Parents call it this, we might call it FOMO. Either way, it's supposed to give your kid a leg up. It certainly helps if you're RICH.
What is enrichment?
100
This form of play is just for the pleasure of the senses (feeling, touching, moving, etc.).
What is practice or mastery play?
100
The rate of this mental state among adolescents has increased steadily since 1950, and indeed the current rate is now a full standard deviation ahead of what it was.
What is anxiety or depression?
100
Conflict is inevitable, so children playing together will have to learn this.
What is problem solving or conflict resolution?
100
Csikszentmihalyi's hyper-focused, hyper-motivated state. Students can get there if they're having fun.
What is flow?
200
Stranger danger! Because parents think their kids might get snatched, they don't let them do this anymore.
What is play outside?
200
A child who pretends a box is a car is engaging in this type of play.
What is make believe or symbolic play?
200
Because adults control more aspects of a child's life, they now have a reduced sense of this. (Oh well, it will be what it will be. No use trying to change anything.)
What is a sense of personal control?
200
Don't freak out, man. If you keep screaming and crying every time you lose, no one will want to play. You have to learn this skill for people to like you.
What is emotional control?
200
Incorporating this into the classroom allows students to engage with the material creatively, leading to such inspired projects as Mummy Monthly magazine.
What is art?
300
Why go out and play when you can stay in and do this, which didn't exist thirty years ago.
What is playing video games?
300
These games teach children to take turns, compete fairly, keep score, and share materials.
What are rule-based games?
300
This psychopathology, named after a myth about a nymph named Echo, has increased in the past 50 years. (Baby I'm feeling myself!)
What is narcissism?
300
I feel bad for kids these days. Without imaginary play, how can they build this skill that will let them know how others may feel?
What is empathy?
300
This not only helps students remember material, but also builds empathy and allows children to imagine possible futures for themselves. (Okay, class, today we're going to reenact the French Revolution!)
What is role playing?
400
Better beef up that resume if you want to get into one of these, which is always looking for "well-rounded" students.
What is college?
400
If a child has been spanked, he may then spank his doll or scold his teddy bear in this type of play.
What is compensatory play?
400
These types of goals (materialistic) lead toward depression, unlike personal, intrinsic goals.
What are extrinsic goals?
400
Young children cannot separate objects from this. (The sky is red!)
What is meaning?
400
Michelle Obama would like this one. Students retain information better when they're doing these types of activities.
What are physical activities?
500
Our nation's schools are failing! And this 2001 legislation made sure everyone knew where their priorities should lie.
What is No Child Left Behind?
500
"Jacqueline was moving her lips as she bit on her jaws. I did the same thing and she stopped and watched me attentively. When I stopped, she began again." Jacqueline is engaging in this type of play.
What is imitation?
500
I know your kid is special, but if you give it too much of this, it'll get a big head. (You brushed your teeth???? You're the most amazing child ever!!!!)
What is praise?
500
This skill, absent in animals and very young children, allows us to write fiction and draw goofy pictures. (And some people have a more active one than others...)
What is imagination?
500
Make a student do something, and they'll learn for the day. Give a student this, and they'll learn for a lifetime. (Would you like ICE or no ICE?)