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Children's symbolic games
? My 5-year-old son recently fell in love with cartoon fireman Sam. What he envies most is Sam, the protagonist in the cartoon. He even changed his English name Jack to Sam. Even funnier, he assigned a cartoon character to every member of our family: for example, my husband is Obis, I am Penny, my grandmother is Avery, my grandfather is the stationmaster of speer, my uncle is Harold, my aunt is Dulles, and my cousin is Meris. Used grandma's bunk bed as his fire station. From time to time, there are stories of the whole family mobilizing to fight the fire together.

Every time, my whole family will be made to laugh by him. Games are the main activities of early children. With the development of children's cognitive level, games have gone through three stages:

1, function game. Mainly simple actions and activities, the content of which is the reaction of basic life. This is mainly the baby's parent-child game and The Imitation Game.

2. Symbolic games. Symbol game is a creative activity based on children's experience and constructing false situations through imagination. Symbolic games are the characteristics of children's games, also known as pretend games.

? 3. ring games. The prominent characteristics of regular games are the dominance of game rules and the invisibility of game roles. The competition of the game determines the regularity of the game. Childhood and beyond are mainly regular games.

Obviously, at this stage, my son plays mainly symbolic games and functional games, and he is also trying to learn some regular games. For example, the game of playing fruit cards with my son and niece is like this. At this age, my son has gradually understood various rules and can participate in some games according to the rules.

? The game also shows the development law of children's social development. First of all, non-social games mainly refer to children playing or watching games alone; The second is parallel games, in which children have the intention to participate in other children's games, approach other people's game places and engage in similar game activities, but they do not communicate with each other and do not try to influence other people's behavior. Parallel games can be regarded as an excessive form from non-social games to social games. The third stage, social games. Social games refer to the social nature of game activities. Social games are divided into cooperative games and cooperative games. Cooperative games require children to have the abilities of verbal communication, self-control, understanding the needs of others and understanding the rules of the game, which are complex social skills. It can be seen that children's games are important activities for children's social development.