Analysis Of Play, Dreams, And Imitation In Childhood

Moreover, the male child learns to choose the toys that embrace the role provider and protector because he fells like he is expected to follow and take such role when he grows up (Cole & Cole, 2009). Boys are taught to embrace toys such as superheroes, or action figure dolls or dominant animals like lions. Therefore the boy child grows up knowing what roles are socially acceptable as male. The female child is expected to grow up to be the nurse of the offspring of the family unit, the society thus expect the female child to embrace to toys such as child dolls, sinks and cutlery. Therefore the girl child grows up knowing that the role of the woman is to cook, clean and care for the young ones (Wood & Eagly, 2009).

A casual visit to a toy store shows that upon entering, the color scheme of the store seems to be very bright and loud. As I walked around, I noticed that the color scheme of store started sectioning off to pink and purple for the girls to blue, green and red for the boys. The toys at the girl’s section consisted of various themes of dolls like barbie, princesses, feminine

Psychologists have recently been following the progression of child’s games and play involve to symbolic play from non-symbolic manipulation and sensorimotor exploration. Amongst the two and three year old, there is a presence in the shifts of nature of play. During this period, children go from self-directed to others- directed forms of play. They also lean to difference between literal to abstract among other things. This phase is basically when symbolic or “pretend” play manifests. Parents play and small but significant role during this phase too. Most of the times, parents do not even realize that they promote various levels of plays which promote variety of social stereotype and social norms to the children, for good or