As parents we should really look on taking our children to the theatre as much as we can and for more than just a fun treat or Family day out. As experts suggests that exposing our kids to live shows offers them so many benefits and here are 7 of the main ones.
You may have taken your little one to the theatre to see a Christmas Panto, which is a fab variety style show for kids, or you may have taken them to a Summertime Play, or ballet show. All these theatre shows can offer our kids so much including being good for children’s development.
Maybe so far you have never thought of taking your child to the theatre or you only go once in a blue moon. Well, you might want to read on and see how the Top reasons of Why Talogn your Child to the Theatre is so Good for them and how it offers much more than creating some magical family memories.
Stories are a safe way for children to learn and understand human emotions and its through stories that children start to learn empathy, which is quite often a hard skill for them to learn.
Theatre storytelling can expose children to emotions more effectively than reading storybooks can. It can bring to life dramatic and distressing issues, presenting children with emotions they may not have experience in real life, such as love, friendship, bullying, violence or experiencing death all in a fun, safe environment and without consequences.
When a child attends a theatre show the experience can massively expand their imagination. It can boost their creativity and expose them to some fab literacy and grow their historical knowledge (depending on if it’s a historical type of shows your go to of course)
Some children can find it hard to talk about certain things, often struggling to find a way to bring a subject up to discuss. By exposing children to different and possibly difficult story lines it can bridge a conversation starting point for a child to express their feelings or concerns about that subject by talking about what they have just watched, giving a way for new discussions about subjects that can be otherwise tricky to bring up.
Theatre is all about storytelling and storytelling helps a child improve their communication and language skills. By exposing your child to theatre shows, it can for sure help them to communicate better.
It doesn’t matter if you take your child to a live panto show, play or musical all theatre trip can be a great family day out away from daily lives, giving perfect one to one time to bond and build on relationships as you share laughter and experience something new together.
Theatre is a fab way to put a child’s mind at rest, as it whisks them away to a fantasy world absorbing them in the storyline that will allow them to take a break from their own life’s stresses and worries. No matter what age your child is they all need time to chill out and escape their own challenges for that day.
This can be a benefit to the parents as well as the children to be fair! Seem a bit novel in today’s age but Enjoying life in Real Life is important to our souls. We all need a break from technology reminding us of what’s real, take photos with your eyes and mind rather than seeing life through a camera lens. For older children / teenagers a break from technology will help improve self-worth, if they are on social media seeing real life people reminds them what the word looks like unfiltered and unedited! Its also a grand chance to let the stress levels come down because you can’t level up in your fav game!
For some families visiting theatre shows can be an expensive activity and we do try and list as many Theatre shows that we can that are either Free or Running a Discounted Ticket Price in on What’s On Section.
Although you might find it useful to get in touch or look at your local theatres website, as they often do offers like buy 3 show tickets and get 4th free, or they have Loyalty cards which you can sign up for and build up credit that they give you back on your next purchase and some theatres even have the chance for you to purchase tickets using time credits, so it might be worth exploring the options for your family.
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