Discover the seven lessons your child learns with this fun moment. Play in childhood is essential for your child to achieve adequate socio-emotional development. Therefore, it is necessary to incorporate free play times into their agendas and make certain elements, such as costumes, available to them. Learn about several of its emotional benefits for your child.
EMOTIONAL BENEFITS OF COSTUMES
1) Wearing costumes encourages your IMAGINATION.
Thanks to them they can be train drivers, superheroes, dancers, an animal … because they encourage their creativity, a very important growth in their ability to solve problems. You don’t need great outfits to get carried away by their fantasies; Even a toilet paper tube can be enough to represent your inner world.
2) Having a happy childhood, full of pleasant experiences and constant feelings of joy are the basis of MENTAL HEALTH.
When your child plays freely and with joy, his baggage of good times grows and consolidates. Give him safe spaces where he lets his imagination run wild without scolding or fighting; where I scream, sing, climb and run safely.
3) Promote EMPATHY. Only by putting yourself in the role of another – the character – can you understand the emotions that you experience.
When a child disguises himself as a dad or a teacher and realizes that putting order among other children is not so easy, he sensitizes himself and invites his actions to be less self-centered. This will facilitate their family, school and social adaptation.
4) They allow METABOLIZING emotions that, although normal, the little ones live as aggressive.
An example: when a child falls apart and then plays a doctor for weeks. If you allow this kind of game and put material at his disposal to act out his anguished fantasies, both the intensity and the repetition will gradually disappear.
ONCE IN WHEN YOU MAKE UP OR PUT ON A HAT AND JOIN YOUR CHILD’S GAMES: YOU WILL NOT JUST HAVE A GOOD TIME AND CONNECT WITH HIM, YOU WILL ALSO UNDERSTAND MORE WHAT CROSSES FOR YOUR MIND AND WILL MAKE YOU LOVE MORE.
5) Using costumes is one of the ways in which your child expresses voracious, ENVY and even aggressive emotions without consequences, in a playful and harmless way.
By playing in costumes you can practice how comfortable you are by being loving, aggressive, rebellious, curious, talkative and even fearless – you can also express your tenderness through play.
6) Children, through role-play, seek to identify with QUALITIES of people or characters.
A girl plays Wonder Woman and rescues her siblings, or a boy disguises himself as a firefighter and fearlessly enters a burning house to save a struggling pet; she identifies with the autonomy and intelligence of the character and he with the courage that he observes in the firefighter.
7) Promote healthy and elevated SELF-ESTEEM in your child.
Thanks to these games one day he is a successful restaurateur; another, a singer and then an undercover spy who beats the worst network of thugs on the planet. By living these types of games as their reality, each success, challenge overcome and fear conquered become part of a positive and strengthened self-concept now and as an adult.