Children will learn that being thoughtful of a sick person is the best treatment they can provide. Wimzie plays doctor. Talk about what you have seen and take some time to discuss it. Set up a place for children to play. They can take turns being sick and being the doctors, nurses, receptionists, X-ray technicians.
Most children have some experience with doctors and so have lots of ideas for playing.
Children can make cards and talk about the persons they are for. Children can dictate sentences or words for the cards that you can write down for them. The Bear's Toothache , David McPhail. Little, Brown, 1972. Loving , Ann Morris.