Hello everyone, welcome back to ramadhanight's hive blog. Yesterday, my son is asking if he could climbing a tree, after local children is doing it for picking the water apple in front of our home. As a parents, we might have different respond about kids doing a risky play. I’m personally a conservative kind of parent that often feels worry when my kids doing a risky play. I prefer my kids to play a safe kind of games. But, I learned lately that doing a risky play such a tree climbing is having many benefit for children’s development, what was that? Let’s talk about it!

Benefit of Tree Climbing Activity

There is a very usefull journal that I found on the Internet that you could download as well on https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1180021 .
This journal written by Gull, Carla; Goldenstein, Suzanne Levenson; Rosengarten, Tricia on International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, v5 n2 p10-29 Spr 2018.
There is many study about children’s development and it’s correlation with risky play as well that cited here, so we could learned a lot from it. I will give you some interesting result here :
According to Gathright, Yamada, and Morita (2007) “Tree climbing activities give families the chance to disengage from social pressures while providing an opportunity for healthy, enjoyable exercise” (p. 178).
Risky-taking play has an important role in the wellbeing and satisfaction of children and in the development of their academic and life skills. Risky play involves “a situation whereby a child can recognize and evaluate a challenge and decide on a course of action (Ball, Gill, & Spiegal, 2012, p. 120).
Ten potential benefits of natural play found in the literature reviewed by the journal writer included:

1. Critical thinking (Bundy et al., 2009)
2. Imagination and creativity (Ginsberg, 2007)
3. Problem solving (Bundy et al., 2009)
4. Self-confidence (Benard, 1991)
5. Social interaction (Benard, 1991)
6. Dexterity and physical strength (Ginsberg, 2007)
7. Cognitive and emotional strength (Ginsberg, 2007)
8. Resiliency (Benard, 1991)
9. Risk negotiation (Bundy et al., 2009)
10. Spatial awareness (Stevens-Smith, 2004)

Not just that, tree climbing could give us a childhood memory, right ?

Eventough there is many benefit from tree climbing activities, we have to be aware about the risk of it, and try to reduce them, such as trying to check wether the branch is strong enough or there is a rotten one, wether the trunk is slippy such as after a rain, or maybe there might a dangerous animals around such a snakes, bees, or ants. And for early children or toddler, it’s better to keep our eyes on them. By trying to reduce the risk, children could get many benefit from tree climbing activity, yet having lower risk of fatal impact.

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Thank you for kindly read my post. I hope this post could give you insight about how tree climbing activity is having great impact for our children's development. If you have any point of view about tree climbing's activity, please share it by put it on comment section :)

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