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Parallel Play: What It Is and When It Appears

The classic toddler scene — two children in the same room, a metre apart, doing similar things, not actually doing them with each other — looks oddly...

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Play

Play Ideas for Groups of Children Aged 1–3

Planning a playdate or group session for children aged 1–3 is very different from planning one for older children. The activities that work at this ag...

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Play

Play Ideas for Groups of Children Aged 1–3

Two toddlers in a room is not a small version of a school class — it's a different developmental event. Children between 1 and 3 don't yet "play toget...

6 min read

Daycare

How Children Learn to Play Side by Side and Together

Learning to play with other children is one of the biggest social leaps of the early years — bigger, in many ways, than learning to talk or share. It...

5 min read

Daycare

First Interactions With Other Children in a Group

At pickup the report sometimes reads "stayed near the group, didn't join in much." That sounds like a problem, but at 18 months it isn't — it's exactl...

6 min read

Emotions

How Toddlers Make Friends: The Development of Early Peer Relationships

A common worry at the toddler-group door: "She doesn't actually play with the other kids — she just stands next to them." That isn't a red flag. It's...

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