Puzzles are especially important for children’s mental, physical, social and emotional development.

Puzzles are especially important for children’s mental, physical, social and emotional development. Puzzle, during the formation phase, can be defined as bringing together some pieces that seem complicated, meaningless, and irrelevant to each other and forming integrity. This forming integrity process is a phase that requires mental dexterity. Puzzle, in this sense, provides the formation of part-whole relationships by contributing to children’s mental development. Additionally, it has extra benefits for your children such as concentration-perception development, figure-ground perception, induction-deduction and reasoning-comparison development, and classification-sorting ability. Moreover, puzzles have further contributions to children’s critical thinking development, some of which are producing solutions, trying alternatives, motion-time study, hand-eye coordination, analytical thinking, and integration-matching-sequencing abilities. A child has to use his/her small muscles in order to do puzzles. Repeated movements reinforce the physical development of his/her by making his/her muscles stronger and by gaining the habit of mentioned movement. Completing the puzzle means a great victory for a child and this achievement is a significant contribution to his/her self-confidence. With this quality of it, we can refer to the contribution of puzzle to children’s emotional development. Besides, puzzles serve as some kind of treasure for social development because of the fact that they strengthen kids’ abilities such as productivity, patience, socialization, curiosity, discovery, acting independently, and focusing on the target. Children aged between 12-18 months can play with 3-4-piece puzzles and they can keep doing puzzles with more pieces as they get older. However, the main point which should be considered is the fact that children at these ages cannot pay attention to any activity for a long time, therefore, cannot play this game for long. For this reason, towards the age of two or three, children can play this game with their parents for a longer period of time. Because children at these ages like building something and then breaking it, they enjoy playing this game. You too can have fun with your children as well as contribute to their development. Who knows, doing puzzles might be one of his/her favorite hobbies when he/she becomes an adult.

A child has to use his/her small muscles in order to do puzzles. Repeated movements reinforce the physical development of his/her by making his/her muscles stronger and by gaining the habit of mentioned movement.

Completing the puzzle means a great victory for a child and this achievement is a significant contribution to his/her self-confidence. With this quality of it, we can refer to the contribution of puzzle to children’s emotional development.

Besides, puzzles serve as some kind of treasure for social development because of the fact that they strengthen kids’ abilities such as productivity, patience, socialization, curiosity, discovery, acting independently, and focusing on the target.

Children aged between 12-18 months can play with 3-4-piece puzzles and they can keep doing puzzles with more pieces as they get older. However, the main point which should be considered is the fact that children at these ages cannot pay attention to any activity for a long time, therefore, cannot play this game for long. For this reason, towards the age of two or three, children can play this game with their parents for a longer period of time. Because children at these ages like building something and then breaking it, they enjoy playing this game.

You too can have fun with your children as well as contribute to their development. Who knows, doing puzzles might be one of his/her favorite hobbies when he/she becomes an adult.

- It prevents the tendency towards bad habits.

 - Makes children understand the necessity and importance of planned action

 Develops the ability to approach incidents in the right way and helps thinking quickly and correctly.

 Affects and develops personality in a positive way.

 It instills and develops the sense of “trust yourself”.

 It helps reveal individual strengths and abilities, and make the right decision individually by introducing children to their strengths and skills.

 It enables children to have the habit of concentrating on one subject.

 It helps children to understand other subjects better and leads them to do research by putting science at the forefront.

 It makes children adopt a skeptical approach towards subjects and purifies them from rote learning mentality.

 It leads people to think, to research, and to question as well as creating an environment that frees their creativity.

 It shows that only systematic and disciplined study can lead someone to success.

 It makes people adopt the necessity of having a fighting spirit.

 It teaches children not to yield when they are discouraged by failure, and that it is necessary to work hard for success.

 It leads to having great pleasure from success and even being more successful.

 It presents brand new goals and provides motivation for these new goals.

 It reveals the individuals’ negative side, deficiency, or behavior disorder rapidly.

 It teaches children to obey the rules, to play friendly, to accept loss, and to congratulate the winner.

 It helps children to make close friendships, and to enrich their social life.

 All these articles showing the benefits of chess are also among the basic aims of the Ministry of National Education. These are the basic behaviors that the Ministry of National Education wants students to acquire. A tool which has such a positive impact, definitely is an “EDUCATION TOOL”. No other tool on earth can provide all these positive behaviors to individuals at once!

In this case, ‘taking advantage of the benefits of chess in personal development’ should be aimed for our children at their youngest age as much as possible. Further, it should be provided that our children exhibit positive behaviors, and this purpose should be adopted as a ‘duty’.

The Benefits of Making Your Child Use Wooden Toys

The choosing of toys, which are of great significance in the development of children, should be done carefully. If you don’t want to put your child’s health at risk by buying plastic toys which are made in foreign countries and contain many harmful substances, buy wooden toys which contain no harmful substances. If you don’t want to affect the health and development of our children whom we cherish the most in this life, in a negative way, you should stay away from plastic toys and be close to wooden toys. If you have questions in your mind regarding the benefits of wooden toys, here are the benefits of wooden toys;

Wooden toys do not contain any harmful substances as in plastic toys because of the fact that they are completely handmade.
Wooden toys do not contain any carcinogenic substances.
Wooden toys are really clean in terms of hygiene and don’t contain bacteria compared to plastic toys.
Our children sense the heat and texture of the toy when they play with it, that is, when they touch it.
Because the raw material of wooden toys is trees, the child establishes a bond with trees and nature.
Wooden toys instill in your child a love of nature.
Ahşap oyuncaklar çocuğun hayal gücünün de gelişmesine yardımcı olur.
Ahşap oyuncaklar plastik oyuncaklara göre daha sağlam ve daha uzun ömürlüdür.

Wooden toys are more durable and long-lasting compared to plastic toys. You can buy these beneficial toys for your children and help them develop in a healthy way.

The benefits of board games are innumerable, especially when played as a whole family. We hope that the list below will take you to your memories of the past. Children notice it if you enjoy it too while playing games. If you have fun, they have fun too.

1. Play table games with your children because it strengthens family bonds. Your children will always remember the happy times they spent with you while playing. It is easy to neglect the family- which means missing one of life’s greatest fun activities- due to business life. Playing games together usually requires talking together, which is a great plus point! 2. Play table games together because it is fun! Loosen up the discipline a little bit and join children’s fun! 3. Playing table games gives children the opportunity to experience the joy of winning and the sadness of losing in a safe environment. They learn both winning and losing and they learn these with their siblings and parents who win or lose the game. No one loves a furious loser and an arrogant winner. The place is never a problem for these kinds of games, in fact, the kitchen table usually provides the necessary place to play. 4. While playing a new game, children initially understand the value of reading the instructions. The rules are absolute and children not only learn these rules but also, they will take another look at them later on. Afterwards, they definitely remember the rules you forget. 5. Playing table games with family also encourages children to play table games with other kids. 6. Games are educational-they help us to keep our minds awake. Everyone, young or old, enhances their concentration and thinking skills. 7. Don’t forget the significance of playing table games in pairs. Turn off the TV and play Q-BITZ together! You’ll be surprised by the improvements in your communication and relationship.

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Game’ is the most effective and entertaining way for kids to learn.-
Puzzle; promotes the development of some of children’s emotions such as cognitive skills, decision making, acquiring by trial and error and achievement motive.
Matching cards games ( ya da Matching-Up Games); enhance children’s ability to observe, compare and match correctly.
Matching cards games ( ya da Matching-Up Games); enhance children’s ability to observe, compare and match correctly.
Matching cards in English develop children’s visual memory, in other words, concentration and memorizing skills.
Opposites matching cards are especially of help to children’s reasoning and perceiving abilities.