Article Confidence Building Role Play Activities

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Confidence Building Role Play Activities
Confidence is an ability of a person when he/she
is sure of being able to handle any situation
that life may present before him/her. Confidence
is built over a period of time and the amount of
confidence that you possess as an adult has its
roots in your actions during your childhood. Kids
who are growing up also encounter many
situations and those that they are able to handle
help them build their confidence. However, to
complete the holistic confidence building of the
kids, we need to present them with real- life
situations. Role play activities play an
important role to this regard. These activities
encourage kids to take cognizance of the
situation, put themselves in it, think like how
another person would and act/speak/provide
solutions as the person they are
impersonating. The steps to create perfect
confidence building role playing activities are
Identify the situation for e.g. think of a
situation like setting up an emergency room in
the hospital. Provide the small details. For
e.g. provide a bed, first aid box, medicines and
resources available with the doctor, escalation
numbers etc. Assign the roles like that of the
Senior Doctor, the Resident Doctor, Nurse,
Helper, Patient, relatives of the patient and so
on. Act the Role Play All the students act
according to their assigned roles and probe each
other through interrogation, argument, conflict
redressal and problem solving so as to create a
complex situation. Discussion The post role play
discussion is important to understand the
learning that the exercise brought about. The
more students talk about it, the more confidence
and adept they will feel in a similar situation
in the future.
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• Confidence building as a result of role play is
  the most common feeling that the students will
  experience. A plethora of role-play based fun
  activities for kids will lead them to believe in
  their ability to handle difficult situations and
  come out as a winner. Apart from just the
  know-how of the situation, role playing
  activities are known to be beneficial in
  perspective building, anxiety control and
  language development also. Some ideas for
  confidence building role playing activities are
  listed as under
• Turning down an invitation of a close friends
  party
• Redressal of non-payment of bills in a local
  Court
• Altercation with a traffic policeman
• Job interview
• Stock Exchange Situation
• Handling an accident/Emergency
• Many psychologists have stated that role-play
  based kids learning games help in building
  positive self esteem and self image. These are
  the virtues that are needed to handle situations
  in the adult life also.

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Finding the right words to speak and an
expression to your thoughts is the most
exhilarating feeling and this itself builds a
great amount of confidence in an individual.
Pretend play is the easier version of role play
and subconscious engagement in pretend play
starts in early years of our life. As toddlers
and thereafter young children, if the parents
encourage the children to engage in challenging
role play, they are providing them with an
extremely conducive learning atmosphere.