Kids are kids. They certainly know how to twist and toast your spotless spaces around the house messy just in seconds. But do you know, it’s all part of growing up, learning while having messy fun. Mostly, many of the parents like to be very organized, stay clean and uncluttered. On the other hand, every child take things and get grubby most of the time. Reconciling the two extremes is very difficult. But the parent have to understand their kids and get to know that this is how they learn the every time they messy up. Yes! Getting messy allows them to learn along with fun.
Yet not all messes are considered equal. Unwashed hands on dinner table and shattered toys that are never cleaned up have a big word “NO”. Other types of dirt are actually beneficial and have some scientific reasons too. Let us explore various amazing reasons to let our child get into messy.
Independence
Children need the freedom to get messy so they will be able to learn independence. If your child is allowed freely to explore their playtime, they will learn to explore their life. Life is not about knowledge, rules, success all the time. It can sometimes be messy too. By stepping back and watch them play messing up helps them learn how to navigate those future messiness. Allowing your kid to get messy allows them to activate their own power of thinking, deduction, reasoning and setting them up for better future for success. Discovery or exploration is exciting. It stimulates the brain and senses to begin learning at earlier age by themselves and to identify things. It encourages future learning too.
It’s fun
Allowing our child to get messy gives them a lot of fun. Fun is a natural tool for children to develop resiliency as they learn to co-operate and overcome various challenges. Pediatric study says the importance of play and fun is considered essential for the child development. Fun is the key to provide us energy, strength and hope. Fun and being excited in learning increases the brain activity of neurons and promotes life time learning.
Causes and effect – Fosters creativity, imagination & exploration
Messy art and messy play in a safe environment lets our children experience the causes and effect and it also inculcate and improves child’s creativity, imagination and allows them to explore new things by themselves.
Little children try to catch and squish the running ant. They do not realize that they are killing it; they just want to see what happens. Similarly in art and craft, they discover that combining two or more colors create a new color. Also flinging the paint instead of smearing or stroking the brush, they can create more interesting pictures. We could remember our olden days in a chemistry set, we get to stumble upon the effect of mixing one chemical with another. By allowing them to do so, will make our kids so creative.
Activates senses & develops motor skills
Humans have five basic senses whereas children have underdeveloped senses. The process of gathering information about what they do collects various stimuli for transduction. Sensation and perception are fundamental aspects of kid’s cognition, behavior and thought. One of the best ways to build those senses is to allow them to play and allow them to get messy. Learning experiences trigger more senses, you’ve more likely to internalize what you learn.
Try teaching children numbers, colors and new words by using natural materials which engages multiple senses.
You can give play dough to your kids and allow them creating wonderful art through play and get messy. This develops their motor skills rapidly.
Let them play in mud and feel the texture of the mixture of dirt and water, let them see the muckiness of the mud, let them smell the dirt. All these are their way of life, their road to discovery. Let them do.
Learn to clean up
How would a child ever learn to clean up by themselves if they’re not allowed to make a mess? Kids would learn that actions have consequences in their wonderful world of play! Here the consequence of making a mess is cleaning up, something that every child should learn.
In an odd twist of circumstances, lay down some guidelines for messy time and clean-up time. Providing them some clean up tools like a dustpan and a brush along with aclean-up apron makes them feel like a game as well and it can help you encourage good habits.
The Takeaway
Children and messes go hand in hand. Setting up a boundary and allowing them to play, have some fun and get messy is actually good for our child’s development. It is good for their health too, developing their immune system at early stage. And of course, you would get tired telling your kids tidying up very often but let the mess go for their goodness. The house doesn’t need to be perfect to make them perfectly happy.
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