As free play began the children scatter to different areas. I have noticed that most children participated in parallel play with slight communication. Parten describes the different levels of social play by determining that parallel play comes first along with associative play then cooperative play (Brewer, 2007, p.144). Parten mentions that young children are not cognitively capable of cooperative play. Paget and Inhelder support Parten’s statement by determining that three to four year old children will usually play the way they want and not follow rules (Brewer, 2007, p. 145). Therefore it is important to teach children how to cooperate and partake in following rules, setting rules, giving ideas, listening to others and accepting that …show more content…
One boy saw that his friend was struggling to fix his broken toy, so he ask his friend if it is broke. His friend did not respond the first time nor the second time he asked. So the little boy just grabbed the broken toy and shared his fixed toy with his friend. Sigmund Freud’s psychodynamic theory explains how the superego of pre-schoolers, consist of a moral agent (Pitman, 2015, PowerPoint). Although the little boy was aware of his friend struggle and shared his toy, his friend did not communicate with him as he continued fidgeting with the broken toy making it hard to