acceptable person in any activity, he must be truthful, trustworthy, fair, disciplined, truth seeking, honest, independent and so on.

A Psychological Analysis of Playing:

Different theories have been given by psychologists in regard to analysing and explaining the role of playing in children. Some of these theories are: The theory of excess energy, the theory of relieving tension, the theory of recreation; and the theory of preparation for adulthood.

A- The Theory of Excess Energy:

According to this theory, when the energy of the body increases more than its normal level and the organism feels the excess energy within the child’s system, it shows itself in the form of playing. This theory cannot explain those motionless and mysterious games that children who do not need any physical activity, play.¹

B- The Theory of Relieving Tension:

This theory says that playing returns back the consumed energy. A person’s body will get tired after working hard and doing activities, and it needs a kind of practice by which the tension can be removed, therefore the need to play appears when energy has reached its lowest level, and not when there is still excess energy. This theory which has been presented by Schaller and Maurice Lazarus does not explain the playing that is done when the child has had the full rest.

C- The Recreation Theory:

Based on this theory that has been suggested by S. Hall, children, in their plays, renew the scenes and activities of their ancestors that had been produced due to the need of their life. For example, in games such as fishing, boating, hunting and the like, the child repeats the process of the life of his ancestors who were cave-dwellers.

2- The Psychological Importance:

Playing gives a child a chance to express his feelings. He can release his compressed energy by means of playing. A child can express feelings such as fear, annoyance, anxiety, happiness and so on in the frame of his desired personalities in any way he likes it and he can also let out his negative energy and inner hatred.

3-The Upbringing Importance:

It is by playing that the true personality of children takes its shape, and considerable changes happen in their state of mind all of which are a passage to the higher stage of growth. Playing will provide a kind of development for the children, and it is here that we realize the importance of opportunities and facilities in upbringing children.

4-The Social Importance:

In playing, a child learns how to socially communicate with others who are outside his family unit and learns how to solve the problems and difficulties emerging from these kinds of communications, and he also learns how to socially adapt with others.

5-The Educational Importance:

By means of playing with different kinds of toys, a child can succeed in learning and recognizing colors, shapes, sizes, materials, different kinds of things and their importance. Playing helps a child recognize the world in which he lives, and also to comprehend, touch, feel, and manage things and finally to differentiate between reality and delusion.

6-The Moral Importance:

In the course of playing, a child learns what is good and what is bad. The child finds out that if he desires to be counted as an