🎃 Halloween: The Real Ghost Festival is "A Child's Life Lesson."

At the end of October each year, we see children around the world dressed up in ghost costumes, witches, princesses or superheroes.

Walking down the street with laughter and catchwords.

"Trick or treat!"

For adults, it can be just a fun night where kids get to wear fancy dresses.

But if looking at the eyes of the child development teacher

Halloween is an EF lesson full of learning.

🌟👻 Fictional Play: The Lab of Imagination

Dressing up as a character in Halloween is

"Fictional play" and a child's brain are working hugely in every moment.

They have to "think" what kind of role to play.

"Plan" on which house to walk to ask for candy first.

"Emotional control" when you meet a friend dressed as a terrible ghost.

And "change perspective" when it comes to taking on the role of someone else.

All this is the activity of the prefrontal cortex.

Which is the foundation of EF skills - skills that make children think, act, and live happily with others.

🌟🎭 when ghosts become a safe space for "understanding fear."

Halloween gives kids a try to "play with fear."

Through an atmosphere full of pumpkin fire, skeletons and ghosts that isn't real scary.

It is an area where children can safely explore emotions.

Try to feel scared but still smile.

Try pretending to be a ghost, but know that no one really hurts.

Facing fear in the context of "playing"

Help the brain learn that fear is not something to escape.

But it's one emotion we can handle.

This is the beginning of "emotional resilience."

Or Emotional Resilience - The Crucial Basis of Growing Up To Be A Brave And Steady Adult In Mind

🌟🧙‍♀️ Trick or Treat: Lessons of Coexistence

Behind the walking, knocking on the door, asking for candy

Children have practiced more than saying the words "Trick or cure."

They learn social etiquette.

Knocking on doors, queuing, greeting, thanking, and dividing snacks for friends.

Learn the courage to socialize.

Learn to control excitement when meeting strangers.

And learn that happiness is achieved by "sharing."

🌟🌈 Halloween is a life lesson, not just a ghost festival.

Looking deeper, Halloween is the lesson of "life and change."

Children play with fear, learn symbolically from donkeys, and understand that darkness is not for fear, but a part of the world we have to learn to live with.

So Halloween is not just fun, but it's the training of the heart that makes children understand the world and their emotions more every year. 💛

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