Pretend Play For Toddlers Benefits. Increase understanding of literature. Through my observations i am a firm believer that pretend play promotes confidence in children and teaches them valuable social skills while role playing within a group of friends.
Researchers discovered that children engaged in pretend play often use higher forms of language than they would use in normal situations. Pretend play supports a healthy parent child relationship. There are ways for parents to support pretend play and use it to help gauge children s emotional temperatures and in ways that don t involve transforming into a superhero sidekick for hours on.
Practice and acquire negotiation and sharing skills.
Exercise logical reasoning. Through pretend play children learn to do things like negotiate consider others perspectives transfer knowledge from one situation to another delay gratification balance their own ideas with others develop a plan and act on it explore symbolism express and listen to thoughts and ideas assign tasks and roles and synthesize different information and ideas. Ideas for imaginative play. Express and explore feelings.
