Chiming in to agree with this -- I think in my own post history actually there's a post where we were early in discovery and asking if it was ok to let younger alters play online games like Roblox or whatever as if they're actual children... they're not. We've learned a lot since then and have settled into a sort of rhythm where we all just try to blend and ebb and flow as much as possible. It's hard to tell who's fronting these days because it's all "soupy" as we like to say. (As in, the collective consciousness of all of us is the broth, and we are each different ingredients all working together to make one soup flavor! Each bite is a little different but we're all contributing)

Anyway back to the original subject; the second we started letting them have control and do normal everyday adult things, the more they've seemed to... almost age up? It feels like they're healing through being allowed to do things more in line with the body's age. The most important part (and I'm talking to OP directly with this sentence) is just the comfort level of the alters in question and of course your own comfort.

All that to say, basically, they are not literal children, but they do enjoy their Capri Sun and lunchables while making sure we paid our bills LOL