Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills -- NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19212514

玩，玩具，玩出什麼樣的能力？
一起來玩吧，如果這在２０年前，我們想到的是捉迷藏，紅綠燈，過五關等的團體活動。到了現在，玩具則取代了玩伴和遊戲的角色。各式各樣聲光動作變化十足的玩具，相較於需要玩伴的遊戲活動，這些玩具是否讓有助於孩子的成長呢？
研究的結果發現，從前孩子可以從遊戲中培養出來的自我管理(self-regulation)的能力在現在小孩身上已經減退了.訪談中還提到private speech,(應該翻成自我對話吧)這種習慣可以養成人們思考解決問題的能力.


Toys play the important role that more than you can imagine for kids’ development in many ways. The more simple-designed, the more help for kids creativity. The imagination is produced during the process of inventing rules of playing. New toys usually tend to too much ”convenient for kids that they don’t need to spend too much energy to figure out how to play with their toys. However, it won’t help kids’ to stimulate their curiosity and think more.

some words I’ve catch from the listening:
self-regulation, impulsive, private speech, toy, self-deciplain
play, safety, secure, penetrate,

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