宝宝们在公主课和超级小英雄课中除了获取快乐，还能得到什么呢？大家都会说：“锻炼的机会和想象力的培养。”但他们还得到了一个不为大众所知的，但同样重要的——安全感。
Besides having an awful lot of fun, what do preschoolers gain by being in a Superheroes or Princess class at Romp n’ Roll? The obvious answer is “the opportunity to exercise and enhance their imaginations.” But there is something else they achieve that may be less obvious but is equally if not more important. That is a sense of security.
小宝宝都会在意舒适，他们希望得到温暖，洁净和吃好喝好。但当他们渐渐长大，认知有所发育时，他们会悲哀的意识到自己的脆弱，一个小小人儿面对巨大的，有时是颇为凶险的世界。
Infants and toddlers are largely concerned with comfort. They want to be warm, clean, and well fed. But as they get older and their cognitive development progresses, children become painfully aware that they are very weak, little people in a very large and sometimes rather scary world.
尽管爸爸妈妈们不断地给予他们足够的爱，照料和保护以平复他们畏惧的小小心情，但实际上他们确实是被动的。如果现实是残酷，那么拥有强健的内心就尤为重要。
While mothers and fathers can assuage their fears to a significant extent by providing plenty of love, care, and protection, the fact is that there is not much the children can do for themselves. At least not in reality. And that is where fantasy becomes critical for their mental health.
假扮成超级英雄或是小公主，让宝宝们觉得自己强大了，主动了！尽管这是一个短暂的错觉。但这可以缓解不可避免的自卑和无助感，并逐步学会减少内心的负面能量，这让他们逐步拥有信心并为将来他们真的变得强大时做好实践的准备。
Pretending to be a superhero or a princess allows a preschooler to feel powerful and in control, even if it is only in the form of an ephemeral illusion. And these respites from their inevitable feelings of inferiority and helplessness go a long way toward reducing their psychological discomfort and giving them faith in and practice for the future when they will be genuinely big and strong.
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