Children love pretend play and it can teach them a lot more than speech or understanding instructions. Our first pretend play sessions started when my daughter started big school. The theme for the pretend play was all about the new ritual of pickup and drop at the bus stop and the bus ride.
My daughter enacted the first part of her morning ritual at school - going to her class, putting her bag in the cubby, removing water bottle etc. These were things I wouldn't know otherwise, right?
When her school started talking to the kids (she was in nursery) about safety, strangers etc. I posed as a stranger (with props, set-up etc) and posed different questions to my kid.
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