This chapter explores pretend play, focusing on how children use imaginary friends to simulate real-life experiences and activities, including jobs, which helps them develop complex cognitive capacities. The discussion emphasizes the importance of considering the context of imaginary play and the need to analyze it in order.
Children use pretend play to simulate real-life experiences and activities.
Imaginary friends often do things that the child themselves cannot do.
Pretend play helps children develop symbolic understanding, counterfactual reasoning, and theory of mind.