When Your Child’s New Friend is Imaginary

February 21, 2011  |    Cognitive and Learning, General, research   |

NYU Child Study Center

Many young children, particularly those between the ages of 3 and 5 years, develop imaginary friends.  Children this age are typically beginning to decipher the boundaries between fantasy and reality, and their “new” imagined friends are part of this process. 

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