When I was a child I never had anyone to play with, I didn't have any sisters or brothers. Now that I do have a brother and a sister I see how they play well with each other. The other day as I was observing  my sister my brother and her were playing together with sticks. I saw that my brother was wrapping tape around the stick and I saw my sister do the exact same thing with her stick. I really don't know why they were doing that, maybe they were decorating it. I also barley noticed that she was wearing my brothers pajama's. I asked her why and she said because she was lazy to go ask our mom to but her some of her own. "She's a very weird little girl" as I quoted on my field notes. Once they were finished with there decorations they both stood up and were fighting with the sticks as if they were swords. Now I understood why they brought the sticks in the house in the first place.

   As I was observing her play with my brother I had a question. "Why does my sister act like my brother?" In my research I found out why kids copy other kids and one of the reasons is because the smaller child admires the bigger kid. Not only do kids imitate each other but they also imitate grownups. "In fact, using their imaginations to pretend play—being a teacher or a fireman or a mommy or daddy is very beneficial for social, emotional, and cognitive growth." says  Adele Brodkin a pre-k teacher form scholastics. My research I got form a website called http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/why-children-copy.