As a parent you might never guess all the ways a good imagination benefits your child. It helps a preschooler:
父母可能永遠(yuǎn)無法意識到好的想象力對于孩子能有多大的幫助。以下的建議適用于學(xué)齡前兒童：
Develop social skills 鍛煉社交能力
As children play pretend, they explore relationships between family members, friends and learn more about how people interact. Playing doctor, they imagine how physicians care for their patients. Playing house, they learn more about how parents feel about their children.
孩子們在玩過家家的時候，可以增進(jìn)家庭成員和朋友間的關(guān)系，還能掌握很多人際交往的技能。比如扮演醫(yī)生，他們可以體驗醫(yī)生是如何照顧病人的。扮演家長，他們可以了解父母對孩子的情感。
Imaginative play helps develop empathy for others. They become more willing to play fair, to share, and to cooperate.
過家家的游戲可以增加孩子對他人的認(rèn)同感。孩子會更樂于公平競爭、分享以及合作。
Build self-confidence 樹立自信
Young children have very little control over their lives. Imagining oneself as a builder of skyscrapers or a superhero defending the planet is empowering to a child. It helps them develop confidence in their abilities and their potential.
小孩子很難支配自己的生活。讓孩子假裝是摩天大樓的建造者或者保護(hù)星球的超級英雄，他們就會自我感覺很強大。這還會激發(fā)他們的自信心以及更方面的潛能。
Boost intellectual growth 促進(jìn)智力發(fā)育
Using the imagination is the beginning of abstract thought. Children who can see a king's castle in a mound of sand or a delicious dinner in a mud pie are learning to think symbolically. This skill is important in school where a child will have to learn that numerals symbolize groups of objects, letters symbolize sounds, and so on.
想象力是抽象思維的基礎(chǔ)。無論是在沙灘上堆起國王城堡還是用泥團做出美味的晚餐，這都是孩子們在學(xué)習(xí)抽象思維的過程。上學(xué)后抽象思維的能力顯得十分重要，比如用數(shù)字表示一系列物體和用字母來表示語音等等。
Practice language skills 練習(xí)語言技能
Kids who play pretend with their friends do a lot of talking. This helps boost their vocabulary, improve sentence structure and enhance communication skills.
孩子們在和朋友玩過家家的時候會進(jìn)行大量的交流。這會拓展他們的詞匯，南京少兒英語學(xué)習(xí)提高他們的語言組織能力以及交流的技能。
Enjoy reading books 享受閱讀
To encourage your youngster's imagination, read to him every day. Books offer children the opportunity to visit other worlds and create new ones of their own.
要想增加他的想象力，就要讓他每天閱讀。書籍可以讓孩子們有機會接觸其他世界，并且創(chuàng)造出屬于他們自己的新天地。
For generations children have enjoyed reading the story of Peter Pan because Peter takes them on fascinating adventures.
一代一代的孩子都很喜歡閱讀彼得•潘的故事，因為彼得將孩子們帶入到一段迷人刺激的冒險歷程。