Top 3 Reasons Why Kids Like to Dress Up As

Doctors and/or Nurses

Children love to dress up as someone else, which is why Halloween is a favorite holiday for most kids today. If your child sees you going to work every day in scrubs they would love to have a pair themselves to emulate you.

1. Self-Confidence Playing dress up is a great way to boost self-confidence in a child because they learn that they can do a lot of things on their own. For instance, a child who puts on a Spiderman costume may pretend to be Spiderman and climb throughout the house and learn they can do more than they knew possible. Dress up is essentially role play, which is an activity used by a lot of therapists with children as well as adults. Children who role play a wide variety of roles gain confidence in themselves as they feel they are capable of accomplishing great things.

2. Social Skills. If they kis can pretend to be someone else they will learn the social skills to do this. If they are a nurse taking care of a sick patient they will learn how to react to someone in pain and how to soothe them. They will also learn to say you’re welcome when thanked. They may also learn patience if they are pretending to help a sick person or someone who needs a lot of help walking.

3. Creativity Children love dressing up as different human roles such as doctors and firemen. They can also pretend to be animals or cartoon characters like Scooby Doo. They can also explore their own personalities through costumes and pretending to be someone different through body language and voice changes. They can also sing like their favorite characters too.

Feel free to share your photos here on our blog of your kids dressing up like doctors or nurses.

Check our our great nephew with his scrubs!