Kelly Morse entered her 4-year-old son’s pretend doctor’s office one day last April and asked him how she was doing. She was taken aback when he examined her with his toy stethoscope and ...

He explains that pretend play functions as an experience-expectant process, enhancing the brain's readiness for focused learning. "It's not clear whether the extended period of childhood and ...

Pretend play is associated with a host of enhanced cognitive abilities such as executive function, language and perspective taking, which are important to education, making the minimization of ...

Social interactions within pretend play: A reciprocal, back-and-forth interaction with one or more peers while engaged in some element of pretense (e.g., object substitution, ...

Pretend play allows the expression of both positive and negative feelings, and the modulation of affect, the ability to integrate emotion with cognition (Jent, Niec, & Baker, 2011; Seja, & Russ ...

Pretend play is their way of practicing being in the real world, and it gives them the tools they need to succeed in it when the time comes.

Pretend play can be fun for preschool children, but a new University of Virginia study, published in the current online edition of the journal Psychological Bulletin, finds that it is not as ...

Dana and Danny pretend play vending machine toys and get to know about healthy food for kids Texas Floods Inundate Central Areas As Waters Seen Rising Rapidly ...

Pretend City is a Children’s Museum designed for children to learn about the inner workings of a city in a sensory environment. Interactive exhibits include a beach and marina, construction site ...

While pretend play requires children to share a common pretend perspective, it doesn't require them to distinguish between their own perspective and that of another person.

So pretend gun play is generally A-OK and might even make kids less violent—hooray, one less gun-related thing to worry about. And in fact, it might be something to celebrate for another reason.

From developing social skills to fostering creativity, pretend play in young children is likened to being a "metaphoric multivitamin" in an editorial published in the journal Neuroscience and ...