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Again, I was reminded of this when a practitioner told me about her son. He had a condition which required him to have regular blood tests from about the age of 2 . She bought him an Iron Man suit in advance of attending which she intended to be a reward for having the blood test. Her son, however, had other ideas! He wanted to wear it to the hospital because he knew that Iron Man was powerful and strong and nothing could hurt him when he is wearing his suit. So this little boy wore his Iron Man suit each time he attended the hospital and it helped him to feel strong enough to cope with the regular blood tests. This is a great example of how some elements of fantasy play, and, in particular, superhero play can be immensely empowering for the children.
After approximately seven years Kitson (2010) suggests that if fantasy play is not actively encouraged it slowly diminishes. One way that we can keep the magic of fantasy play alive is through pretence and superhero play. These themes continue to engage older children, teenagers and adults as demonstrated by the amount of media attention dedicated to superheroes. Pretence is the ability to play with an object as if it were something else, or take on a role as another person. There are considerable overlaps with fantasy play, which is linked with the improbable and impossible, however, pretending can be more closely linked to reality. Children rarely distinguish between the two and we need to learn not to as well!
I personally still have vivid memories of my own childhood, as my playmates and I snuck past sleeping giants, swung through the trees in the Amazon, and set sparkling lures for fairies. In fact, my playmates themselves included one conjured character named Cheney, a girl who lived in the clouds.
While some would prefer to eliminate this time for fanciful play in favor of more reading instruction, it is actually this ability to live in the abstract of the pretend world, that allows children to function in the symbolism of the written world. It is difficult for a child to learn that lines on paper can represent words, ideas, and stories. But for a child who has created and acted out his own story, or chosen objects as symbols in that story (a ball becomes a cat, a blanket becomes a lake, etc.) the leap to reading becomes a more simple and natural step.
The language and creative skills used to create and act out these fantastic stories are the same skills that allow children to understand, create, and process written stories. Reading comprehension after all, is the ability to understand, connect, and draw meaning from stories. And stories are really what pretend play is all about.
Problem solving is another critical skill developed when children are surrounded by their own stories. While we may see only children caught up in a land of make-believe they are actually honing highly marketable skills. Think about it. Any man or woman who can identify a problem, come up with a creative and viable solution, and then negotiate with others to provide for its implementation, will always have a great deal of job security. And these abilities are inherently fostered in pretend play as children do just that.
By promoting creative play we are not just validating the work of childhood, but we are promoting thought, language, and psycho-social health. Add to that the fact that this type of play is self-motivated, natural, and enjoyable, and you have the recipe for a fabulous learning opportunity!
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This is very true because in the magical years of childhood, children are free to explore the rich world of their own imagination. Thus fantasy is an important influence during these formative years of a child, nurturing creativity and allowing children to explore their dreams and feelings in this out of reality world. Fantasy enables children specially the preschoolers to go beyond their little world and dream about the impossible things.
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In early education, there is too much distance between what we know and what we do. I bridge the gaps that exist between academia, decision-makers, educators, and parents so that together, we can improve the quality of early education while also respecting and protecting the childhood experience.
I'm trying to get my fiance interested in playing Warhammer games. She's interested in fantasy and I'm interested in the sci-fi 40k branch of the game, plus I've already got an army in the making. If we got a fantasy army, is there any adapter between the two rulesets?
Unfortunately they are completely different rulesets. While they have a few similar mechanics(rolling to hit/wound or making characteristic tests), the structure of the games do not synch up. Turn structure is different. Ranged weapons, saves, movement, and combat are all different. Applying some fairly common rules in one system to the other can have game breaking results.
Even if you did build a bridge between the two systems the armies would just not play well against each other. Stats aren't balanced between the two systems. They have different baselines(Armor saves in fantasy are mostly 6+, if you have one at all, and in 40k 2+ and 3+ are not uncommon).
The closest you could get would be to have one person play Chaos Demons. The same demon models can be used in fantasy and 40k with the appropriate army book. It's a little awkward because 40k and Fantasy use round and square bases respectively, but most players would give you a pass in friendly games.
For example if your fantasy army has a lot of melee units, why not model them after tyranids like the hormagaunt? Then just use the tyranid rules and costs, 40k rules, and your fantasy models. Fluffing it up is up to you! "Oh, no he didn't mutate to get his stat bonus, he reached into his bag of tricks!"
I did manage to mix the two, but not in the way you're probably thinking.
I had a WFRP campaign that I sent forward to the 40K time period.
It was quite straightforward to adapt a 40K unit into a WFRP NPC.
Simple enough. Final Fantasy XI: Ultimate Collection Seekers Edition was on sale for $9.99 during the Steam Winter sale so I bought it in preparation to make 2024 the year of Final Fantasy XI. Then I hit download. Seemed to go smoothly. Then I launched the game.
From here, I had to navigate a series of menus and submenus till I reached the option to add a service account for Final Fantasy XI. Now back to Steam where I have to grab a CD key and enter that into the empty field on the Square Enix site. Done. Surely now I can play Final Fantasy XI, right? Wrong!
Registering your game on the Square Enix account management site will send you an email full of login information that you must use to log in to PlayOnline in addition to having your Square Enix account info.
This is essentially the Final Fantasy XI subscription page. Final Fantasy XI still has a base subscription that runs $12.95 a month and then even more depending on how many characters you have on your account. Thanks to purchasing the Ultimate Collection Seekers Edition I get a month free, but you can also get a free fourteen-day trial.
With a subscription set up, I am now ready to re-open PlayOnline and navigate back to that enticing Play button. Clicking it starts a large update download. A super fun fact about this is that this download apparently has a capped download speed, so no matter what it will take a very long time (over an hour) to complete.
And if you are interested in getting in on Final Fantasy XI then read up on this detailed Twitter thread that guides you through the step-by-step process of installing Final Fantasy XI in the easiest way possible. Even with it to aid my journey, PlayOnline still gave me issues.
Why is Imaginative Play Important?
Many times, adults thinks that imaginative play is just for the children, when in fact it is for everyone. During imaginative play, you get to be anyone, anything, be any place and experience life outside of reality. During imaginative play you get to be free.
Through imaginative play children learn critical thinking skills, how to follow simple directions, build expressive and receptive language, increase social skills and learn how manage their emotions.
How to Incorporate Imaginative Play at Home?
Incorporating imaginative play into your routine at home helps promote the parent-child relationship. Since bath time is already a routine for children, caregivers can add imaginative play to bath time. Adding imaginative play to bath time can be done by simply adding items such as a baby doll, small cars or cups from the kitchen. Washing the baby can help children identify different body parts and understand the difference between clean and dirty, while adding vocabulary words such as wash, soap, towel, water, clean, dirty. The same as washing the cars, children get a sense of how cars are changing from dirty to clean. For the cups, children can experience filling and dumping the water in and out of the cup. Adding vocabulary words such as filling, dumping, full, and empty. Remember imaginative play can be planned or spontaneous.