The Power of Play, written by David Elkind, stresses the importance of play throughout children’s lives. He shows us that play is not all just fun and games, but it can also be used to development different milestones, play can also be used to make sense of the world around us, and different types of play can have therapeutic and psychological remedies to help children. Play is the baseline of all children’s lives and it needs to be treated as so and not overlooked as just a fun pass time activity. As a potential child life specialist, it would be part of my job to be able to help children either express themselves in the form of play or either use play to adverse hospitalization effects. So play becomes a very important part of a child life specialist job.…