Unstructured playtime could be one of the best things we can give kids to improve their mental health and help them build ...

Kids who regularly use their imaginations to pretend play develop better social skills and vocabulary than kids who do not.

F rom developing social skills to fostering creativity, pretend play in young children is likened to being a "metaphoric multivitamin" in an editorial published in the journal Neuroscience and ...

Another old-school parenting technique the younger generation should bring back is the tradition of having dinner together.

Your little one has a BIG imagination. But this pretend play is not just for fun: it also helps develop your child’s language and social skills. And imaginative play starts earlier than you ...

Pretend play, especially, helps kids with the development of self-control, self-regulation and social-emotional skills. So, ...

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ST. CHARLES — Play Street Museum, an indoor children’s play area, is looking for a buyer. After five years of owning and ...

Given natural selection’s shaping of childhood for the acquisition and refinement of species-adapted social-cognitive skills – much through pretend play – Bjorklund says it is unfortunate ...