Pretend Play Enthusiast Gifts

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

Kid to sister: 'I never play doctor anymore. There's too much paperwork.'

I'm tired of playing doctor, so I'm sending you all off to see specialists!

"Do you take Diners Club?"

"Let's play make-believe. I'll diagnose you with a life-threatening illness, then cure you with a wonder-drug that turns out to be a placebo."

'Let's play alternative health provider.'

'Off hand I'd say she needs re-stuffing.'

'Sweetheart, It's time you knew... Your father isn't a real wildlife biologist.'

'Don't bite it. I have to check Daddy next.'

'Young man, haven't you ever heard of the Hippocratic Oath?'

Girl trying to be a woman

Owl

"I don't think so, Ted!"

"Did I hear the dog in here?"

"I’ve tried to make this as painless as possible ... clearly I’ve failed."

"He likes it."

Haircuts

Pirate

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

"Look what I found. Can we keep him?" "Wow! A real pirate!!" "Go ask your mother."

Kid with 'Little Wellness Facilitator' kit

"You be the moral grandstander and I'll be the politically incorrect troll."

Little doctor.

"I will give you the specimen some other time!"

'How's the water skiing?'

Humanities 101. I hear you're reading Greek plays in there. Yeah, it's a real Medea blitz!

'All of our Little Doctor medical kits are on sale. Since the Healthcare bill passed, sales of the kits have been poor.'

"You always get to be the therapist! I never get to be the therapist!"

'Stop purring I can't hear your heart beat.'

'Because of the mess, 'Mr. Potato Salad-Head' never took off.'

Imagination

A boy dressed as a cowboy riding a stick horse encounters a stick with a cow's skull at the end lying on the ground.

"I tested very high in playing."

"Fellow graduates, when I look at you, I see future princesses, ninjas, wizards, superheroes, and zombies."

"As night falls, You return to claim what isn't yours. . . come at me, sea devil!!!"