The benifits to a child health and development through vigrous play?

Question

The benifits to a child health and development through vigrous play?

Answer 1

What is vigrous play? Playing hard?

Answer 2

It builds gross motor skills and reduces the risk of obesity.  Here is some other information and some ideas that may help:

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Answer 3

Child develop and learn best through using all their senses.  Intermixing quiet time, fine motor skills, large motors skills, etc. through out the day.

The benefits to vigrous play ~ large motor skills.  Outdoors is wonderful but if weather is incliment then indoor large motor skills or vigrous playis still a must.  It builds coordination and balance, spacial relations (how the child fits physically into the space around them), it builds and tones muscles, increases respiratory function and endurance, raises the heart rate.