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This is going to be Pretend Play Part 2.

It originally published 1-9-9 2025. Let's explore.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we are back with part two in our series on pretend play, meaning play that involves non-literal action.

Now, this is really one of our series where I think, if you haven't heard part one, I would really recommend you go back and listen to that one first because we really laid the groundwork there.

We establish a lot of the definitions and so forth.

But as a brief refresher in part one, Rob and I talked about our own memories of pretend play from our own childhood, as well as our

experiences of pretend play as parents, especially centering around the kind of play that happens

in preschool age, you know, around three to five or so, which according to the researchers,

is sort of the high season of pretend play, when the most pretending is happening, usually.

Though, of course, we also talked about the ways that play extends throughout the lifetime,

even pretend play.

You know, it starts before this period, goes beyond it.

But the preschool age is when the pretending is coming thick and fast, and we characterized

what a lot of that play is like.

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