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Posted on November 25, 2010
There are all different kinds of reading games for kids that you can introduce to your child, regardless of their age. Whether they are preschoolers or have begun their academic education, there are amusements for them to enjoy that includes other activities aside from traditional book reading and flashcards.
Reading games for kids that involve visualization helps a child to easily remember the information they have been presented, allowing them to create a mental picture that often assists them in processing what it is being described. This is very important for some children because reading comprehension does not always come easy, and many kids struggle to create vivid images in their mind when they read. Pictures help a child with word association, recognition, and remembering.
There are a variety of games that encourage reading through visualization, such as:
- searching for hidden words or letters and arranging them in sequence according to color, shape and size to create words, etc.,
- using pictures to tell a story
- recreating patterns by selecting the right colors and images
- matching pictures or an image with the corresponding word
More brain area is used for vision than any of the other senses. Thus, the brain is exceptionally skilled at using visual information and depends on it. Reading games for kids that stimulate their visual senses can easily be found online, providing children with diverse amusement and various degrees of learning.
This was guest posted by blogger Alex Nichols
We just moved to Reno, NV because my husband got a new job, and I am very glad we signed up for wildblue nevada. In the evening when my husband gets home he likes to relax by playing games on Yahoo. After he gets on our Wild Blue Broadband Internet he pulls up the site and our baby comes running. He loves to watch his dad play bejeweled the most. He is slowly learning how to use the mouse to switch the jewels into place.
The time spent between son and father is great when it is relaxing for both. Usually, my husband will use the games on the wild blue internet to calm down the baby before he goes to bed. He also likes to play games with him on the weekend mornings while I am cooking. Our son learns a lot and thinks spending quality time with his dad is great.
We also play games that are geared toward young children with him. These games teach him how to color, numbers and letters. His favorite is peek-a-boo, where he clicks on a character that jumps out on the screen. The games are educational and keep his very busy mind occupied.
Playing games online with our child is a great way to bond with him and teach him the ins and outs of a mouse and keyboard. The games themselves teach critical thinking and recognition as well, we see this have a positive effect on his other daily activities.
Do you often incidentally see parents who berated his little daughter were playing war? Do you often see parents saying, “A girl playing robot. This is a boy toy, isn’t it?” Is one of your daughters play the boy’s game? Or conversely, is your son playing women’s game? Parents generally prohibits direct or scolding her son when her son playing cooking. Taboo, they said. This concern makes sense because there are no parents who wanted their son to be tendentious to be a girl, or otherwise, their daughter becomes tendentious to be a boy.
Children do not fully understand the classification or categorization. It is adults who make a classification or categorization. So why should you ban your daughter who seems happy to play cars? Experts said, parents should not make their children become more `masculine ‘or` feminine’, by sorting the toys based on the notion that boys should play this and girls should play that.
Childhood is a time to explore and establish the concept of self and the environment. Prohibit and restrict the space for children can result in lost time, and made himself into a strong adult who is not opinionated. Invite children to discuss and dialogue about gender orientation is more sensible and non-judgmental, compared to the ban without proper explanation.
It is our responsibilities for our child education. With proper education for our kids, we are able to make sure to ourselves that our child will be just fine in the future. Nowadays, world is changing rapidly. There are so many bad things that can affect our child developments. Therefore we must be able to select what is the best for our children.
The same with games, in the market nowadays we are able to find many games that can be played for our kids. The games are usually comes with various theme and game play. Some of the games are explicitly show violence and non educating materials. Therefore we must be able to select the games that our kids can play. In the internet, we are able to choose various education games. These education games are also having various genres such as puzzle, brain games, adventure games, and many others. With careful selection we are able to pick the best games which it can help us in our kid’s development.
Choosing the suitable games for our kids is not easy. There are many things that we should consider such as our kids ages, the games, the education that the games can teach our kids, and many others. With careful selection, we are able to let our kids play their games without any worry that the games can give them bad influence.
Posted on December 19, 2009
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It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that video games and obesity are linked. I have to admit that I am a little jealous and grateful at the same time that the technology of today was not around when I was a child. Video games can be fun and are definitely addictive. Overweight children generally live more sedentary lifestyles and are socially less active. They have more idle time and since video games can be so addictive they find themselves playing games for entertainment. The implications of this is that playing video games could cause obesity rather than obesity being a cause of playing video games.
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