Achoo! Hi friends... It's a bit windy outside. Sammy forgot to wear a hat and a scarf and now seems to be coming down with ...

Yonder Community Toy Shop, a toy store and rec room for kids ages 5 and up, is set to open its doors in Easthampton this week ...

And playing pretend is what the sports media does in its annual overly enthusiastic imagined-significance emphasis on ...

“Pretend play typically emerges in most children between ages 2 to 3,” making that the ideal age to first introduce a play kitchen, adds Dr. Williams. However, each family’s needs are different.

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.

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 ...

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 ...