Items to Encourage your Child to Play Doctor
Pretend to save a life, and one day your child might.
Benefits of Pretend Play
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Kids love to play doctor. They can reenact their last checkup, but pretend to be the doctor and administer a shot or medicine to a friend or parent. Playing doctor can help a child feel more comfortable when it is time to go for a check up. By pretending, children learn the importance of health, and that doctors want to help us feel our best. Playing doctor also helps young minds explore the possibility that one day they might become a doctor or a nurse too.
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Pretend play helps children develop social skills such as sharing, and taking turns. It also helps them become more creative. It the world of pretend play, the sky really is the limit.
Pretend play also helps children develop self confidence.
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It is important to have toys around that encourage open-ended pretend play where your child gets to be imaginative. Doctor sets, and health care uniforms can provide the right setting for your child to decide what happens next.
You can encourage your child by telling him or her that you have an ear ache, and ask if there is some medicine you could take.
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Doctor ABC's book
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This ABC book spells out all the complicated names for doctor tools. View the book in its entirety before buying by clicking here. Picture Me All Grown Up
These "picture me" books are some of my favorites. You place your child's picture in the back of the book, so each page looks like it is about him or her.
Picture Me Grown-Up (Picture Me) by Catherine McCafferty
Picture Me Grown-Up lets readers see themselves in more...1 point
Picture Me in the Future (Picture Me) by Craig Strasshofer
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ABC Doctor by Liz Murphy
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Free Doctor Play Activities Online
- Free Coloring Pages
- These coloring pages feature doctors and patients. Print them off at home and let the coloring begin!
- My Doctor and Me
- More free coloring pages that help kids see doctors as someone that wants to help them, and not someone to be afraid of.
Doctor Sets and Toys
Pretend Play 'Little Doctor Medical Play Set' Toy Set
Amazon Price: $26.50 (as of 07/06/2009) 
Fisher Price Medical Kit - Pink
Amazon Price: $19.29 (as of 07/06/2009)
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