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Friendship earlier than preschool
Parallel play: children play beside each other, but not with each other as peers
Typical development of friendship: what are the three age groups?
Preschool/early friendships
Grade school and middle school
Adolescence
Typical development of friendship: Preschool/early friendships
Show emotional support/sympathy
Help if someone else is in distress (in the way that helps them, ex. Giving their teddy bear)
When children have a friend with then, they do better in new situations
Social support!
Developing symbolic play skills and language skills
Stable
Symbolic play:
pretending, thinking symbolically in play. Ex. I’ll be the mommy and you be the daddy. Pretend that you go to work, pretending real things mostly