The Advantages of Playing With baby dolls that look real

Social-Emotional Skills. Children use play to comprehend their world. Doll play helps kids: practice caring and nurturing (socio-emotional)re-enact interactions with their own caregivers, family members, and friends (cognitive reframing) prepare for a sibling (rehearsal). Regardless of a child's gender, these abilities are all valuable life lessons. In carrying, holding, feeding, and rocking a baby doll, children are practicing being loving to others. They may be mimicking how they remember being taken care of as a kid, or how they see adults in their world caring for children. Just as children copy parents talking on the phone, working in the kitchen, vacuuming, etc., doll play is no different. It is children's way to comprehend and begin to make the world their own by practicing these everyday events. Doll play is a way for kids to re-enact things that have happened in their lives. Doing so enables them to increase their comprehension of the events. They are also able to take on the opposite role, which allows them to see things from another's perspective (SUCH an important skill to get!) . Many times children will enjoy taking on the adult role in order for them to feel a feeling of power and control. This makes complete sense because children have very little control over their world (for some necessary and very good reasons). Giving a child the opportunity to have some power and control in play allows them to give it a go in a way.
Playing with baby dolls is also a wonderful way for young children to prepare for the birth of a sibling. Parents can model ways to touch and care for a baby which can give a flavor of what they can expect to the sib-to-be. Once the baby arrives, the new big-sib can care for their own baby doll right alongside dad and mother. This can be particularly helpful since it is quite normal (for obvious reasons) for the older sibling to not get as much attention once the baby arrives. Being able to have their own action -- but still feel connected to the parent(s) and family -- can help a child ease into having an additional member in the family. Some children will prefer to play out these same scenarios with other stuffed toys or miniatures because they feel better attached to them or they need the play to be removed (less real to the real situation) than playing with baby dolls. I'm mentioning this because I do not need parents/caregivers to believe that because a child does not play with baby dolls they can't understand and practice these skills. However, I do believe that baby dolls offer children something unique that toys can not do.
Bathing: Kids can practice giving their doll a bath (with feign water if the doll is not permitted to get wet)! This is great for practicing sequencing skills (first fill up the bathtub, then place on shampoo, then rinse hair, etc.). I have also used dolls in therapy to help children move beyond their fear of bathing by having them help me give the doll a pretend bath using all the needed supplies (so that they get used to the sensory experience from the water, shampoo, etc. and may have more control over the experience). We discuss the supplies needed and the actions taken during bath time, and then they could narrate the steps and comfort the doll during"bath time" while playing out a simple or elaborate pretend narrative. (A plastic Potato Head also works great for this experience.) Parents have been so proud when their child finally agrees to get in the tub after practicing with the doll for weeks on end!Grooming Hygiene: Dolls supply the perfect chance for practicing grooming and hygiene skills like brushing hair, brushing teeth, and washing hands. Potty training: While I do not have a lot of experience on this front (yet!) , a kid with an active imagination can really benefit from using a doll to help with potty training. While skills like indicating discomfort over soiled pants and sitting on a potty seat with help are skills a child must grow in him or herself, they can be performed on the doll either by the caregiver or the child him/herself. For example:"Uh oh!
black reborn babies are a few of the oldest toys that children have played . Their earliest use was recorded in Greece around 100 AD. There's very good reason for these toys to be long lasting through human history. They are a representation of the child and allow for a child to acquire a greater comprehension of themselves as well as those around them. Playing with dolls can provide significant growth for children, irrespective of gender while gender roles dictate that dolls are a toy mainly for girls. Here playing with dolls can help you child's development: Social Skills. Playing with dolls solidifies social abilities which are gained in a child's early developmental years. They learn to communicate with one another kindly and collaborate when kids play home. By taking care of a doll, they learn how to take care of one another.Responsibility. Children are learning responsibility also by learning social skills that are important from an early age. They learn by playing with it, how to take care of a doll. Learning learn to care for their pets, or older siblings more readily know how to care of their younger siblings. Empathy Compassion.Another significant social skill that kids learn when playing with dolls is how to process emotions like empathy and compassion. Just like caring for their doll teaches responsibility, it teaches them to empathize with those around them and allows them to grow up into people. Imagination.Dramatic play, the sort of play that occurs when kids play with dolls, helps develop a child's creativity as they encounter creative, imagined scenarios with their dolls and other children. Language. Playing with their friends as well as dolls, children run into situations that are new and special for their own games. By filling it communicating between one another can strengthen their vocabulary. Children gain insight by communicating in this way with their friends.

Children learn plenty of language through their play and play offers them opportunities to use and practice their language and speech skills. Let's look at just some of the language notions that a baby doll can help teach and support: Body Parts: Dolls are FANTASTIC for teaching various body parts: eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hands, fingers, tummy, feet, feet, knees, elbows, etc.. Yes, you can teach these with no baby doll but providing another opportunity to practice labeling this vocabulary helps to generalize the language to other people. It helps to teach children that"nose" not only refers to the thing on their face but to all faces. Clothing Labels: Using the doll and its clothes, you can teach the names of clothing items like shirts, pants, shoes, socks, jammies, etc.. Putting on and taking off the clothing also works on fine motor skills! Basic Concepts: Use baby with other infant toys (bed, blankets) to teach some basic concepts like: prepositions (baby in the bed, infant under the blanket), colors, and size concepts (using different sized dolls). Verbs/Feelings: Use the infant with another baby toys (bottle, bed, clothes) to educate verbs/feelings/etc. For example:"Is the baby hungry? Answering"wh" questions: You can ask your child an array of questions to work on his understanding of those words while he plays. "Where is baby?" "What does the infant want to eat?" Social/pragmatic skills: Baby dolls can be a terrific tool to use to help teach appropriate social/pragmatic skills. Children can take turns playing with different dolls, and they are able to practice using language to ask questions about the dolls and what they are doing.
The baby doll is such a toy that we expect ALL kids .will have the opportunity to own and play with during the toddler years. This is for teaching children about themselves and the world around them, because baby dolls are packed. Let us take a look! Baby dolls offer children lots of opportunities for developing fine motor, their cognitive, and self-help abilities. Kids often find it much easier to practice these skills on someone (or something) else before they could apply them to themselves. And because girls develop not some of their fine motor and self-dressing skills later than boys, it's essential for them to be exposed to more opportunities for practice. For instance: Dramatizing using a doll: About two to three years old, children typically begin to behave as if their doll can see and interact with them. They may link several actions with the doll in sequence such as feeding the doll, bathing the doll, and then placing the doll . This sort of pretend play is a hugely important part of their cognitive development.

Removing clothes: Although some clothing items are easier to remove than others (like those baby socks that never stay on their little feet!) , prior to doing so for themselves, kids gain from trying it out. Taking clothes off is usually mastered before placing it on and involves removing things like hat, socks (pulling from the top rather than pulling on the feet ), shoes, shirt, using a pincer grasp to unzip, pulling down pants, and unbuttoning huge buttons. Some common clothing items children can practice on dolls and themselves include placing a hat on their head, zipping with some help, putting shoes on, pulling pants up, putting on a shirt, and buttoning large buttons. Using both hands in midline: This ability is expected to emerge around a half and a year and tends to coincide with the development of skills such as zipping/unzipping or holding . Feeding: As children's pretend play skills grow, so do their skills! Playing with a baby doll gives them the opportunity to practice appropriately holding and using feeding things like spoons, bottles, cups, forks, bowls, etc..