I still don’t think you are reinforcing separation. You are not giving them a tangible or intangible reward when they separate. Also, I don’t see that the mere act of separating them will alienate them from each other.
But I can see that it’s plausible that there might be a better strategy than separating them.
If I separate them they immediately switch to other objectives (reading a book, playing lego...) and gain reward from that. It extinguishes the joint play.
I agree that it doesn’t alienate them. For that I’d have to reward them for avoiding each other.
I still don’t think you are reinforcing separation. You are not giving them a tangible or intangible reward when they separate. Also, I don’t see that the mere act of separating them will alienate them from each other.
But I can see that it’s plausible that there might be a better strategy than separating them.
If I separate them they immediately switch to other objectives (reading a book, playing lego...) and gain reward from that. It extinguishes the joint play.
I agree that it doesn’t alienate them. For that I’d have to reward them for avoiding each other.