Toddlers doing role plays

[lauraslittlethings]

I have recently posted in my blog about my son doing play roles and reading books to his animal toys. It was very cute seeing him doing this and I took a few snaps to remember the occasion.
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This is something new and obviously is good fun for him (and for us). I guess it is a good thing for children to be doing this as they 'practice' as it were, being an adult. So i was wandering if there are ways to encourage this or should we just let our son do it himself.

Have others experienced this with their children?

Really cute! I love the photos.
My 3 year old is doing this, but to us, not his animals. He'll take a book and say he's going to read us a story and then he'll just make up a long story, pointing at the pictures. The story is not usually connected in any way to the pictures in the book, which makes it even funnier.

Mine skipped this stage very fast :( ...