
• What kinds of play do you think young children  (birth to age 8) enjoy?

For your original post, please share the responses you received from the adults you interviewed and your own ideas on what constitutes play. How is this different from the characteristics in our text and course materials for this week? Why do you think adults might have a hard time understanding that children are engaged in important activity when they play?

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SECOND WORK 

Discussion Instructions

 To begin, type your responses to questions 1-5 in the Reply box below these instructions..  

TOPIC.  How do you handle stress?

Stress is increasingly a part of our lives. What are ways we can protect ourselves from its long term, damaging effects?   Watch the following two animations in youtube link, then answer the following questions:

1. Describe what you have learned from both videos.
2. As discussed in the videos, stress can be good but it can be toxic as well.  What situations or circumstances cause anxiety or stress to you?  Identify your particular stressors.
3. List and discuss the coping mechanisms that you use to deal with stress and your stressors, i.e. give some examples of how you handle stress, or try to reduce it.  Think of the pandemic.  Many of us experienced disruptions to our daily lives.  Please share with us how you managed stress during the pandemic.  Based on what you know about how stress affects you and what you’ve learned about how stress can affect us, do you think your ways of managing stress could be improved?  Why or why not? 
4. Adults are not the only ones that experience stress.  What are some situations that may cause anxiety and stress in children?  How might you recognize children who are experiencing stress?  What are some of the signs that children may exhibit?
5. Teachers and parents can improve the health environment that children are exposed to by providing education, supervision, role modeling, and working together.  How can you as a teacher and/or parent help children cope with these stressors?  Please provide AT LEAST 2 examples. Again, think about the last 2.5 years.  For example, if you quarantined with your children, younger siblings, and/or other younger family members during the pandemic what are 2 ways that you helped them adjust and deal with those changes to our daily lives?