Creativity, sharing and delegation: the essential skills we learn through play

The huge benefits of play to social and cognitive development are well understood – so how can you help your children get the best out of having fun?

According to US psychologist Charles Schaefer, we are never “more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing”.

The dictionary definition for “child’s play” is, by contrast, a misnomer. Child’s play is, reportedly, something that is easy to perform or something deemed insignificant. But Bo Stjerne Thomsen, chair of Learning through Play at the LEGO Foundation, says that play is, in fact, a serious matter………………………………………………………………………