After a play session children often look as if they need a nap. Playing is hard work and makes kids tired. It is very exhausting for the child's mind and body as well, this is the reason that play is so important: playing helps children be healthy.

Play in childhood will benefit the child in several ways. Playing is exercise and it is very important for children to get exercise when they are growing. After you have grown to adulthood you need to continue exercising to stay healthy. It is important for children to exercise at a young age and set the pattern of exercise that they can take into adulthood.

Play also teaches the child body language, coping skills, and the interactions between the mind and body. Children learn how to be team players while playing games on the playground; these skills are taken into the workforce with the child as an adult. Once these skills have been learned children are not just learning how to get along with others but they are learning how to interact with themselves.

Maintaining self awareness and a sense of health and wellbeing is learned through exercise and play as a child. This is when we learn our limitations and how to listen to our body’s signals. There are sometimes though when our bodies are telling us something about our wellness and we refuse to listen.

Through exercise and playing we learn that our boundaries are not only physical but mental as well. When you see children and youth playing you will notice them pushing themselves to test their limits. Children will be able to see the difference between real limits and what other people are setting as limits for them.

Children and teenagers are not affected near as much as the adults by the pressures of society. Children have a much better state of minds because they do not yet have the outside influences that they will gain with time.

Benefits that we get when we play outside will stay with us for ever and benefit us the rest our lives. Adults often forget how important exercise and play really is.
Often we rush our children into their responsibilities and forget that they need to play and interact with others around them for the health of their minds and bodies.

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