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“Pretend you’re the mommy and I’m the little kid….”
Around your child’s second birthday he’ll start having his toys engage in
little conversations and he’ll like pretending to be other people (or
things)—Batman, a truck, a talking duck. Role-playing is a way to use
these fun activities to plant more seeds of kindness through the “side
door” of his mind.
What It Is:
In role-playing, you and your child act out a situation (or
use dolls to act out situations). Role-playing is great because there’s no
pressure. Kids get to be silly, make mistakes, and have fun, even as they
are learning.
Like actors who practice a lot to learn their lines, the more you role-
play important life lessons with your child, the faster he’ll learn what is
right and wrong and remember it and do it in the future.
Best Used For:
Children around two to three years of age. That’s
the time they become interested in pretending to be other people. (You
can role-play with younger toddlers too, but you will have to play all the
parts.)

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How to Do It:
As with fairy tales, you want your story to have a
beginning, middle, and end to make it interesting. But besides that basic
rule, you can create endless variations on role-playing and use anything
that comes to mind.
Extra Tips for Role-Playing Fun:
• Old stories: Act out a familiar book or fairy tale.
• New stories: Make up a story based on an experience that you
or your child just had: someone who wasn’t nice; a friend who
refused to share; a little boy who wouldn’t get dressed.
• Puppet show: If your child is too young, or too shy, to play a
role, pick up a couple of dolls (puppets work well too) and use
them to play the parts. For example:
Dog (Mom in doggie voice): “Hey, Giraffe, I don’t like