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    Games have a symbolic function, they serve as symbols that help create contexts, anticipate situations, plan future actions or interpret reality. Game favors the process of enculturation and arises naturally. It is indispensable for psychomotor, intellectual, emotional and social development, as skills develop with it and children learn to respect rules and have goals and objectives (the playground games).

    In humans, after the emergence of symbolic play at age 2, begins a phase of social game in which children play more and more with each other and with adults, using the language. This social game requires the establishment of agreements, which eventually end up in formal suit, whose essential characteristic is that it's a game with clear rules.

    They are useful and necessary for the development of child to extent there is a problem if a child is not involved in any such activities. The importance of utility of game can lead adults to steal the show the child. Adult intervention in children's game should consist of: facilitating conditions for game. Be available to child and not direct or impose unnecessary rules. The tax game can change the attitude. Every rules placed must foster the development and enjoyment of a game by participants.

    Game is a necessary activity for humans to attach great importance to social sphere, since it allows testing certain social behaviors; in turn be used to acquire and develop intellectual, motor, and affective capacities tool and all this must be done so willingly, feeling no obligation of any kind, and all activities required to have time and space to do it.

    Popular games are closely linked to activities of ordinary people, and over time have passed from parents to children. In most of source is unknown: they simply born of need of man to play, ie it is spontaneous, creative and highly motivating activities. The rule is very variable, and can change from one geographical area to another with ease; They can even be known by different names depending on where you practice.

    Expanding the memory and attention by stimuli that are generated. Foster runout thought. Develop imagination and creativity and the distinction between fantasy and reality. Promote the development of language and abstract thought. Game plays in mammals. Mammals play to learn. In fact the main feature of game is to learn.

    Game universal, ie, that people of all cultures have always played. Many game are repeated in most societies. It present in history of mankind despite the difficulties at certain times to play, and the first industrial societies. Evolves according to age of players and has different characteristics depending on the culture in which it studied.

    Game is synonymous with pleasure, fun, gaiety, entertainment, but also plays the child to discover, know, know others and their environment. In non-social animals play occurs mainly during childhood as a means of psychomotor learning or experimentation and in adulthood as a behavior related to reproduction. In gregarious animals kept these play behaviors and associated social game to acquisition of status, establishing roles and add group relationship.




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