«Four - year -
olds use pretend play to both express the wish to be grown - up and to work through anxiety about being small,» says Dr. Cohen.
Not exact matches
Two year
olds start to play more imaginatively, for example,
using a block as a car, or
pretending to read to Teddy.
Functional and representational play
Pretending to
use familiar objects in an appropriate way — pushing a toy lawn mower over the grass, or calling Grandma with a hairbrush, for instance — is the height of fun for 12 - to 21 - month -
olds as their imaginations begin to blossom.
Assuming that children
use fewer diapers on average per day as they get
older, I'm
pretending that Elizabeth would have about 5 diaper changes per day, for a total of 1,825 changes in a year.
A slightly
older child may want to know how you can «see»
pretend people on television: explain about dressing in costumes and
using puppets.
My 23 month
old use to sit and
pretend, but just a couple of days ago he actually went for the first time.
I did
use a new door, but let's
pretend this is an
old, weathered door full of history that I scored at an antique shop.
A cross-functional IT geek since 1985, you can follow him as @richi on Twitter,
pretend to be richij's friend on Facebook, or just
use good
old email:
[email protected].
Another option is to
pretend to kill the woman and take a fake death scene photo (see below) by covering her in ketchup and
using the
old «knife tucked in the armpit» trick.