The younger the child, the more dramatic play is rooted in fantasy. Describe why children confuse fantasy and reality, why they deserve time to experience fantasy, and identify at what age children begin to distinguish fantasy from reality
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Children confuse fantasy with reality because they believe what they think is true, whether or not it is true in reality. Read, Gardner, and Mahler (1993) explain further: “Children need help and time to make the distinction between reality and fantasy without having to reject their fantasies. They have a right to imagine and to create fantasies as well as a need to learn to identify reality.”
Beginning at around age five or older, children understand when they are pretending and when they are in the real world. Their understanding is sometimes very sophisticated.
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