Play

Definition

Children do most of their learning while playing. It's the same thing astronouts do during spacewalk. They use their minds first to imagine the spacewalk, and then they train on the ground in a safe environment before doing it in real life.

Children pretending to answer the telephone are actually wiring their brains to do it better in the future. That way they have a chucnk of neurons dedicated to that system just from playing. It's easier to drive on a road when there's been someone there before, as it is in doing something real after doing it in play, where there's already a road for you to go down on.

Also See: Playground as Factory