Why Your Child Having an Imaginary Friend Is Actually a Really Great Thing

According to Marjorie Taylor of the Imagination Research Lab at the University of Oregon and author of Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them, somewhere between 37 and 65 percent of children have imaginary friends, depending on whether or not you include those based on toys (think Winnie the Pooh). In other words, your kid is far from alone in creating an imagined friendship.