The main objective of the game is to have fun and make sense, and it plays a fundamental role in the development of babies and children. Therefore, When the baby starts his first games, it is essential to respond.
The baby of a few months is satisfied to see that he can manipulate his environment and get a response from, generally, the parents. The first games are given when you throw an object on the ground and it is returned.
Since this game also gives us satisfaction, it becomes a "mutual pleasure" that makes sense and makes that act a true "game." That shared pleasure gives the game meaning and will make the baby have energy and enthusiasm to seek new interactions and repeat them.
Together with throwing objects on the floor, repetitions of sounds and their responses, when we imitate their vocalizations and sounds or vice versa, it becomes another crucial moment of the game in its beginnings.
Cover your face and discover yourself playing "hide and seek" at the parents' questions (where is the baby, has he gone? No, he's here! ...) is another of his first experiments as a game driver.
To all of them we parents respond with interest and joy. But vice versa, if the caregiver or family member most in contact with the baby has biological, psychological or social problems, if he "cannot" manage and baby's first games overflow and react impatiently or get angry, the answer to these games is predominantly noes.
Given these denials, the conclusion of the children is that it is not fun to "play" (because adults get angry) and it makes no sense to throw the rattle, because "it disappears" or they quarrel, or it doesn't matter to make new sounds because I don't get an answer as a repetition
Of course, before that game "conscious" of the baby, we can play with them, stimulating them and, although for now we do not get obvious "answer", in a few months it will be the baby who wants to start new games, his first games.
The reinforcement that from the first months is given to the game of babies, by their parents and / or caregivers is a transmission of energy and resistance that forms the basis of future games in company and enjoyment. All this reinforcement only occurs if the adult "enjoys" and esteems the children who play, and the little ones will know how to appreciate it as a show of affection, which, moreover, they enjoy.
