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Developing play
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Stages of play
Stage 2: symbolic play. Early in the pre-operational stage (2-7), children develop the ability to allow one thing to stand for another, and pretend-play or make-believe begins to emerge.
Stage 3: games with rules. In the latter part of the pre-operational stage (2-7) and into the operational stage (7-11) play becomes increasingly governed by rules.
Stage 1: practice play. In the sensorimotor stage of development (0-2) children explore their own bodies and objects around them using all their senses. Play tends to be repetitive.
Foundation for play
An important perquisition is that early parent-child interactions ensure the child feels emotionally secure and able to explore their social and material environment.
Lieberman called parent and teachers 'cultural surrogate' who can inhibit or encourage children's play.
O'Reilly and Bornstein reviewed the literature on child-parent interaction during play and showed that there is a link between the sophistication of children's play and the quality and nature of early parent-child interactions.
The development of play
18 months: Minature toys are objects for give-and -take play with caregiver. Caregiver names toys and child repeats names, but still doesn't appreciate that the toys represent real-life objects.
15 months: Miniature toys are merely small items to be manipulated and put in and out of an upright box-like container.
2;6 years: Child knows that the toys are representatives, but prefers to assemble them in smaller, separated groups outside the doll house.
3;3 years: Child plays with the miniatures inside one room of the house, carrying on a long, audible mono-logue for their own and their doll's benefit.
5 years: Playing constructively all over the house. Although silent, they are busily engaged.
6 years: 'Special friends' engaged in elaborate, cooperative, make-believe play in dolls house. The play goes on continuously from day to day. They had prepared the walls and made all the furnishing themselves.
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