Parents know that playing is good for children, but most of the time parents contrasting playing and studying activities. For most parents, studying means things that are related with special skills, like memorizing letters, calculation, writing, etc.

While playing is only for having fun. There are actually 9 benefits of playing as quoted from parentingforbrain.com :

1. To stimulate the development and the growth of brain

2. To repair the intelligence, understanding, and memory.

3. To increase the language skill

4. To increase vocabulary and understanding

5. To increase the ability to manage the emotions

6. Popular and happy

7. Health

8. To teach life lesson