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Why is it all about imaginative and pretend play? That was only a phenomenon for maybe fifty years of human history. Prior to that it was about learning surviva
by silexia 3y ago
Why is it all about imaginative and pretend play? That was only a phenomenon for maybe fifty years of human history. Prior to that it was about learning survival skills or work skills.
- bitshiftfaced 3y agoWhat makes you think that young children haven't been pretend playing since the dawn of humanity? It's part of how children develop theory of mind and empathy, by walking through different roles and imagining how that person might behave. It's also how they process and internalize previous events. They'll reenact an event over and over. Rough and tumble play is also thought to have some importance in child development, and it isn't limited to humans. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/imhj.21676 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/imhj.21676 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763497000717?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497...