Symbolic play plays an important role during childhood and that is why the General Store is the perfect tool to motivate your children to accomplish tasks , adopt good behaviors and take on new challenges while having fun playing real life! Thus, using the store will allow your child to develop learning that will certainly be useful to him in his daily life:
- Learning to save : With the general store, your child will have to learn to accumulate their tokens before being able to obtain the reward of their choice, just like the adult who must know how to save in order to purchase the objects they want.
- Learning to make choices : Unfortunately, we can't always afford everything we want, and we often have to make choices based on our budget. Thanks to the store, your child will be able to develop their ability to choose an object or privilege from among all those offered to them based on their preferences and, of course, the tokens they have accumulated!
- Learn to manage your budget : Your child wants a bag of candy for 20 tokens each, in addition to a toy costing 50 tokens, and he has accumulated 40 tokens so far? He will have to decide whether to get the bag of candy right away (or even two!) or to save his tokens to buy the desired privilege the following week, just like when you manage a budget in your adult life.
- Learning to Compromise : Do you have multiple children and all of them want to get the same item that is only available in one copy at the general store? This is an opportunity for them to learn to compromise and be accommodating in order to find a solution that will satisfy everyone.
Finally, using the general store allows children to gently and playfully learn about finances and life in society , important skills that will be more than useful to them in their future adult lives!
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