Games are fun. This is true for adults and children alike. However, games also teach a variety of skills and they further every domain of a persons development. This is particularly important during the early stages of life. Through games children learn gross motor and fine motor skills, they practice and develop the ability to use language, and they learn important interpersonal and social skills. Adults can use games to strengthen these areas, but their abilities are already much more advanced, and therefore games are more important for children. In play a child learns gross motor skills such as walking or jumping, which an adult has already mastered. pushing a shopping cart, for example, teaches a toddler to balance his/her weight and to use his/her legs to support his/her body. This activity is game and exercise at the same time, but it would be completely for adults.
游戏很有趣。这是真实的成年人和孩子一样。然而，游戏也教了各种技能，他们进一步的每个领域的一个人的发展。这在生命的早期阶段尤其重要。通过游戏，孩子学习总的运动和精细运动技能，他们实践和发展的能力，使用语言，和他们学习重要的人际和社会技能。成年人可以使用游戏来加强这些领域，但他们的能力已经远远领先，因此游戏对孩子更重要。在玩一个孩子学习运动技能，如散步或跳跃，这是一个成年人已经掌握。例如，推一个购物车，教一个孩子平衡他/她的体重和使用他/她的腿，以支持他/她的身体。这项活动是在同一时间游戏和锻炼，但它将是完全的成年人。
Similarly, fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination are areas in which a child has much more to learn than an adult. Thus playing catch with a baseball has a much greater benefit to the young and inexperienced person. Language games allow children to practice and strengthen their language skills. Even simple singsong or rhyming games aid in this development. Needless to say, due to their advanced language ability, adults would not get much out of these simple ditties. In comparison, adult language games such as scrabble dont build but fine-tune language ability. Children are not able to compete here because they have not yet amassed enough knowledge. Elementary interpersonal and social skills ranging from communication to cooperation are also developed in play. Children learn systems of social rules when engaging in simple activities like pick-up football games. For example, they learn how to control themselves and to tolerate their frustrations around others. They also learn how to work in a team. These, of course, are abilities that are extremely important for adults as well, but, once again, children have more to learn.
同样，精细运动技能和手眼协调的领域，其中一个孩子有更多的学习比成人。因此，玩一个棒球有一个更大的好处，年轻和没有经验的人。语言游戏让孩子练习和加强他们的语言技能。即使是简单的单调的或押韵游戏有助于发展。不用说，由于他们的高级语言能力，人就不会有那么多的从这些简单的小曲。相比之下，成人的语言游戏如拼字游戏不建但微调的语言能力。孩子们不能在这里竞争，因为他们还没有积累足够的知识。在游戏中，基本的人际交往和社会技能，从沟通到合作也发展。儿童学习系统的社会规则，从事简单的活动，如拾足球游戏。例如，他们学会如何控制自己，忍受别人的挫折感。他们还学习如何在一个团队中工作。当然，这些都是对成年人极为重要的能力，但是，孩子们更要学习。