Our findings point to the significant role maternal behaviors play in children’s pretense during the first half of the second year. When we controlled for children’s frequency of pretense, we found that maternal scaffolding behaviors were consistent across the age groups, which is interesting considering the increase in child pretense with age. However, Lillard et al. (2007) also found that maternal pretense behaviors did not vary for children between 15 and 24 months. In that study, Lillard et al. (2007) foundage-related variations for social behaviors during pretense (e.g., gazes, smiles, pitch variations), sug-gesting that while maternal pretend play repertoire seemed to be fairly consistent, mothers adjustedtheir social engagement during pretense to the level of child pretense understanding.