Personality shaped through play

Here are some photos taken at the school in Averești, Ion Creangă commune. We found here beautiful children eager to learn new things, especially through play.

“Children like to play. In counseling, with the help of games, we create a context, a framework, in which children open up much more easily. Games are much more appealing to most children than direct conversation, and play is the natural medium for expression. As the psychologist J. Piaget suggested, play also represents the purest form of assimilation, and the child’s personality is shaped by these playful experiences. That’s why, in the activity carried out with the children from Averești School, we chose the scarf game (which made our beneficiaries very happy), then the “Name Game” through which they discovered the qualities corresponding to each letter of their name. There was also the unstable tower game, which develops a series of cognitive processes: perception, attention, agility, memory. They improve their goal-oriented thinking, impulse control, rule-following, exercise patience, develop creativity, learn to communicate better, all of which lead to increased self-confidence.” says Diana Ionela Imbru, psychologist within the “Quality and Inclusion through Education” project.