Although babies don't really start to
play with other children until toward the middle of their second year, attending group activities can have other benefits.
Not exact matches
She's learning to cooperate
with other children and
play with them, instead of engaging in the parallel
play that dominated interactions
until now.
Until your
child is around 3 years old, most of his playtime
with other children will be spent in parallel
play.
A
child who can get things out can also put things away — I had Isaac helping by eight months... I was never sure if he understood or not,
until he had a
play date one afternoon, and crawled around putting his toys away, so the
other baby could not
play with them!
Children and dogs can therefore
play with each
other until everyone's tired.
In the 1960s and 1970s, suburban dogs roamed freely, roughhousing and
playing with each
other and the neighborhood
children until they were exhausted.
But when we take him to
play with other children, he is the
child who will let another kid push on him over and over and over again
until I finally step in and say something.