Sibling Play: Are You Expecting Too Much, Too Young?

How Parten's 6 Stages of Play can help us to understand play behaviours

‘Just go play with your sister!’ Might sound like a reasonable enough request but is it really a realistic expectation for sibling play?

Anecdotally, I say it isn’t. Simply observing my own children at play, I know that it has taken time for my children to play in harmony (most of the time) with one another. From around the age of 3.5, my youngest son ha…