Children pretend to be Harry Potter and Beyonce at playtime
by Wendy Fuller, Daily Mirror 15/03/2011
YOUNGSTERS pretend to be Harry Potter, Beyonce and reality show contestants at playtime and *traditional games like tag and skipping are still popular.
Pop, *television and film star fantasies enrich *children’s games – dispelling fears computers and other modern media mean traditional play is dying out, a study shows.
Professor Andrew Burn of the *Institute of *Education and East London and Sheffield Universities, which carried out the research, said: “It’s good to know pretend play is still flourishing.”
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