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Puppets - For Children Over the Age of One
Many children older than one year prefer interacting with puppets rather than directly with their caregiver. Children seem to have an almost magical affinity with animals, including stuffed animals. In fact, sleep-dream research has uncovered that most of the characters in pre-logical children's dreams are animals, rather than people. These "dream-animals" are symbolic of the actual people important to the child in daily life. Additionally, many studies performed with children under five years of age use puppets to give instruction. Noted psychologist Jean Piaget supports this concept by stating that playing with dolls "provides a symbolic representation of all the realities the child has so far experienced but not yet assimilated in a form that it can relive and therefore vary according to its needs.
The TICL technique specifically designed for children over the age of one incorporates puppets. Please see our selection below.
