During these years children gain new skills, abilities and knowledge. This fact sheet will help you understand preschool children. It's important to remember that the information in this fact sheet is only a guide. Children grow and develop at their own rates. One of the most interesting traits of preschoolers is how they think about their world.
Preschoolers think differently than older children and adults.
Preschoolers can't separate fantasy from the real world. If you have a nightmare, you wake, shake your head, and get a drink of water. Then you go back to sleep. If your child has a nightmare, through, she thinks the dream actually happened. She can't separate the fantasy from the reality.