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Children Prefer the Real Thing to Pretending

Pretend-play is a favorite pastime for American children. They mentally transform the here and now, preparing pretend meals in toy kitchens, frolicking around on fake horses, and feeding baby dolls with plastic bottles. By age 4, children spend approximately 20% of their waking hours engaged... click to read more

Angeline Lillard | Professor at Early Development Lab, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Jessica Taggart | PhD student at Early Development Lab, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

childhood

youth

Montessori

pretend-play

Reading time 3 min

published on Mar 1, 2018

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