Encourage your child to learn others’ names and practise calling the others by their names. New Jersey Birth to Three Early Learning Standards. (2013). New Jersey Council for Young Children. McMullen, M.B., J. Addleman, A.M. Fulford, S. Mooney, S. Moore, S. Sisk, & J. Zachariah. 2009. “Learning to Be Me while Coming to Understand We: Encouraging Prosocial. (Level III)
Young children need to be able to interact with objects to construct knowledge about the properties of their world. Small toys can serve as a focus for infants' social play as they show them to each other or offer and accept them.
Large toys that require some cooperation such as a rocking boat or climber give children chances to imitate each other's large motor behaviour and practise turn-taking. However, when there are few toys, children spend more time looking, smiling, gesturing, and vocalising to each other.
Calling the names of other friends helps young toddlers learn that other people have an identity.