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2. Play is considered the cornerstone of learning because it helps develop a childs Social Development, Physical Development, and Creative Development. It develops their Social Development by increase their social and emotional maturity. Childrens school success relys largely on children’s ability to interact with other children and adults. It enables children to work on their verbal skills by negotiating who plays what roles, or trying to start a new game, and by expressing their emotions and feeling towards other childrens. Play also contributes to physocal development. It strenthens children’s fine and gross motor development and body awareness as they actively use their bodies. They are developing fine motor skills by doing things like scribbling with a marker, cutting out shapes with a pair of scissors, or drawling pictures on the blacktop with chalk. They also develop their gross skills by doing things like hopping, skipping, and climbing up ladders to slide down the slide, children are full or energy so when they are out side they are always moving. Play also develops them creatively, Sigmund Freud one said (1958) that every child at play “behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him.” Children who are in a safe and open enviroment feel safe to act out in a creative and imagnavite way. Acting out situations they see in their home, school, and community. Play supports emotional development by providing a way to express and cope with feelings. It helps children express feelings by creating an imaginary character, plot, or setting. Children also learn to deal with their feelings as they act out being angry, sad, or worried...

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... how they feel, or why they are doing what there doing. Plus by moving close, or holding them, its almost like a hug and what child doesnt like a hug when they arent feeling good. Lastly i liked how to talked about the benifits of laughter. Laughing is good for adults and children it release tension, dissolved fear and embassrasment, builds connection and emotional safety. Laughing is a great way to dissolve a situation, if a child falls down and you react with fear the chances of them crying are pretty likely, but if a child falls and you look at them with a smile chances are they will start laughing at themselves get back up and continuce playing. I enjoyed Robins talk, and I also enjoyed that everything she talked about not only works for children but adults too. Sometimes adults need special time, and the need to laugh and feel like what they have to say matters.