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Segal, Marilyn; Adcock, Don – 1982
By participating in their children's imaginative play or pretending, parents may be able to understand better their children's feelings, resolve parent-child conflicts, communicate parental values, and build parent-child relationships based on mutual respect. Many people seem to believe that pretending appears automatically in young children, that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coping, Early Childhood Education, Imagination
